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SEA => SUBS: other => Topic started by: Rokket on 30 May , 2013, 03:07

Title: Rusted dying subs
Post by: Rokket on 30 May , 2013, 03:07

Interesting (and sad shots of subs from around the world, and around history:

http://io9.com/the-hulking-grandeur-of-abandoned-submarines-510071935 (http://io9.com/the-hulking-grandeur-of-abandoned-submarines-510071935)

Title: Re: Rusted dying subs
Post by: SG on 30 May , 2013, 07:47

Great link.. legendary wrecks! thanks for sharing

Title: Re: Rusted dying subs
Post by: NZSnowman on 30 May , 2013, 13:34

Fantastic!
 
I specially like the story about the Japanese Midget Submarine on Kiska & Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

I do not know that they had Sub

Title: Re: Rusted dying subs
Post by: Rokket on 01 Jun , 2013, 19:44

Me neither. Alaska was an interesting front

Title: Re: Rusted dying subs
Post by: OldNoob on 10 Aug , 2013, 21:44

It's amazing , given it's age, how well the Explorer has stood up to corrosion .
i read an account once that durring WWII passerbys  thought it was a WW1 sub and later in the 70's many thought it was a WWII sub. It gives a testament to how well it was built.

Title: Re: Rusted dying subs
Post by: OldNoob on 03 Feb , 2015, 05:37

Don't think i'll be modeling this one in Brooklyn   ;) ;D