In france at Cherbourg you can visit the first SSBN le Redoutable without restriction , it take about 45mn to cross the entire submarine front the torpedo room to the aft section.

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Hi...

IMHO - you're not missing much back aft... On my class of boat - the only view to the reactor was through some very thick small cloudy glass view ports mounted in the deck... Not much of a show - and - you probably didn't want to spend too much time gazing while the plant was hot... Most of us "cone'rs" tried to keep trips aft of frame 52 - to a minimum... The rest of the engine room looks - pretty much - like any othe vessle in the navy...

As a nozzleman on a damage control team - most hated drill: FIRE IN MAIN LUBE OIL BAY... Arrrrgh... :)

Nothing like putting your hands on history... Someone mentioned Pearl... I had some schools on Ford Island... I still remember walking around the island and putting my fingers in some of the bullet holes left on some of the concrete buildings... Definately brings it all home...

Regards,
Scott

I live in Lawrence.

I'm hoping to put them up on a new website of mine in the near future. (I let my old site expire.)

And thanks, Bill ;)

TG

I have visited the North Carolina several times and "slept-over" on the Mass (during a North Atlantic storm in an outer bunk at the waterline, very loud, water against steel... :doh: ). The thing I remember most about both ships was the smell, like well, old warships.

I saw the Massachusetts when I visited Boston. They also have a Russian gunboat.

Very interesting....Almost clonked myself on the hatches though. 6'3" isn't the best height on a ship.

possibly the russian tranutul boat hehe im ok going in one of them im only 5ft 10 :D