USS Ling (Excursion Pics)

[Stealhead]

Yeah the last time I was at the Drum back in 2009 they just gave you a pamphlet a "self guided tour" same goes for the USS Alabama. I was showing something to my daughter and some man and his family basically just tagged along once they figured that I knew a little about what all some of the gear was inside.(little did they know that I had read The Fleet Submarine in the US Navy, US Submarines Through 1945,Take Her Deep,Thunder Below and Wahoo to name a few.)

The Drum has a few mk.27s in the aft torpedo room and they where pretty surprised to learn that such technology was around back then. Another interesting thing about the Drum that I noticed is that she has duplicate PPIs one in the conning tower and another in the control room I don't know if this was a WWII feature or if it was added later but it was an interesting rig none the less.It is also possible that one PPI was for the SV and one was for the SJ set.