Posted on 10/26/2014 4:45:21 AM PDT by LS
I noticed that the US Navy commissioned the USS North Dakota, but that it was "SSN" and not an SSBN, meaning it doesn't carry ballistic missiles.
When did they start applying STATE names to. SSNs, which used to have city names, since only ballistic missile subs carried state names?
We had a guy on our boat that was 6’8” and he did fine. Maybe he was just used to ducking everywhere even outside of the sub.
Yup you wouldn’t fit in...they are “overheads” not ceilings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_nautical_terms
LOL
Actually, i think it’s the other way around right now. SSN classes are are State names, i.e., Virginal class - SSN USS North Dakota, etc. Boomers are city named. i.e., SSBN USS Minneapolis. The conventions seem to change with the times.
Didn't know about the gaffe ... I think I saw a vhs down at a local discount for a buck (used) ... I'll get it monday if still there
USS North Dakota is a Virginia class attack sub, hence the SSN designation, not SSBN.
Heh - Virginal class. That unintentionally came out pretty funny, since there are young ladies going on subs now. (supposed to be “Virginia class SSNs.”)
What’s a subarine?
Submarines were indeed named for fish in WWII.
USS Squalus (shark in Latin) sank soon after launching in 1939. Half the crew perished, others were rescued by a diving bell. After the sub was raised, it was decommissioned as Squalus & recommissioned as USS Sailfish.
Sailors on board the Sailfish who so much as uttered the word “squalus” or even worse, “squailfish”, were subject to court-martial. USS Sailfish served throughout WWII.
In World War II, submarines were named after fish, battleships after states, cruisers after cities, destroyers and DEs after people (almost always men), heavy aircraft carriers variously (former ships, people, whimiscally, e.g., Shangra-la), and jeep carriers (baby flat tops) after battles.
If you do let me know if the gaffe is there like I think it is. It is at the very end when Curtis' family (Wife [Dina Merrill] is one of the rescued nurses) arrives to see him off for the end of the obsolete sub. When Grant joins them from the sub, that is when one of the two boys says (IIRC) "Mr. Grant" rather than the character name of "Admiral Sherman!" Blake Edwards (Pink Panther) got his directorial chops established as this was a top-grossing film in 1960 and you can see his trademark sight and dialog gags throughout.
“Sharkbait! Sharkbait! Sharkbait!”
This will answer it
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2012/11/19/what-to-call-the-new-virginia-class-submarine.html
You really need to take a tour of a modern day submarine. They’re huge.
This ex destroyer sailor was absolutely amazed at the roominess of a Los Angeles class sub. The overhead in one compartment had to have been well over ten feet.
Whatever good this fool did, either before his term or during, was erased completely with his support of foreign despost and terrorist regimes hostile to the US. I put John McCain in that same boat.
Sub ping.
“And it’s cigar-shaped.”
And full of seamen.
SSBNs started getting named after states beginning with the Ohio Class.
I watched The Ohio get launched on the Thames River
Yup. Slow attacks is what we call em.
Generally they are used for special ops stuff.
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