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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Razorback (was: Group support...or is that "Support Group"?)
Mark - not research to much..
- step one rent a hangar at least 14 m x 4 m.
- step two is to build a rollertrack for 1290 mm Diamter cylinder
- step three order a steel cylinder 1280 mm inside 5 mm tickness and
5400 mm long.
- step four is to research to finish the unit..
If you do that - I will ask the guy how has the original drawings from
1944 for some copys..
..and build the siderudder based on a stainless steel shaft as gift for
you.
;-) Carsten
Michael B Holt schrieb:
>
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:40:04 -0600 "Mark Steed"
> <plutomark@mail.astate.edu> writes:
> >Mike: Thanks for your interest and welcome aboard. You are now part of
> >the future crew. Any help, thoughts, inputs-anything is most welcome.
> >The Seehund is what I want and with this group, nothing is impossible.
>
> OK, you're on. I wish I lived nearer.
>
> >By the way, I've been making cracks for a long time about "land
> >locked Arkansas" and I may have to eat a little crow. Watching the
> >local TV news last night, I was surprised to find out our capital city
> >will acquire a submarine. Seems that the city of Little Rock has
> >managed to make a deal to get the USS Razorback-SS394, a Balao boat
> >from WW2. A little quick rersearch shows she was built by the
> >Portsmouth Naval Yard and commissioned January 1944. According to the
> >TV reporter, it had been in service with the Turkish Navy and "has
> >been moored there several years."
>
> Razorback was commissioned by Al Bontier, who died later as CO
> of the Seawolf. He lost command of the new boat when the ran her
> aground when she came into New London. Roy Benson -- one of Beach's
> COs on Trigger -- commanded the wolfpack Benson's Dogs from
> Razorback. After a dud patrol, he turned Razorback over to Charles
> Donald Brown. Apparently, the only sinking confirmed for the boat
> was an old DD (Kuretake), on a patrol under Brown as a part of a
> wolfpack led by Roy Davenport (in Trepang). A little later, Brown
> fired five torpeodes at a hospital ship; all missed.
>
> The Turks called her Murat Reis, when they got her in 1970.
> She spent most of her career, if history is any teacher, wandering
> aimlessly in the eastern Med or along the northern coast of
> Turkey, hoping no one noticed.
>
> Mike Holt
> PSubs SoFlot VaRon 1
>
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