Brooms on subs?

[shoot-kill-win]

http://www.maritime.org/tour/img/tpier.jpg
As shown here right next to the radar and the periscope tube there is a broom anyone know why they had brooms on the conning towers, because it is also a piece on my gato model sub, this picture is a balao class sub, but why would they have a broom there?

[flyingdane]

To clean the bottoms of japanese dds. :rotfl:

[metroman]

The broom was put up high upon RTB to show that all enemies encountered were sunk, hence a clean sweep. Also seen were things like women's superstructure support garments, to indicate the crew's eagerness for shore leave.

BW

[Hans Schultz]

a broom signifies a clean sweep!

[Tigrone]

Look in my sig. It is after Dutch Admiral Maarten Tromp, who legend held, placed a broom at the masthead to show he had swept the sea clean of the foe--the English in his case. There is an old song called "The Admiral's Broom."

"Maarten Tromp was an admiral bold, the Dutchman's pride was he...."

[Pevs86]

That's really cool!

I like bits of info like that :)

[Rykaird]

Fascinating. Great picture, and as always, the forum knows all.

[edjcox]

It was intended to provide a target marking method for submariners...

A few crewman would mix up red and white lead based paint and then dip the broom in it.

Running submerged the captain was required to make two diagonal passes under a targeted boat and engage the broom to paint a large pink x on the bottom of the ship..

Running away on the last pass and coming about he would then engage the targeted ship with his topedoes. The key was to sink the boat so that it would roll over as it sank and therby reveal the pink x to any other observers. These were then photgraphed and were secretly kept and known only to those who had access to the "X" files.

Considered a sign of experience and expertise many sub skippers would attach a broom to the periscope shears in anticipation of their marking attempts.


It evolved very much like the "Snipe Hunt" of yore... Where you placed a flashlight in a paper bag at night deep in the woods in attempt to lure in a snipe....


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Clean sweep..... Argh!! what bilge wash that be.....

[Tigrone]

"...two diagonal passes under a targeted boat and engage the broom to paint a large pink x on the bottom of the ship."


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[Crosseye76]

It was intended to provide a target marking method for submariners...

A few crewman would mix up red and white lead based paint and then dip the broom in it.

Running submerged the captain was required to make two diagonal passes under a targeted boat and engage the broom to paint a large pink x on the bottom of the ship..

Running away on the last pass and coming about he would then engage the targeted ship with his topedoes. The key was to sink the boat so that it would roll over as it sank and therby reveal the pink x to any other observers. These were then photgraphed and were secretly kept and known only to those who had access to the "X" files.

Considered a sign of experience and expertise many sub skippers would attach a broom to the periscope shears in anticipation of their marking attempts.


It evolved very much like the "Snipe Hunt" of yore... Where you placed a flashlight in a paper bag at night deep in the woods in attempt to lure in a snipe....


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Clean sweep..... Argh!! what bilge wash that be.....



That's utter crap, and you should be ashamed to post it here.

Everyone knows the Boats from Pearl used RED paint, the Fremantle boats used GREEN paint for the X's.

Pink paint indeed, for shame sir !!1!.

[sunvalleyslim]

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I do hope that is in SH4, so when you come back from patrol, your peers can be envious.

[The WosMan]

They still do it today. Here is the USS Virginia;

http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/7272/cleansweepvirginianb2.jpg

[flintlock]

That's a great shot--tac sharp. :up:

[Aimbot]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/Atlarge/broom.png
My broom will be getting a lot of sun.

[Rilder]

The broom was put up high upon RTB to show that all enemies encountered were sunk, hence a clean sweep. Also seen were things like women's superstructure support garments, to indicate the crew's eagerness for shore leave.

BW

Also the womans undergarmets could be used to distract a Japanese surface ship crew in the case of a forced surfacing, allowing the Sub to get away while the sounds of "fapfapfapfap" were heard among the Japaneese ship. :lol:

[Steeltrap]

Fairly certain the first US sub in WWII to do that was Wahoo. They used an Australian broom someone had borrowed when Wahoo was in Brisbane, displaying it upon entering Pearl Harbour after the highly successful 4th (I think) patrol in which they sank an entire, unescorted, convoy of 4 ships. See Wahoo by Dick O'Kane for details.

[edjcox]

That's otter crap, and you should be ashamed to post it here.

Everyone knows the Boats from Pearl used RED paint, the Fremantle boats used GREEN paint for the X's.

Pink paint indeed, for shame sir !!1!.

HE HE...

Obviously you never had "X" File clearance...... quipped Dick Cheney...

You can apply for it via SA Mulder at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC 20332... Let him know that you also need access to Red, Green, and Pink seal and he'll brief you in right away.... After that you'll know the truth (if you can handle the truth),
they say it's out there..... Damn big ocean to try to find anything.....


Come on UBI..... your killing me here..... Where's my SHIV.....


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[Crosseye76]

HeeHee :rotfl:


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