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Re: Shapes of submarines
Posted by: Sniper ()
Date: November 03, 2002 03:49PM

Robert,

I have John Pina Craven's book and the description's of the damage done to the Nautilus were truley sobering. Interesting note on the 'Nautilus' design. If you look at her stern she looks like she has an early version of the standard 'cruciform' stern seen on all US Navy SSN's.yet has two conventional (for the time) small high sped screws. Rickover veto'ed the wishes of the designers to use a single large (efficent and quiet) screw (like the ones fitted to the scorpion class) and insisted on twin shaft,twin screw propulsion for reliability.

Rgrds

Ger Wallace.

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Shapes of submarines Devi 11/01/2002 01:31PM
Re: Shapes of submarines ROBERT M. 11/03/2002 03:02AM
Re: Shapes of submarines Sniper 11/03/2002 06:53AM
Re: Shapes of submarines ROBERT M. 11/03/2002 02:17PM
Re: Shapes of submarines Sniper 11/03/2002 03:49PM
Re: Shapes of submarines kurt 11/04/2002 05:52PM


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