What Real Subs have you been on?

[JREX53]

Toured a Guppy Class and Fast Attack at the San Diego Sub Base in 1972.
Stationed on the USS Bonefish (SS582) - 6 months
& Abraham Lincon (SSBN602) - 4.5 years

Jim
IC1(SS)

[Brenjen]

I'm hoping to go aboard the USS Razorback soon. It's a Balao class that saw service in WWII & is currently docked in North Little Rock Arkansas on the Arkansas river at the "Inland Maritime Museum". I missed my chance in Mobile Alabama & when I was in Chicago Illinois to see the subs they have there. My work takes me all over the country but it seems I never have a chance to look around when I'm there.

[pugwash1]

Well other than almost all of the museum subs in the USA I have been on the following units while they were active:
HMS ONYNX, OTTER , OPPOSSUM, ORBERON OCCELOT, ANDREW, ARCHERON, CACHALOT, WALRUS,
PORPOISE AND DREADNOUGHT. I hope the spelling is correct, I just love the smell of those diesel subs, Dreadnought was the UK's first nuke and was strange to be able to go down a deck or two!
Some of the museum subs outside of the USA include the holland sub in portsmouth and the U1 in Munich

[GOZO]

HMS Nordkaparen, Gothenburg harbor Floating Naval Museum.

A "Draken" (Dragon) class sub from 1960 based much upon the U-3503, a German XXI. On the other hand, who did not peer on the XXI .






Cheers

/Per

[Sub Sailor]

USS Swordfish SSN 579
USS Abraham Lincoln SSBN 602 Blue and Gold Crews
USS Skipjack SSN 585
USS Skate SSN 578
USS Permit SSN SSN 594

Ron Banks MMCM(SS), USN(Ret)

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Sub Sailor

USS Swordfish SSN 579
USS Abraham Lincoln SSBN 602 Blue and Gold Crews
USS Skipjack SSN 585
USS Skate SSN 578
USS Permit SSN SSN 594

Ron Banks MMCM(SS), USN(Ret)

My dad qualified on the Angler in the '60s before moving on to serve on the Skate.

[Meerkat154]

Been on the U-9

Located in Speyer, Germany.

http://www.museumspeyer.de/000041931...12AD_0001.html

Most humbling experience - there is practically no room to move about on the sub and considering this is a post WW2 sub.

"U-Boat U9
The submarine U9 was built by the Kieler Howaldtswerke and put into service on 11 April 1967. The boat belongs to the submarine classification 205 and thus to the third generation of German U-boats. It weights 466 tons, is 46 m long, 5 m wide and has a draught of 4 m. The nominal submerged depth was 100 m, and it was armed with eight torpedo-guns at the bow.
The U9, which is also completely accessible for the visitors of our museum, was transported from Wilhelmshaven to Speyer in a highly spectacular action."

[Hitman]

Not aboard, but visited the U-1 in Munich museum. She is cut in half and you can see the interior

In 2002 I went on a cruise to the Norwegean Fjords that started from Kiel, but me idiot did not know that U-995 was in Laboe so I missed the chance to see it

[CDR Resser]

USS Batfish- Muskogee, OK- several visits, even climbed up into the conning tower before they stopped letting the public climb up there. Too bad the periscope was fogged when I got to look through it-- trees through the periscope, funny.

USS Cobia- Manitowoc, WI- toured with my wife and kids, my son was only 14 months old. It was cold that day.

USS Bowfin- Pearl Harbor, HI- finally got to see Pearl Harbor. Took lots of pictures. I really want to go back!

USS Parche- Pearl Harbor, HI- If you've been to the Bowfin and walked through the conning tower that is displayed on the grounds, you've been aboard the Parche.

I plan to try to visit them all before I can't climb the ladders anymore.
Maybe Onkel Neal could start a tour agency as part of the Subsim business plan.

Respectfully Submitted
CDR Resser

[micky1up]

hms resolution
hms valiant
hms spartan
hms splendid
hms superb
hms sceptre
hms vangaurd
hms vigilant
hms vengence
hms victorious
hms trafalgar
hms triumph
hms turbulant
hms torbay
hms tirless
hms alliance
an LA class name not remembered

and a russain kilo when they visited pompey

[Bill Nichols]

Originally Posted by RobUSAF

Does the 48 passenger tourist sub in Hawaii count? Aside from that, I've been on Blueback and Bowfin.

I'm stationed at Wheeler AAF, Oahu... Would really like to get one of the guys at Pearl to show me a modern boat. Any takers?

Darn! I forgot to include the tourist sub I went on in Aruba, in my listing a couple of pages up.

[robbierob2005]

I visited al the dutch boats. My father is in the navy. I also visited the u-995 and a german sub a couple of years ago in Den Helder during the "Vloot Dagen"



This is me on the Tonijn. A dutch 3-cilinder sub. The picture was taken more than 20 years ago.

http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/boats/boat_tonijn.htm

[CCIP]

The Soviet D-2, built in the late 20s

Here's a ton of pictures from my tour of it http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=124914

[mike_espo]

Visited the U-505 in my hometown of Chicago many times. Also the U.S.S. Pampanito in SF. USS Nautilus in Groton, although was extremely disapointed as not allowed to see the engineering spaces......was told "Classified"

The U505 was the best! The USS Pampanito is a cruise ship compared to the IXC.....so big.

[Teh_Diplomat]

I was on this russian sub when I was younger.



U-521, a Russian Cobra Foxtrot class submarine.