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Originally Posted by chopped50ford
i wonder what it would take to make her sea worthy?
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Speaking from experience as I work on the USS Torsk, if the USS Ling every submerged again, she would not come up. Over the years the Torsk has been put in dry dock and 1 inch steel plates welded to the hull were it has gotten thin. She is due for another dry dock for a small hole in the starboard side ballast tank. Not to mention the air intake for the diesels inside the sail would leak like sieve. The Torsk too would not surface if she was submerged today. As far as a couple of tugs to transport the Ling....not a problem. Many a sub/boat have been sold for scrap in Philadelphia and towed. One sub was towed from PA to TX for scrap. The issue here is money. Does she generate enough cash to sustain herself? Is there a museum curator that oversees the Ling? If so, these are the people you need to talk with. At this point, it would best served to start locating a better spot for Ling and hopefully a spot were the city council is passionate about preserving the Ling. It is up to these folks to raise the cash to move her and set up as a museum. There is a lot of red tape to cut through. For example, the Torsk is a WW2 submarine. Her original sail was the two AA guns with radar mast as you see in this game. She was made a guppy with the snorkel installed and the sail was streamlined as you see it today. We had a sail from WW2 but the City of Baltimore said the sail did not fit with in with the shapes of the building around her. Great....the fate of a submarine based on if it fits in with the building structures!!!! No account for what she is and what she did. That, my friend, is today world.
Anyway, find out who is involve with the Ling. Get yourself involved. Get the newpaper involved. You will definitely feel better about it in the long run. I certainly do when I work on the Torsk.