Re: [OT] Navy releases photos of U.S.S. San Francisco

From: Derek Lyons (fairwater_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:09:34 GMT

Reed Snellenberger <rsnellenberger@houston.rr.com> wrote:

>Pat Flannery wrote:
>>
>> I'm still trying to figure out how you cave in the side of the sub's
>>bow when hitting a submerged mountain; the thing must have been shaped
>>like Devil's Tower with near vertical sides.
>>
>
>Maybe some of the forward structure got folded back onto the hull. It
>doesn't look like an exactly head-on collision -- damage seems to begin
>at the lower-starboard part of the bow just looking at the outlines of
>the portion covered by the tarp. The area around the torpedo tube hatch
>seems to have been flattened down.

I suspect that some of the hull may have been forced upwards and
backwards by the collision, thus causing the damage to the upper side
before it tore away.

>Question for anyone who knows... there is what looks like a "hump" right
>where the lubber lines are located... is that normal?

No. That's the hull deforming from the collision.

D. 

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