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Quagmire · 03-24-08, 10:13 AM

Well you were right Ducimus. At first I thought that all those people crammed into the conning tower was a little crazy but truth is stranger than fiction. Check this...

Here is the caption from the navsource.com USS Sealion photo page:

By the end of WW II, conning towers were badly crowded. This drawing shows that of the Sealion (SS-315) in 1945. The two large open circles on the right are the hatches, up from the pressure hull (above) and up to the open bridge (below). Wartime additions included the third mast (for SD) passing through the conning tower to the left, and the radar scopes to the right of the torpedo data computer. The shaded circles indicate the location of the crew in the conning tower.

So Ducimus, do you think you could get that many crew members in the SHIV conning tower!

I want, I want, I want!!! (Just kidding...:rotfl

It must have stuck like a locker room in there! Thank God they had that air conditioner!
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03-24-08, 10:13 AM	#1
Quagmire Watch Officer Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 335 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Man! Ducimus was right, check out this conning tower! Well you were right Ducimus. At first I thought that all those people crammed into the conning tower was a little crazy but truth is stranger than fiction. Check this... Here is the caption from the navsource.com USS Sealion photo page: By the end of WW II, conning towers were badly crowded. This drawing shows that of the Sealion (SS-315) in 1945. The two large open circles on the right are the hatches, up from the pressure hull (above) and up to the open bridge (below). Wartime additions included the third mast (for SD) passing through the conning tower to the left, and the radar scopes to the right of the torpedo data computer. The shaded circles indicate the location of the crew in the conning tower. So Ducimus, do you think you could get that many crew members in the SHIV conning tower! I want, I want, I want!!! (Just kidding...:rotfl It must have stuck like a locker room in there! Thank God they had that air conditioner! . __________________ The day publishers figured out that they could sell flashy first person shooters to teenagers in numbers greater than sand on a beach was the day that quality simulations died. --Col. Tibbets UBI SHIV Forums I guess they should have made SH4 an open boat where we run around inside and shoot each other a 1000 times. They seem to handle those games with numerous patches. --Longam UBI SHIV Forums A sad day has dawned...