missing sub

[j.sabourn]

John I wouldn’t like to be a submariner in any. Navy. Takes a person of a certain disposition to volunteer for such. Sailed with achief engineer in a post long ago on here a Lieutenant Fuchter lived in Portsmouth, a right character and a good shipmate. Started as a stoker and came out as a lieutenant and reckoned he was the oldest commissioned lieutenant in the navy on retiring. Sailed as chief on a cert. of service. On merchant ships. His wife used to say to him according to him , Gerry when you were a matelot you were a gentleman now your an officer your a pig. He spent time during the war on submarines, and all this movie stuff in the RN of up and down periscope was very rare, and most torpedo attacks were made from the conning tower with a well ballasted down sub for a quick crash dive. Today however all is different as most torpedoes will find their targets without having to sight first. I also met in 1980 a Commander Littlejohn who was in command of the then Britain’s latest deterrent , when he left the RN he was employed by the US as an advisor on under water warfare. He was a star in his own right. Cheers JWS.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Implosion, an instance of something collapsing violently inwards: one would imagine those poor souls would have died instantly. RIP.

Alas Lewis, the poor souls would have known it was coming, as the hull would have been showing signs and the sounds of stress prior the implosion (if it was an implosion), one of those situations that has no possible route of escape and the poor sods will have known that. Doesn't bear thinking about, sends shivers up your spine, we have all heard our vessels creaking and moaning in a heavy seaway but at least we had a fighting chance, even if minimal, if something went drastically wrong. You have to be a special breed, regardless of nationality to serve in those tin cans, and as seafarers we offer our condolences to all families involved.

[robpage]

I for one would not like to be a submariner in their navy? jp

In any Navy for that matter I love the Sea and the Ships sailed on but Subs ! No way Hosay! I have been aboard a few in my time and its so cramped I wondered how the poor Chaps managed at all!
My Hat off to all who serve on them!
Cheers

not to pour out despair Doc , AND my son was a submariner aboard HMS Osiris , but their purpose in a war is to wipe us out , but in saying that , not a job I would want

[cappy]

##could never have done that for a living ....my limitations and expectations would have made me not suitable for that .....unlike some others who appear to have no limitations to anything which can of course be written ....but then talk is so very very cheap and to write is even easier you dont have to see there face

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi All.
There have been sub disasters since they were first invented, the biggest I think would have been the Russian one the Kursk, what beats me is they can land a man on the moon but why after all these years they haven't got a fail safe escape system for submarines, should be simple enough with all the money they spend on defense.
Des

[Keith at Tregenna]

Submarine tragedies.

Accidents involving submarines are rare. Here are some of the most serious:

All 70 crew aboard China's Great Wall Ming-class submarine suffocated in 2003 when a diesel engine malfunctioned, consuming the vessel's oxygen supply.

Russia's Kursk submarine sank in the Barents Sea in 2000 after a torpedo exploded during an exercise, killing all 118 on board, including 23 who survived the blast but died due to a lack of oxygen.

The USS Scorpion sank in the Atlantic in 1968, possibly because a torpedo exploded, killing the 99 crew.

The USS Thresher sank during diving tests in 1963, killing all 129 on board - the biggest submarine death toll in history.

K.

[happy daze john in oz]

It has just been reported here in Oz that the sub was most likely in a region where the depth of water was well below 8,000 fathoms.
A deep trench into which they think it may have sunk.
At such depth it is anticipated the sub would have been crushed like a tin can.

[robpage]

It has just been reported here in Oz that the sub was most likely in a region where the depth of water was well below 8,000 fathoms.
A deep trench into which they think it may have sunk.
At such depth it is anticipated the sub would have been crushed like a tin can.

that is over 10 tonnes per square inch

[joseph connor]

Apart from the expectation ,which doesnt bare thinking about , the end would have come in a fraction of a second !! I wonder what will happen now , will they be left to their watery grave , ? .

[Captain Kong]

There is a deep trench down there , on the URMSTON GRANGE we dumped hundreds of barrels of Nuclear waste in 1958