You sleep near where you work in the Navy and sometimes with interesting bed mates.
Notice the bunks just above the torpedoes on either side.
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WW II subs ran mostly on the surface and charged batteries with diesel generators. The diesel could not run submerged and battery power was very limited. This station managed battery power resources.
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All of these indicators had to be green before you could dive.
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Driving the boat . . .
Well . . . OK ,
Pretending to drive the boat.
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This torpedo has been cut away to show the works. Quite a complicated gadget in it's own right.
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The forward torpedo room
As with the Hornet these photos in higher resolution and others are on my Web Photo Album page
On 11 Feb 2012 I visited the Pampanito, a WWII Submarine turned museum.
Here I am with one of the Docents. As you might imagine he is a former submariner himself and full of information about this boat and life on a submarine. I must stand in awe of the men who built these ships. And what can you say about the men who served on them? It's one thing to walk through as a tourist; I still can't imagine what it was like to live and serve on this boat in war time and face the terrible odds they lived, and many died, with.
