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Title: Name This...(467)
Post by: brady on March 24, 2003, 03:00:45 PM

???

Title: Name This...(467)
Post by: udet on March 24, 2003, 03:07:46 PM

"oops" :)

Title: Name This...(467)
Post by: Chairboy on March 24, 2003, 03:35:50 PM

Gato class submarine being launched.

Title: Name This...(467)
Post by: Chairboy on March 24, 2003, 03:38:36 PM

Specifically, the USS Robalo.  Built in Wisconsin, of all places.

Title: Name This...(467)
Post by: Rasker on March 24, 2003, 06:40:35 PM

"no Dummies! Lengthwise!!! aaargghhhh!!

yeah they built about 15 boats in Manitowoc? Green Bay?  was something on the History Channel about it, I recall.  Seem to recall they were barged thru Chicago River, Illinois River to the Mississippi? (no St. Lawrence Seaway then, dunno if they could make it up and thru the Welland Canal around Niagara Falls)

Title: Name This...(467)
Post by: Fridaddy on March 24, 2003, 09:31:15 PM

The first sub produced in Manitowoc, the USS Peto, was completed ahead of time and under budget, and was launched into the Manitowoc River on April 30, 1942. Fitting the entirely unconventional plan, the method of launch was also unconventional. The river was too narrow to allow a normal launch, where a ship slides off a ramp lengthwise. At Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company it was necessary to launch large ships sideways off their ramp. The Navy was skeptical of the workability of this method with subs, which might heel over all the way if dumped in the water sideways from a moderate height. But models constructed showed that a sub sideways-launched would only heel over by a predicted 48 degrees, and then right itself. Still, people were anxious, and watched with anticipation as the Peto slid into the river. The result: a perfect launch and prediction, as the Peto heeled over by exactly 48 degrees. A Navy observer commented that the method of launch was "undignified, but effective."

The above information is from...
http://www.copperas.com/ss245/cobia.htm

Title: Name This...(467)
Post by: Chairboy on March 25, 2003, 12:13:30 AM

True.  Of course, it's not the Peto in that picture, it's the Robalo.

Title: Name This...(467)
Post by: mipoikel on March 25, 2003, 12:53:52 AM

BTW Finnish word "peto" means a "beast". ;)

Title: Name This...(467)
Post by: Furball on March 25, 2003, 06:47:10 AM

Moby Dick attacking ship

Title: Name This...(467)
Post by: brady on March 25, 2003, 02:58:02 PM

USS Robalo, it is:)