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Originally Posted by Stealhead
In a real sub it was possible to run on electric engines on the surface but from most books that I have read it seems that most skippers where not overly concerned about their subs diesels running at the low speeds making enough noise to be heard at all by lookouts at the ranges they where planning to attack from they'd be running at so as to avoid a tell tale wake.
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Having just finished reading Thunder Below, Fluckey used electric engines on the surface fairly frequently to silence the ship.
With that said, he did a lot of inshore work for the rockets and blowing up the train track, so he was probably more concerned than most.