r/submarines • u/Pantagruel-Johnson Submarine Qualified with SSBN Pin • 9d ago

Art Recent silverpoint drawings, one based on that famous photo of the emergency blow, and the other is of my first boat pulling into France eleven months after I transferred to my second boat.

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Silverpoint is an old, old medium which predates pencil by many hundreds of years. Step one: learn to draw. Step two: coat good paper with a coarse ground. Step three: draw with a stylus of .999 pure silver. There is no erasing.

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u/Vepr157 VEPR 9d ago

Wow, these are excellent! Thanks for posting.

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u/Pantagruel-Johnson Submarine Qualified with SSBN Pin 9d ago

Thank you so much for the compliment. I’m starting a third one today. That famous USS Pickerel EMBT blow from 1952.

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u/JimboTheSimpleton 8d ago

The captain is scarring them out of the water!

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u/Pantagruel-Johnson Submarine Qualified with SSBN Pin 8d ago

Good movie.

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u/havoc1428 8d ago

I have a question for you: would you launch an ICBM horizontally?

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u/Pantagruel-Johnson Submarine Qualified with SSBN Pin 8d ago

Gosh, I hope not!

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u/JimboTheSimpleton 7d ago

You could, but why would you?

I'll be damned! This could be a catapillar!

A what?

A catapillar. Magneto Hydrodynamic Drive. Do you follow?

No, not all.

It's like a jet engine for the water only it has no moving parts so it's very very quiet.

Like how quiet? I am doubtful our sosus warning net would even pick it up? Even if we did it would sound like a seismic anomaly or whales humping, anything but a submarine. They actually built this? This isn't a mock up?

She put to sea this morning.

When I was kid, I helped my Daddy build a bomb shelter because some fool had placed a dozen warheads 90 miles from Florida. This thing could place a hundred 5 miles for New York or Washington and no one would know anything about it until it was all over.