"gatt" wrote in message ...
"Curtis CCR" wrote in message

On the west coast - you can tour the Blueback at the OMSI in Portland,
OR. If I recall correctly, the Blueback was the last of the Navy's
diesel-electrics.

It's the one that breaches in Hunt for Red October and the tour is really
nice.

I read that on a web site, but I don't recall them mentioning it on
the tour last fall when I was there. When you say the one that
"breaches" - the Blueback was playing the role of the Dallas? Been a
while since I have seen that movie, and over a decade since I read the
book - I probably have some of the story details mixed up.

The Blueback is not ADA compliant. I assume other sub tours are
similar. They have a compartment door mock-up outside the tour - if
you can't step through it, you can't take the tour.... Remind me of
the hole that your carry-on bag has to fit through at the airport.

"All visitors to the Blueback must fit through this hole... or they
have to be checked..." :P


There's a GATO class submarine next to the USS Alabama battleship (and a
B-52 and SR-71) in Mobile.

Oh heck, while we are listing decommisioned ship tours... The Red Oak
Victory is right down the street from my office in Richmond. And you
can take a short ride down the freeway from here to Alameda and tour
the USS Hornet.

One of my employees was assigned to the Hornet in the mid 60's. A
group from the office went on the tour one afternoon and he was able
to provide some cool insight that even the docent thought was fun...
including showing the rack he slept in about 40 years prior.