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nikimcbee
03-24-08, 11:48 PM
This sub used to be in Seattle, alas, it is gone. Here are some photos from its Seattle days. project 641 B-39

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5403/scan0001rt0.png (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/4900/scan0004xp2.png (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/6888/scan0010mb8.png (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/1372/scan0013iy6.png (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/7585/scan0006ah8.png (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8368/scan0014lf6.png (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)
M. Sarsfield
03-25-08, 10:35 AM
Where did they send it to? Did it go back to Russia or is it touring another port? That would have been nice to check it out.
M. Sarsfield
03-25-08, 02:40 PM
It's in San Diego, now... http://www.sdmaritime.com/contentpage.asp?ContentID=177

Looks like it will be there for a long time.
nikimcbee
03-28-08, 03:38 AM
I think the Coast Guard had safety issues with it when it was in Seattle. One of the hosts showed me how rusted it was!
M. Sarsfield
03-28-08, 10:09 AM
Rusty pressure hull? Not good. Most vulnerable location would be leaky torpedo tube seals. Batfish only recently fixed those issues.
Jacky Fisher
04-29-08, 09:18 PM
nice pics. why was it moved?
nikimcbee
05-03-08, 05:36 AM
nice pics. why was it moved?

The last time I was there, I was under the impression it was for safety reasons, but I'm not sure. (The Coast Guard had issues with it)

It originally left Canada for financial reasons. (not making any money, US was a better market)
Sledgehammer427
05-29-08, 04:53 AM
good god almighty look at the hammer an sickle on that tower OH AND THE RED STAR!!!!!
wow, thats some serious communism on that boat there
Jacky Fisher
05-29-08, 02:36 PM
The Akulas are the most :rock:of the old Red Fleet.
rifleman13
06-14-08, 05:41 AM
Russkie sub in Seattle?

Ring a bell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_in_Conflict
GunnerGreg
06-20-08, 09:21 PM
Actually, the movement of the sub from Seattle to San Diego was strickly a business deal. The owner, a private individual, decided he was better off financially to sell the museum than to continue to operate it as a museum. The San Diego Maritime Museum bought it outright.

The US Coast Guard issues you speak of had to do with her voyage down the coast, not her operation as a museum.

San Diego Maritime is also the future home of USS DOLPHIN (AGSS-555).
nikimcbee
06-20-08, 10:12 PM
Actually, the movement of the sub from Seattle to San Diego was strickly a business deal. The owner, a private individual, decided he was better off financially to sell the museum than to continue to operate it as a museum. The San Diego Maritime Museum bought it outright.

The US Coast Guard issues you speak of had to do with her voyage down the coast, not her operation as a museum.

San Diego Maritime is also the future home of USS DOLPHIN (AGSS-555).

That's interesting stuff.:up:
PeriscopeDepth
06-22-08, 02:17 AM
I saw this sub when I lived near LA. Fun stuff!

http://www.russiansublongbeach.com/

PD
Kapitan
06-22-08, 09:09 AM
One of thee most imfamous boats of the cold war and probably one of the best conventional boats the soviet union produced but i still dont think it could beat an oberon class of the UK.
I-25
10-22-08, 10:44 PM
yupp sub's in SD. iv been on it 3 times already, ripped my favorite shirt going trough the hatch from the fore torp room to the crew quarters u.u
krashkart
06-09-10, 07:23 PM
Russkie sub in Seattle?

Ring a bell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_in_Conflict


LMAO :har: Own it, love it, pwned by it! :rock:

Something that I've always liked about certain Russian subs are the windows(?) in the conning tower. Always wondered if you could kick back in there and have a coffee, and gaze into the sea. That would be cool.
msxyz
06-22-10, 10:22 AM
Gaze into the sea?

Unless you're wearing diving equipment, no. :)

The upper part of the conning tower is flooded when the submarine is submerged. The windows are just meant to protect the crew on deck from weather during surface maneuvers.
krashkart
06-26-10, 06:28 PM
That explains why I got drenched. :hmmm:

Someone posted pictures of their visit to the Submarine Command Museum, down in GT, and there was a post in there that read something like... "If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me if we could look through the windows while we were submerged..."


:oops:
ajrimmer42
06-26-10, 06:36 PM
Russkie sub in Seattle?

Ring a bell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_in_Conflict

Epic!!!

#Here I go again on my own, goin down the only road I've ever known!# :rock: :D
snakeyez
06-27-10, 09:51 PM
I guess you guys know that the Russian B-39 is scheduled to become a shallow water diving reef sometime before the end of 2012?
nikimcbee
06-28-10, 09:34 AM
I guess you guys know that the Russian B-39 is scheduled to become a shallow water diving reef sometime before the end of 2012?

D'oh didn't know that! Why are they sinking it? I never got the full story why Seattle got rid of it. Vancouver couldn't keep because of money reasons. I was under the impression Seattle sold it because of safety issues(?) So why is the current owner getting rid of it?
snakeyez
06-28-10, 10:54 PM
All I know is that the San Diego Maritime Museum was only obligated to keep the B-39 through 2011.

Then I read this article the other day:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jun/21/grsq-museum-build-replica-cabrillos-galleon/

"Plans call for the ship to open as a paid attraction in 2012, when it joins the museum's other ships at the nearby embarcadero. It'll take the spot now occupied by B-39, a Soviet submarine that will be turned into an offshore diving reef."

Apparently, SDMM will keep the B-39 only as long as they are obligated and then sink her.
Kapitan
06-29-10, 03:35 AM
Well all ships are going to die one day shame really cause that is probably the closest your going to get to things from the cold war from russia, she is also one of only a handful of foxtrots left even india no longer has them in active service.

Its going to cost them more than twice what they paid for it anyway the amount of asbestos and other gump in those things.
Marka Ragnos
06-29-10, 05:24 AM
And if you ever in Belgium go to Zeebrugge we also have a foxtrot:


http://www.seafront.be/foxtrot.asp
Liinno
09-01-14, 12:13 PM
B-39 is relatively "young" boat. It was launched in 1967, the first submarine of project 641 (B-94) begins to build in 1957 for a while I was in the B-94 ...
nikimcbee
10-09-14, 02:54 PM
Well all ships are going to die one day shame really cause that is probably the closest your going to get to things from the cold war from russia, she is also one of only a handful of foxtrots left even india no longer has them in active service.

Its going to cost them more than twice what they paid for it anyway the amount of asbestos and other gump in those things.

I just talked to the hottest sounding secretary at the SDMM, and they still have the sub and they aren't getting rid of her any time soon.:rock:

Tickets to SD are really cheap atm.:hmmm:

http://www.sdmaritime.org/b-39-submarine/