Have you ever been inside a real wwii sub ?

[Drebbel]

Originally Posted by Crow

didn't you sound the dive alarm on the USS CAVALLA

thats a WWII sub too , no

Wasn't me

[Bill Nichols]

How about USS Batfish in, of all places, Muskogee, Oklahoma? :hmm:

http://www.ussbatfish.com/batfish-main.html

[BettingUrlife]

Australian war museum in Canberra has a Japanese mini sub there on display, pity you can't go inside it though.

[Tim D]

USS Pampanito in San Francisco, CA (2 times)
USS Bowfin in Pearl Harbor, HI (3 times)
USS Torsk in Baltimore, MD (2 times)
Thats it for boats. I have also been on a few WWII ships, most recent the USS Midway in San Diego. I did alot of work on the aircraft that are on board and installed all the inert/dummy ordnance that they display.

[HEMISENT]

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[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

the USS Ling, in Jersey...

and the Growler (post wwii) in NY

--Mike

[Gunfighter34]

Been on the USS Drum (SS-228) in Mobile, Alabama when I was a kid and we visited the battleship USS Alabama (BB-60). On the website now (www.ussalabama.com) it shows the boat up on some kind of concrete pilings, but it seems to me that when I visited it it was in the water moored behind the battleship. This was early 1980s so it's been awhile.

Also been on the USS Clamagore (SS-343) at Patriot's Point here in Charleston. This was a late WWII commission that was then modified (several times, I suspect) and spent about thirty more years in active service.

Finally, was lucky enough to go on an active fast attack boat here some years back. It was a Sturgeon-class, pretty sure she was the USS Grayling but I can't remember 100%.

[Carcassonne]

Originally Posted by Gunfighter34

Been on the USS Drum (SS-228) in Mobile, Alabama when I was a kid and we visited the battleship USS Alabama (BB-60). On the website now (www.ussalabama.com) it shows the boat up on some kind of concrete pilings, but it seems to me that when I visited it it was in the water moored behind the battleship. This was early 1980s so it's been awhile.

Also been on the USS Clamagore (SS-343) at Patriot's Point here in Charleston. This was a late WWII commission that was then modified (several times, I suspect) and spent about thirty more years in active service.

Finally, was lucky enough to go on an active fast attack boat here some years back. It was a Sturgeon-class, pretty sure she was the USS Grayling but I can't remember 100%.

Thanks for your post, this is the same sub I've been on myself and all I could remember is that it was in Mobile next to the Alabama. I was there summer of '2002 I believe....may have been 2001.

And yes the Drum was on concrete pillars when I visted it.

[wetgoat]

Been on the uss Razorback (late ww2 sub) in Little Rock Ar. right after it arrived , from being towed all the way from Turkey.

[Hans Schultz]

USS Clamagore, its now a Guppy III conversion.

[Shadow9216]

USS Pampanito, Bowfin, Torsk. BTW, the Cod rescued the crew of the Dutch sum O-1, and is still considered a vessel of the Dutch navy.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Crow

didn't you sound the dive alarm on the USS CAVALLA

thats a WWII sub too , no

Yeah, funny how he forgot about ol' Cavalla

[geetrue]

I,yours truly, reported aboard the USS Salmon SS 573 in April 1963. She was built in 1956 as a radar picket sub SSR. She was the worlds largest non nuclear submarine at 350' length, but their were two WWII subs alongside the pier in Ballast Point Sub Base San Diego 1960's era. I had a friend on the USS Catfish at the same time I was in and the USS Redfish was used for trainning and Hollywood movies.

It was fun (in hindsight)

[kholemann]

U.S.S. Drum and U-505 and though it don't count, some ex-Soviet Union Diesel-electric next to the Queen Mary.

[Kapitän Cremer]

Yeah...I saw the old VII C in Laboe, Kiel also....

Quite interesting since it was one of the few german subs who surived WW2 (Was'nt scuttled by the germans). Later it was given to the Norwegian navy as part of the war dept to Norway....