And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
USS Albacore, an unarmed test submarine, pioneered that 'tear drop' hull form. She was diesel powered, and the USN built a diesel tear-drop hulled submarine class, the Barbels. The Barbels originally had their bow planes on the bow, but they were moved to sail to move noise away from the sonar dome. The USN didn't move the bow planes back to the hull until the Flight III Los Angleles class. The Japanese still put them on the sail. The first American subs with that hull form were the Skipjack class, and the combination of that hull and nuclear power changed submarines forever.
The Yoshida, a floating crane in Japan. She's lifting the decommissioned submarine Akishio, on display in that same cradle at the Kure Naval Museum
ReplyDeleteGreat pic, thanks for sharing!
The hull design is quite similar to the hull design of U.S. subs, at least those of the Los Angeles class of subs. It is great pic!
ReplyDeleteUSS Albacore, an unarmed test submarine, pioneered that 'tear drop' hull form. She was diesel powered, and the USN built a diesel tear-drop hulled submarine class, the Barbels. The Barbels originally had their bow planes on the bow, but they were moved to sail to move noise away from the sonar dome. The USN didn't move the bow planes back to the hull until the Flight III Los Angleles class. The Japanese still put them on the sail.
DeleteThe first American subs with that hull form were the Skipjack class, and the combination of that hull and nuclear power changed submarines forever.