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.
Not a US sub of any class I'm familiar with. The bow section is too long for fast attacks, the aft section too short for an SSBN or SSGN, the sail is to wide and short, and the hull isn't round enough (the ladders port and starboard behind the sail go nearly straight down.
US Navy SSBN. The CSA holes (4 port, 4 stbd) are the SSBN tell. The angle is such that it's hard to see the hatches on the missile deck. It can only be US Navy with the khakis for CPOs/Officers and the blue dungarees for the lookouts on standing on the fairwater planes. That's a 640 class SSBN (USN), the fairwater planes are low on the sail unlike the 616/627 class ones.
Google Lens image search says it is the SSBN-643 George Bancroft. From the late 80s,. Good call Anon @12:22. The perspective on the picture really extends the nose and masks the ramp at the back of the turtleback into the engine room hull.
637 class? I'm not sure, as the picture seems to have squashed it...
ReplyDeleteNot a US sub of any class I'm familiar with. The bow section is too long for fast attacks, the aft section too short for an SSBN or SSGN, the sail is to wide and short, and the hull isn't round enough (the ladders port and starboard behind the sail go nearly straight down.
DeleteIt might be a Japanese diesel boat.
Clearly the officers, lacking safety lines and lifejackets, are expendable.
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought they were nekkid. It's early.
DeleteBoomer!
ReplyDeleteNot a chance! No turtleback.
Deleteno missile hatches, 'fraid not. I can not id class, sail looks to be midship.
ReplyDeleteBritish Trafalgar Class SSN
ReplyDeleteUS Navy SSBN. The CSA holes (4 port, 4 stbd) are the SSBN tell. The angle is such that it's hard to see the hatches on the missile deck. It can only be US Navy with the khakis for CPOs/Officers and the blue dungarees for the lookouts on standing on the fairwater planes. That's a 640 class SSBN (USN), the fairwater planes are low on the sail unlike the 616/627 class ones.
ReplyDeleteWinner!
DeleteNo turtleback? Not a boomer. After section far too short.
ReplyDeleteGoogle Lens image search says it is the SSBN-643 George Bancroft. From the late 80s,. Good call Anon @12:22. The perspective on the picture really extends the nose and masks the ramp at the back of the turtleback into the engine room hull.
ReplyDeleteShort sail? Not a boomer. Permit-class SSN.
DeleteLook at photos of the 540-class boomers, That is the wrong sail for a Permit or early LA-class boat.
DeleteI did 9 patrols on the Bancroft Gold crew 1974 to 1978. STS1(SS).
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