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Real Teampunk...
Take a look at "The Raiders of the Deep" by Lowell Thomas. A very interesting book on WWI U-Boats.
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Amazing, some of the photos look fake,Like someone sketched what the future might look like, buck Rogers :-) those guys had balls of steel.
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Cool! If you have an interest in PIG BOATS.
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American engineer: We can build that entire sub with 279 separate valves and three miles of tubing. German engineer: Ach! You are amachures! Ve can build das u-boot mit 859 valves und 127 km of tubing, und dat's just for der control room!
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...... those guys had balls of steel. I spent a couple years riding around in a submarine built in the 1960s, hardly ever considered the inherent danger, the odds were pretty good in our favor. No f-ing way I'd go to sea in something built in the 1910s, the laws of probability were just waiting to take you out.
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If I ever found myself inside a sub, I am certain that I could exit straight through the hull.
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Great pictures....By the way...NO THANKS !
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Someone else can have the subs and tanks...
No thanks.
Rat in a tin can comes to mind.
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Yeah, those pix do show the crudity of early submarines... But it's a German sub from WWII that made me want to serve on subs - the U-505 in Chicago.. The one in the OP's pic must have been pretty small - I note the draft markings on the hull showing about 13 or less of draft.. US WWII subs usually drafted about 17 feet or so.. By the time WWII came around, our boats were a bit more modern, but still pretty cramped... Here's a pic of the forward end of the after engine room of the Razorback SS-394: Here's where I was stationed: Even as tolerant as I am to close spaces, the pics of that WWI sub would even cause me to think twice...
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When I was a kid, we had a neighbor who served on a WW II U-Boat. His boat was sunk in the middle of the Atlantic by the British, who then sailed away, leaving the survivors behind. They were rescued by an American ship and brought to the U.S. to sit out the war in a POW camp. He was so well-treated here that, after the war, he returned with his wife to live here . They had a son who became an officer in the USN in the 1970's.
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When I was a kid, we had a neighbor who served on a WW II U-Boat. His boat was sunk in the middle of the Atlantic by the British, who then sailed away, leaving the survivors behind. They were rescued by an American ship and brought to the U.S. to sit out the war in a POW camp. He was so well-treated here that, after the war, he returned with his wife to live here . They had a son who became an officer in the USN in the 1970's. Good story and he likely wasn't the only one who either stayed here or went home, got his wife and came back.
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When I was young I worked for a man that was stationed on a sub during WWII. He said during a huge storm they went through they lost a Destroyer to the storm. He had some stories. I wish I had pressed him more.
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Just imagine the smell inside that U-Boat- men living in cramped quarters with little or no sanitation and barely functioning heads, food spoiling (and then being cooked), crude to non-existent ventilation, diesel fumes, storage battery acid fumes. No way.
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, crude to non-existent ventilation, . Back in that era they spent a lot of time on the surface so the air got changed out pretty well. The longer you were down, yeah, it likely got pretty ripe, but I suspect unless you got held down against your will it wasn't too awful.
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When I was a kid, we had a neighbor who served on a WW II U-Boat. His boat was sunk in the middle of the Atlantic by the British, who then sailed away, leaving the survivors behind. They were rescued by an American ship and brought to the U.S. to sit out the war in a POW camp. He was so well-treated here that, after the war, he returned with his wife to live here . They had a son who became an officer in the USN in the 1970's. Great story. Wonder if he was from the Soviet controlled part of the country. With Germany completely destroyed, widespread hunger, and no jobs immediately post war, it was logical for those, especially those in the eastern portion of Germany to emigrate.
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Very interesting. I don’t think I was cut out of that cloth.
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Redneck - my Uncle Glen Larsen by marriage was in the second crew to board that captured U-boat in Chitcago. After the demo (first) crew had negated the charges. One of his sons served on a couple of the early Nukes. My FIL served on Diesel subs in the 50's - he couldn't take surface ships - or for that matter, the sub on the surface. Only person I've ever seen who actually gets a greenish tinge to the skin when sea-sick. Once under, he was fine. And my nephew in Fairbanks spent a couple years on the Puffer ( I think) - a Nuke. He was miserable. When he went in, he was just under the height cutoff. A late growth spurt after he was already in the program shot him up to 6'4". He learned to sleep in a curled position.... He hated it - the day he got out, he burned his uniforms. The next day he realized he was still in the reserve, and had to go buy new ones.
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