The red Light in the cabin we see in films !

[canimodo]

What is that red light in submarine control room for ??

Does it mean silent running, attack mode or what ??

Are they really used or its just a hollywood adrenaline rush ?:?

[flyingdane]

Its real, they used a red light at night to allow there eyes to get adjusted to the darkness in case they had to go topside or when running on the surface at night.

[geetrue]

The captain would wear googles with red lens too, before they surfaced at night to charge batteries ... vision was very important to sub skippers.

[Crosseye76]

We did the same thing on an SSBN. Whenever it was dark topside, the Control room was rigged for red. We never surfaced, but it was a "Just in case" kind of thing. And, I suspect, for tradition.

[edjcox]

Damn what kinds of sailors are yus? Evryone know sailors does there best work in the red light areas......


He He


Drunk with anticipation.... UBI collects my money on the 8 of March but doesn't plan to ship until after the 20th.....

[cherbert]

This was automatic in SH3, will we be able to rig for red manually in SH4?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Crosseye76

We did the same thing on an SSBN. Whenever it was dark topside, the Control room was rigged for red. We never surfaced, but it was a "Just in case" kind of thing. And, I suspect, for tradition.

Same on our destroyer in 1970. "Rig for red" is always common at night (though I suppose on our surface ship it meant more).

[Snowman999]

Same on our destroyer in 1970. "Rig for red" is always common at night (though I suppose on our surface ship it meant more).

SSBN we rigged for red on every mid-watch in the entire Ops compartment, less the wardroom and crew's mess. Crew's mess had a jog from the passageway that acted as a bit of a light trap. Mostly done to encourage quiet for berthing in Ops lower-level. On-going OOD wore red-lens goggles at midrats in wardroom. Going to PD we rigged for black in Control and left rest of Ops compartment at red--there was an interior door between Control and Ops UL passage.

Remember one time my CO, who liked red roller-ball pens, wrote a note to the OOD and sent it in by the messenger-of-the-watch. OOD looked at the "blank" piece of paper, tossed it in the garbage. Later, voices were raised . . .

Sometime in the late-80s or early-90s SSBNs went to "rig-for-grey" filters over white lights for Control. Don't know if they were more effective, but I think you'd lose some atmosphere.

Sonar shack was always blue lights to help with reading the stacks. We called it "the disco".