What boomers did you serve aboard and were there any fire dangers when smoking?
I served on the USS Patrick Henry (SSBN599)G and there was a steel “butt kit” mounted to the bulkhead or other verticle surface about every 15-20 feet.
My longest time submerged was 83 days, when we finished our last patrol in the Med before heading to the yards for refueling. So we exiting the Med and headed West across the Atlantic and didn’t surface again until we hit New London. After two weeks in New London, a skeleton crew (including me) took the boat down the coast, through the Panama Canal, and up the west coast to the Bremerton ship yard, a cruise that totaled over 100 days when all was said and done, most of it submerged.