Seriously, doesn't "running out of gas" in SWO-world mean going somewhere below 60%?
My wife has a serious SWO mentality regarding when her car needs gas. Me? That "Low Fuel Level" light isn't going to check itself...
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My wife has a serious SWO mentality regarding when her car needs gas. Me? That "Low Fuel Level" light isn't going to check itself...
Sometimes. There was significantly more going on at that point in the AOR that can't really be discussed here, and the resources thrown at the problem allowed for such allowances....Which the Rubber Jimmy managed to piss away.
Pretty sure ADM Greer was never there
USS Dallas (SSN-700), a Los Angeles class nuclear attack sub - recently in the news as it was retired just a few weeks ago. Famous for the book and movie The Hunt for Red October, the part was actually played by USS Houston and USS Louisville. The Dallas Maritime Museum, to be located along the banks of the Trinity River (Texas), is planned to contain some components of the original boat, such as its sail, although there is some discussion about moving the entire submarine to the museum if the money can be raised.
Length: 362 ft, Beam: 33 ft, Displacement: 6,900 tons
Armament: 4 x 21" torpedo tubes
Commissioned: 18 July 1981, Decommissioned: 4 April 2018
Dallas carrying a Dry Deck Shelter in 2004
Dallas returning from her 2013 deployment
Length: 362 ft, Beam: 33 ft, Displacement: 6,900 tons
Armament: 4 x 21" torpedo tubes
Commissioned: 18 July 1981, Decommissioned: 4 April 2018
Dallas carrying a Dry Deck Shelter in 2004
Dallas returning from her 2013 deployment
I thought by the time they got the reactor out, this generally wouldn't be possible.
Baylander's grandfather:
USS Wolverine (IX-64) was a training ship used by the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally named Seeandbee and was built as a Great Lakes luxury side-wheel steamercruise ship for the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company. Seeandbee was acquired by of the United States Navy in 1942 and was quickly converted into a freshwater aircraft carrier for the advanced training of naval aviators in carrier take-offs and landings. As they trained pilots on the Great Lakes, it was part of the "Corn Belt Fleet" along with USS Sable. The 2 ships trained over 17,000 naval aviators and LSO's.
Length: 500 ft, Beam: 58 ft to 97 ft, Displacement: 7,200 tons Coal fired steam compound engines gave 12,000 HP and 19 knots.
Launched: 9 Nov 2012, Commissioned: 12 August 1942, Decommissioned: 7 Nov 1945
Launching Seeandbee, 9 November 1912
Wolverine at anchor in Lake Michigan on 6 April 1943.
Summary Training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine (IX-64) underway in Chicago harbor, 22 August 1942.
Sister ship USS Sable (IX-81)
FM-2 Wildcat in trouble immediately after take-off from USS Sable
SNJ-5C Texan on USS Sable (IX-81) 1945.
1943 - A Naval Aircraft Factory TDN-1 assault drone taxies on the deck of the Great Lakes paddlewheel training carrier USS SABLE, with another aircraft of the same type in the background parked by the carrier's island. The TDN-1 was a remote-controlled assault drone developed by the U.S. Navy in 1942 designed to operate from carriers and launch either one two thousand pound bomb or an aerial torpedo. The TDN-1 could be controlled from the ground or air by a following TBM Avenger or PB4Y. One Avenger could direct multiple drones from as far as eight miles away using an RCA television camera in the drone's nose.
USS Wolverine (IX-64) was a training ship used by the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally named Seeandbee and was built as a Great Lakes luxury side-wheel steamercruise ship for the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company. Seeandbee was acquired by of the United States Navy in 1942 and was quickly converted into a freshwater aircraft carrier for the advanced training of naval aviators in carrier take-offs and landings. As they trained pilots on the Great Lakes, it was part of the "Corn Belt Fleet" along with USS Sable. The 2 ships trained over 17,000 naval aviators and LSO's.
Length: 500 ft, Beam: 58 ft to 97 ft, Displacement: 7,200 tons Coal fired steam compound engines gave 12,000 HP and 19 knots.
Launched: 9 Nov 2012, Commissioned: 12 August 1942, Decommissioned: 7 Nov 1945
Launching Seeandbee, 9 November 1912
Wolverine at anchor in Lake Michigan on 6 April 1943.
Summary Training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine (IX-64) underway in Chicago harbor, 22 August 1942.
Sister ship USS Sable (IX-81)
FM-2 Wildcat in trouble immediately after take-off from USS Sable
SNJ-5C Texan on USS Sable (IX-81) 1945.
1943 - A Naval Aircraft Factory TDN-1 assault drone taxies on the deck of the Great Lakes paddlewheel training carrier USS SABLE, with another aircraft of the same type in the background parked by the carrier's island. The TDN-1 was a remote-controlled assault drone developed by the U.S. Navy in 1942 designed to operate from carriers and launch either one two thousand pound bomb or an aerial torpedo. The TDN-1 could be controlled from the ground or air by a following TBM Avenger or PB4Y. One Avenger could direct multiple drones from as far as eight miles away using an RCA television camera in the drone's nose.
The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the only aircraft carrier built by the German Navy. As other needs were more important, it was never fully completed. In addition to its armor (deck armor 1.8" thick, main deck 2.4" thick, belt nearly 4" thick), it had a heavy gun armament to include sixteen 6" cannons.
Length: 861 ft, Beam: 119 ft, Displacement: 33,550 tons. 200,000 HP gave 33+ knots
12 fighters, 30 dive bombers. also 16 x 150 mm main guns, 12 x 105 mm secondaries, 22 x 37 mm aa guns, 28 x 20 mm aa guns
Launched: 08 Dec 1938, Sunk as a target ship 16 August 1947.
Length: 861 ft, Beam: 119 ft, Displacement: 33,550 tons. 200,000 HP gave 33+ knots
12 fighters, 30 dive bombers. also 16 x 150 mm main guns, 12 x 105 mm secondaries, 22 x 37 mm aa guns, 28 x 20 mm aa guns
Launched: 08 Dec 1938, Sunk as a target ship 16 August 1947.
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Three F/A-18E Super Hornets fly in formation over the aircraft carriers USS Ronald Reagan, USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Nimitz and their strike groups, along with ships from the South Korean navy, east of the Korean Peninsula, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017.AARON HICKS/U.S. NAVY
From our deployment...taken 7 months ago today actually.
Following the submarines in movies, USS Queenfish (SS-393) which was used in 1959's Operation Petticoat. USS Queenfish was a one of the Balao class submarines (120 submarines of the type, largest by number in the Navy) which was an improved Gato class. The Queenfish sank several ships, the most infamous being the passenger ship Awa Maru, killing 2003 people. The ship had been guaranteed safe passage by the US, but was sunk in heavy fog. The Queenfish was immediately recalled, the captain (CDR Loughlin) was tried by court-martial, convicted on 1 of 3 counts, never commanded a ship again - and still made flag rank.
Length: 311 ft, Beam: 27 ft, Displacement: 1,521 tons surfaced, 2,391 tons submerged (test depth of 400 ft)
4 ten cylinder diesels gave 5,400 HP and 20 knots surfaced, 2 electric motors and 2,740 HP gave 8.75 knots submerged - 11,000 mile range
10 x 21" torpedo tubes (6 forward, 4 aft), 1 x 5" main gun, 40mm Bofors, 20mm Oerkilons
Commissioned: 11 March 1944, Sunk as a target: 1 March 1963
And a preview of the movie starring Cary Grant, Tony Curtis and Joan O'Brien.
Length: 311 ft, Beam: 27 ft, Displacement: 1,521 tons surfaced, 2,391 tons submerged (test depth of 400 ft)
4 ten cylinder diesels gave 5,400 HP and 20 knots surfaced, 2 electric motors and 2,740 HP gave 8.75 knots submerged - 11,000 mile range
10 x 21" torpedo tubes (6 forward, 4 aft), 1 x 5" main gun, 40mm Bofors, 20mm Oerkilons
Commissioned: 11 March 1944, Sunk as a target: 1 March 1963
And a preview of the movie starring Cary Grant, Tony Curtis and Joan O'Brien.
If you really want to get your GATO/BALAO geek on, there's a great on-line "virtual tour" with great 360-degree viewing of essentially every compartment. Makes a great companion when reading a WWII submarine book, either fiction or historical:
USS PAMPANITO VIRTUAL TOUR
USS PAMPANITO VIRTUAL TOUR
To add onto the USS Pampanito (SS-383) noted above, it was used as the USS Stingray in 1996's Down Periscope.
The Pampanito barely survived her first 2 cruises, being severely depth charged on her 1st cruise and dodging torpedoes from a Japanese submarine on her 2nd cruise. On her 3rd cruise, she along with the Sealion and the Growler sank the SS Rakuyo Maru which was unfortunately carrying 1,350 British and Australian prisoners of war from Singapore to Formosa.
Commissioned: 6 Nov 1943, Decommissioned: 15 Dec 1945 A museum ship since 21 Nov 1975.
Pampanito painted with the number 161 as USS Stingray in Down Periscope.
And from Down Periscope...
The Pampanito barely survived her first 2 cruises, being severely depth charged on her 1st cruise and dodging torpedoes from a Japanese submarine on her 2nd cruise. On her 3rd cruise, she along with the Sealion and the Growler sank the SS Rakuyo Maru which was unfortunately carrying 1,350 British and Australian prisoners of war from Singapore to Formosa.
Commissioned: 6 Nov 1943, Decommissioned: 15 Dec 1945 A museum ship since 21 Nov 1975.
Pampanito painted with the number 161 as USS Stingray in Down Periscope.
And from Down Periscope...
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With 15 battlestars, the USS North Carolina (BB-55) was the most decorated battleship of WW2 . Called The Showboat due to its many trial runs in and out of New York to fix problems with its propeller shafts, the North Carolina was the first of the fast battleships of the US Navy. Initially designed to carry 12 x 14" main guns, the escalation clause was invoked to increase this to 9 x 16" guns - but the design was already set which meant the North Carolina and her sister ship USS Washington were only armored against 14" shells (which was a better design than Franklin Roosevelt proposing aft turrets only and catapult launchers for seaplanes forward.)
She finished her last shakedown cruise just before Pearl Harbor and stayed in the Atlantic for a spell as the counter to the German dreadnought Tirpitz, but was transferred to the Pacific, being the first battleship to arrive in Hawaii on 11 July 1942. After fighting in most campaigns of the Pacific and suffering damage to include a very severe torpedo hit aft of the #1 turret, the North Carolina returned home after the war and became a museum.
Good article from Wikipedia concerning the designing of the North Carolina class.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina-class_battleship
Length: 728 ft, Beam: 108 ft, Displacement at full load: 45,500 tons
4 steam turbines produced 121,000 HP gave 28 knots and 17,400 NM endurance
Main guns: 9 x 16"/45 calibre Mark 6's. Secondaries: 20 x 5"/38. AA: 15 x quad 40mm Bofors mounts, 48 x 20mm Oerkilons
Side Belt armor: 12" Deck armor: 1.5" followed by 5.5" Turrets: 16" Conning Tower: 12"
Commissioned: 09 April 1941, Decommissioned: 27 June 1947, Struck: 01 June 1960
North Carolina operating near the Gilbert Islands, November 1943
North Carolina during Marshall Islands Campaign, 25 January 1944
North Carolina firing her main battery, Narau, 8 December 1943
North Carolina pitching in heavy seas off the Philippines, December 1944
North Carolina at sea off New York City, 3 June 1946
Aerial view of the USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial, 2006
By Doc Searls - originally posted to Flickr as airtour_20.JPG, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8497026
She finished her last shakedown cruise just before Pearl Harbor and stayed in the Atlantic for a spell as the counter to the German dreadnought Tirpitz, but was transferred to the Pacific, being the first battleship to arrive in Hawaii on 11 July 1942. After fighting in most campaigns of the Pacific and suffering damage to include a very severe torpedo hit aft of the #1 turret, the North Carolina returned home after the war and became a museum.
Good article from Wikipedia concerning the designing of the North Carolina class.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina-class_battleship
Length: 728 ft, Beam: 108 ft, Displacement at full load: 45,500 tons
4 steam turbines produced 121,000 HP gave 28 knots and 17,400 NM endurance
Main guns: 9 x 16"/45 calibre Mark 6's. Secondaries: 20 x 5"/38. AA: 15 x quad 40mm Bofors mounts, 48 x 20mm Oerkilons
Side Belt armor: 12" Deck armor: 1.5" followed by 5.5" Turrets: 16" Conning Tower: 12"
Commissioned: 09 April 1941, Decommissioned: 27 June 1947, Struck: 01 June 1960
North Carolina operating near the Gilbert Islands, November 1943
North Carolina during Marshall Islands Campaign, 25 January 1944
North Carolina firing her main battery, Narau, 8 December 1943
North Carolina pitching in heavy seas off the Philippines, December 1944
North Carolina at sea off New York City, 3 June 1946
Aerial view of the USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial, 2006
By Doc Searls - originally posted to Flickr as airtour_20.JPG, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8497026
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