http://www.russiansublongbeach.com/ :up:

hey WarHawk, I'm Visting Baltimore for the 1st time in Sep/Oct 2008. Anychance of sending me some details of USS Torsk so I can put her on my Todo List.




Cheers Mate
Cowboy10uk

I have the managed to visit,

HMS Allance, Royal Navy Submarine Museum.
HMS Ocelot, Historical Dockyards Chatham,
HMS Oynx , Historic Warships Birkenhead ( sadly closed down )
U534 , Historic Warships Birkenhead.

I also had the pleasure of visiting a British Navy Sub when it Docked in the Falklands for a while back in 98 While I was there on a tour. Unfortunantly I can't remember the name sorry..

Plus many many surface craft.

Visited the U-995 (Type VIIC/41) at the Marine-Ehrenmal in Laboe / Germany
and the U-2540 (Type XXI Wilhelm Bauer) in Bremerhaven / Germany.
When visiting the German Naval Museum in Bremerhaven be sure to check out the possibly last existing Walter Turbine, which is outside at the back of the museum building. Also inside the museum building a 2 man mini u-boat (Type Seehund (Seal)) is on exhibition complete with 2 mounted G7 torpedoes on the hull.

I'm on them mostly every day since I work on Subs for the US Govt. To many to name..:cool:

I've been on one none of you have as it seems.

The Estonian 'Kalev' class WWII submarine 'Lembitu'.

You can read everything about it and its brother Kalev here: http://users.tkk.fi/~andres/models_lembit.html

Absolutely! She is berthed right next to the aquarium. I'm there every Saturday morning (well almost). We open her up at 0700 and do what we can until 1000 when visitors are allowed to come aboard. Come before opening and you can have free run of the boat....meaning go where the visitors are not allowed. :up: As the date gets closer let me know and I will be down there waiting for you to arrive. If you stay long enough we hand you a paint brush:D and set you to work!

Went on the Type XXI U-2540 at Bremerhaven just over two years ago with Neal Stevens and other members of WPL. Had a very enjoyable day at this floating museum ;)http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/images/icons/icon14.gif

You got a deal mate, My wife wants to do the aquarium anyway, So I think thats my opening, come on love Lets go and do what you want, OH look theres a sub ;) Think she will fall for it. I'll P.M. you closer to the time when i have my dates all booked. See you next yr :D

Real submarines
 

Hi,
Do you mean actually served on Diesel boats or just visited museum pieces?
RR

U-505 in Chicago when I was a kid. I had just seen Das Boot and I was totally in awe.

Museum Subs:
U 995
U 9 (postwar)
U 1 (WW1) but only looked at it from the side
U 2541/Wilhelm Bauer
USS Clamagore
USS Torsk
USS Growler (Regulus SSGN)
Assorted Seehunds and Bibers in Museums


Active subs:
U 21 (was active then)
U 15
USS Scranton (shortly only)

you know you are getting old when the subs you list as being on when they were active are listed by others as museum ships! those Poor old royal navy diesels were my first warships I ever visited as a Young boy, I would jump on two double decker buses to the Manchester ship canal (Salford docks UK) everytime the navy was in!

USS Drum - Multiple visits over the years
USS Key West (served on one 688, Seen them all)
NR-1 (a VERY interesting tour thanks to an old friend)
Canadian Oberon boat in Halafax
Norwegian Coastal Sub (dang that thing was SMALL!)
A British SSN (don't remember the class)

I wish I could remember all the names but in reality, it was more of a professional interest of the foriegn boats. I was more interested in the layouts and how they crammed all the essensial stuff in the hull.

I hear you. Every ship I ever sailed on, both USN and Merchant, except one, is no longer around. The one exception is USS Antietam (CG-54).

In fact, my VERY first training ship as a Midshipman at the Texas Maritime Academy was just sunk as a reef...

(USTS Texas Clipper, ex-SS Excambion, ex-USS Queens (APA-103))

You never forget your first ship.

This is going back many years but I was lucky enough to have a gamer friend who also worked on the USS San Juan. One day, while I was visiting him in New London (CT) in the afternoon (we were going to be going to see a show at a local club that night), he had to stop by the sub base in Groton to get something (I think it was a paycheck or some paperwork or something).
Anyway.. after he got whatever it was that he had to get, he took me over to his sub and gave me a guided tour of most of it (all the cool spots: Command Room, Engine Room, Torpedo Room, Weapon Fireing room in the front of the torpedo room, Mess Hall, Crews quarters...etc..). I got to see most of the inside except where he worked which was behind a door that said something like Authorised Personel Only or something like that and had a radiation or something sign on it. I don't know where it led to but it was a door in the back of the command room to the left of the radio room.
This is also how I was able to notice that in Janes 688i Hunterkiller (I played that a lot back then), when you first run the game and get the cinematic of flying through the command room, they got the helm station all wrong.
I also have seen every pannel that you see in 688i HK, Sub Command, and Dangerous Waters actually in the sub... so every time I see one of those panel screens, I flashback and know exactly where in the sub I am. I was really surprised at how teeny the radar screen actually is. You'd have to really have good eyesight to spot a blip on that thing.
I couldn't believe the bunks. It would be impossible to sleep on your side in one of them because they were stacked so close together.
The real highlight of the tour was that I actually had the opportunity to use a REAL SUBMARINE BATHROOM while I was there.:rock:

My friend DID get a little talking to later from the captain on duty the next day or so about giving me the tour in his shorts however(The tour was kind of unplanned). Hehehe. Apparently they weren't happy with having a crewmember on board wearing shorts and a T-shirt giving a tour to a civilian.

Ironically, my friend didn't like 688i Hunterkiller. He said he had more than his fill of submarines and didn't need any more.:dead:

Suprised they let you go back aft to the engine room. Usually, they don't let tourists etc go past the reactor tunnel. Usually the tour is in the fwd part of the boat.

You think a 688 control room is awesome, you should see the Virginia Class control room. Freakin awesome. No more helmsman and planesman stations or control columns. Now have a "pilot" who operates the planes/rudder with a joystick and all indications are on touch screen computer screens. Also, no more hanging on to the scope like in the old days, now have photonics periscopes.

U-461 (Russian Juliett-Class) in Peenemünde , Germany
U-434 (Russian Tango-Class) in Hamburg, Germany
U-359 (Russian Whiskey-Class) in Nakskov, Denmark

U-995 (German WWII Type VIIC) in Laboe, Germany
U-2540 (German WWII Type XXI) in Bremerhafen
U-9 (German Type 205) in Speyer, Germany
U-11 (German Type 206a) in Burgstaaken/Fehmarn, Germany
U-10 (German Type 205) in Wilhelmshaven, Germany

HMS Otus (British Oberon-Class) in Sassnitz/Rügen, Germany

AND the original Film-Set U-Boat of the famous german Film "Das Boot"

U-534 and HMS Onyx

Some of my U-534 pictures are in the Gallery of www.uboat.net

- USS Lionfish in Battlehsip Cove, MA in 1991
- Sturgeon class attack sub at Groton, CT in 1991 (I don't remember the name of the boat)
- USS Requin in Pittsburgh, PA (two or three visits in the '90's)
- USS Torsk in Baltimore, MD (two visits - last one being in 2004)
- USS Batfish in Muskogee, OK (I'll be visiting her for the first time this weekend, but as a reenactor. They're holding tours on Friday and Saturday to raise money for her restoration and they want living historians manning certain stations. I'll be assigned to either the radar or radio station.)