Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Razorback (was: Group support...or is that "Support Group"?)

["Mark Steed" <plutomark@mail.astate.edu>]

Carsten: Ausgezeichnet! Danke. I appreciate your info and generous offer. I'll take you up on it. First, my apologies for not replying sooner. My home computer crashed and was kaput all weekend. Looks like I'll have to get a new one after Christmas. I am at work right now. The hangar may not be a problem. One of my brothers is in the aviation business and could take care of this. The rest may take a little time and lots of planning. All I have now are questions and you will be getting them later. Thanks for the help and Razorback research. Alles Gute mein Freund und wieder immer, Vielen Dank! Mark
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From: MerlinSub@t-online.de (Carsten Standfuss)
Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Date:  Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:22:12 +0100

>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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