Ship spotting

[Dizzyfugu]

Reminds me of my visit at the German Marine Museum in Wilhelmshafen - they have a retired German modern submarine on display. Looks harmless from far, but once you are close by it is a bulky thing. And then you are amazed to witness how tight it is inside... (yiu can actually enter it and have a look around). Scary!

[Rheged]

Reminds me of my visit at the German Marine Museum in Wilhelmshafen - they have a retired German modern submarine on display. Looks harmless from far, but once you are close by it is a bulky thing. And then you are amazed to witness how tight it is inside... (yiu can actually enter it and have a look around). Scary!

It's the old joke about  sardines' revenge.  A Submarine is a tin can full of people crowded together and (usually) covered in oil. 

[Captain Canada]

They do a 3 hour tour of this one, the title itself is scary ( for Gilligans Island fans ) Looking forward to seeing the inside for sure !

[rickshaw]

If it is like any of the Australian Oberons, check out the bunk outside the ratings mess servery.  The poor bloke who scored that one had to be about 12 inches wide and have only one leg!   

[NARSES2]

Yup Submarines out of the water always look huge compared to when you see them docked.

As for space I would love to see inside a WWII Corvette just to see if my dad's stories about space, especially "living space" are anywhere near true. You can get some idea from old photos but until you've been there it's still difficult. Even if you have been inside a museum example it's still not an Atlantic Force 10 with the added "fun" of the odd U-Boat attack.

[scooter]

Then there's the USS Ling, part of the Hackensack River...er,  Hackensack River Waterfront.  


(Full disclosure- its an older photo taken during the rebuild of one of the swing bridges over the Hackensack into a fixed bridge)

USS Edson
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Turns out she was taken from the reserve fleet ? And moved up the Atlantic and through the St. Lawrence Seaway and into the  Great Lakes ! Who knew ? Probably went right under my nose !

I thought she'd been tied up next to Intrepid in Manhattan, as part of the Air/Sea/Space Museum

[kerick]

Yup Submarines out of the water always look huge compared to when you see them docked.

The inverse TARDIS effect. Its smaller on the inside than on the outside.
I did the walk through of the U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago when I was a kid. It seemed small even then. Back then they would start one of the Diesel engines. What a noise!! Did it again not long ago and I didn't stand up the whole time I was inside. I also got a look inside a B-17 once. Extremely tight inside there too. But at least you weren't in there for months.

[Captain Canada]

I might go to Muskegon to see Silversides this summer as well, be interesting comparing the two subs.

[PR19_Kit]

Yup Submarines out of the water always look huge compared to when you see them docked.

The inverse TARDIS effect. Its smaller on the inside than on the outside.
I did the walk through of the U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago when I was a kid. It seemed small even then. Back then they would start one of the Diesel engines. What a noise!! Did it again not long ago and I didn't stand up the whole time I was inside. I also got a look inside a B-17 once. Extremely tight inside there too. But at least you weren't in there for months.

I took the tour of HMS Alliance at the Gosport Submarine Museum a couple of years ago. You enter through a door cut in the side of the hull near the bows and exit near the stern. As I ducked to go through the bow door I took my Hat off as it was so low and the guide said 'You may want to keep your Hat on sir. At your height you'll probably bang your head as you go through the boat'. He was dead right too, it was SO low in there I bashed my head more than once.

One thing that amazed me was the overhead 'railway' in the engine room, aranged so that they could lift off individual cylinder heads of the diesels for service and repairs. And they could do it with the engines RUNNING too! 

[zenrat]

Mrs z and I went through the USS Bowfin when we were at Pearl Harbour in 2012.  I couldn't begin to imagine what it must have been like to have been in such a small space submerged and under attack.

[kerick]

A real test of guts and sanity!

[Nick]

Stopped by Port Burwell on our way home from moto, to see the HMCS Ojibwa. Got there to late to do the our. Next time !

A lot bigger in 'real life' than I thought. I saw the 4 boats tied up in Halifax 1n '06, and they didn't look near as big !

I did the tour of HMS Ocelot way back 10 years ago and it was amazingly small inside. I managed not to bang my head through sheer luck!


Your sub and mine were built in the same yard at Chatham





This kitchen area was only big enough for the ships cook.



The toilet. If you broke this, God help you!


Torpedo away!

[Captain Canada]

The Edson was at the Intrepid museum until 2004, when it was returned to the Navy. Then it was decided to make her a museum ship again in 2012 !

Great shots Nick.

[PR19_Kit]

Where's 'Ocelot' now then Nick? She looks in pretty good shape.

[Thorvic]

Where's 'Ocelot' now then Nick? She looks in pretty good shape.

Still at Chatham, along with HMS Cavalier as part of the Dockyard Museum