Cross section of a decommissioned submarine.

mistericeman said:
Slightly smaller scale BUT
View attachment 65400Explore 2 X class Midget subs at Aberlady Bay near Edinburgh ....
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Paid them both a visit, interesting structures. I also dived a couple of the K-Class WW1 subs off the Isle of May.

www.scottishshipwrecks.com

The K Boats

HM SUBMARINES K-4 and K-17 It is unlikely that any class of ship in any navy worldwide was so ill conceived and destined for such controversy and disaster as the steam powered ‘K’ class…
www.scottishshipwrecks.com www.scottishshipwrecks.com
 
Barge1914 said:
My grandad who was chief draughtsman at Vickers Armstrong spent a large chunk of his life designing subs. He always said it was quite an art getting everything in whilst leaving room for the crew. That picture certainly illustrates his point!
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Vickers/British Oceanic's use to have a base at Leith Docks for the evolving oil & gas industry, my first time welding Titanium, was a part for Pisces V. I wonder if your grandad was involved with mini sub design?
 
I bet the plumbers loved sorting that lot out when there were problems, but brave lads who were on them, and not very old mostly.

My dad was in the RN a meteorological officer, sunk twice.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
I bet the plumbers loved sorting that lot out when there were problems, but brave lads who were on them, and not very old mostly.

My dad was in the RN a meteorological officer, sunk twice.
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' don't worry....Uncle Albert ' comes to mind.
 
During the warwa.
 
runnach said:
Vickers/British Oceanic's use to have a base at Leith Docks for the evolving oil & gas industry, my first time welding Titanium, was a part for Pisces V. I wonder if your grandad was involved with mini sub design?
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He retired in the 50s at Barrow in Furness, I’m not aware of them being built there, but as a kid I wouldn’t have known.
 
After many years of first reading 'Iron Coffins' by Herbert Werner (an author who might have embellished stuff), I finally visited and entered U995 at Laboe. It was another dream come true for both myself and a German I walked down to the beach beside.

By an unintended co-incidence, it was the one day each year when the boat comes to life as it's radio room broadcasts to the World. Incredibly, whilst I sat in silence beside elderly sailors of other nations, the morse code tapper spoke to various boats in the both the Pacific and Atlantic.

I felt very privileged to be there on that one special day.
 
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