WW II Sub Replica Intercepted Near Queen Mary 2

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[Sub-Driver]

WW II Sub Replica Intercepted Near Queen Mary 2 Secret Service: Silent Subs In Action

New York City Police spotted an unknown vessel near Pier 41 at around 10:45 a.m. Friday.

NYPD Harbor and SCUBA units intercepted a replica of a World War II-era submarine in the waters off Red Hook, Brooklyn, near the berth of the Queen Mary II.

The self-propelled submarine was escorted by police and the captain of the ship was issued a Coast Guard violation for operating an unsafe vehicle and violating the security zone around the Queen Mary II.

The sub, piloted by a Greenpoint man, came within 100 feet of the luxury cruise liner.

The NYPD confiscated the vessel.

[Sub-Driver]

WTF?????

[jim_trent]

I have heard of homebuilt airplanes, but not homebuild subs. Quite a hobby he has there.

[kinoxi]

100 feet is pretty close.

[MarineDad]

The SS Allah B. Praised?

[LonePalm]

Too close. The torpedoes wouldn't have time to arm.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Ender Wiggin]

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=nation_world&id=5537352

Dont worry it’s not related to terrorism!

[A.A. Cunningham]

picture

[Clara Lou]

Doesn’t sound as though terrorism is involved. Good.

[jpl]

Someone trying to re-enact the sinking of the Lusitania?

[Fair Paul]

Was the sub facing Mecca?

[PeterPrinciple]

WW II Sub Replica
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Looking at the pictures the only thing in common with WWII sub is that is was in the water.

[Westlander]

Anthony Franciosa is supposed to be impersonating a British naval officer. He is told to pronounce lieutenant “leftenant” the British way and not “lootenant” the American way. But Anthony Franciosa let’s a “lootenant” slip out, and nearly ruins the whole operation, getting away with it by claiming a Canadian connection.

Assault On A Queen -1966-

[oh8eleven]

WW II Sub Replica Intercepted Near Queen Mary
Posted on 08/03/2007 by Sub-Driver
Hope you have a good alibi.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

piloted by a Greenpoint man

Time to start looking into the Greenpoint Mosque.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Just a hobbyist! What a relief!

[MPJackal]

Maybe they meant WWII era mine. Looks more like that than a sub.

[SergeiRachmaninov]

Dont worry it’s not related to terrorism!

Absolutely. It was just a routine sub attack...let's move along.

[AFreeBird]

I reckon he would use WWII replica torpedoes. Those are contact detonation and armed in the tube(I think).

[KarlInOhio]

Bloomberg, Schumer and Clinton immediately demand that $2 billion be added to the homeland security bill to provide the NYPD with depth charges.

[Bookwoman]

Actually, Greenpoint is significant. I believe one of the terrorist mosques is in that area or close by.

[Mr. Lucky]

Are there any gobs around who can comment on the turbulence this craft would expect to experience near the surface 100 feet from a ship that size?

[PGalt]

Perhaps he mis-interpreted the word “subway”. /sarcasm

[Sub-Driver]

Shhhhhh......

[meandog]

Looks more like a replica of an escape hatch to me...

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Apparently, northern Greenpoint has a high concentration of ROPers.

[Bladerunnuh]

Well, it certainly wasn’t terrorism, because, uh, well because it just wasn’t.

[Oztrich Boy]

Someone trying to re-enact the sinking of the Lusitania?

I think it's "Life imitates Art"

[From One - Many]

Bloomberg, Schumer and Clinton immediately demand that $2 billion be added to the homeland security bill to provide the NYPD with depth charges.

LOL

Did they appropriate more money for a Destroyer named the BloomerSmuckClintoon?

[null and void]

They had to stop them. Their vessel was substandard...

[Lx]

Was that the movie where they find an old WWII German sub that they use to attack a cruise ship?

[Roccus]

Do you really trust CBS to even KNOW what a WWII sub looks like???

SHEEEESH!

[Republicus2001]

I think they have their wars wrong. The Turtle was during the REVOLUTIONARY WAR! Yikes. Guess this is just doing the editing that Americans just refuse to do.

[Oztrich Boy]

Anthony Franciosa is supposed to be impersonating a British naval officer. He is told to pronounce lieutenant “leftenant” the British way and not “lootenant” the American way. But Anthony Franciosa let’s a “lootenant” slip out, and nearly ruins the whole operation, getting away with it by claiming a Canadian connection.

Assault On A Queen -1966-

Actually either way blows his cover. The correct Royal Navy pronounciation is a clipped "l'tenant"

[El Gato]

Doesn't look like any WW-II sub I ever saw. Not even those little mini-subs the Japanese used at Pearl Harbor, and elsewhere.

In fact it looks more like the "Turtle" which was used by the Revolutionaries against the British in that very harbor.

[FreePaul]

WW II Sub Replica...

That thing in the pictures didn't look like any WW II sub I ever saw. I wonder who made the comparison.

[Finny]

"The self-propelled submarine ..."

Huh? Is there any other kind??? "The snow, which was cold, ..."

[CHEE]

Looks more like a replica of an escape hatch to me...

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To my poor old eyes it looks like a toilet seat lid.

[CJ Wolf]

http://www.prismnet.com/~jrf/SubPics/

Google shows lots of homebuilt subs. I think I may start a new hobby now.

[Finny]

WTF?????

You can say that again. First it's the puzzling phrase in the article "self-propelled submarine" (kind of like saying a "round wheel"), and THEN I look further to see nothing even REMOTELY akin to a WWII submarine. It's like calling a old prop tri-plane as being a "Viet Nam War jet replica."

How on earth do companies that print articles like this even stay in business?

[Weeedley]

The poster of this thread was wrong by two centuries. The vessel bears a striking resemblance to the “Turtle,” the first American submarine, invented around 1775 in Connecticut by David Bushnell. That sub was designed as a naval weapon, and it was meant to drill into a ship’s hull and plant a keg of powder, which would be detonated by a time fuse.

[Jaxter]

Hmmmm... It actually looks yellow...

[Aquinasfan]

Can't get enough turtle images.

[Westlander]

Yep.

[llevrok]

perhaps a Rooshun space capsule?

[jpl]

Looks much more like a bathysphere than a true submarine.

[Aquinasfan]

the captain of the ship was issued a Coast Guard violation

You can tell the captain because he's usually wearing a hat like the Skipper.

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[BurbankKarl]

[Palladin]

That Homeland Security—what a gang! Imagine, this guy got ONLY 100 ft. away from the Queen Mary.

Remember the Cole!

[2111USMC]

"The NYPD confiscated the vessel."

On what grounds?

Apparently the law of the land has been thrown out the window. Your local police department can take any persons property that they want.