April 11th National Submarine Day

ET2SN · 04-11-20, 12:05 PM

The beatings are good for motivation and also give the rest of the crew a hobby.

Mr Quatro · 04-11-20, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ET2SN

The beatings are good for motivation and also give the rest of the crew a hobby.

I heard a sea story one time about an old USN WWII submarine that went through fram and then was loaned to the Turkish navy.

Seems a seaman forgot to close the hatches one time as the boat was submerging. They surfaced came back to port and hung him

ET2SN · 04-11-20, 12:24 PM

About the time when we were decomm-ing the Barbel, there was a plan to sell the Blueback to Argentina. A mixed crew took her out for testing and acceptance trials and it didn't go well.

We backed out of the sale to avoid "an eventual tragedy".

Aktungbby · 04-11-20, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ET2SN

About the time when we were decomm-ing the Barbel, there was a plan to sell the Blueback to Argentina. A mixed crew took her out for testing and acceptance trials and it didn't go well.

We backed out of the sale to avoid "an eventual tragedy".

...which the Argie's managed to have all on their own anyway! 2017's ARA San Juan disaster exposed the South American nation's scandalously poor submarine capacity.

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ET2SN Ocean Warrior Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 2,652 Downloads: 60 Uploads: 0	About the time when we were decomm-ing the Barbel, there was a plan to sell the Blueback to Argentina. A mixed crew took her out for testing and acceptance trials and it didn't go well. We backed out of the sale to avoid "an eventual tragedy".