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airbnb overnights on the USS Cobia, a WW2 Gato-class submarine

Alastair — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 15:23:41 +0000

The Wisconsin Maritime Museum’s USS Cobia is now available for overnight Bed & Breakfast bookings through airbnb. The US Navy submarine, which played a key role in the Pacific during World War II and has been has been a museum ship in Wisconsin since 1970, can take private groups of over 16 people for overnight […]

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New ‘Jolly Roger’ display at the Submarine Museum, Gosport

Alastair — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:27:25 +0000

A new display of ‘Jolly Roger’ flags flown by Royal Navy submarines is launched today (27/03/2024) at The Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport. It will expand the museum’s previous collection of Jolly Rogers by including the earliest known surviving example and the museum’s newest acquisition, a Jolly Roger from HMS Thorough. The Jolly Roger is […]

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The U-Boat Base – Saint-Nazaire

Alastair — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:32:42 +0000

These days, the huge fortified bunker built by the Germans in 1941 to protect its U-boats, is no longer referred to as the “U-boat base” or “the U-boat pens”. Instead they simply call it the ‘submarine base’, maybe to disassociate it from its origins, but we all know who built it and why. Other Saint-Nazaire […]

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Submarine Espadon – Saint Nazaire

Alastair — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:05:22 +0000

Espadon (“Swordfish”) is a French submarine from the Cold War era, now a museum ship on display in Saint-Nazaire. Other Saint-Nazaire Posts Operation Chariot Battlefield Trail in Saint-Nazaire Saint-Nazaire Mystery Wreckage Submarine Espadon – Museum Ship EOL Centre éolien – Learning Centre Écomusée – Industrial Heritage Museum Escal’Atlantic – Transatlantic Liner Experience Chantiers de l’Atlantique […]

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Virtual Reality tour of a WWII Japanese submarine wreck released on the 80th anniversary of her sinking

Alastair — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:00:19 +0000

I-124 was a WWII Japanese submarine that was sunk with all hands (80 crew) by Allied forces on 20 Jan 1942 while on a mine-laying mission in the Beagle Gulf, Australia. She lies in 46 metres (150 ft) of water, 84 kilometres north-west of Darwin, NT. In anticipation of tomorrow’s 80th anniversary, in October 2021 […]

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H.L. Hunley Replica

Alastair — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 08:32:12 +0000

This replica of the U.S. Civil War submarine HL Hunley sits outside the Charleston Museum. The HL Hunley (named after her inventor, Horace Lawson Hunley) was a Confederate State submarine, built in Mobile, Alabama in 1863 and launched in July 1863. She had a crew of 8 and was armed with a spar-mounted torpedo; essentially […]

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Biber Midget Submarine

Alastair — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:37:03 +0000

The Biber (“Beaver”) midget submarine was not Germany’s most successful weapon in WW2. Designed hastily in Feb 1944 in a bid to compensate for the horrendous losses in the U-boat fleet, and in anticipation of an imminent Allied invasion, the Biber was a cheap, one-man submarine, capable of carrying two torpedoes mounted externally in the […]

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Review: Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum, Charleston SC

Alastair — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 13:20:14 +0000

The Naval and Maritime Museum at Patriots Point is pretty spectacular and definitely worth a visit if you are in the neighbourhood. By ‘neighbourhood’ I mean pretty much anywhere on the central east coast of the continent! The largest exhibit by far is the aircraft carrier, USS Yorktown CV-10. It dominates the shoreline at Mount […]

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Review: Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport

Alastair — Thu, 09 May 2019 10:53:59 +0000

The Royal Navy Submarine Museum is one of the two satellite sites of the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) on the other side of Portsmouth harbour. For that reason, it maybe doesn’t get as much attention as the ships and other museum attractions in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, but it totally should because […]

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Review: The H.L. Hunley, Charleston

Alastair — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 09:36:13 +0000

The H.L. Hunley was the world’s first combat submarine to sink a ship. In the quiet of the night on 17th Feb 1864, eight men from the Confederate Army gathered on the beach on Sullivan’s Island outside Charleston, South Carolina. Wading into the sea, they climbed on board the “fish torpedo boat” as it was […]

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