What Real Subs have you been on?

[rrmelend]

Just wondering what real subs any of you have been on? Two summers ago I had the pleasure of going to Hawaii on my honeymoon (my wife is also a history teacher)and had the pleasure to spend some time on the USS Bowfin (SS-287). Then a month later I attended a confernce in Philly, Gettysburg and DC and while in Philly I made it over to the USS Becuna (SS-319). In college I wrote my thesis on the US sub war against Japan so I gave all the other teachers a tour of the boat and announced what room we were about to enter before we entered it (I'm sure they hated me). I have yet to see a Gato or any other class in real life and I am anxiously looking forward to one day spending some time on one.

[dean_acheson]

Bowfin/Drum/Clamagore... then that one at Disneyland too.....

[AVGWarhawk]

USS Torsk....I'm there every Saturday restoring the old girl. Drop on by if you are visiting Baltimore.

[Peto]

Cobia: Manitowoc, WI

I've had the pleasure of giving a couple tours on it. Was also on board it with a bunch of subvets (WWII and Cold War Diesel vets) and we had 9 guys in the conning tower :doh:. We couldn't get the engines started :lol:.

[cdrsubron7]

I've had the privelidge of visiting two WW II subs. The USS Cobia in Mantiwoc, Wisconsin and the USS Ling in Hackensack, New Jersey. A friend of mine by the name of Jerry Calenberg did some volunteer work on the Cobia and kindly gave my sons and a guided tour of the sub a few years back. By the end of the tour, my sons were asking more questions than I was. :D


I still have a bunch of pictures from the USS Ling that I took. If anybody is interested I can post some of them here.

[Ducimus]

Just the Drum. I think theres one in San diego or san Francisco, but im too lazy to make the drive - particuarlly to San Francisco. Drum was by happenstance, was stationed a few hours away from mobile at one point, so i made the trip. Cool thing was, servicemembers and vets got in for free, so i really had a field day.

Wish i brought my camera :cry:

[Prof]

I've been in the following (roughly in order of visiting!):

HMS Alliance (Portsmouth, UK)
USS Pampanito (San Francisco, CA)
USS Nautilus (Groton, CT)
HMAS Onslow (Sydney, Australia)
HMAS Ovens (Perth, Australia)
Holland 1 (Portsmouth, UK).

I'm planning to go to Laboe and Hamburg next year to visit U-995 and U-434 (Tango class). I'm also thinking of planning a return to the US east coast to tick off a few more subs from my list :)

[scrag]

Real Subs as in WWII or any?
WWII - BOWFIN, DRUM, LIONFISH, TORSK, Various Boats in New England Area,
U-505
Royal Naval Submarine Museum Gosport
HMAS Onslow
FOXTROT CLASS SS - Long Beach
35 different US SSN's 3 UK SSN's 1 UK SSBN
5 different SS/SSK's

[DevilThorn]

USS Cod in Clevleand, Ohio. Got a cool T-Shirt.

[John Channing]

Spent an interesting afternoon on a Soviet Juliette class.

Several others, but if I told you... well, you know.

JCC

[rrmelend]

Just the Drum. I think theres one in San diego or san Francisco, but im too lazy to make the drive - particuarlly to San Francisco. Drum was by happenstance, was stationed a few hours away from mobile at one point, so i made the trip. Cool thing was, servicemembers and vets got in for free, so i really had a field day.

Wish i brought my camera :cry:

As Prof said in the post after yours, the boat in Frisco is the Pampanito. I never did get around to her when I was attending college in Santa Cruz. I'll make it to see her one of these days. As far as San Diego goes I lived there for 20 years and the only time I remeber a sub being there (other than at the sub base below Cabrillo Point) was sometime in the mid-80's they had a Soviet sub pull in one weekend and they let people walk through parts of it. I was only 7 or 8 years old so I don't remember much or what boat or even class it was. As far as the camera goes I know your pain. The conference I was on in Philly, Gettysburg, and DC was a once in a lifetime thing (Presidential Academy for American History and Civics, 1 teacher per state) and I could not find my camera in time. I moved the week before my flight left. I have no pics from the Becuna but I have a ton from the Bowfin.

[mookiemookie]

I helped load torpedoes into the Cavalla in Galveston with Onkel Neal. :arrgh!:

[cmdrk]

U.S.S. LIONFISH (SS298)
Fall River, Mass.
http://www.battleshipcove.org/exhibits.htm

[Bill Nichols]

Other than my Navy service on USS Nautilus, and an overnight cruise on HMS Churchill, the other subs I've been on include:

USS Narwhal (Groton, CT)
USS Los Angeles (La Maddalena, Italy)
USS Norfolk (Norfolk, VA)
USS Baton Rouge (Charleston, SC)
USS Torsk (Baltimore, MD)
USS Pampanito (San Francisco, CA)
USS Batfish (Muskogee, OK)
USS Lionfish (Fall River, MA)
HMS Alliance (Gosport, UK)
Holland 1 (Gosport, UK)

I couldn't go onboard, but got a close-up look at the WW1 U-boat U-1 in the Deutches Museum (that boat has her side cut away so you can see the innards)

http://www.uboataces.com/images/u-1.jpg

oh, and I almost forgot:

Nemo's Nautilus (Orlando, FL)

[Gunner]

Took a tour on a Russian Diesel powerd sub built in early sixties, can't recall what class she was, but a promoter bought her from the Russians and had it towed to Newestminster, Vancouver, British Columbia. They charged $15.00 for a tour, they had a deactivated Russian Torpedo on display in bow, wouldn't let anyone go into conning tower which really sucked, :arrgh!:

[Chock]

Been on HMS Onyx (Oberon Class diesel sub), the Falklands War veteran, when it was at Birkenhead, also took a tour of U-534 (Type IX Kriegsmarine U-Boat).

:D Chock

[mrbeast]

Been on HMS Onyx (Oberon Class diesel sub), the Falklands War veteran, when it was at Birkenhead, also took a tour of U-534 (Type IX Kriegsmarine U-Boat).

:D Chock

I've been on HMS Onyx too!:yep: Took a tour of HMS Plymouth that was moored along side also, both extremely intersting. This was about ten years ago I think. Shame they are no longer at Birkenhead. I only saw U534 from outside.

[V.C. Sniper]

Been on the Scorpion, the Russian Foxtrot class submarine laying besides the Queen Mary at Long Beach.

[-Pv-]

I visited a nuc boat in 1962. Don't remember the name.
-Pv-

[Sailor Steve]

1962 for me as well - U-505.

In 1970 I was given a tour of some still-in-service WWII boat while in Long Beach.

[Keelbuster]

I was in Long Beach a week ago - I did the Scorpion (Foxtrot Class) - loved it. My first sub. I just about freaked out. Spent about 3 hrs inside going over the details and trying to read russian labels. The periscope was.....awesome!

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3792/periscopeupvg9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Onkel Neal]

I helped load torpedoes into the Cavalla in Galveston with Onkel Neal. :arrgh!:

And I helped load torpedoes into the Cavalla with Mookie! I still have all my fingers, too :ping:

Also, been on tours of Bowfin, Pampanito (with some of the SH4 dev team), USS Michigan, USS Tennesse, USS Cavalla SSN-684, and to sea for a VIP ride on USS Houston SSN-713 (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/ssr713.html) and a media event in the Atlantic aboard the USS Texas SSN-775. (http://www.subsim.com/articles/article_usstexas2.php)

Also went on a tour of USS Nautilus with TimmyG00, Frank Kulick, and several members of the Subsim meeting.

In Germany, the U-2540 Type XXI U-boat in Bremerhaven (http://www.subclub.info/wpl/pics2.htm), with Crow, DeerhunterUK, Marcus, and a bunch of guys at the 2005 Subsim meeting. It was awesome.
http://www.subclub.info/wpl/2005_meet/pics.h5.jpg

Next, I'm looking forward to visiting Denmark and going to sea aboard Peter's homemade sub.

Neal

[Reaves]

I've been on the Bowfin when I went to Hawaii but that's about it. I've seen some cool stuff in museums but it doesn't match being inside a sub.

In England I went to a museum that had a German midget sub which was interesting to look at.

[LukeFF]

Darn, I wanted to be the first one to say I've been on the U-2540. :D

Also have been on the USS Bowfin as well.

[cruiser2132]

U -505 in Chicago and USS Cavalla in Galveston.

[LobsterBoy]

I saw the U-505 in Chicago, but didn't get inside (forgot to book tickets in advance :damn: ). Also toured the Bowfin in April during my honeymoon. I got an awesome external pic that I now use as my desktop. That same day, as we toured the Missouri, the USS Kentucky, SSBN 737, left Pearl for destination unknown.

I would gladly post the pic if someone would be kind enough to let me know how to post a digital image here :oops:

[Reaves]

I saw the U-505 in Chicago, but didn't get inside (forgot to book tickets in advance :damn: ). Also toured the Bowfin in April during my honeymoon. I got an awesome external pic that I now use as my desktop. That same day, as we toured the Missouri, the USS Kentucky, SSBN 737, left Pearl for destination unknown.

I would gladly post the pic if someone would be kind enough to let me know how to post a digital image here :oops:


Go to www.photobucket.com and create an account. You store your photos there and then post the links here.

Also put before and after the link to make the pic show.

[Grey_Raven75]

U-505 and Clamagore.

[LobsterBoy]

Let's see if I've figured this out...
First, the Bowfin

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee115/lobsterboy007/DSCN1056.jpg

Then the Kentucky

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee115/lobsterboy007/DSCN1340.jpg

[MorganThePirate]

I had the honor of serving in the French “Marine Nationale” between 1972 and 1975. I was assigned to a French submarine: Le Redoutable (S 611) It was the lead sub of her class of ballistic missile submarine. It was commissioned on December 1st, 1971, she was the first French SNLE (Sous-marin Nucléaire Lanceur d'Engins, "Device-Launching Nuclear Submarine"). She was fitted with 16 M1 ballistic missiles, delivering 450kt at 2000 kilometers. In 1974, she was refitted with the M2 missile, and later with the M20, each delivering a one-megatons warhead at a range over 3000 kilometers. The Redoutable was the only ship of her class not to be refitted with the M4 missile.
The Redoutable had a 20-year duty history, with 51 patrols. She was decommissioned in 1991. Since 2000, she is used as a MUSEUM SHIP at the Cité de la mer in Cherbourg. I had a great experience. I was young and foolish....:arrgh!:

[letterboy1]

The USS Drum
The Red October
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Well, just the Drum, but it was awesome. My nephew and I looked through the periscope.

[fatty]

Got a tour of HMCS Olympus while she was still a training boat.

[GunnerGreg]

In my case, it might be easier to ask which museum subs I HAVEN'T been on. I've been to all but five (Marlin, Pampanito, Cobia, Silversides and Croaker)

I've even been to see the submersibles Intelligent Whale (Sea Girt, NJ), the Fenian Ram (Paterson, NJ) and CSS Hunley. Of course, you can't go inside any of them, but they are each on individual display.

I also got to see the Juliett-class SSG in Providence, RI (three times) before she broke her mooring lines and sank in a storm earlier this year. In fact, I almost went to work there.

So, here's the list:

USS Razorback (SS-394) - North Little Rock, AR
USS Batfish (SS-310) - Muskogee, OK
USS Becuna - Philadelphia, PA
USS Blueback - Portland, OR
USS Bowfin - Honolulu, HI
Russian Foxtrot B-39 - San Diego, CA
Russian Foxtrot - Long Beach, CA
Russian Juliett K-77 - Providence, RI (Currently off display)
USS Cavalla - Galveston, TX
USS Clamagore - Charleston, SC
USS Cod - Cleveland, OH
USS Drum - Mobile, AL
USS Growler - New York, NY (Currently off display)
USS Ling - Hackensack, NJ
Fenian Ram - Paterson, NJ
USS Lionfish - Fall River, MA
USS Nautilus - Groton, CT
USS Requin - Pittsburgh, PA
USS Torsk - Baltimore, MD
U-505 - Chicago, IL

When I lived in DC, my wife and I took a road trip and saw the following boats in a four-day span:

Russian Juliett 484
USS Lionfish
USS Nautilus
USS Growler
USS Ling
Intelligent Whale
Fenian Ram

We stopped to see Becuna, but she was closed that day, and I skipped Torsk, because I had been to see her many times. I went back later and toured Becuna on a different trip.

So, five submarines and two submersibles in four days. We started in Providence and worked south. I drove up from DC and my wife drove from museum to museum because I spent alot of time on the road downloading pictures off my digital camera chip into my laptop, so I would have enough free space on the chip for the next museum.

My plan is to see at least two of the Great Lakes subs and Marlin during a road trip this spring.

[Thermographer]

U.S.S. Kamehameha SSBN 642, 5 years

Also Nautilus and Albacore.

[D'biter]

Bowfin, Lionfish twice, K-77 (AKA Juliett 484) twice (almost went to work there), Albacore, Nautilus twice, Growler, Requin, Clagmore, Becuna, Parche

ive also been to the Hunley

[D'biter]

In my case, it might be easier to ask which museum subs I HAVEN'T been on. I've been to all but five (Marlin, Pampanito, Cobia, Silversides and Croaker)

I've even been to see the submersibles Intelligent Whale (Sea Girt, NJ), the Fenian Ram (Paterson, NJ) and CSS Hunley. Of course, you can't go inside any of them, but they are each on individual display.

I also got to see the Juliett-class SSG in Providence, RI (three times) before she broke her mooring lines and sank in a storm earlier this year. In fact, I almost went to work there.

So, here's the list:

USS Razorback (SS-394) - North Little Rock, AR
USS Batfish (SS-310) - Muskogee, OK
USS Becuna - Philadelphia, PA
USS Blueback - Portland, OR
USS Bowfin - Honolulu, HI
Russian Foxtrot B-39 - San Diego, CA
Russian Foxtrot - Long Beach, CA
Russian Juliett K-77 - Providence, RI (Currently off display)
USS Cavalla - Galveston, TX
USS Clamagore - Charleston, SC
USS Cod - Cleveland, OH
USS Drum - Mobile, AL
USS Growler - New York, NY (Currently off display)
USS Ling - Hackensack, NJ
Fenian Ram - Paterson, NJ
USS Lionfish - Fall River, MA
USS Nautilus - Groton, CT
USS Requin - Pittsburgh, PA
USS Torsk - Baltimore, MD
U-505 - Chicago, IL

When I lived in DC, my wife and I took a road trip and saw the following boats in a four-day span:

Russian Juliett 484
USS Lionfish
USS Nautilus
USS Growler
USS Ling
Intelligent Whale
Fenian Ram

We stopped to see Becuna, but she was closed that day, and I skipped Torsk, because I had been to see her many times. I went back later and toured Becuna on a different trip.

So, five submarines and two submersibles in four days. We started in Providence and worked south. I drove up from DC and my wife drove from museum to museum because I spent alot of time on the road downloading pictures off my digital camera chip into my laptop, so I would have enough free space on the chip for the next museum.

My plan is to see at least two of the Great Lakes subs and Marlin during a road trip this spring.
you forgot the Albacore in Portsmouth, NH

also, i dont know if this counts, but i believe that the superstructure of the Squalus is up in Portsmouth too

[bookworm_020]

HMAS Onslow and a Russian Foxtrot sub that was here for awhile before the Onslow tied up in Sydney.

I wonder if I should organise a Australian Subsim get together at the Australian Marintime Muesum? Don't know if it would be possible, but it would be intresting!

Would ther be enough intrest in a get together in Sydney Australia?

[USS Sea Tiger]

Hi

dove on about 25 Uboats, a Few Soviet subs,
and lots of Museum subs, but the most original sub I was on

USCGC Tamarora
5 successful dives in her life!!

Just glad I was not stationed on her when she did these dives

[PharaohTet]

I'm surprised that only GunnerGreg mentioned the SS-394 Razorback, now at North Little Rock, Arkansas. I work in NLR; seems that when you get used to seeing an old rustbucket like that every day, you forget what a privilege you have.

Sadly, the Razorback (a Balao-class, I think) was the victim of one of those darned GUPPY conversions that changed it from a cool-looking WWII pacific theatre silent service veteran into one of those obnoxious boxy looking subs you'd expect to be doing something boring, like polar research. No deck gun, no cool AA gundecks on the tower, etc.

Even worse: the poor boat spent a goodly amount of time in the Turkish navy before we (NLR) bought it back from them and turned it into a museum piece. The inside machinery still has stuff labeled in Turkish.

ADDED LATER: a little eye-candy for any of you collectors:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b211/PharaohTet/100_4519.jpg

[Stealth Hunter]

USS Torsk....I'm there every Saturday restoring the old girl. Drop on by if you are visiting Baltimore.

Hey, my nephew might be dropping by there come June 2008! I'll have to get him to run by and bug yeh. That boy's obsessed with planes, subs, ships, and destruction (though he's VERY careful around historical items, thank god).

EDIT: I've been on board a couple, including a time that I went diving in a Russian one. Really fun, but goddamn did my ears hurt afterwards. Been a long time since I'd been in one for leisure.

[Anachronous]

USS Seadragon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Seadragon_%28SSN-584%29)
I'd love the chance to see more, especially some WW2 subs.

[Jedi215]

USS Nautilus
USS Growler
U-505

[Wolfgang Guber]

HMAS Onslow and a Russian Foxtrot sub that was here for awhile before the Onslow tied up in Sydney.

I wonder if I should organise a Australian Subsim get together at the Australian Marintime Muesum? Don't know if it would be possible, but it would be intresting!

Would ther be enough intrest in a get together in Sydney Australia?
would love too,

havn't been on any sub, tho i have eaten alot of them tho.

seen a Chinese Sub tho, don't know what class, it was pointed out to me by a mate when i was overseas

i wouldn't mind going if it was set up.

[McBeck]

USS Pampanito (San Francisco, CA) - twice:D

[Cobber]

Now let's see:

HMAS Oxley
HMAS Ovens
HMAS Orion
HMS Alliance (Gosport UK)
USS Bowfin (Hawaii USA)
USS Houston
HMAS Collins
HMAS Farncomb
HMAS Waller
HMAS Dechaineux
HMAS Sheean
HMAS Rankin

That's about it. :up:

[RobUSAF]

Does the 48 passenger tourist sub in Hawaii count? Aside from that, I've been on Blueback and Bowfin.

I'm stationed at Wheeler AAF, Oahu... Would really like to get one of the guys at Pearl to show me a modern boat. Any takers?

[Brausepaul]

U 995, Laboe, Germany and that sub in New York City next to USS Intrepid.

[harryt8]

I served on HMS Sealion, Olympus and Resolution during the 60's and 70's operating out of the Clyde Submarine Base in Faslane, Scotland. Lots of Cold War operations..!!

Harryt8:arrgh!:

[melendir]

14-16 years ago our band (not active anymore) was having 3 gigs at Russia and we spend one week there. During our stay in town with naval base, we get to visit some old training submarine. There was newer subs at the harbor too, but we were not allowed the get even close of them (nasty looking guards with guns) :D

But anyway we get to visit that older training sub, but it was tied to harbor and they didn't take us anywhere from there.

Too bad that at the time I was more interested in guitars and chicks, and not so much in subs :damn:

By the way. One gig was at some warship (most interesting place I have played) :rock:
Sailors at the warship were very kind and hospitality was excellent all the time.

[Rotary Crewman]

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/upload/img_400/%5B%281327%29-08-12-2005%5Descape1.jpg

Does this one count? It went underwater

[ParaB]

USS Pampanito (Balao-class) in San Francisco, U-2540 (type XXI) in Bremerhaven, U-995 (type VIIc) in Laboe.

:ping:

[The Bandit]

sadly I can't say I was ever aboard but, I got a tour of the Halifax Dockyard in 2005 and got to be about 10 feet away from all three of our Atlantic Fleet subs, HMCS Windsor, which was being worked on at the time and became our first operational Victoria class, HMCS Corner Brook, which had a flag up that showed she was under overhaul and not normally manned, and HMCS Chicoutimi, which was still being worked on from the fire. I was there to see the HMCS Sackville (won 2nd in this essay contest back in High School) I will see if I can dig up the pics.

[PeKe]

I was aboard a Whiskey-class sub about ten years ago. (I think it was some radiostation that owned it...for a while, dont know what happend with that sub, it's no longer in Stockholm anyway...

[Papabull]

U-505 in Chicago, USS Silversides (SS236) in Muskegeon, Michigan twice - bunked overnight on her both trips :up: as they were camp-outs (sorta) for my son's cub scout troop. Different perspective waking up on board (aft torpedo bunk).

[ssbn627g]

USS Cod, in Cleveland. USS Requin when she was in Tampa.
USS Silversides when she was in Chicago.

2 years on USS Patrick Henry, decommissioning crew.
3 years on USS James Madison
1 year on USS Haddock.

[klh]

Mine is a short list:

U-505
U-534
HMS Onyx

[AVGWarhawk]

USS Torsk....I'm there every Saturday restoring the old girl. Drop on by if you are visiting Baltimore.
Hey, my nephew might be dropping by there come June 2008! I'll have to get him to run by and bug yeh. That boy's obsessed with planes, subs, ships, and destruction (though he's VERY careful around historical items, thank god).

EDIT: I've been on board a couple, including a time that I went diving in a Russian one. Really fun, but goddamn did my ears hurt afterwards. Been a long time since I'd been in one for leisure.

Please tell him to come on by. He can have run of the entire boat. If he stays long enough he will be handed some brass polish and a rag:D. But really, I will take him to parts of the boat that tourist are not allowed to go. Such as the conning tower and looking throught the scopes. She has the original WW2 attack scope but the observation scope was replaced.

[EAST]

USS Cavalla - Galveston

Ah, but next year!

[Monica Lewinsky]

Cobia: Manitowoc, WI
U-505: Chicago, IL
USS Silversides SS-236: Muskegon, MI

[test0r]

U 2540, type XXI
Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, in Bremerhaven

U 10, type 205
Deutsches Marine Museum, in Wilhelmshaven.


(http://www.dsm.de/)The U-2540 in Bremerhaven was cool-looking from outside, but as soon as I got inside I got disappointed. The most of the original are removed, for example the hydraulics used to load torpedoes. And the 400m-deep depth-meter was also missing, only the shallow-depth meter were there. Periscope wasn't working its just fake for looks only. The telegraphs got labels over the original "Full flank, 1\3 ahead", etc showing only 1,2,3,4 or something. Why not remove those? The hatch to the conning tower was locked.:damn:

Otherwise, it was cool visiting those boats.

[JREX53]

Toured a Guppy Class and Fast Attack at the San Diego Sub Base in 1972.
Stationed on the USS Bonefish (SS582) - 6 months
& Abraham Lincon (SSBN602) - 4.5 years

Jim
IC1(SS)

[Brenjen]

I'm hoping to go aboard the USS Razorback soon. It's a Balao class that saw service in WWII & is currently docked in North Little Rock Arkansas on the Arkansas river at the "Inland Maritime Museum". I missed my chance in Mobile Alabama & when I was in Chicago Illinois to see the subs they have there. My work takes me all over the country but it seems I never have a chance to look around when I'm there.

[pugwash1]

Well other than almost all of the museum subs in the USA I have been on the following units while they were active:
HMS ONYNX, OTTER , OPPOSSUM, ORBERON OCCELOT, ANDREW, ARCHERON, CACHALOT, WALRUS,
PORPOISE AND DREADNOUGHT. I hope the spelling is correct, I just love the smell of those diesel subs, Dreadnought was the UK's first nuke and was strange to be able to go down a deck or two!
Some of the museum subs outside of the USA include the holland sub in portsmouth and the U1 in Munich

[GOZO]

HMS Nordkaparen, Gothenburg harbor Floating Naval Museum.

A "Draken" (Dragon) class sub from 1960 based much upon the U-3503, a German XXI. On the other hand, who did not peer on the XXI:lol: .


http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f203/wp44/nordkaparen1.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f203/wp44/Logonor1.jpg

Cheers

/Per

[Sub Sailor]

USS Swordfish SSN 579
USS Abraham Lincoln SSBN 602 Blue and Gold Crews
USS Skipjack SSN 585
USS Skate SSN 578
USS Permit SSN SSN 594

Ron Banks MMCM(SS), USN(Ret)

[mookiemookie]

USS Swordfish SSN 579
USS Abraham Lincoln SSBN 602 Blue and Gold Crews
USS Skipjack SSN 585
USS Skate SSN 578
USS Permit SSN SSN 594

Ron Banks MMCM(SS), USN(Ret)

My dad qualified on the Angler in the '60s before moving on to serve on the Skate.:up:

[Meerkat154]

Been on the U-9

Located in Speyer, Germany.

http://www.museumspeyer.de/0000419313DE_D4E3D357_000012AD_0001.html

Most humbling experience - there is practically no room to move about on the sub and considering this is a post WW2 sub.

"U-Boat U9
The submarine U9 was built by the Kieler Howaldtswerke and put into service on 11 April 1967. The boat belongs to the submarine classification 205 and thus to the third generation of German U-boats. It weights 466 tons, is 46 m long, 5 m wide and has a draught of 4 m. The nominal submerged depth was 100 m, and it was armed with eight torpedo-guns at the bow.
The U9, which is also completely accessible for the visitors of our museum, was transported from Wilhelmshaven to Speyer in a highly spectacular action."

[Hitman]

Not aboard, but visited the U-1 in Munich museum. She is cut in half and you can see the interior :smug:

In 2002 I went on a cruise to the Norwegean Fjords that started from Kiel, but me idiot did not know that U-995 was in Laboe so I missed the chance to see it :damn:

[CDR Resser]

USS Batfish- Muskogee, OK- several visits, even climbed up into the conning tower before they stopped letting the public climb up there. Too bad the periscope was fogged when I got to look through it-- trees through the periscope, funny.

USS Cobia- Manitowoc, WI- toured with my wife and kids, my son was only 14 months old. It was cold that day.

USS Bowfin- Pearl Harbor, HI- finally got to see Pearl Harbor. Took lots of pictures. I really want to go back!

USS Parche- Pearl Harbor, HI- If you've been to the Bowfin and walked through the conning tower that is displayed on the grounds, you've been aboard the Parche. :up:

I plan to try to visit them all before I can't climb the ladders anymore.
Maybe Onkel Neal could start a tour agency as part of the Subsim business plan.:lol:

Respectfully Submitted
CDR Resser

[micky1up]

hms resolution
hms valiant
hms spartan
hms splendid
hms superb
hms sceptre
hms vangaurd
hms vigilant
hms vengence
hms victorious
hms trafalgar
hms triumph
hms turbulant
hms torbay
hms tirless
hms alliance
an LA class name not remembered

and a russain kilo when they visited pompey

[Bill Nichols]

Does the 48 passenger tourist sub in Hawaii count? Aside from that, I've been on Blueback and Bowfin.

I'm stationed at Wheeler AAF, Oahu... Would really like to get one of the guys at Pearl to show me a modern boat. Any takers?


Darn! I forgot to include the tourist sub I went on in Aruba, in my listing a couple of pages up.

:-j

[robbierob2005]

I visited al the dutch boats. My father is in the navy. I also visited the u-995 and a german sub a couple of years ago in Den Helder during the "Vloot Dagen"


http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/323/robtonijnrechtwg1.th.jpg (http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=robtonijnrechtwg1.jpg)
This is me on the Tonijn. A dutch 3-cilinder sub. The picture was taken more than 20 years ago.

http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/boats/boat_tonijn.htm

[CCIP]

The Soviet D-2, built in the late 20s

Here's a ton of pictures from my tour of it http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=124914

[mike_espo]

Visited the U-505 in my hometown of Chicago many times. Also the U.S.S. Pampanito in SF. USS Nautilus in Groton, although was extremely disapointed as not allowed to see the engineering spaces......was told "Classified" :down: :roll:

The U505 was the best! :rock: The USS Pampanito is a cruise ship compared to the IXC.....so big.

[Teh_Diplomat]

I was on this russian sub when I was younger.

http://www.findfamilyfun.com/nwquay2a.jpg

U-521, a Russian Cobra Foxtrot class submarine.

[robbierob2005]

The Soviet D-2, built in the late 20s

Here's a ton of pictures from my tour of it http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=124914

Very cool pics taken there!!

[iratecabbie]

I went aboard the HMS Alliance at gosport submarine museum back in 99, very cool diesel electric boat, well worth a visit. there was also an X craft at the museum as well as Holland n1---though that was in a tank for preservation at the time--so not very visible. the X craft was awesome--so small and yet a perfect working sub (least till they cut it into sections for viewing!)

[swifty]

Here is my list most of them have not been listed yet.

The human-powered wet submarine FAU-Boat.
http://inlinethumb55.webshots.com/30902/2774114250102531371S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2774114250102531371SXxStG)

The USS Miami (SSN-755) Los Angles Class in Ft. Lauderdale.
http://inlinethumb30.webshots.com/32221/2331750190102531371S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2331750190102531371JYqwgU)
http://inlinethumb42.webshots.com/29865/2026118450102531371S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2026118450102531371IhfeBV)

DSV Alvin
http://inlinethumb52.webshots.com/27251/2966910960102531371S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2966910960102531371oLXZzl)
http://inlinethumb51.webshots.com/33010/2066862730102531371S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2066862730102531371bHVZJX)

While it is unmanned I did work on it and have touched just about every part...
The Remote Minehunting Vehicle or RMV.
http://inlinethumb49.webshots.com/31536/2354137830102531371S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2354137830102531371CPiEzf)
http://inlinethumb02.webshots.com/31361/2925753320102531371S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2925753320102531371ZXmWTK)


It's not technically a sub but it does have a pressure hull.
NOAA's undersea habitat Aquarius in Key Largo FL.
http://inlinethumb06.webshots.com/30853/2555486260102531371S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2555486260102531371yJeaaB)
http://inlinethumb24.webshots.com/32087/2340137980102531371S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2340137980102531371OOxcOP)

And Finally Capt. Nemo's Nautilus at Disney World.
http://inlinethumb48.webshots.com/32111/2002428380102531371S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2002428380102531371HXEyOf)

[Iceman87]

Spent 2 days on the USS Ohio during training excercises in and around Norfolk Naval Base. Amazing experience, got to sleep in the torp room =)

Also spent a week helping clean up the Submarine before being used in "K19 The Widowmaker" while it was in Vancouver, British Columbia up here in Canada...

Will post pictures from both experiences in a few.

[odjig292]

I was on the USS Nautilus (SS-168) originally V-6, in August 1943 while it was on its way from the Attu campaign to Mare Island. It was in Esquimalt and was tied up next to my father's ship that had also been at Attu. He had welcomed them on board the "wet" officers wardroom, and after several rounds they wanted to return the hospitality, so I had lunch with the Captain and officers. They served ham and pineaplple - a real treat because meat was rationed during the war and civilians never saw pineapple. The ship was spotless and dry. The crew were really great.

I was also on the U-889 in June 1945. It had surrendered off Halifax at the end of the war. My father took me with him when he visited it. It was still much the way the German crew had left it. The smell, dampness and the filth was overwhelming. The contrast between the Nautilus and the U-889 was like night and day. How anyone could live for six or seven weeks under those conditions is still a mystery to me. Going through the U-505 does not compare. It's been cleaned up.

Thanks for listing where all the subs are. Some day I'm going touring and see more of them. I was disappointed there isn't more of the XXI open in Wilhelmshaven.

[Koondawg]

Im with Sniper on this one

http://www.russiansublongbeach.com/ :up:

[COWBOY10]

USS Torsk....I'm there every Saturday restoring the old girl. Drop on by if you are visiting Baltimore.

hey WarHawk, I'm Visting Baltimore for the 1st time in Sep/Oct 2008. Anychance of sending me some details of USS Torsk so I can put her on my Todo List.




Cheers Mate
Cowboy10uk

[COWBOY10]

I have the managed to visit,

HMS Allance, Royal Navy Submarine Museum.
HMS Ocelot, Historical Dockyards Chatham,
HMS Oynx , Historic Warships Birkenhead ( sadly closed down )
U534 , Historic Warships Birkenhead.

I also had the pleasure of visiting a British Navy Sub when it Docked in the Falklands for a while back in 98 While I was there on a tour. Unfortunantly I can't remember the name sorry..

Plus many many surface craft.

[Sharkfin]

Visited the U-995 (Type VIIC/41) at the Marine-Ehrenmal in Laboe / Germany
and the U-2540 (Type XXI Wilhelm Bauer) in Bremerhaven / Germany.
When visiting the German Naval Museum in Bremerhaven be sure to check out the possibly last existing Walter Turbine, which is outside at the back of the museum building. Also inside the museum building a 2 man mini u-boat (Type Seehund (Seal)) is on exhibition complete with 2 mounted G7 torpedoes on the hull.

[SmokinTep]

I'm on them mostly every day since I work on Subs for the US Govt. To many to name..:cool:

[Lible]

I've been on one none of you have as it seems.

The Estonian 'Kalev' class WWII submarine 'Lembitu'.

You can read everything about it and its brother Kalev here: http://users.tkk.fi/~andres/models_lembit.html

[AVGWarhawk]

USS Torsk....I'm there every Saturday restoring the old girl. Drop on by if you are visiting Baltimore.
hey WarHawk, I'm Visting Baltimore for the 1st time in Sep/Oct 2008. Anychance of sending me some details of USS Torsk so I can put her on my Todo List.




Cheers Mate
Cowboy10uk

Absolutely! She is berthed right next to the aquarium. I'm there every Saturday morning (well almost). We open her up at 0700 and do what we can until 1000 when visitors are allowed to come aboard. Come before opening and you can have free run of the boat....meaning go where the visitors are not allowed. :up: As the date gets closer let me know and I will be down there waiting for you to arrive. If you stay long enough we hand you a paint brush:D and set you to work!

[u48]

Went on the Type XXI U-2540 at Bremerhaven just over two years ago with Neal Stevens and other members of WPL. Had a very enjoyable day at this floating museum ;)http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/images/icons/icon14.gif

[COWBOY10]

USS Torsk....I'm there every Saturday restoring the old girl. Drop on by if you are visiting Baltimore.
hey WarHawk, I'm Visting Baltimore for the 1st time in Sep/Oct 2008. Anychance of sending me some details of USS Torsk so I can put her on my Todo List.




Cheers Mate
Cowboy10uk

Absolutely! She is berthed right next to the aquarium. I'm there every Saturday morning (well almost). We open her up at 0700 and do what we can until 1000 when visitors are allowed to come aboard. Come before opening and you can have free run of the boat....meaning go where the visitors are not allowed. :up: As the date gets closer let me know and I will be down there waiting for you to arrive. If you stay long enough we hand you a paint brush:D and set you to work!

You got a deal mate, My wife wants to do the aquarium anyway, So I think thats my opening, come on love Lets go and do what you want, OH look theres a sub ;) Think she will fall for it. I'll P.M. you closer to the time when i have my dates all booked. See you next yr :D

[ridgewayranger]

Hi,
Do you mean actually served on Diesel boats or just visited museum pieces?
RR

[howler93]

U-505 in Chicago when I was a kid. I had just seen Das Boot and I was totally in awe.

[AntEater]

Museum Subs:
U 995
U 9 (postwar)
U 1 (WW1) but only looked at it from the side
U 2541/Wilhelm Bauer
USS Clamagore
USS Torsk
USS Growler (Regulus SSGN)
Assorted Seehunds and Bibers in Museums


Active subs:
U 21 (was active then)
U 15
USS Scranton (shortly only)

[pugwash1]

you know you are getting old when the subs you list as being on when they were active are listed by others as museum ships! those Poor old royal navy diesels were my first warships I ever visited as a Young boy, I would jump on two double decker buses to the Manchester ship canal (Salford docks UK) everytime the navy was in!

[Bubblehead Nuke]

USS Drum - Multiple visits over the years
USS Key West (served on one 688, Seen them all)
NR-1 (a VERY interesting tour thanks to an old friend)
Canadian Oberon boat in Halafax
Norwegian Coastal Sub (dang that thing was SMALL!)
A British SSN (don't remember the class)

I wish I could remember all the names but in reality, it was more of a professional interest of the foriegn boats. I was more interested in the layouts and how they crammed all the essensial stuff in the hull.

[GunnerGreg]

you know you are getting old when the subs you list as being on when they were active are listed by others as museum ships!

I hear you. Every ship I ever sailed on, both USN and Merchant, except one, is no longer around. The one exception is USS Antietam (CG-54).

In fact, my VERY first training ship as a Midshipman at the Texas Maritime Academy was just sunk as a reef...

(USTS Texas Clipper, ex-SS Excambion, ex-USS Queens (APA-103))

You never forget your first ship.

[Blacklight]

This is going back many years but I was lucky enough to have a gamer friend who also worked on the USS San Juan. One day, while I was visiting him in New London (CT) in the afternoon (we were going to be going to see a show at a local club that night), he had to stop by the sub base in Groton to get something (I think it was a paycheck or some paperwork or something).
Anyway.. after he got whatever it was that he had to get, he took me over to his sub and gave me a guided tour of most of it (all the cool spots: Command Room, Engine Room, Torpedo Room, Weapon Fireing room in the front of the torpedo room, Mess Hall, Crews quarters...etc..). I got to see most of the inside except where he worked which was behind a door that said something like Authorised Personel Only or something like that and had a radiation or something sign on it. I don't know where it led to but it was a door in the back of the command room to the left of the radio room.
This is also how I was able to notice that in Janes 688i Hunterkiller (I played that a lot back then), when you first run the game and get the cinematic of flying through the command room, they got the helm station all wrong.
I also have seen every pannel that you see in 688i HK, Sub Command, and Dangerous Waters actually in the sub... so every time I see one of those panel screens, I flashback and know exactly where in the sub I am. I was really surprised at how teeny the radar screen actually is. You'd have to really have good eyesight to spot a blip on that thing.
I couldn't believe the bunks. It would be impossible to sleep on your side in one of them because they were stacked so close together.
The real highlight of the tour was that I actually had the opportunity to use a REAL SUBMARINE BATHROOM while I was there.:rock:

My friend DID get a little talking to later from the captain on duty the next day or so about giving me the tour in his shorts however(The tour was kind of unplanned). Hehehe. Apparently they weren't happy with having a crewmember on board wearing shorts and a T-shirt giving a tour to a civilian.

Ironically, my friend didn't like 688i Hunterkiller. He said he had more than his fill of submarines and didn't need any more.:dead:

[SmokinTep]

Suprised they let you go back aft to the engine room. Usually, they don't let tourists etc go past the reactor tunnel. Usually the tour is in the fwd part of the boat.

You think a 688 control room is awesome, you should see the Virginia Class control room. Freakin awesome. No more helmsman and planesman stations or control columns. Now have a "pilot" who operates the planes/rudder with a joystick and all indications are on touch screen computer screens. Also, no more hanging on to the scope like in the old days, now have photonics periscopes.

[Degenhart]

U-461 (Russian Juliett-Class) in Peenemünde , Germany
U-434 (Russian Tango-Class) in Hamburg, Germany
U-359 (Russian Whiskey-Class) in Nakskov, Denmark

U-995 (German WWII Type VIIC) in Laboe, Germany
U-2540 (German WWII Type XXI) in Bremerhafen
U-9 (German Type 205) in Speyer, Germany
U-11 (German Type 206a) in Burgstaaken/Fehmarn, Germany
U-10 (German Type 205) in Wilhelmshaven, Germany

HMS Otus (British Oberon-Class) in Sassnitz/Rügen, Germany

AND the original Film-Set U-Boat of the famous german Film "Das Boot"

[Detonator]

U-534 and HMS Onyx

Some of my U-534 pictures are in the Gallery of www.uboat.net

[M. Sarsfield]

- USS Lionfish in Battlehsip Cove, MA in 1991
- Sturgeon class attack sub at Groton, CT in 1991 (I don't remember the name of the boat)
- USS Requin in Pittsburgh, PA (two or three visits in the '90's)
- USS Torsk in Baltimore, MD (two visits - last one being in 2004)
- USS Batfish in Muskogee, OK (I'll be visiting her for the first time this weekend, but as a reenactor. They're holding tours on Friday and Saturday to raise money for her restoration and they want living historians manning certain stations. I'll be assigned to either the radar or radio station.)

[AVGWarhawk]

USS Torsk....I'm there every Saturday restoring the old girl. Drop on by if you are visiting Baltimore.
hey WarHawk, I'm Visting Baltimore for the 1st time in Sep/Oct 2008. Anychance of sending me some details of USS Torsk so I can put her on my Todo List.




Cheers Mate
Cowboy10uk

Absolutely! She is berthed right next to the aquarium. I'm there every Saturday morning (well almost). We open her up at 0700 and do what we can until 1000 when visitors are allowed to come aboard. Come before opening and you can have free run of the boat....meaning go where the visitors are not allowed. :up: As the date gets closer let me know and I will be down there waiting for you to arrive. If you stay long enough we hand you a paint brush:D and set you to work!
You got a deal mate, My wife wants to do the aquarium anyway, So I think thats my opening, come on love Lets go and do what you want, OH look theres a sub ;) Think she will fall for it. I'll P.M. you closer to the time when i have my dates all booked. See you next yr :D


If I spit hard enough from the Torsk's bridge I can hit the aquarium walls;). Anyway, the aquarium opens I believe at 10 or 11. Usually it is best to buy your tickets in advance as they schedule entry every 15 minutes. Essentially, you could arrive at 0900 and not get tickets for entry until 1 pm :down: Get your tickets online for the opening time. Arrive early and come aboard the Torsk while you wait for the aquarium to open. There is a method to the maddness!!!! Plan your work and work your plan!!!

[wild bill]

I've been on the USS LING, USS Hardhead, USS TUSK, USS Scorpion, USS Growler, USS Sturgeon. With the exception of the Growler, All were seen in 1968. Almost made the Becuna back then too.

wild bill

[rasmus1896]

only been on one sub. the Lembit-its been 71 years from its launch and she's still floating.

too bad shes not a real hunter sub. more like a mine layer...

[sunvalleyslim]

Served on the USS Segundo SS398
been on a tour of the Pompanito
been aboard a British Diesel boat in '69.....can't remember name
been aboard a Japanese Diesel Boat in '68...can't remember name
toured a Russian Diesel Boat in Long Beach Ca.

[Ping Jockey]

In 1954 as a Cub Scout went on a tour of a diesel boat in Long Beach,Ca. I can't remember the name of it but it was really neat to a troop of 8 year olds.:up:

[Squid95]

Served on SSBNs USS H. M. Jackson, USS Georgia (now SSGN ). Toured the USS Ohio, USS Michigan and USS Nautilus (Groton), USS Dallas (SSN), USS San Francisco ( prior to collision ) and toured the USS Bowfin at Pearl, and on the same trip toured the USS Hawkbill (666, not a good hull #). Also at Pearl boarded the USS Kamaymaya, an old 640 class ( 41 for Freedom ).

I also toured an old russian Foxtrot that was tied near Lions Gate park in BC. What amazed me about the russian boat was the similarity to US subs with alot of the equipment, battlelanterns, switchboards and other little things. Even the old ash-trays and ZARFs were identical to the ones used on US boats.

Never been on a German uboat, maybe someday, would be an honor and a pleasure.

[NealT]

The Cavala
U-505

One more back over 40 years ago and I cannot remember the name of it...

[Deathfrombelow23]

I'm SHOCKED -- no one's been on the U.S.S. Croaker?? Time for some of you to come to Buffalo, NY and see the Croaker! It underwent the Guppy conversion though -- YUCK!! :damn: Still very interesting to tour.

[Nokia]

Only been on Vesikko at Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesikko

[LeafsFan]

HMCS Onondaga in Halifax harbour on a wet day in May 1996.

HB

[wild bill]

Hey, whats wrong with boats having the greater underwater propulsion pack? Bill were you on the Nautilus in spring of 1968?

wild bill

[StkNRdr]

That I remember:

Bowfin http://www.bowfin.org/website/index.cfm
Growler http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/pages/growler
Albacore http://www.ussalbacore.org/
Abraham Lincoln http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Abraham_Lincoln_(SSBN-602)
And if it counts, the conning tower of the Squalus/Sailfish

Witnessed the launches of:
Jack
John Adams
Nathanael Greene
Dolphin

[Grom]

HMS Alliance (Gosport, UK)
Holland 1 (Gosport, UK)
HMS Onyx (Birkenhead UK)
U - 534 (Birkenhead UK)
ORP Orzeł Kilo class (Gdynia Poland)
ORP Bielik Kobben class (Gdynia Poland)

[Sledgehammer427]

Nautilus...
Lionfish...
Watched a Flight I L.A. cruise down Groton....
U-505...wish i coulda taken pictures...and wished they hadnt hacked apart the insides...and loaded it wish speakers, and wish you could go into the C.T....and that the tour guide was a complete dip**** (he put the motors in reverse...)
etc.

[loreed]

THe only sub I habe been in is the U505. WOud love to get insice a type Vii

[Neptunus Rex]

Served aboard:

USS Pintado (SSN-672) 2 years
USS Tunny (SSN-682) 3 years
(As an interesting note [to me at least], both Pintados' and Tunnys' Reactor Compartments are resting side by side in WA state).

Visited/toured/did work on:

USS Cavalla (SSN)
USS Aspro (SSN)
USS Hawkbill (SSN-666)
USS Tautog (SSN)
USS George Washington (SSBN)(or Slow Attack in her later years)
USS Ohio (SSBN)
USS Pogy (SSN)
USS Skipjack (SSN)
USS Sargo (SSN)
USS Sea Dragon (SSN)
USS Grayback (SSG)
USS San Franciso (SSN)
USS La Jolla (SSN)
USS Barbell (SSG)
(just about every boat that served in Pearl.)

USS Ling (Hackensack NJ)
USS Bowfin (and Bowfin Park) Pearl
USS Nautilus (Groton CT)
USS Croaker (Groton CT)

[ChrisG2100]

I've been lucky enough to have been on two:


The USS Albacore (AGSS-569) which was a test bed for the modern hulls of today

and the

USS Lionfish (SS-298) which had two war patrols and sank a japanise sub

[Drebbel]

Pampanito
http://www.maritime.org/tour/img/pamptour.jpg

Zeeleeuw:
http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/boats/images/submarines/boat_zeeleeuw2.jpg

Yellow Submarine:
http://www.coralworld.com/yellow-sub/04.jpg

U-359:
http://www.daenemark-moen.de/Umland_/u-boot02.jpg

Cavalla:
http://hnsa.org/ships/img/cavalla2.jpg

[U49]

Visited the U-995 (Type VIIC/41) at the Marine-Ehrenmal in Laboe / Germany
and the U-2540 (Type XXI Wilhelm Bauer) in Bremerhaven / Germany.


Same for me :up:!

Also I have seen U-1 in Deutsches Museum / München / Germany
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/sammlungen/verkehr/schiffahrt/u1/

Next one will probably be U-9 in Speyer/ Germany
http://www.museumspeyer.de/0000420A238D_D4E3D357_000054F5_0001.html

[Typhoontony]

I was on the HMCS Grilse (USS Burrfish), HMCS Ojibwa, and HMCS Windsor (HMS Unicorn).

Tony

[Blacklight]

Suprised they let you go back aft to the engine room. Usually, they don't let tourists etc go past the reactor tunnel. Usually the tour is in the fwd part of the boat.

We didn't go through the reactor tunnel to get to the engine room. I think that was the hallway that was beyond that door in the command room that I wasn't allowed in. Tell you the truth, it was so long ago, I dont remember the exact rout we took. I have vague memories of where everything is with the exception of most of the key areas I saw. I didn't see anything that looked like a nuclear reactor on our way back to the engine room but then again.. I wouldn't know one if I saw one. I don't remember if we went through the command room to get to the engine room or not. We may have walked through a hallway under it or something. I know we didn't go through the door in the command room that said "Authorised Personel Only" with the nuclear symbol on it that was to the left of the radio room door.

[Gargantou]

I dunno if it counts as being onboard, but a few years back I visited Muskö(A swedish underground naval base), and I got to see one of our most high-end subs being picked apart for inspection, we're talking EVERY single bit of metal, electronic etc all picked apart inside this huge base inside a mountain, I can't remember what class the sub was, but I did get to walk in the area where it was picked apart, does that count as benig onboard?:lol:

[subsimlee]

Served on HMS Alcide, HMS Acheron, both on detached service to the RCN as SM-6 during the mid sixties and finally on the first Canadian "O" boat, HMCS Ojibwa, at a time when the boats were steel and so were the men. Cold war my ass!!!!

[Rip]

Suprised they let you go back aft to the engine room. Usually, they don't let tourists etc go past the reactor tunnel. Usually the tour is in the fwd part of the boat.
We didn't go through the reactor tunnel to get to the engine room. I think that was the hallway that was beyond that door in the command room that I wasn't allowed in. Tell you the truth, it was so long ago, I dont remember the exact rout we took. I have vague memories of where everything is with the exception of most of the key areas I saw. I didn't see anything that looked like a nuclear reactor on our way back to the engine room but then again.. I wouldn't know one if I saw one. I don't remember if we went through the command room to get to the engine room or not. We may have walked through a hallway under it or something. I know we didn't go through the door in the command room that said "Authorised Personel Only" with the nuclear symbol on it that was to the left of the radio room door.
If it was an LA class that door simpley went into the fanroom. It is directly in front of the reactor compartment and has radiation signs as it is an area where you are only allowed to spend so much time when the reactor is hot. The tunnel to the engine room is on the middle level aft of the crews mess. The tunnel goes down the side of the reactor compartment.

Lets' see. Served on the Jacksonville SSN-699 and Gurnard SSN-662.

Been on:
Drum both of them
Cavalla both of them
test are all of the nuclear variety
Nautilus
NR-1
Hammerhead
Silversides
Sturgeon
Whale
Baton Rouge
Memphis
Norfolk
Newport News
Bremerton
La Jolla
Houston
Cincinnati
Groton
Phoenix

[Drebbel]

Next one will probably be U-9 in Speyer/ Germany

http://www.museumspeyer.de/0000420A238D_D4E3D357_000054F5_0001.html

Dnag, I was in Speyer a couple of days last week. Never knew there was a sub there :-?

[teddy996]

Visited the Torsk many years ago.

Trained at the navy's S8G/AFR facility (a land-locked fake sub with an SSBN engine room mated to a SEAWOLF reactor core.) Worked in the reactor room on a Nimitz class for 5 years, and saw about as much sunlight as a submariner. Do they count?:D

[Brer Rabbit]

Visited the Bowfin, and U-505, and spent a few days training on the USS Grayback.

[frogdog]

Archerfish and Tigrone. Operated off both. 1965/1970. Archerfish in WESPAC...Tigrone in Carribean training. Loved the "sewer pipes". Hyper fantastic crews/officers...both. Hoo Yah!

[Fritz Eger]

HMS Victorious SSBN 06. 3 patrols

[Wasserbombkopf]

Pampanito and Bowfin.

[Blacklight]

It just amazed me how little space there was between the bunks there. I double I would be able to sleep with the next bunk 5 inches away from my face while laying on my back. My friend showed me the cots that you can toss up on the torpedo racks when there's no torpedo somewhere in there, but I imagine that room has to be tough to sleep in as well. Less on the clausterphobia, more on the noise level as people run around the torpedo room doing stuff.

I think my friend worked in the reactor area. He said he wasn't allowed to show me where he worked. I wish I was still in contact with him. I'd ask him and post more information.

Now that I think of it, I do remember going through the mess hall to get to the engine room. The mess hall was TINY.

[Propy]

USS Torsk....I'm there every Saturday restoring the old girl. Drop on by if you are visiting Baltimore.

just a quick question; what are the sub named after? because in swedish torsk means cod...

The only subs that I have been on is the one in my sig (U3) that is on display at a museum in Malmo, Sweden and another sub when I was really young (dont remember what sub it was) :D

[frogdog]

Diesel boats and the original fast attack boats are named for fish. As boats became larger...names for fast attack boats changed to American cities and the FBM (boomer) boats came to be named for famous Americans.

[the_belgian]

The "Espadon" in Breton,France anchored in a WWII German sub-penn.

http://www.saint-nazaire-tourisme.com/index.php?Ids=IAEQiWbuGMbtisqooYKQ&Menu=Mcpid&dr1=&dr2=&Action=777&idn3=218

[Perseus]

HMS Walrus (Dutch submarine)
A Russian Foxtrot (don't know name)

[scrag]

SS, SSN (Pre-LA) where named after sea creatures - i.e. TREPANG is well a type of Sea Slug. SCORPION was shortened from SCOPRION FISH. Originally SSBN's and occasionally some SSN's (L.MENDAL RIVERS, LIPSCOMB) were named after famous people in US History. HG Rickover changed that when he forced (based on money and getting funding) the USN to adopt naming boats after cities and SSBN's after States. The phrase he coined was "Fish Don't Vote". Later we see some exceptions (USS RHODE ISLAND was renamed to USS HENRY M. JACKSON as he was pivotal in helping the TRIDENT program receive funding.) The SEAWOLF is also an exception as the name stuck as well as the "SSN-21" even though sequentially the numbering was dorked up - due to the 21'st Submarine concept. It was needed to inspire guess what funding on a large and capable SSN. We see the class gets mired in politics again with the 22 boat being named after Connecticut and the last boat being named after Jimmy Carter. We are now back to States for SSN's and the correct sequentially numbered boats with the VIRGINIA. IMHO I wish we would save our submarine heritage and go back to Sea Creatures. But with no SSBN on the board to be built it is unlikely that the USN Naming criteria will ever get restored to some semblance of historical perspective. BTW - Brit boats names really rock you got to love AVENGER, ASTUTE, etc.

[Rip]

It just amazed me how little space there was between the bunks there. I double I would be able to sleep with the next bunk 5 inches away from my face while laying on my back. My friend showed me the cots that you can toss up on the torpedo racks when there's no torpedo somewhere in there, but I imagine that room has to be tough to sleep in as well. Less on the clausterphobia, more on the noise level as people run around the torpedo room doing stuff.

I think my friend worked in the reactor area. He said he wasn't allowed to show me where he worked. I wish I was still in contact with him. I'd ask him and post more information.

Now that I think of it, I do remember going through the mess hall to get to the engine room. The mess hall was TINY.

The other bad thing about the torpedo room is that they have preventative maintenance tasks that require moving weapons around. Which means yanking the bunks for hours at a time routinely. Still beats hot bunking, nothing worde than laying down in someone elses sweat.

[Rip]

Diesel boats and the original fast attack boats are named for fish. As boats became larger...names for fast attack boats changed to American cities and the FBM (boomer) boats came to be named for famous Americans.

and of course later SSBNs were named after states.

[rattlermorgan]

HMS/M Explorer, 1960 at Campbelltown, Mull of Kintyre, when in the Sea Cadets. HMS/M Tiptoe when she was tied up in Reserve Fleet, then HMS/M Andrew, Acheron and Aeneas during service in the Royal Navy, as a Ships Diver I used to inspect the hulls with another diver whilst serving on the Submarine Depot Ship HMS Tyne 2nd Submarine Squadron, Devonport 1969/71. I left the Royal Navy in 1973 after serving 12 years, and have never really adjusted to civilian life, the sea has gotten into my blood so to speak. Regards Rattler Morgan.

[Keyman]

Served on Francis Scott Key, SSBN 657, Blue crew, from 72 to 76, made 5 patrols.
Silversides, SSN 679, one northern run, unofficially a Bluenose.
My rate was Machinist Mate 2nd(SS), worked back aft in the engine room.:arrgh!:

Visited the following: (all nukes) Guitarro, Bancroft, Tullibee, NR 1.

During a port call in Haakonsvern, Norway, visited one of their German built coastal boats, don't know if it had a name, or just a number.

U-505

Fleet boats: Cobia, Silversides, Clamagore, Drum.

Judging from the number of posts from former subsailors, being a bubblehead is something you don't get out of your system.

I encourage everyone to visit the Francis Scott Key website, www.ssbn657.com (http://www.ssbn657.com).
She was a great boat, with a great crew. I was fortunate to serve on her.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Served on Francis Scott Key, SSBN 657, Blue crew, from 72 to 76, made 5 patrols.
Silversides, SSN 679, one northern run, unofficially a Bluenose.
My rate was Machinist Mate 2nd(SS), worked back aft in the engine room.:arrgh!:

Visited the following: (all nukes) Guitarro, Bancroft, Tullibee, NR 1.

During a port call in Haakonsvern, Norway, visited one of their German built coastal boats, don't know if it had a name, or just a number.

U-505

Fleet boats: Cobia, Silversides, Clamagore, Drum.

Judging from the number of posts from former subsailors, being a bubblehead is something you don't get out of your system.

I encourage everyone to visit the Francis Scott Key website, www.ssbn657.com (http://www.ssbn657.com).
She was a great boat, with a great crew. I was fortunate to serve on her.

Welcome to SUBSIM Keyman :up:

Wow, that is quite a list :yep: Nice WS by the way.


RDP

[geetrue]

Boats I've served on include the USS Salmon SS 573 worlds largest diesel submarine from 1957 till 1977, I was Sonarman STS 3 (SS) 63-65, USS Ethan Allen SSBN 608 blue crew three patrols 68 to 70, USS Sam Houston SSBN 609 blue crew STS 2 (SS) for two patrols 70-71.

I've been on the USS Redfish, USS Catfish, USS Sculpin, USS Permit, HMS Tapair, HMS FBM submarine (forgot the name) tied up alongside of us one time in Newport News (wow are they clean sailors)

I love my memories ... I just don't have anybody to share them with :lol:

[vonBimmell]

I served on the Canadian Oberon class HMCS/m Okanagan, and visited a few British and American nukey boats.

[dzoulias]

1. While an undergraduate and prostgraduate student, at Portsmouth UK, i have visited
HMS Alliance (P147) Amphion class in Portmouth Submarine Museum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Alliance_(P417)

2. When i was a minor, my father (a naval officer in the Hellenic Navy at the time) took me to HS PAPANIKOLIS, a WWII submarine that served under the Greek Flag (Hellenic Navy) during WWII against Italian warships. It was constructed in France. below find some pics but the website is in Greek. I could not find something in English.

http://www.asxetos.gr/article.aspx?i=1247

3. When i was doing my obligatory 21 month navy service in the Hellenic Navy i have visited a type 209/1100 German-constructed submarine also serving with the Hellenic Navy called HS GLAFKOS III. These are 1972-1980 made and underwent extensive overhauling from 1999 and on.

Well thats it i guess...

[pythos]

Uss Pompanito in SF.

That was the first and only sub I have been aboard. I wish they would open the bridge and conning tower up, but I guess saftey regs won't allow that.

[MGD_]

U505 (I grew up near her) I have yet to see her new dig's. My brother & I used to climb on her deck & play war :) I was always the capitan!

USS Nautilus (I was on the crew that helped tied her to the pier where she lay's now in Groton)
USS Providence (plank owner) fear the vls!
USS Dallas (what a sharp outfit) These guy's where the Aces of the Deep during the 80's & 90's.
USS Albuquerque (way before the Loomis afair)
USS Chicago (what a great boat) I scored a 67' GTO from a sailor moving to the east coast when her sea trials were over.
USS Tullibee (when I came on she was the joke of the fleet) We found a low preasure garden hose spliced into a critical part of the steering system.

Never placed on a boat for to long but going down to take a look at what the other kids on the block had to offer I was lucky enough to see the Navy's finest on many boats. I'm so glad I did it. The people were the tops. The Sub Sailors are the best sailors I have ever seen or known.

I spent 40 minutes on the USS Augusta after she smashed into a Russian attack sub near a damaged Russian boomer. I helped tie her up at EB. I saw a story on the Augusta in of all places Penthouse Magazine that comfirmed what happened to her sonar cone.

Make no mistake the 80's were a rough and tumble time for Subs. Short of the hardships of conventional submariners from WW2 we never saw action like the cloak and dagger stuff and I hope the kids never do what we did in the shallows of the Med. ever again.

Mucho respect to every cold war submariner. You earned your pay and then some. As for fuel burning Submariner's I do know how you managed!

MGD

[399nkov]

SS288 CABRILLA (Training Sub in Houston, Tx.) , my first.
SS342 CHOPPER
SS399 SEA CAT (Served on for 18 Months) Qualified on Seacat, RM3 SS
SS406 SEA POACHER (Served on for 6 Months) Started Quals on Poacher
SS410 THREADFIN
SS420 TIRANTE
SS421 TRUTTA
SS424 QUILLBACK
SS525 GRENADIER
SS522 AMBERJACK (Just Viewed from Tender) (diesel cigar shaped, exp.)
Barracuda (The others above all at Key West buddy tours)
AS15 BUSHNELL (Our Tender in Key West)
CV16 LEXINGTON (Corpus Christi, TX., tour)
BB35 TEXAS (Houston, Tx. tour)
BB60 ALABAMA (Mobil Ala., tour)
SS228 DRUM (Mobil tour)

Last but not least, SS244 Cavalla, in Galveston, TX. Toured and wade fished near her many times.

Also had a brief tour of the fast attack, SSN 585 Skipjack, the first of the cigar shaped nuke class, Ft. Lauderdale, I think.

This is my first post and I can't say enough about the great mods that are available for SH4. They help to bring back those days at sea.:)

[GT182]

USS Nautilus - Groton, CT. She is one grand 'ol lady. And have visited the memorial Conning Tower, up the street from the sub museum, for the WWII subs at Groton.

Just missed out on a day cruise on a nke out of Groton. Ex son-in-law was stationed there on a Nukeboat.

[ETR3(SS)]

U-505 (before the cool enclosed exhibit, been meaning to go back.)
USS Nautulis in Groton, CT while at Sub school.
USS Bowfin went there every port call in PH
and finally the good ol' USS Kentucky SSBN 737 (G)...for about 4 years.

Pretty short list for a RL submariner imo. But what can I say I worked on one for a few years.

[dbf574]

Well, let's see...

I've served onboard the USS Grayback (LPSS/SS-574), USS Jack (SSN-605), USS Barbel (SS-580), USS Los Angeles (SSN-688) and the USS Olympia (SSN-717).
Toured the USS Ohio on her first port visit to Pearl Harbor after having partied with the crew of the USS Darter at Beaman's:yep: , needless to say that being attached to the USS Barbel at the time I felt like I had just walked into the bridge of the starship Enterprise when I walked into the control room:doh: .
Worked on the electronic equipments within various boats, including the USS Nautilus (when she was active), while working at the Submarine Repair Facility in New London Ct. during my first shore duty (1978-1981).
Visited various boats in Pearl Harbor.
Partied on an Austrailian submarine, their 'Goat Locker' had invited the 'Goat Lockers' of the 4 Los Angeles class boats that were in port with them in Yokosuka, Japan for a 'get-together' :doh: (it definitely felt weird drinking alcohol onboard a submarine:roll: , but I soon got over it:smug: ). Those mates could really drink up a storm, but that's another story altogether:dead: :dead: :dead:

I would love to get a tour of any Virginia class boat that ever pulls into Pearl Harbor... this lady, I have just got to get into:ping:

[frogdog]

SCRAG's answer is much more thorough, detailed...and accurate, than mine. Thanks Mr. Scrag

[arkroyal]

:arrgh!: I had the privelidge of serving in boats for 20 years
H.m.s/m Rorqual
H.m.s/m Grampus
H.m.s/m Otter(x2)
H.m.s/m Sealion
Been on 100's of SSN's and SSK's all round the world
Also H.m.s/m Alliance,Holland 1 and the U534 in Liverpool:rotfl: :sunny:

[AirborneTD]

USS Requin (Pittsburgh, PA)
USS Cod (Cleveland, OH)
Scorpion Foxtrot (Long Beach, CA)

[IronOutlaw]

HMS Alliance
U-995
U-505
U-2540
HMAS Farncombe
HMAS Sheean, a one day sea ride including a dive.
HMAS Onslow, Australian national Maritime Museum, worked on her as a guide.

Think that's all.

[tridentseal56]

my dad took me on a day crusie with the uss- spinax ,he was 1st class eletrian then . back in the 60s point loma ca san-t

[U49]

Next one will probably be U-9 in Speyer/ Germany

http://www.museumspeyer.de/0000420A238D_D4E3D357_000054F5_0001.html

Dnag, I was in Speyer a couple of days last week. Never knew there was a sub there :-?

It's a type 205 submarine, old and rusty but still worth a look or two :yep:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_205_submarine

The wikipedia link shows currently even the picture of U-9.

This type was in use with the german Bundesmarine and the dansk Kongelige Dansk Marine.

If I remember right it had the primary task's of
*) forward defence against ampib assault in the baltic
*) denying warshaw pact navies access from the baltic to the northsea
*) recon and supply line interruption close to enemy shore

[AVGWarhawk]

USS Torsk....I'm there every Saturday restoring the old girl. Drop on by if you are visiting Baltimore.

just a quick question; what are the sub named after? because in swedish torsk means cod...

The only subs that I have been on is the one in my sig (U3) that is on display at a museum in Malmo, Sweden and another sub when I was really young (dont remember what sub it was) :D


Yes, cod. They were running out of fish with the English word for them so turned to the same type fish but used the word for them from different languages.

[trongey]

I was on USS Batfish when I was in grade school. Don't really remember anything about it so I have to go back soon. I drive past it several times a year. Wish I'd known about that reenactment MJS was in.
Been on every version of the Disneyland/DisneyWorld subs.:|\\

[Oldgamer48]

First, I've been on the U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry, in Chicago! Not quite old enough to have served on her, however ...

I was also on the USS Silversides (SS-236, Gato-class, commissioned 15 December, 1941), prior to the boat getting Mayor Daley's boot in 1987. You can see this boat in Muskegon, Michigan.

I've also ... along with several other persons ... been picked up by a 688. However, I can't tell you which boat, the year it happened, or the circumstances.

[IronOutlaw]

Yep, I forgot, "Holland I" at Gosport.

[Tarnsman]

An active duty diesel boat on a goodwill tour when I was very young. The U-505, most recently just before she was renovated. And the USS Torsk, I got to look around by myself since no one else was on the tour at the time. Man it was like being in "Run Silent Run Deep" very cool. US boats really had a different feel about them than the Uboats.

[John W. Hamm]

Myself and my fiance have been to the USS Batfish 2 times (because she loves me) on the second trip (about 3 weeks ago) we took my 10 y/o son, and we took lots of pictures. there is just something cool about being on a subamrine that is in a land locked state and sitting in the middle of a field ;)

[rasmus1896]

anyone been on the USS Stingray(SSS-161)??
:rotfl:
lol

[Charlielima]

Queenfish, SSN-651. Tour in March 1983 while parked at NAS Alameda. The boat has been "recycled". Thier group has a great website. V/r, CL
:lurk:

[(SH3)JOHN LAMARRE]

uss lionfish and uss natilus

[LtCmdrRat]

Project 690 Kefal (Mullet) class (known in the West as Bravo class)
3 month naval practice in navigation and "emmergency FM( Force Major) practice" for secondary naval speciality.
BC-1 (navigation unit)(B.CH.-1; -"Bae-Chae"-1- Boevaya Chast'(Unit) -1). Soon after practice, last Kefal was demolished in mid 90-s.

[Onkel Neal]

Last but not least, SS244 Cavalla, in Galveston, TX. Toured and wade fished near her many times.



Howdy, neighbor, I'm just down the road from you, in Pearland!

[Tex]

Last but not least, SS244 Cavalla, in Galveston, TX. Toured and wade fished near her many times.



Howdy, neighbor, I'm just down the road from you, in Pearland!

League City/Kemah here. :yep:

[Idaeus]

I've been on Nordkaparen...

http://www.nordkaparen.se/images/nordkaparen.jpg

[nikimcbee]

Cobia:up:
Blueback:up:
Cavalla:up:
Pampanito:up:
U-505:up:
B-39 (foxtrot class)
Japanese Kaiten:cool:

[clayp]

US Bowfin at Pearl....

[399nkov]

Howdy Neal;

I've lived around the Houston area all my life. Went to Pearland Schools in the mid 50's. It was in the country then. How times have changed.

What a great web site you have here. It really brings back the ole sea-going days. I can't believe it took me so long to find it. Still exploring.

BTW my brother helped restore Cavalla, mid 70's I think. He served on the Baracuda out of Key West late 60's. My memory fades. :hmm:

Howdy Tex, know those areas well. Lived in Dickinson for years. I just finished Pacific Fury d/l and will view it now.

Happy Holidays to everyone and Stay Safe :up:

[IronOutlaw]

I've just remembered, I have also visited a Russian Foxtrot boat that was alongside HMAS Onslow at the ANMM some years ago and is now in the US, and a similar boat, in Folkstone (I think) in the UK.

[wh1skea]

Being a Navy brat of the 80's, I've been on:

USS Nautilus SSN-571
USS Sculpin SSN-590
USS Trepang SSN-674
USS Louisville SSN-724

Also have been on:

USS Drum SS-228
USS Cobia SS-245

[Don-T]

:-? Hmm, I served on the USS Trout, USS Odax, USS Sennet, USS Irex, USS Sea Devil and retired off the USS Baton Rouge. Guess that counts as "being on".:)

[Quasimodo]

Amazingly enough I live in Connecticut and have the Nautilis about 20 miles south of me and I've yet to eour her. However I did go on the USS Croaker, a WW2 Gato Class sub while it was in Groton and it has since been moved to Minnesota and restored in all its glory.

One of these days I'm going to make it to Chicago and tour the U-Boat that is there.

I believe that Providence, RI also is home to a Soviet sub as well.

[JackMB]

I've been on the USS Drum, USS Becuna and the USS Cobia. The Cobia (Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Manitowoc, WI) was the best experience of the three due to the fact that the tour could only be made with a museum employee. It could not be boarded without a guide to supervise, which means nobody could trash the interior. There were no self-guiding plaques and only one plexiglass barrier (radio room), so it all had an authentic appearance and made for good picture-taking.

You can check out my pictures here:
http://members.tcq.net/nzeronv/cobia/

-Jack-

[399nkov]

Amazingly enough I live in Connecticut and have the Nautilis about 20 miles south of me and I've yet to eour her. However I did go on the USS Croaker, a WW2 Gato Class sub while it was in Groton and it has since been moved to Minnesota and restored in all its glory.

USS Croaker, I think that was the name of my training sub when I was at sub-school, 1961. I've been trying to remember that boats name. What I do remember, the really bad weather in the North Atlantic during lookout training. Cold, wet and scary for trainee scrubs.

[pugwash1]

Hey, Quasimodo, jump out of the bell tower and get on down to the Nautilus! the museum that is attached is worth the drive all on its own. You will kick yourself if you don't.

[Bale]

I visited the U-995 in Laboe in 1996 (oh my God the Times runs merciless) :dead:

[nkroadcaptain]

Visited Pampanito, Torsk, a Gato next to USS Massachusetts (as a kid), The Soviet rustbucket in Seattle (we were wary of these guys?).

Worked on too many to list, 651, 639, 688, 683, 687, 684, 724, and all Atlantic 640 class and Pacific fleet 726 class boats.

Spent too many birthdays and weekends on Aspro (648), Florida (728), and Louisville (724).

[aurora-7]

The 'Becuna' in Philadelphia.

The 'U-505' in Chicago.

The 'Lionfish' in Fall River, MA.

The 'Croaker' in New London (before it was moved to Buffalo).

The 'Nautilus' in New London.

[Ronquil]

I served aboard the USS Ronquil SS 396 for three years beginning in 1967. She was in her Guppy III mod at that time, ie extended sail. Also did a day of duty aboard an HMS submarine in an exchange program out of Yokuska Japan. Did some daily ops on Roncodor, Dentuda, Bonefish, Wahoo and visited many others as we were nested in San Diego CA and Yokuska Japan.

[Ronquil]

Ronquil was the sister ship of Razorback SS 396 I had the experience of visiting Razorback as she was deployed with Ronquil during the Vietnam War. We operated out of Yokuska Japan. They both had the Guppy III mod. Ronquil also was reassigned to the Spanis Navy in 1972.


I'm surprised that only GunnerGreg mentioned the SS-394 Razorback, now at North Little Rock, Arkansas. I work in NLR; seems that when you get used to seeing an old rustbucket like that every day, you forget what a privilege you have.

Sadly, the Razorback (a Balao-class, I think) was the victim of one of those darned GUPPY conversions that changed it from a cool-looking WWII pacific theatre silent service veteran into one of those obnoxious boxy looking subs you'd expect to be doing something boring, like polar research. No deck gun, no cool AA gundecks on the tower, etc.

Even worse: the poor boat spent a goodly amount of time in the Turkish navy before we (NLR) bought it back from them and turned it into a museum piece. The inside machinery still has stuff labeled in Turkish.

ADDED LATER: a little eye-candy for any of you collectors:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b211/PharaohTet/100_4519.jpg

[Kapitan]

Again been on so many to list ans some of which i never knew the names of (classification).

Been onboard:

HMS Turbulent
HMS Ocelot
Foxtrot class
Tango class
Akula class
Oscar II
Victor I / II/ III (GREMIKHA THERES PLENTY)
Delta II
Al'fa

and so many more my arms hurts so ask away if you want to know about them and what they are like.

[kurt72]

USS Silversides (SS-236) on a tour overnite
USS USS Bowfin (SS-287), on a tour in Hawaii
USS ASHEVILLE (SSN 758) (http://www.navybuddies.com/ssn/ssn758.htm) 6 week install as a contractor
USS Helena (SSN 725) 6 week install as a contractor.
USS HOUSTON (SSN-713) 10 day install as a contractor.
USS CHICAGO (SSN-721) 1 day install as a contractor.
USS ????????, 5 week install as a contractor. (5 weeks and I cant remember which boat :stare: )
USS ????????, 1 day install as a contractor.

U-505, several times as a kid at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.

I am a NAVY vet who got out and did a lot of work onboard surface ships and subs.

[ustahl]

"Vesikko" at Suomenlinna outdoor museum off Helsinki, the only surviving type II. (IIRC)

[Harpo]

Four years on the USS Los Angeles (SSN 688).
Been on the Gato class USS Drum (SS-228) and Balao class USS Bowfin (SS-287).

[Mr Quatro]

Again been on so many to list ans some of which i never knew the names of (classification).

Been onboard:

HMS Turbulent
HMS Ocelot
Foxtrot class
Tango class
Akula class
Oscar II
Victor I / II/ III (GREMIKHA THERES PLENTY)
Delta II
Al'fa

and so many more my arms hurts so ask away if you want to know about them and what they are like.

Time to update your list Kapitan ... don't we have some new members going subs too? :up:

[Kapitan]

Indeed time to update oh boy this may take a while

[arkroyal]

Hi, As follows
HMS/M Rorqual
HMS/M Grampus
HMS/M Otter
HMS/M Sealion
20 years in the Royal Navy Submarine Service
Also HMS onyx and HMS alliance
:yeah:
ps Holland 1

[vamac53]

Bowfin/Drum/Clamagore... then that one at Disneyland too.....

i went t.a.d. on uss barbelss 580 . caught it at yokusuka,jah okinawa in 1974pan.special ops then got off at white beach, okinawa

[vamac53]

Just wondering what real subs any of you have been on? Two summers ago I had the pleasure of going to Hawaii on my honeymoon (my wife is also a history teacher)and had the pleasure to spend some time on the USS Bowfin (SS-287). Then a month later I attended a confernce in Philly, Gettysburg and DC and while in Philly I made it over to the USS Becuna (SS-319). In college I wrote my thesis on the US sub war against Japan so I gave all the other teachers a tour of the boat and announced what room we were about to enter before we entered it (I'm sure they hated me). I have yet to see a Gato or any other class in real life and I am anxiously looking forward to one day spending some time on one.

I WENT T A D ON USS BABEL SS 580. PICKED BOAT UP IN YOKOSUKA JAPAN IN 1974.DID A SPECIAL OPS MISSION,THEN GOT OFF IN WHITE BEACH OKINAWA,IN 1974

[UKönig]

The USS Boston SSBN 703. The HMCS Ojibwa (before she was retired). I was also on the museum ship HMCS Sackville K181, which is the last known flower class Corvette in existence anywhere. I have been on more surface ships by comparison though.

[mikesn9]

I made 9 runs on the USS Sam Houston SSBN 609 (B), Nuke, Reactor Operator.

[Aktungbby]

Gudgeon (SS/AGSS/SSAG-567) during a fleet week in San Diego 1978 1983, She was transferred by lease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lease) to Turkey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey) and renamed TCG Hızırreis, named for Ottoman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire) Admiral Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurto%C4%9Flu_H%C4%B1z%C4%B1r_Reis). She was purchased in 1987 and served until 2004. She is berthed as a museum ship at the Kocaeli (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kocaeli_Province) Museum Ships Command in Izmit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izmit) and is open to the public. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/USS_Gudgeon_%3B0856710.jpg/300px-USS_Gudgeon_%3B0856710.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Gudgeon_;0856710.jpg) ...and USS Pampanito (SS-383/AGSS-383), 2014, berthed at San Francisco's Fisherman wharf astern of the Liberty USS Jeremiah O'Brien. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Pampanito_%28submarine%2C_San_Francisco%29.JPG/300px-Pampanito_%28submarine%2C_San_Francisco%29.JPG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pampanito_(submarine,_San_Francisco).JPG) She's just gotten out of a major refit-drydock; so I'll go again soon.:arrgh!:http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=228437 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=228437) Note: in looking up Turkish sub museums, the USS Thornback SS418 Tench class launched 1944 launch is now renamed TCG Uluçalireis (S 338) on display at the Golden Horn in Istanbul https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/TCG_Ulu%C3%A7alireis_%28S_338%29.jpg/220px-TCG_Ulu%C3%A7alireis_%28S_338%29.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TCG_Ulu%C3%A7alireis_(S_338).jpg) (all pics enlarge)

[ETR3(SS)]

U-505 (before the cool enclosed exhibit, been meaning to go back.)
USS Nautulis in Groton, CT while at Sub school.
USS Bowfin went there every port call in PH
and finally the good ol' USS Kentucky SSBN 737 (G)...for about 4 years.

Pretty short list for a RL submariner imo. But what can I say I worked on one for a few years.
Gotta update the list here.

Soviet Foxtrot that was in Seattle, now in San Diego
USS Pampanito
USS Cobia
U-505 with the new indoor exhibit

[fireftr18]

When I was little, about 7, I was on a tour of a sub while visiting my uncle in Charleston SC. Took a tour of The Nautilus while touring New England.
Does the (now gone) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride at Disney World count?

[JacqueShredo]

The U-505 when I was a little kid before they moved it, then saw it again once they moved it into the new zone. Also been to the Silversides in Michigan! That was by far my favorite.

If anyone lives close enough to visit it go check it out!

https://silversidesmuseum.org/

[Deputy]

U-505 in Chicago. Was pretty cool doing the walk-through. But if you have claustrophobia, forgetaboutit! :har:

[Admiral-Jervis]

I had the pleasure of touring the SAS Asegaii, a French Daphne Class Submarine in service with the South African Navy. She was still in active service and came to town for a public open day. The Assegai has since been decommissioned, but is now on display in Cape Town. I also was able to tour the SAS Charlotte Mqkweke a few year ago when the Navy was in town.

[PerunD]

I visited the the Scorpion, a Russian Foxtrot class submarine located at the port in Long Beach, CA.

[Zero Niner]

USS Bowfin, when I went to Hawaii for a family vacation 2 years ago. It was a "must see" item on my itinerary! It really brought home to me how cramped the interior of a sub is!

[cookiemonste]

I've been to "U-434" a old soviet Project 641 Disel sub.
It's not in a good condition sadly.
A lot of the equipment was removed as well. As the sub was beeing transfered from russia, the russian secret service stopped the vessel and took most of the equipment with them.
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/13096556.jpg

[Raptor_Pilot]

The USS Albacore is on display in Portsmouth New Hampshire.
She's quite roomy for a submarine.

[Pappy55]

HMS Alliance and the Holand One at the Royal Navy sub museum at Gosport, England.

[merc4ulfate]

B-29 Soviet Foxtrot Class
https://eventvenuessandiego.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/b39-sub-ruskie.jpg

SS 228 Drum United States Gato Class
http://www.drum228.org/img/drumguns2.jpg

[Bubblehead1980]

USS Drum many times, hometown is just 50 miles to the east and I live here again finally. Have no visited there in a while. Last time I was there ran into some volunteers, they let us go up on the bridge which is normally restricted, great view.

Visiting the USS Cod this summer, can't wait.

[oversoul]

ex-USS DRUM was probably the first, visiting on a Navy JROTC trip ~1995 when she was still waterborne in Mobile, AL, a naval town of some rapport with "torpedoes" of a different variety.
USS LOUISIANA. I got lucky and got a tiger cruise as part of the same Baton Rouge Navy JROTC unit, after having attended both christening in New London and commissioning in King's Bay. I sat in the captain's chair and was scolded. I would never be captain; it was true.
USS TOLEDO. Another NJROTC unit tour. I would recall that distinct monoethanolamine smell later, although at the time I did not know what this weird smell was.
ex-USS CLAMAGORE. At Patriots' Point, South Carolina, while I was in nuke school.
USS [redacted]. A Seawolf-class that I served aboard as a nuke electrician, where I qualified in submarine warfare. Aboard for about three years, about 530 of which I spent submerged underway.
ex-USS BOWFIN. Visited Pearl aboard #5 and toured this relic. I have a photo of myself and a shipmate, now deceased, manning the deck gun. Godspeed M.W. Gone but not forgotten.
ex-USS DOLPHIN. Toured this legend of the submarine world while stationed in San Diego aboard a surface ship after I commissioned. One betrayal was not enough for me! One thinks of MMC Wise, and how he, like Kennedy, was low-balled on a meritorious citation. The sea is as deadly a foe as any enemy bullet, perhaps more so.
ex-"Foxtrot" class B-39, a Soviet boat colocated at the San Diego Maritime Museum with DOLPHIN and many naval relics.

Not sure why it took me so long to find this post, oh well. :arrgh!:

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X-Craft, London, 1960.


X Stickleback Class, Duxford.


HMS Alliance, HMS Holland, Gosport.


U 475 Black Widow Class, (Foxtrot Class B-39), London.


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[Mork_417]

USS Drum, probably about six times in the last thirty years. And, the U-505 about nine years ago, the last time I was in Chicago.

[3catcircus]

USS Bowfin (SS-287) - museum
USS Becuna (SS-319) - museum
USS Albacore (AGSS-569) - museum
USS Nautilus (SSN-571)- museum

USS Haddock (SSN-621) - '91 - '93 decomm crew

USS Omaha (SSN-692) - '93 - '95 decomm crew

[Snook592]

Blueback 581, several times. The first time was in the mid 1990's, soon after is was brought to OMSI here in Portlandia, and the boat still reeked of diesel and cigarette smoke. The TDC was just standing right there in the control room, begging for people to mess with the knobs.:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:
The next time I went, the TDC was entombed behind a thick plexiglass shield. Boo-hoo! :Kaleun_Crying:

[Freaknstein]

USS Queenfish SSN-651 ...1982-83...And the most action I saw was...in bars. The trip from Frisco to Pearl was cool.:haha:

[Taucheisen]

U-17 German Navy 1975-1976
U-995 in Laboe/Kiel

[Aktungbby]

Taucheisen!:Kaleun_Salute: aftera four year silent run!:arrgh!:

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