The Cellar / Moving a German Sub

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/10/2024 6:58 pm

Even small submarines are big... and heavy.
They are also terrible at intersections and roundabouts.
Oh, bridges and tunnels can be tricky too.
That’s maybe why you hardly ever see one on the road.
I’m wondering if this multi-trailer rig is electric or towed?

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**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/14/2024 12:46 am

These trailers/movers don't look like the electric ones they moved that huge rock with a while back.

**Posted by glatt** 8/14/2024 9:16 am

Subs are pretty cool. I've been in the museum one in the Innor Harbor of Baltimore, and it's remarkable how cramped they are. I guess the big Nuke ones have more elbow room.

**Posted by tw** 8/15/2024 11:09 am

And so they are also called pig boats. That one is U-17. Built in 1935. Sank three enemy ships. Was then converted to a training vessel. U-17 was a Type II. A crew of 25. Could only do 8 knots on the surface. Not really good enough even to attack slow merchant ships. Type nines were among the most common.

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**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/19/2024 10:48 pm

glatt wrote:
Subs are pretty cool. I've been in the museum one in the Innor Harbor of Baltimore, and it's remarkable how cramped they are. I guess the big Nuke ones have more elbow room.

Yes, I went through one in lake Michigan where they built them and depth pressure tested them before cutting off the conning tower and shipping them down the river to New Orleans. There they welded the tower back on and off to war.
I visited the The Wisconsin Maritime museum which has the USS Cobia (SS-245; displacement 1,526; length 311'9"; beam 27'3"; draft 15'3"; speed 20 knots; complement 60; armament one 3-inch, ten 21-inch torpedo tubes; class Gato)
Launched 28 November 1943 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; commissioned 29 March 1944, Lieutenant Commander Albert Lilly Becker in command.
Six war patrols in the Pacific, four battle stars, sunk 16,835 tons shipping, and rescued a bunch of US fliers and Jap sailors out of the ocean.
Uniquely you can stay overnight on the Cobia for a fee, "choosing one of 65 places to sleep on board". I guess they had 5 spare bunks.

**Posted by glatt** 8/20/2024 7:17 am

You could sleep on the one in Baltimore, And my Boy Scout troop considered it. Too cramped and open and no place to rest your glasses. Plus I was opposed because I am too tall for the bunks.

I went to college across the river from Groton, and once or twice saw subs working their way up the river when I should have been paying attention to the lecturer. The main academic building was on the peak of the hill.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/24/2024 11:03 pm

See, if you had been paying attention to the prof you could be a congressman today. LoL

I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 8/25/2024 6:43 pm

When I was a kid we toured a retired sub that was docked in Mobile AL. It was super cool, but, apparently, not cool enough for 10 yo me to remember its name...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/25/2024 10:47 pm

TheNeverWas wrote:
When I was a kid we toured a retired sub that was docked in Mobile AL. It was super cool, but, apparently, not cool enough for 10 yo me to remember its name...

Pssst... I had to find the museum on the net because I knew Lake Michigan between Chicago airport and the Nuke I was working at in Wisconsin, and then go to their site to get the sub.
Glad I have a drivers licence in case someone asks for my name.