http://www.nonplused.org/panos/uss_p...o/html/01.html
All I can say is this is Bloomin Fantastic :handclap:
Not sure if anyone has posted this? Its a virtual tour of the USS Pampanito Submarine that saw action in WW2.
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http://www.nonplused.org/panos/uss_p...o/html/01.html
All I can say is this is Bloomin Fantastic :handclap:
Not sure if anyone has posted this? Its a virtual tour of the USS Pampanito Submarine that saw action in WW2.
Spike,
Have just taken the tour,you're right, it is bloomin' fantastic,but so claustophobic. I could never have been a submariner,
BrianD
Thanks for the link, Spike,
When I was young, I worked in the shipbuilding industry for several years, it was on submarines.
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Pamanito and Jeremiah O`Brien astern, on the right is Alcatrraz Island now a museum
Hi,
I have been onboard the `USS PAMPANITO`, She is on the same wharf as the `JEREMIAH O`BRIEN` the SAM boat Pier 43 I think. I go on them every time I go to Frisco.
Fascinating place with all the preserved ships, such as the `BALCLUTHA` a barque from Glasgow, and the Humber ferry, the `Thingy Castle`, a side wheeler sailed all the way there alone, an epic voyage. and many other vessels.
Well worth a visit, get a cheap flight to Frisco and it beats the hell out of Benidorm.
There is another one in Darling Harbour, Sydney, one of the O Class subs.
We preserve nothing in the UK the way the Americans do.
When I was a kid (1944 vintage) my parents often commented about a sub being lost in Liverpool Bay. It was HMS Thetis. From what they told me there were no survivors.