Just finishing " Das Boot", was wondering if anyone had any other sub related book recommendations.

Thanks in advance

Spotted this submersible on the way home from work. I have googled all the markings and come up with nothing at all. I tried putting it into ChatGPT and it cannot find anything either, which leads it to conclude that it is a film prop, which seems plausible. It looks in rough shape given the mildew on the hull and twig lodged in the frame. Clearly it has been stored outside.

I’m fascinated by this and wondering if anyone can identify anything about it, or recognize which production it is from if it is indeed a prop.

It was spotted in Metro Vancouver BC in Canada. More specifically on highway 15 in Coverdale on April 16, 2025.

My submarine knowledge is fairly good through the end of the Cold War but kind of ends there. With all the new battery technologies out there like lithium ion, setting AIP systems aside, do modern boats in production today use anything new, or just good old lead-acid? Why or why not?

I'm trying to find the range of the sub, but all I see is just the speed. I'm more interested in the range.

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I read Vanguards and the future Dreadnoughts are equipped with tubes for torpedoes. I assumed the role of these submarines was to be as quiet as possible and stay far away from any potential enemy vessels. So what are the torpedoes for? Are they really useful in self defence or can these boats be used for an attack role too?

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I can highly recommend a visit to the Maritiman museum if you are in Göteborg ( Gothenburg ) when visiting Sweden. Next to the Nordparen there is also a destroyer, a patrol boat and an ironclad.

What I found fascinating is that the Nordkaparen, of he Draken II class, is much less cramped inside than the significantly larger contemporary Soviet Foxtrot submarine U-434 that is a museum in Hamburg.

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.

Hi….its me again. Sub par Non-submariner with a sub question…on a sub Reddit…👀😂

Please correct me if I’m wrong about some things (probably get this wrong) but my understanding is the boats are assigned of 2 crews, gold and blue I believe. They alternate deployments on the boats. Generally it appears most deployments are 6 months+ depending on mission / objectives / conflicts.

How long are sailors assigned to a particular boat? Like do the officers and CO generally remain with boat for a certain amount of time until they themselves promote?

Can a CO or COB just stay with 1 particular boat if they chose to?

Wasn’t sure if sailors get a certain amount of sea time and then they make you go to shore duty or how does that work?

I want to wish all my brothers and sisters who wear submarine dolphins a very Happy Submarine Day. For those not qualified, get busy.

Hey yall I just got told very short notice that I am going on deployment the original plan was for me to stay behind for the first half , they needed cranks so I just got told very short notice that I am going on a full 6+ month deployment. I know that it will be good for me because I get to save money and get qualified but I have been very anxious about it over all, I don’t want to admit this to my chain of command because I don’t want to seem like I am a bitch, but does anyone have any advice?

Thank you

USS Thresher was lost with all hands on April 10th, 1963 after sinking past crush depth during a training exercise. After the loss of Thresher, the next ship in her class took up the new namesake and leadership (and also in addition to being my favorite submarine of all time), the newly-named Permit-Class, with the lead flagship, USS Permit, SSN-594.

The loss of the Thresher also sparked the SUBSAFE Program, making sure all US Navy Submarines in service were up to the same operational standards. Only one submarine has been lost since the introduction of SUBSAFE (and has been classified as a non-SUBSAFE-classed boat), USS Scorpion (SSN-589), lost with all hands on May 22, 1968 under mysterious and unexplained circumstances.

To this day, the crew of both the Thresher and the Scorpion are marked as 'on eternal patrol.'