Morning all,
It's Supper Bowl today so I trust you've got what you need in the way of muchies.
From what I've seen of large museum subs kept outside, the ones taken out of the water look like they are fairing allot better then then ones left on the water, especially saltwater. The Russian Submarine call Cobra that was in downtown Seattle, Washington state, was in very poor condition on it's exterior. There are some many areas on those older subs that cannot be got at for sandplasting and/or other cleaning and repainting, without cutting allot of metal. I was on the USS Pampanito in San Fransico and they were talking about all the hard to get at areas of the sub that are just rotting away. If you could get those subs out of the water and build a cover over them, then your going to have allot less trouble.
I was on the USS Blueback in Portland, Oregon a while back and it was in really nice shape, since it has a very different outer hull type then most older large museum submarines, and it had been dry docked and over hulled not that long ago. But even so it's in the water now. Even though it's fresh water which is much better, it will require allot of cleaning and anti-fowling paint as time goes on.
Regards,
Brent
"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." - Thomas S. Szasz
From: MerlinSub@t-online.de
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To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Navy Sub: Free to good Home!
Date: 04 Feb 2007 11:00 GMT
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>The other list:
>Sgt.Peppers for 10 years in a museum and now back to service .. ;-)
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><vbra676539@aol.com> schrieb:
> > Another one bites the dust. Aluminaut has a door chopped in her side. Ben Franklin isn't much more than a shell. Deepstar 2000 and 4000 in storage. DOWB in a warehouse. The old Deep Jeep disappeared on the back lot at Scripps and they can't even FIND the thing. Benthos V gone, Star II outside on the blocks at U of H. Star III in a museum. The list goes on and on. Sad.
> > Vance
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> > From: joeperkel@hotmail.com
> > To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> > Sent: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 11:07 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Navy Sub: Free to good Home!
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> > Yea...would be nice to "play" with but, looks like the deal is she has to remain static. So that commits her to dockside, or better yet, dry land, museum status. So profitability, or at least maintainability, requires a free or nearly free, place to keep it.
> > Too, too bad, nice capability going to retire now!
> > Joe
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> > From: vbra676539@aol.com
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> > Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Navy Sub: Free to good Home!
> > Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:35:37 -0500
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