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New Member Introductions / Re: Old sub in San Pedro

« on: March 01, 2012, 03:54:52 AM »

Bingo! When my wife saw the pics she said "THAT'S IT!!!" I must have seen the boat there myself without realizing what it was. Many thanks!

I have a second puzzler also. When I was in elementary school in Denmark - I believe this would have been in 1962 - 2 USN Fleet boats visited the port of my home town, Aarhus, and I went through one of them. I had started reading Jane's Fighting Ships at the time, and could see that one would be GUPPY I modernized, with the sail looking like the one on the USS Nautilus, and the other GUPPY II with the little cockpit and spray shield in the forward part of the sail. Which could those have been?

These boats were roomy compared to the small RDN submarines. I was on a 2-week ride on HDMS Nordkaperen in 1972, and all the food tasted like diesel! That was so incredibly cramped, with a regular crew of 22 and the an Army patrol of 5 with bulky "luggage" thrown in.

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New Member Introductions / Re: Old sub in San Pedro

« on: February 28, 2012, 03:32:38 AM »

It could maybe have been the Roncador, although my wife is certain she saw this boat between 1991 and mid-1993, because she saw it with a boyfriend she was dating in that period of time - before I got into the picture! She also says the boat she saw had no conning tower, there was only a hole instead, and it was through that hole they entered the boat. So could that boat, if it was the Roncador, really have been lying moored there from the 1980's?

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New Member Introductions / Old sub in San Pedro

« on: February 27, 2012, 03:17:04 AM »

New guy reporting on board! Am an odd man out here, I think, as my military background is the Danish Army 1969-1973 and then the Royal Danish Air Force (Guard) 1980-1993!

I am looking for which submarine it could be that was on display in San Pedro, CA in between 1991 and early 1993, where my then-not-yet wife took a tour of it. It was probably a Fleet Boat, although my wife says it was pretty small (maybe she means cramped), and she also says it was "falling apart".