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Sunken Soviet sub needs buyer -- or it's scrapped (Let's Buy It!)
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Posted on 12/26/2008 7:11:28 PM PST by buccaneer81
Sunken Soviet sub needs buyer -- or it's scrapped
PROVIDENCE, R.I.A former Soviet cruise missile submarine that was once featured in a Hollywood film and sank in the Providence River during a storm last year will be converted to scrap metal if no one agrees to buy it, the president of the foundation that owns it said Wednesday.
The 282-foot submarine, also known as Juliett 484, began serving as a floating educational museum in 2002, until it went down during a powerful nor'easter in April 2007.
Army and Navy dive crews raised the sub in a training exercise last July, and inspections showed the vessel had deteriorated and corroded during its 15 months underwater.
Restoring it to an operational museum would have cost more than $1 million, said Frank Lennon, director of the Russian Sub Museum and president of the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation, a private, nonprofit group.
"Based on the input we received from experts, the cost of restoring it was beyond our capabilities," Lennon said.
A local company, Rhode Island Metals Recycling, LLC, has agreed to move the sub downriver and eventually dismantle it for scrap metal if no one offers to buy it intact by the end of January.
"We remain hopeful that someone will step forward who might be interested in taking over the stewardship of this very interesting Cold War relic," Lennon said.
The sub, alternatively designated as K-77, was launched in 1965 as part of the Soviet Northern Fleet. The Juliett class was initially planned as a nuclear missile platform for strikes against the United States and later tracked U.S. aircraft carriers.
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TOPICS: Hobbies; Military/Veterans; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: julliettclass; k19; sovietsub
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Let's buy it, FReepers. A few FReepathons that are goal-specific, along with a Rush Limbaugh style bake sale ought to do it.
Think of the possibilities. An educational tool, a movie set, and a potential "freedom platform" should certain forces try anything nefarious ;-)
To: SubMareener; Submariner
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:12:06 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:14:31 PM PST
by
jws3sticks
(Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime time, and the sooner the better!)
To: buccaneer81
A late Christmas present for Captain Jimrob?
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:14:56 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: buccaneer81
I'll trade 100 shares of GM for it...
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:15:29 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: cripplecreek
We could park it off the coast and broadcast Free America back to the states after they shut down talk raido....
To: 2banana
Sounds about right
worthless stock for a worthless sub. ;-)
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:21:16 PM PST
by
doc1019
To: 2banana
'I'll trade 100 shares of GM for it...'You couldn't trade 100 shares of GM stock for a '77 Chevette with bald tires and a cracked block.
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:23:11 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(Let's be proactive and start the impeachment NOW.)
To: buccaneer81
What does whale poop and Soviet submarines have in common? They both have a tendency to end up at the bottom of the ocean.
5.56mm
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:23:19 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: buccaneer81
Maybe someday we will be able to tell sea stories about that Juliet, but that day is not yet here.
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:25:57 PM PST
by
SubMareener
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To: cripplecreek; Jim Robinson
A late Christmas present for Captain Jimrob?That's Admiral Robinson ;-)
How about it, Jim?
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:29:38 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
I bid $50,000,000 Zimbabwe dollars

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posted on
12/26/2008 7:29:42 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma)
To: SubMareener
Maybe someday we will be able to tell sea stories about that Juliet, but that day is not yet here. Blind Man's Bluff stuff?
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:31:52 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: Sub-Driver
To: rightwingextremist1776
Mutineers will be fired out the torpedo tubes.
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:35:51 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: cripplecreek
Mutineers will be fired out the torpedo tubes.We could cruise on down to Gitmo and do some "prisoner transfer."
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:37:31 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:38:47 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: buccaneer81
Now that would be a sea story, so I’ll pass. ;-)
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:43:00 PM PST
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SubMareener
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To: Viking2002
You couldn't trade 100 shares of GM stock for a '77 Chevette with bald tires and a cracked block. Well sure, but this is an old soviet conventional sub that spent 15 months at the bottom of the river. $366 or 100 shares of GM ($3.66 at today's close) might be about right.
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posted on
12/26/2008 7:46:03 PM PST
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: buccaneer81
I'll "volunteer" two kopecks..."quadutes" (OST)
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posted on
12/26/2008 8:17:21 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
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