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Gudgeon (SS/AGSS/SSAG-567) during a fleet week in San Diego 1978 1983, She was transferred by lease to Turkey and renamed TCG Hızırreis, named for Ottoman Admiral Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis. She was purchased in 1987 and served until 2004. She is berthed as a museum ship at the Kocaeli Museum Ships Command in Izmit and is open to the public. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...%3B0856710.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/wikiped...ancisco%29.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 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/wikiped...28S_338%29.jpg (all pics enlarge)

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Originally Posted by ETR3(SS) (Post 715814)

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

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?

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/

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

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.

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

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!

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/o...l/13096556.jpg

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

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

B-29 Soviet Foxtrot Class
https://eventvenuessandiego.files.wo...sub-ruskie.jpg

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

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.

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!:

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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