Some updated USS Torsk Photos
 

http://www.pbase.com/torskphotoguy/uss_torsk&page=all



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Warhawk

Oh sure! Just show off your nice, shiny submarine! We see how you are. :lol:

That is looking really good!:yep: I have got to get up there and see her sometime.

She needs a lot more spit and polish, not to mention rags, paint, grease, a prayer or two, elbow grease and more money to do it. You know all about it!!!:up:

Very, very nice pictures there. Everything is so shiny and bright!

Heh. I have been on the Torsk many times. At some point during the seventies, there was a horrible wind storm in Baltimore. My family and I were inside the Torsk, and a ship moored behind said sub broke free from said moorings. A tour guide called 911 to report it, I think. We were never in any real danger, despite how it sounds.

I really wish that everything inside the Batfish had not been coated with grey paint, because as you can see in those photos, right next to the high pressure air manifold there is a bunch of piping, and it looks so much cooler in brass than paint.

Nice pics :yep:

http://i.pbase.com/g1/26/731826/2/93337831.2WD0wv5e.jpg

RDP

Awesome.

U.S.S Torsk?

U.S.S Torsk!?

Sorry, but is "Torsk" a real word in the english language, 'cause for me, as a swede, that name sounds abit ridiculous.

But it's some pretty nice pictures there!:)

question
 

Does the condition of the Torsk reflect the condition during wartime? Would they really have all that polished brass and brightwork during wartime operations? Or does Batfish's painted gray more authentically relect a ship in anger?

For a period, American Subs were named after fish.

Torsk: A large, edible, marine fish, allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America. Nice link here :yep:

http://www.usstorsk.org/history/423hist.htm


RDP

Torsk is not a real word in english. The US ran out of fishnames during the huge build-up of submarines during WW2. So they grabbed fishnames from other languages. Torsk is simply Cod in english. Since the name Cod was already taken (and that boat hadn't been sunk in the course of war) they simply took the name USS Torsk.

I agree nice looking boat.

Are you using real brass polish or the 'Never-dull-very-expensive-museum-polish'?

At Cod we use the Never dull, since it doesn't polish away the copper and brass over time. Pipes get awfully thin after a lot of polishing, and the text on name plates disappears before you know it...

groetjes,

Biggles, a better explanation than mine :roll::up:


RDP

We must have been typing at the same time... :D