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Re: U-Boot anchor
Posted by:
J.T. McDaniel
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Date: June 27, 2003 10:03PM
<HTML>Well, 105 fathoms of anchor cable is only enough for 210 feet of water, so it's not all that deep. (The cable length should be three times the depth when anchoring in anything deeper than 20 fathoms.)
The Navy had the most input into boats built at Portsmouth and Mare Island, since those were government owned yards. EB and Mantiwoc followed the basic plans, but also imparted their own character to the finished product. Which side the anchor hangs from doesn't make that much difference. The common preference for putting the anchor on the starboard side of single-anchor vessels has a lot more to do with the fact that ships usually tie up port-side to than anything else, and that keeps the anchor hanging over the water instead of the pier.
For the most part, the U.S. Navy doesn't put as much emphasis on anchoring techniques as other navies, since American ships are usually tied up to a pier or moored to a buoy instead of anchoring out.
U.S. subs operated as far south as Australia, with bases at Fremantle and Brisbane, and another at Darwin, which nobody liked very much and was mainly used as a refueling and rearming station. There wasn't much to shoot at that far south, though, so they really "operated" farther north where there were targets.
J.T. McDaniel</HTML>
The Navy had the most input into boats built at Portsmouth and Mare Island, since those were government owned yards. EB and Mantiwoc followed the basic plans, but also imparted their own character to the finished product. Which side the anchor hangs from doesn't make that much difference. The common preference for putting the anchor on the starboard side of single-anchor vessels has a lot more to do with the fact that ships usually tie up port-side to than anything else, and that keeps the anchor hanging over the water instead of the pier.
For the most part, the U.S. Navy doesn't put as much emphasis on anchoring techniques as other navies, since American ships are usually tied up to a pier or moored to a buoy instead of anchoring out.
U.S. subs operated as far south as Australia, with bases at Fremantle and Brisbane, and another at Darwin, which nobody liked very much and was mainly used as a refueling and rearming station. There wasn't much to shoot at that far south, though, so they really "operated" farther north where there were targets.
J.T. McDaniel</HTML>
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