Served on SSBNs USS H. M. Jackson, USS Georgia (now SSGN ). Toured the USS Ohio, USS Michigan and USS Nautilus (Groton), USS Dallas (SSN), USS San Francisco ( prior to collision ) and toured the USS Bowfin at Pearl, and on the same trip toured the USS Hawkbill (666, not a good hull #). Also at Pearl boarded the USS Kamaymaya, an old 640 class ( 41 for Freedom ).

I also toured an old russian Foxtrot that was tied near Lions Gate park in BC. What amazed me about the russian boat was the similarity to US subs with alot of the equipment, battlelanterns, switchboards and other little things. Even the old ash-trays and ZARFs were identical to the ones used on US boats.

Never been on a German uboat, maybe someday, would be an honor and a pleasure.

The Cavala
U-505

One more back over 40 years ago and I cannot remember the name of it...

I'm SHOCKED -- no one's been on the U.S.S. Croaker?? Time for some of you to come to Buffalo, NY and see the Croaker! It underwent the Guppy conversion though -- YUCK!! :damn: Still very interesting to tour.

Only been on Vesikko at Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesikko

HMCS Onondaga in Halifax harbour on a wet day in May 1996.

HB

Hey, whats wrong with boats having the greater underwater propulsion pack? Bill were you on the Nautilus in spring of 1968?

wild bill

That I remember:

Bowfin http://www.bowfin.org/website/index.cfm
Growler http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/pages/growler
Albacore http://www.ussalbacore.org/
Abraham Lincoln http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Abr...coln_(SSBN-602)
And if it counts, the conning tower of the Squalus/Sailfish

Witnessed the launches of:
Jack
John Adams
Nathanael Greene
Dolphin

HMS Alliance (Gosport, UK)
Holland 1 (Gosport, UK)
HMS Onyx (Birkenhead UK)
U - 534 (Birkenhead UK)
ORP Orzeł Kilo class (Gdynia Poland)
ORP Bielik Kobben class (Gdynia Poland)

Nautilus...
Lionfish...
Watched a Flight I L.A. cruise down Groton....
U-505...wish i coulda taken pictures...and wished they hadnt hacked apart the insides...and loaded it wish speakers, and wish you could go into the C.T....and that the tour guide was a complete dip**** (he put the motors in reverse...)
etc.

U505
 

THe only sub I habe been in is the U505. WOud love to get insice a type Vii

Served aboard:

USS Pintado (SSN-672) 2 years
USS Tunny (SSN-682) 3 years
(As an interesting note [to me at least], both Pintados' and Tunnys' Reactor Compartments are resting side by side in WA state).

Visited/toured/did work on:

USS Cavalla (SSN)
USS Aspro (SSN)
USS Hawkbill (SSN-666)
USS Tautog (SSN)
USS George Washington (SSBN)(or Slow Attack in her later years)
USS Ohio (SSBN)
USS Pogy (SSN)
USS Skipjack (SSN)
USS Sargo (SSN)
USS Sea Dragon (SSN)
USS Grayback (SSG)
USS San Franciso (SSN)
USS La Jolla (SSN)
USS Barbell (SSG)
(just about every boat that served in Pearl.)

USS Ling (Hackensack NJ)
USS Bowfin (and Bowfin Park) Pearl
USS Nautilus (Groton CT)
USS Croaker (Groton CT)

I've been lucky enough to have been on two:


The USS Albacore (AGSS-569) which was a test bed for the modern hulls of today

and the

USS Lionfish (SS-298) which had two war patrols and sank a japanise sub

Pampanito
http://www.maritime.org/tour/img/pamptour.jpg

Zeeleeuw:
http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/boats..._zeeleeuw2.jpg

Yellow Submarine:
http://www.coralworld.com/yellow-sub/04.jpg

U-359:
http://www.daenemark-moen.de/Umland_/u-boot02.jpg

Cavalla:
http://hnsa.org/ships/img/cavalla2.jpg

Same for me :up:!

Also I have seen U-1 in Deutsches Museum / München / Germany
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/samml...schiffahrt/u1/

Next one will probably be U-9 in Speyer/ Germany
http://www.museumspeyer.de/0000420A2...54F5_0001.html

I was on the HMCS Grilse (USS Burrfish), HMCS Ojibwa, and HMCS Windsor (HMS Unicorn).

Tony