Submarines:A boat or a Ship

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Diesel subs are boats, nukes are ships. My definition as seen in practice.

Nope.
Subs are boats. Their was talk in the navy community many, many moons ago about calling them ships because of their size but it was decided to keep them boats. Also at Electric Boat when you are talking about them or you hear someone talking about them they are referred to as boats.
When I had my break in service I mainly worked on the 728 Boat( a boomer). When I was given jobs I was told that particular job was on the 728 boat. The only jobs that I had that was not given a numerical title boat was for the Sea Wolf. For some reason it was always referred to as the Sea Wolf and not a numerical boat.

So no more silly talk of calling boats, ships.