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At random: Nautilus has long been a popular name for a submarine. Some of the more famous of these are Robert Fulton's NAUTILUS (1800), Jules Verne's fictional Nautilus, and the NAUTILUS of Sir Hubert Wilkins in which he attempted a voyage to the North Pole under the ice (1931). There have also been three U.S. submarines of that name, including the world's first nuclear powered submarine built by the Electric Boat Division.
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Pedro
Posted 2017-09-04 5:46 PM (#84937)


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Location: Liverpool, England
Subject: Cold War Boat

This article is pretty dated but then again, so was the Cold War. For once a journalist has written it up quite well without any of the usual cock-ups they normally make when writing about stuff they are not familiar with.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25019489

Pedro
Ric
Posted 2017-09-04 9:44 PM (#84938 - in reply to #84937)


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Subject: RE: Cold War Boat

Thanks Pedro. Great story.
rover177
Posted 2017-09-05 2:34 PM (#84955 - in reply to #84937)
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Location: Wollongong, NSW
Subject: RE: Cold War Boat

Mostly correct but unless "passengers" were carried, each member had an own bunk. Some passengers could be bunked in the fore-ends without causing much disruption to the torpedo load. Just required some fish in the tubes - normal case anyway.

Didn't notice the smell until the boat 'opened up' to clean air. All in it together and smelt together. Cold water was better than the tropics; bilges stayed cold and relatively smell free compared to the smell when the seawater is 85 F. Bacteria fester so much better when they are warm.
Holland Club
Posted 2017-09-05 4:05 PM (#84958 - in reply to #84937)


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Subject: RE: Cold War Boat

Yep. Nothing to dispute there. Thanks for posting Pedro.

Ron
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