Submarines

[mattwithcats]

How to Use the Submarine Toilet Flushing System:

After entering, close door “A”
Open waste tap “B” and flush tap “C” with lever “D”, causing door “A” to be blocked.
Open cover “E”.
Move lever “F” to “use”.
Use lavatory “G”.
Open waste tap “H” and flushing tap “I”.
Move lever “F” to “flush” position (do this more carefully the deeper the submarine is submerged) until compartment “J” is barely filled.
Open shut-off valve “K”.
Move lever “F” carefully to position “eject”.
Compartment “J” is filled through “K” and “L” with air from the 12 ATM system.
Move lever “F” carefully to the “air waste” position. In this position, the air flows out of compartment “J” through valve “M” to the foulwater tank and on to the battery compartment through pipe “O”.
Lever “F” stays in the “air waste” position when the lavatory is not in use.
Close and lock taps “H” and “I”.
Close lever “E”.
Close taps “B” and “C” with lever “D”.

Note: If these instructions are not followed exactly as above, the contents of the toilet will spill out over and up and down the closet. If you are so careless, you clean it up!

 

[OneEyeJack]

Leave it to the Germans to use excellence in engineering just to take a dump.

 

[A_Harman]

Originally Posted By: expat
Originally Posted By: mattwithcats
Standard Enigma used three rotors for encryption.
Naval Enigma used four rotors for encryption, called "Shark"

The three rotor system was broken in the 1930's...

To break Naval Enigma, a machine was needed.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-110_(1940)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-559


That implies that the British recovered the encryption device, not the Americans as depicted in the movie

I would be somewhat ticked off if it were one of my relatives that lost there life and were awarded medals, only to have someone from another country make a movie where they take the glory.


At the end of the movie they list the ships and actions that got the Enigma technologies for the Allies, so credit is given.

 

[A_Harman]

Originally Posted By: mattwithcats
How to Use the Submarine Toilet Flushing System:

After entering, close door “A”
Open waste tap “B” and flush tap “C” with lever “D”, causing door “A” to be blocked.
Open cover “E”.
Move lever “F” to “use”.
Use lavatory “G”.
Open waste tap “H” and flushing tap “I”.
Move lever “F” to “flush” position (do this more carefully the deeper the submarine is submerged) until compartment “J” is barely filled.
Open shut-off valve “K”.
Move lever “F” carefully to position “eject”.
Compartment “J” is filled through “K” and “L” with air from the 12 ATM system.
Move lever “F” carefully to the “air waste” position. In this position, the air flows out of compartment “J” through valve “M” to the foulwater tank and on to the battery compartment through pipe “O”.
Lever “F” stays in the “air waste” position when the lavatory is not in use.
Close and lock taps “H” and “I”.
Close lever “E”.
Close taps “B” and “C” with lever “D”.

Note: If these instructions are not followed exactly as above, the contents of the toilet will spill out over and up and down the closet. If you are so careless, you clean it up!


More proof illustrating the saying that "it takes as much technology to go 600 feet deep in the ocean as it takes to go 246,000 miles to the moon."

 

[Schmoe]

My German grandfather use to tell us stories when he was a submariner in the Kriegsmarine....he had gone though about 6 months of training in the North Sea and was then assigned to an attack submarine, forget the number, but the day he was to report, the war was over. He was cool, he didn't hate Americans, as a lot of Germans did back in the 60-70's, but he didn't speak unfavorably of his time in the service.

 

[Urshurak776]

Originally Posted By: ls1mike
Sure is! I don't think some of the folks on here get my bubblehead sense of humor. It is good to know there are few more.

Nick Cushing got there after you left. He was A-Nav for awhile. Are you an A-ganger?



Yes. Todd Zino.

 

[ls1mike]

Todd, I asked because you were all over the O2 generators.

 

[expat]

Originally Posted By: expat
Was there a Russian class of sub that had an Oxygen pressurized environment so that the Diesl engine could be run while the sub was below the surface?

I seem to remember something like this while reading about 'Dodgy' Russian subs.


I think I may have been thinking of High Test Peroxide powered Subs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Type_XVII_submarine

After the war both the Russians and the Brits experimented with them.

As if going to Sea in a regular sub was not bad enough!

 

[CourierDriver]

Originally Posted By: dlundblad
Originally Posted By: hotwheels
Just for those interested, here is a list of some of the better movies about, or at least prominently featuring, submarines.

Das Boot

The Hunt for Red October

Crimson Tide

Run Silent, Run Deep (Make sure you don't accidentally grab the porn flick with the same title!)

The Enemy Below

The Abyss (For its submersibles and the underwater habitat)

K-19 The Widowmaker (Boring!)

U-571

Operation Petticoat (Always good for many laughs)

Up Periscope

Phantom

On the Beach

The Cruel Sea

Hostile Waters

[censored] (rhymes with "Bell") and High Water

Ice Station Zebra


Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, anyone?

hotwheels



20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?

(They really need to do a remake of this!)
Das Boot, one of my favs