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Submarines....
Lens: Pentax 55-300, Tamron 12-24 Camera: K-5 Photo Location: Portsmouth, NH 
Posted By: forensicscientist, 06-15-2012, 06:27 PM

Spent some time in Portmouth, NH today...near the Naval shipyard. The first pic is the USS Miami. Los Angeles Class attack submarine that is currently being overhauled. You may have read that a fire broke out on board last month while at the Shipyard. The Navy is currently working to determine if she'll be repaired or scraped due to the fire.

The remain images are from the USS Albacore. An Experimental Naval sub that was Launched in 1953 and decommissioned in 1972. Her complement was 5 officers, 50 enlisted men.

The photos show the "luxurious" quarters of the enlisted men in the forward section of the sub, the control room (?) where the sub is submerged, and finally the engine room.

Suffice it to say, that there is no space on-board this sub. It seemed crowded with the few tourists (like myself) on board....I can't imagine 55 men being on board at one time. Needless to say, it was a pretty cool tour.

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06-15-2012, 08:10 PM   #2
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Great pics, thanks for the sub tour!
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Wow great shots. A case of claustrophobia would be murder there.
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