Comments on: Which Of You Has Been Inside A Submarine?

By: theCase

theCase — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:40:06 +0000

I’ve been aboard 8 or 10 or so. Spent 6 years in the Navy with four years on the USS Henry Clay Alas, it is no more. scrapped back in the 90s.

By: kranky kritter

kranky kritter — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:51:54 +0000

I was inside a WWII vintage sub as a kid. “Confined quarters” doesn’t do the experience justice. I’d have gone utterly mad within a week. Man, they must’ve got to stinking. No eggs, raisins, or beans in the diet of a submariner, I bet.

By: Rich Horton

Rich Horton — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:44:10 +0000

Hasn’t everone been in the U 505? (What? There are other things to do in Chicago?)

By: Butch_S

Butch_S — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:29:23 +0000

Yep, went aboard USS Drum which is moored along side the USS Alabama in Mobile bay. There are several retired subs pulling museum duty you can go walk through scattered around the country.

Now asking “Have you ever been aboard a commissioned submarine” would separate the bubbleheads from the tourists, if you could get them to admit to it. “Silent Service” is more than moniker to them. ;-)

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:39:20 +0000

Can I vote “I think so”?

When I was a kid, we used to ride our bikes over to Pearl Harbor. Things were a bit more lax in the 70′s, so I do remember that we got to actually go on a bunch of ships. I’m pretty sure we got over to the sub docks at least once … but I can’t say for certain.

By: Jack Alexander

Jack Alexander — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:14:26 +0000

I visited a diesel ‘boat’ while stationed at Mare Island (Vallejo, Caif.) in l969. Ride in one, never!

By: ShortWoman

ShortWoman — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:49:32 +0000

I was going to ask if the U-505 counted….

By: Dyre42

Dyre42 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:21:30 +0000

I’m going to pass on the obvious Submarine Races joke.

By: mw

mw — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:00:08 +0000

I’ve been in 3.
U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
USS Bowfin in Pearl Harbor.
USS Pampanito in San Francsico Martime Museum.

All museum pieces, all WWII vintage. Do they count?

By: BenG

BenG — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:50:15 +0000

No, seriously, I and many other people, I’m sure, have been in those smaller – maybe 20 people plus 2 crew – tourist sightseeing subs that you pay way too much money to see murky underwater things in that you could see much better during a dive.

This one did go a couple hundred feet down, I think off the coast of one of the Caribbean Islands, St. Thomas if I remember correctly. I think that would suffice as a submarine trip wouldn’t it? Maybe they wanted to trick you into admitting you were a spy or someone covertly employed! Sorry, got carried away.