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The Atomic Submarine (1959)
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2022 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

scotpens wrote:
The tall fin-like structure atop the hull (called the "sail") contains no crew spaces -- it's completely free-flooding inside except for a narrow access trunk. The sail is really just a streamlined housing for the periscopes, snorkel, and radio and radar antennas.

I did NOT know that! And I SHOULD have . . . Shocked

Obviously all those scenes in movies that show the crewmen in the recessed area atop the sail when the sub is on the surface simply omitted a shot which showed them crawllng up through through the access tube. We just see them climb up a ladder in the area where the periscope is located, but the never show them inside the access tube.

Never!

Hence my embarrassing false assumption all these years that they were inside the sail, and the ladder lead up to hatch that opened in the recessed atop the sail.

Bu now I realize what a dopey thing that was, because the compartment which holds the periscope is FAR too large be a compart inside the sail! Embarassed

Confession is good for soul. Thanks for finally setting me straight, Scot!
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2022 2:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
I did NOT know that! And I SHOULD have . . . Shocked

Perhaps, but I won't hold it against you. After all, you were Air Force, not Navy!
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2022 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thanks, but as a life-long fan of submarine movies, I'm embarrasses that I never realized the "sail" was not the bridge of the sub. Sad

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