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d5j55
05-17-08, 12:37 PM
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=129586
look at the last picture (on the first post).
what ever it is it would be quite cool to be inside the conning tower while under water... well looking though windows.
Kaleun
05-17-08, 12:40 PM
hi,

It's the USS Cavalla (SS/SSK/AGSS-244), a gato-class GUPPY conversion, see

www.cavalla.org

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cavalla_(SS-244)

regards

Kaleun
Hitman
05-17-08, 12:41 PM
It's the famous USS Cavalla (SS-244) a gato class from WW2 later converted to a Guppy (Greater Underwater Propulsion Program) submarine.

When decomisioned it became part of the Galveston museum park, and is there on exhibit now. The last subsim meeting took place there, and the guys visited Cavalla and even spent the night there.:up:
Raptor1
05-17-08, 12:51 PM
USS Cavalla was the one that sunk the Shokaku during the Battle of the Philippine Sea
d5j55
05-17-08, 12:52 PM
awesome thinks:up:
JREX53
05-18-08, 09:34 AM
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=129586
look at the last picture (on the first post).
what ever it is it would be quite cool to be inside the conning tower while under water... well looking though windows.

Where the window in the conning tower are is a free flood area, i.e. open to sea
pressure. In other words it is not part of the pressure hull. You would need scuba
gear on to be able to look out the windows when under water.
Hitman
05-18-08, 10:07 AM
Where the window in the conning tower are is a free flood area, i.e. open to sea
pressure. In other words it is not part of the pressure hull. You would need scuba
gear on to be able to look out the windows when under water.

very true :yep:

This was designed to allow the helmsman to drive the submarine on surface like a normal vessel, with full visibility for maneuvering but protected from the heavy weather.
treblesum81
05-18-08, 12:22 PM
Is there steering gear in there then?