RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] UC3 Nautilus at sea with UC1 Freya...

Hello Peter!

A bittersweet moment to be sure. However, I'm sure you agree that Freya's resting place is a noble one!

Please post some current pictures of Nautilus! Particularly of this voyage!

Joe

From: uc3nautilus@hotmail.com
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] UC3 Nautilus at sea with UC1 Freya...
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:50:30 +0200

Hi all,

Freya sank at 1739 pm on a known position in the sound near Copenhagen. She was clean of any enviromental contaminants, and was sunk by opening her flooding valve.
She sank very slowly and stern first, and now rests on a gentle undersea slope at 15 feet of water. she lies on her side, and is not likly more than one meter above the seabed.

It was the first longer voyage with Nautilus, end her engines ran smooth for eight hours today with no problems at all. The crew was nine persons, and nobody felt it cramped. We had a nice meal underway, and everybody enjoyed the day.

Sailing Nautilus feels completely like a full size submarine - we have engine room crew and bridge crew working together - and a chef working in the galley...the crew today was five male and four female submariners.

Best regards,

Peter

Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:56:24 -0700
From: psubs2001@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] UC3 Nautilus at sea with UC1 Freya...
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org

HI Peter,

How are you doing the scuttling? Certainly not with explosive charges. Are you simply opening up a valve inside the sub and climbing out before the sinks? Drilling a hole in the hull? Or simply dumping buckets of water down the hatch?

Did you salvage all the useful bits off her? Did you have to clean her interior to keep the contaminants from seeping out? What process did you go through?

Log the location so you can dive down to her with the Nautilus.

Send us some pictures.

Regards,

Ray

--- On Sun, 8/10/08, UC3 NAUTILUS <uc3nautilus@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: UC3 NAUTILUS <uc3nautilus@hotmail.com>
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] UC3 Nautilus at sea with UC1 Freya...
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 12:32 AM

Today two submarines will depart their base in Copenhagen harbor and head for the open sea. Nautilus, now surface operational, will tow Freya on her last voyage.

Freya was build as an experimental submarine in 2001 - 2002 and during her service life she produced the bulk of knowhow needed to design the ten times larger Nautilus.
She made more than 500 dives, and prowed in Denmark the concept of the personal submarines.

By 2006, with har bigger sister, Kraka, now in fine working order she was decomissioned - and laid up in the Selandia Dock on Refshaleøen. Uantended, and crying tears of rust she has slowly decayed. She newer was build for a long life, with lack of corrotion control being her basic design problem.

Today - we can prodly take har on her final voyage - Nautilus - the final result of our submarine develupment work - will tow her out to sea and where she will be scuttled.

She sure was a good ship !

Best regards,

Peter Madsne

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