[lentulusgracchus]

It's about 77 feet longer that the 300 foot pig I used to work on.

You were in SSN's? Or are you talking about the original "pigboats", the diesel boats?

I was a rider aboard the USS Pargo, SSN-650, for four days once on a cruise down to Tongue of the Ocean for early trials of the Mark 48 wire-guided ASW torp..... they put me in a six-man with some other JO's, cramped as hell, but that was the Sheraton compared to some of the quartering arrangements on those SSN's. I didn't ride along when the Pargo went back to the Barents a few weeks later for another Presidential Unit Citation.

[rottndog]

You were in SSN's? Or are you talking about the original "pigboats", the diesel boats?

I was on a 637 "Sturgeon" class boat. We called her the pig because she hogged up all of our "free" time (other reasons too but I have to be nice here).