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Old 04-18-10, 09:50 AM   #775
Jan Kyster
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This thread need more pictures!

The unique arrangement of Argonaut's deck torpedo tubes, installed during her 1942 modernization:



The Narwhal, modernized a year later, has two of her added deck tubes much further forward than in the Nautilus and two at the very stern as in the Argonaut.
The tubes under the Narwhal's after gun remained non-firing stowage tanks for spare torpedoes...



The end... Nautilus waiting for the scrappers... Januar 1946:



Source:
The Fleet Submarine in the U.S. Navy
A Design And Construction History
John D. Alden, Commander U.S. Navy (retired)
ISBN 0-85368-203-8

Was in my mailbox Saturday morning

Carry on...
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