To do what? Make a new paor of diesel/electric engines, repair the gramophone/radio/sonar, make a new torpedo detonator.

You're right :up: With MacGyver, anything is possible! :rock:

Bernards underwear (shudders :dead: )

Now thats volatile !

Hey a new tactic ! Load Bernards laundry into the tube and launch it. The pursuing DD wont think you sank but they will most likely have to leave the area !

Launching Bernard's underwear is considered biological warfare, and is prohibited due to the Geneva convension...... Last time Bernard took a crap at the u-boat toilet, 390 whales stranded off the coast of Spain...

LOL!!! ROLF!!!

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BERNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!
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So which one of you is Patty and which one of you is Selma???

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@ HunterICX: Excellent!!!!! Thats Bernard!!!!!! :rock::rock:

@Bookworm_20: ROFL!!!!!! :up:

Before the hijacking really kicks in (too late aren't I),


"I know subs are "steam-powered", but that is the nature of the nuclear reactor. I did know that ships used "real" gas on those ships, only knew of coal. Or was it merchants only used coal :hmm:"

Yep, most ships used diesel, that was atomised and squirted into the furnace, with the correct mix of oxygen, this gave off tonnes of heat. The water was turned to 'saturated steam' this then passed through a second heat exchange which superheated it.
Superheated steam runs at 1265 degrees c, 200psi pressure. It is dry, invisible, and odourless. On old steamies, they used to keep a straw broom in the boiler room to check for pipe leaks. Any leaking steam at those pressures and temperatures would cut the bristles off.
When the boiler room blew, it therefore, really blew!. Anybody within that compartment would be vapourised in a split second.
When the ship slipped under, and the boilers were suddenly quenched, this caused an implosion, which, with the internal pressures, would then create a giant explosion. Anyone in the water within a cretain distance of the ship (i forget how far) would be killed by the shockwave moving through it.
So to answer several questions here, yes, hitting the boiler room is effective, no the engine room would not be. and no, in a large ship, the boiler rooms and engine rooms were separate, divided by watertight bulkheads

The use of steam also made the ships more silent. In the 70'ths, some british trawlers was driven by steam-turbines. When they passed you on the sea, you didnt hear a thing.. Some people told that they was really scared when those trawlers passed by in the night. Suddenly they saw a big shadow and lights, but heard no sound...creepy...

Another semi-useless factoid:

Not only was the Dreadnought the first major warship powered by steam turbines, it was the first British warship with the officer's accomodations in the bow, and the crew's accomodations in the stern. While the crew slept soundly over the vibration-free steam turbines, the officers got the worst of it in heavy seas, and slept directly over the diesel dynamos and both hydraulic pumping engines! :rotfl:

[quote=Subnuts]Dreadnought was also the only battleship ever to be credited with sinking a submarine: U-29, commanded by Otto Weddigen, who in U-9 had become WWI's first great ace when he sank the British armoured cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue, all in a couple of hours.

U-29 was rammed by Dreadnought while trying to attack the Grand Fleet. How's that for a submarine boner?