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 21:11:04 GMT

Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> wrote:
>James Nowotarski wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>Compare this pic of her in drydock undamaged
>>http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0871104.jpg
>>
>>I'd say that's a bump, and she's probably an ex-submarine.
>
>If it did actually distort the pressure hull, then I'd say you'd never
>want her to go to sea again, that's just asking for it, especially at
>any great diving depth. But I can't picture the hull distorting that
>much without ripping open; and if it had ripped open, that would have
>been it for the sub in a matter of seconds.

It's not pressure hull at that point... It's the skin over MBT3.

See:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/images/ssn-688-cut-away2.gif

D. 

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