NNS replaced the U.S.S. Wisconsin's bow with the Kentucky's bow back in 1956 following a collision with a DDE off the Virginia capes.
Posted on 01/03/2012 9:08:42 AM PST by SmithL
Rooshan submoorines are finest in ze world. Deepest diving, zey routinely go to ze bottom and can stay zere for years at a time.
Well, you could create a Frankensub out of it by hacking the bow off and taking the bow from another sub you’re decommissioning from the same class and putting it on, like we did with the San Francisco and the bow of the Honolulu after the San Francisco hit a seamount.
The overall damage from this is so much worse I don’t think it would be remotely worth it in this case.
AIP propulsion subs may not be the greatest for a world-spanning blue-water navy, but for close in coastal regions like Sweden needs to cover, they are absolutely deadly. Very effective platforms.
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I think it is just part of keeping in practice.
Titanium hull? The Alfas supposedly had them.
The Navy did that once before, with a BB. Don't recall the details .... cut the bow off a sister ship still a-building, hauled it off the ways and affixed it to the stricken ship.
The British did it with a destroyer in World War I. Two Tribal-class DD's were heavily damaged in action, one (mine) soon after another (torpedo). So they cut them both in two and rejoined the good halves. HMS Zulu and HMS Nubian became the "new" HMS "Zubian". And served out the war, by Jove!
NNS replaced the U.S.S. Wisconsin's bow with the Kentucky's bow back in 1956 following a collision with a DDE off the Virginia capes.
That sounds expensive.
Dive
Utter nonsense, from a 20 year member of Uncle Sam's Underwater Canoe Club.
Fire watch drunk on duty?
That sounds expensive.
Russia has 90% of the world's titanium supply. They can go deeper but are much more likely to suffer structural failure due to titanium's brittle fracture tendancies. It fits the Soviet / Russian military model well. Safety last.
Since you obviously know a lot more about it than I do, will gladly concede your point. That’s why I said “apparently” and I was actually thinking of a surface ship at the time - similar principle. Don’t they typically flood the magazines on a war ship if they are on fire and/or taking a beating from enemy fire?
BTW, how do you handle an onboard fire on a sub at sea?
That’s a pretty dicey situation, isn’t it?
Thanks for your edification - and your service!
The compartment would be isolated (hatches and ventilation secured, non-vital electrical power). Damage control teams dispatched with correct extinguishers for fire class. Fire hoses charged (with seawater) for cooling ordnance or for large, class A fires at direction of man-in-charge at the scene. If submerged, ship would prepare to come to periscope depth. Once word received in Control that fire is out, proceed to PD and emergency ventilate affected compartment. Flooding a compartment on a submarine affects its bouyancy, and thus its to get to the surface which is a fairly important feature. Pyro and small arms lockers have have flooding capability, but those are very small on a sub. Can’t speak for my skimmer bretheren. They face a completely different set of issues.
Looks like this was immediately postwar. The Kentucky (unfortunately) was broken up in the 40's or early 50's. Her engines were salvaged and installed in a pair of AOE's during the early 60's, one of which, USS Camden, my cousin served aboard in the early 70's. The Camden, with that big old battleship engine-set, could get up and flat run. That was the whole idea: Camden and her sister were intended to be "one-stop shopping" for a fleet task force. They'd do over 20 knots, even with the BB engine set divided between them.
The Nav's Great Minds, however, have moved away from that concept and are back to building smaller tankers and grocery stores now.
When one has some 95% of the world’s titanium, price isn’t the barrier it would be to us.
oopsie-daisy, over!
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