Visiting a Submarine
 

I'm in **view** of the Albacore as I post this... if someone wants to tour
it - I'll be glad to guide...

-W (living next to Albacore Park and a regular local groupie)

"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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There isn't one in but the Albacore is about an hour North:


http://bestreadguide.excursia.com/de...albacore.shtml

Also, the Lionfish is in Fall River, MA
http://www.battleshipcove.org/

The Nautilus in Groton:
http://www.ussnautilus.org/

Also, subs are on display in Baltimore, Charleston, New York, and a
variety of
other places.

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.


"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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I seem to recall reading somewhere that the public could tour a
decommissioned sub in either Boston or Baltimore. The Navy web sites
aren't
much help with this sort of thing. Anyone got any info on such
things?



Pompano in San Francisco. The kids even get to spend a night on the sub.

Visiting a Submarine
 

"Calif Bill" wrote in message hlink.net...
"Curtis CCR" wrote in message
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"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
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There isn't one in but the Albacore is about an hour North:

http://bestreadguide.excursia.com/de...albacore.shtml

Also, the Lionfish is in Fall River, MA
http://www.battleshipcove.org/

The Nautilus in Groton:
http://www.ussnautilus.org/

Also, subs are on display in Baltimore, Charleston, New York, and a
variety of
other places.

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.


"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the public could tour a
decommissioned sub in either Boston or Baltimore. The Navy web sites
aren't
much help with this sort of thing. Anyone got any info on such things?



Pompano in San Francisco. The kids even get to spend a night on the sub.

Hmm, perhaps you meant the USS Pampanito????

Visiting a Submarine
 

"Curtis CCR" wrote in message

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?

I believe so. Haven't seen the movie since it came out, but when the
Blueback first opened to the public that's what they were saying about it.
I remember a few years ago a local news channel showed it sailing up the
Columbia and said that a few lucky winners had won a cruise up the river on
the submarine, which caused all kinds of people to freak out. Turns out the
segment aired on April 1.

-c

Visiting a Submarine
 

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"Curtis CCR" wrote in message

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?

I believe so. Haven't seen the movie since it came out, but when the
Blueback first opened to the public that's what they were saying about it.
I remember a few years ago a local news channel showed it sailing up the
Columbia and said that a few lucky winners had won a cruise up the river on
the submarine, which caused all kinds of people to freak out. Turns out the
segment aired on April 1.

Got me curious...

From http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/trivia

"The USS Blueback features in the film. It is seen dramatically
breaching the surface. Also, shots inside the Russian Alpha were taken
in the Blueback's torpedo room."

I loved little sidebar item from the OMSI site...

What is a Blueback?

Blueback is the common name for the Sockeye Salmon, the most common of
the North American Pacific Salmon species. Therefore, it makes sense
that the U.S.S. Blueback is on exhibit on a river in the Pacific
Northwest!

When the Blueback was commissioned in 1959, submarines were named
after fish. Since the 1970s, most U.S. Navy submarines have been named
after cities and states. Why the change? Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
commented, "Fish don't vote!"

Visiting a Submarine
 

The USS Torsk is in Baltimore's inner harbor (right next to the aquarium).
It fired the last torpedo of WW II.


"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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I seem to recall reading somewhere that the public could tour a
decommissioned sub in either Boston or Baltimore. The Navy web sites
aren't
much help with this sort of thing. Anyone got any info on such things?

Visiting a Submarine
 

I visited one in San Francisco harbor one time. I think it was used in the filming of the Winds of War or War & Peace? the one with
Robert Mitchum, Jan Michael Vincent, and Ali McGraw.

Fredo