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.
Surface Navy 68 to 71. Always prayed the ship wouldn't go down. Submariners always pray the ship will go back up. I give submariners a lot of respect for their courage.
Does the crew rotate the diving rudders vertical before coming up through the ice, or fold them down like the wings on carrier-based aircraft? Every photo I've seen always shows the rudders extending flat above the ice. It seems unlikely they would bear the stresses of breaking through a heavy ice pack while flat-on to the ice, but what do I know.
That's one operation I did not experience while a submariner. Would've like to, though.
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ReplyDeleteYeah, and the flyby by Russian F-4s. lol
DeleteBeen there done that.82-86 USN never again…
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Surface Navy 68 to 71. Always prayed the ship wouldn't go down.
ReplyDeleteSubmariners always pray the ship will go back up.
I give submariners a lot of respect for their courage.
Does the crew rotate the diving rudders vertical before coming up through the ice, or fold them down like the wings on carrier-based aircraft? Every photo I've seen always shows the rudders extending flat above the ice. It seems unlikely they would bear the stresses of breaking through a heavy ice pack while flat-on to the ice, but what do I know.
ReplyDeleteWhen coming up through the ice, they rotate the sail planes to vertical.
DeleteThanks, ScotttB.
DeleteOn the Beach, by Nevil Shute has scenes reminiscent of that.
ReplyDeleteI served in the submarine force for 20 years.
ReplyDeleteI never got to surface under the ice.
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