Thank you Cod, crew, and Doctor for the information. I learned a lot.

a bicycle helmet might be helpful

Thanks for the video it answered some questions that I had. My father mentioned about a hot run. He was on the Springer SS-414 during the war. Here is the video I made of his service and the Springer's war patrols. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6ubkJtpfM-seJY

Former Rider here. First time out was RONQUIL (SS-396). We hotbunked in the torpedo rooms. My bunk was a skid located where that opened-up torpedo is in the vid. One thing I can say about bunking is it was freaking cold in the North Pacific area. I kept my dungarees on and curled in whatever was in the flash cover and then made sure to pull that over me as well. Surprised you did not go into some details about the "bridal suite" and what's up there. anyhow, brought back some interesting memories. DBF, man.

D.B.F.

Back in the early 1960’s at Naval Station Key West (if I remember the time frame correctly) may have been late 1950’s I was pretty young. One of the subs was testing torpedos and it circled around and hit the sub putting a hole in the outer hull. 🇺🇸

excelllent

Naval history is not complete without the mention of scallywags 😉

Thanks for posting this historical "Stuff", i'm subscribing for more stuff!! 😉Thanks again!!

The weak link is almost always the human. Everything works great in garrison. Need to account for tired , new, lazy or ignorant operators and leadership.

American QUALITY from so long ago.. ... love to see it running

Station on decommission crew of the USS Clamagore, SS343 a Balao class boat.

Paul, I live in Stockton, CA and have been a volunteer on the USS Lucid before I became disabled. It would be great to have Drach come out and do a report on Korean-era MSOs like the Lucid.

What Class of Submarine is this?

Yea that Ryan-character. Seems a bit shifty ;-)

The cold war GUPPY boats often fired exercise torpedoes at real targets at sea. There were standard "exercises" that we did to actually fire on both surface warships and submerged US subs. The fish had exercise heads on them which would automatically have the ballast water blown out of the exercise head with a compressed air source in the head at the end of the run. With air in the head, the fish would float pointing up into the air. The surfaced sub then came alongside the fish AT SEA, rigged the torpedo loading hatch and skid and hoisted the fish back aboard using a small block & tackle jib "crane" which was left rigged on the deck near the loading hatch. Then down the hatch just like demo'ed in this video. As a quartermaster I was never a participant in the recovery crew nor did I really see the operation up close. I just logged it. However, imagine doing this while rolling in a swell with waves breaking thru the superstructure and down thru the open loading hatch. Gee I do hope those vinyl mattress covers in the forward room were tightly zipped up!!! DBF !!! Barney QM2(SS)

great video !

@ 15:15 You owe me a new set of nostrils from the massive Snort over 'IF the torpedos work!"

NEVER not watch a sub talk.

Sitting in the galley taking 5 and someone came opened floor hatch , said what’s down there? He said munitions locker asked and he let me grab a pic 👍 though the crates were labeled doubt there was amo in them 😆 trivia USN retired, had bottom rack next to floor hatch / Det cord locker ✌️🤙

Dear Cod-Man , can you do an Episode on the Hanson Crane Co. special Crane , with some Technical detail and how to run it?

Great discussion...to be a 1942 US submariner..firing duds at targets..2025 will be interesting 😢🇺🇲

i like big boats I cannot lie...sung to the tune of .....

Silversides snubbed drac 😮. I don't understand why when he visits some museums they don't all roll out the red carpet for him. I mean like he's doing free advertisement for you. Oh well, I love Drac's Channel and I love the Cod

Loved this chat. Thanks!

I’m a simple person I see Drach I klick.

I wouldn't and couldn't do it now, but when I was an AX3, I visited some Navy ships. There were no chains across the ladder rails. Nobody looked up and I didn't hear any yelling, so I climbed higher and higher on the mast. I got to go to something electronic that I've forgotten what it was. I went halfway to it and then carefully returned down. Nobody said a thing. (1969-70)

I was fortunate to have Greg on the Becuna take me and my friend up into the tower there and talk about it and for an hour or so - its fascinating to be there and think about all the men stuffed into that area under combat conditions! I watched this training video recently with some cool conn education footage kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWrcaaN-pqaNb9U

Got a chance to vist your fine work during the ussvi tours this August, great experience spent a wonderful time with shipmates, and met a new one who is one of your volunteers

Fun episode and continued collab!

IIRC, "B" batteries were a 45 volt units used in series to power parts of tube radios.

I was to the Cobia once. It is on my bucket list now that I know more about old submarines.

There are so many things to enjoy and take away from the COD. However, adding our UK friend brings other dimensions that we may otherwise not think of. Curious, and this would be a challenge, getting in touch with anyone from the Japanese Navy that would give their perspective on how the fleet submarines played a key role in draining their supply routes?

Thanks for another great episode! Greetings from East Tennessee 🤠

One of the sad things I learned from Shane over at Buffalo Naval Park is that even though Ling is apparently just going to be left to rot, it can't be stripped for parts for other subs that are missing them, like Croaker.

This past weekend a small group of us got into every place on the Cobia in Manitowoc, except we didn't get to crawl around in the battery compartments because the space was almost completely filled with concrete blocks being used to maintain the CG. It's called the "Nooks and Crannies" tour and is well worth signing up for.

Had to chuckle about mast climbing. Former ET here who was on USS Preble DDG-46 81 to 85 who spent more than a little time aloft including underway. Nothing like being 160 feet up on the forward mast with the ship taking some rolls, you cold feel the flexing of the mast up there! But hey I was a young 20 something sailor who never gave it a 2nd thought at the time.

Not sure if put out but I believe most s boats had 4 tubes forward, but may have been modified with one stern tube as listed with 5 tubes. Not sure about sister s49

US submarines had the ice-cream machines but the British submarine tenders in Fremantle had a beer tap installed by a local Brewery :)

Looking good Drach! Might have been a submariner in another life indeed!

Excellent

How functional is COD ?

Hey, Drach. This is what happens whenever you get into a conversation with someone from Ohio. They’re half drunk and tell you a story their dad’s dad told them.

@19:45- "This concept of keeping the sailors happy..." The boats I qual'd on had massive air-conditioning and refrigeration plants. Of those, only the Refer plant could be said to be for the comfort of the crew. The air-conditioning was entirely for the service of the ships electronics (forward) and the propulsion plant and ancillary systems (aft). Without a massive air-conditioning plant a modern nuclear submarine would become an uninhabitable sewer-pipe. Gato boats had hot diesels and electric motors that, combined with piss-warm tropical waters and heated batteries made habitation prohibitive. A type VII U-Boat could not have operated in the Pacific.

That is what happens to submariners who can't tell the diesel engine room of a U-Boat from the electric motor room :0)

My mother's cousin, the rock star of the family, was the skipper on the USS Grampus - on Eternal Patrol.

Hot Fresh baked bread is a treat at sea

Sailors always complain. However during my four years on an SSN a bad meal was a rarity. Often enough the food was outstanding. Particularly the baking

The sailors aboard a submarine would have been certified as healthy. As a submarine would have no physicians or surgeons the crew needed to be.

Refrigerated air conditioning was needed for the 1940’s electrical equipment. Humidity deteriorates electronic performance. As well as crew performance