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rein1705 · 04-09-11, 03:02 AM

This is taken from "The visual guide to S-class submarines"

A VISUAL GUIDE TO THE S-CLASS SUBMARINES
1918-1945
PART 3: THE ELECTRIC BOAT SERIES

BY

DAVID L. JOHNSTON

 2010

The Electric Boat Company (EB) of Groton, CT. won the majority of the construction contracts for the S-boats. Not that their product was necessarily superior to the Government or Lake designs, it was that EB had a much greater construction capacity and simply had the capability to build more boats faster. Ironically, EB themselves had never built a submarine before. Construction of all of the company’s products had been contracted out to other firms, mostly the Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, MA. and Union Iron Works of San Francisco, CA. (Both companies would be later bought out by Bethlehem Steel). EB’s Groton facilities consisted of their New London Ship & Engine Company (NELSECO) engine subsidiary. They would not have a shipbuilding yard there until 1924, too late to build any of their S-boats.

The second group consisted of S-30 through S-41 and these boats were built by Union Iron Works. They were virtual duplicates of the 20 series boats. The only noticeable difference between the groups was the different shape of the housing for the bow plane pivots. The 20 series had a prominent angular cover, while the 30 series had a smaller, rounded cover. This may indicate a change in bow plane operating mechanisms for the 30 series. The photographs of S-33 and S-36 on this page give good views of this group

idk how to poast it compleat as its a PDF format. as to who the exact engineer was and what he was thinking at the time? who knows, but prehaps it just carried over from the older "R" class boats as i know very little about the ones that had come before.

And yes, The S-boat has many many flaws in comparason to its biger better cousions the fleet boats. I've heard them compared to the type 7 U-boats but that is unfair a type 7 is more like a Sargo or P class your right in it being like the cruddy type II in many ways, however the S-boat was better than any type II imo now im rambeling, Fleet boats are vastly superior and now days i mostly cruse around in the Gar and Gato class Boats but i always have at least one Pig way out in Alaska or round Austraila for when i get too comefortable with my 10 tube sea monster

04-09-11, 03:02 AM	#10
rein1705 Samurai Navy Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: somewhere in the Past. Posts: 582 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 0	This is taken from "The visual guide to S-class submarines" A VISUAL GUIDE TO THE S-CLASS SUBMARINES 1918-1945 PART 3: THE ELECTRIC BOAT SERIES BY DAVID L. JOHNSTON  2010 The Electric Boat Company (EB) of Groton, CT. won the majority of the construction contracts for the S-boats. Not that their product was necessarily superior to the Government or Lake designs, it was that EB had a much greater construction capacity and simply had the capability to build more boats faster. Ironically, EB themselves had never built a submarine before. Construction of all of the company’s products had been contracted out to other firms, mostly the Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, MA. and Union Iron Works of San Francisco, CA. (Both companies would be later bought out by Bethlehem Steel). EB’s Groton facilities consisted of their New London Ship & Engine Company (NELSECO) engine subsidiary. They would not have a shipbuilding yard there until 1924, too late to build any of their S-boats. The second group consisted of S-30 through S-41 and these boats were built by Union Iron Works. They were virtual duplicates of the 20 series boats. The only noticeable difference between the groups was the different shape of the housing for the bow plane pivots. The 20 series had a prominent angular cover, while the 30 series had a smaller, rounded cover. This may indicate a change in bow plane operating mechanisms for the 30 series. The photographs of S-33 and S-36 on this page give good views of this group idk how to poast it compleat as its a PDF format. as to who the exact engineer was and what he was thinking at the time? who knows, but prehaps it just carried over from the older "R" class boats as i know very little about the ones that had come before. And yes, The S-boat has many many flaws in comparason to its biger better cousions the fleet boats. I've heard them compared to the type 7 U-boats but that is unfair a type 7 is more like a Sargo or P class your right in it being like the cruddy type II in many ways, however the S-boat was better than any type II imo now im rambeling, Fleet boats are vastly superior and now days i mostly cruse around in the Gar and Gato class Boats but i always have at least one Pig way out in Alaska or round Austraila for when i get too comefortable with my 10 tube sea monster __________________ "Diesel Pig" Not so long ago...