04-10-07, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by CCIP
Wikipedia, by the way, gives quite a different picture of her physical state...
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Different management brought No. 1 and No. 2 engines on line by Labor Day 1991. Parts and equipment salvaged from scrapped fleet submarines and stored beneath the weather deck and inside her below decks compartments were removed to storage sites on shore. The familiar dark-green linoleum was replaced throughout below decks. Crew's bunks in the after battery compartment were fitted with new vinyl covers.
But the management is unable to work below the waterline. Her material condition began to deteriorate in the early years of the 21st century; her bottom needed sandblasting and repainting as well as a protective recoating.
Normally, United States Navy submarines are dry-docked every five years while on active duty. If permanently moored in fresh water the maintenance interval can be extended to 25 years. In 2004, 55 years after Silversides’s last dry-docking, the museum and two submarine veterans organizations have formed a "Save the Silversides" fund and have begun soliciting tax-deductible donations through veterans groups and military publications. They based their plans on the dry-dock overhaul of Cobia (SS-245), a memorial in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, which cost US $500,000 in 1996.
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Sure doesn't sound like a ship that hasn't been dry-docked for over 55 years is getting anywhere near ready for 'surface operation' :hmm: |
Unfortunatly, you can't always believe what is on Wiki
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