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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] American Sportsman Submersible
Hi - there is a general description with the technical maindatas
of the Sportsman 300 & 600 at Busby's Book at page 212 and 213.
One owner of the Sportsman 600 in the 70ies was the :
Brazosport College
Lake Jackson
Texas (or Ohio?)
A Sportsmans 300 was owned by :
The Tiburon Marine Laboratory
Tiburon, California
The original builder was:
American Submarine Co.,
Lorain, Ohio
Maybe up to 20-30 units were build..
I have a other description in "Tauchboote" N.Gierschner
The units were also called Amersub 300 and 600
First launch of a 300 was 1961 for about 9000 US asking price.
An other owner of a 300 was the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries.
Rang for the 300 was 12-16 seamiles.
There is a description in Terry, R.D.:
The deep submersible
Hollywood, Cal., 1966
First Amersub 600 was launch in 1963, asking 12000 USD.
But the descriptiion I have is that the single tower design
is the 600 and the twintower ist the 300 !
Intressting feature : The 600 has an Mercury trim system !
After 39 years the windows should maybe replace before you go deeper..
regards Carsten
Steven schrieb:
>
> Hello all,
> I am new to this group, but it looks like there is a lot of expertise here.
> I currently own an American Sportsman Submersible that I bought at an
> auction back in 1982. I started rebuilding it, and almost immediately ran
> out of money. The dreams of youth! It has been on it's trailer , stripped
> and partially recoated, since then. It is I believe, according to the
> Original Company brochure that I have, an American Sportsman 600, which was
> supposed to be capable of 600 foot depths. It is a twin conning tower
> design which was originally owned by the US Gov., being used in fish
> surveys. Anybody have any info on these? Also, and more importantly, has
> anybody done a rebuild on one? Both conning towers have wrap around view
> ports of about 1 inch thick Plexiglass, and there is an 8 inch diameter, 1
> inch thick view port that is somewhat conical in shape that is on the
> bottom. I am finally getting to the point where I might be able to start
> refitting again, and any advice would be most helpful.
> Regards, Steve Salley