From the Base Commander, Dave Rifkin;
A special thanks to the Torpedo Maintenance team for their hard work today (and it was hard consuming all that pizza and beer afterwards :-). We got her spruced up but won’t be completely finished until the polished hardware goes back on this week. Well done to shipmates Dave Schlessinger (coordinator), Don McBride (consultant), Steve Bridge, Tom Carty, Pat Ivory, and Lanny Mosley. Couple of photos below.
By Matt Fratus | February 24, 2019
Every submariner’s fear is being trapped on the bottom of the ocean inside the steel coffin they live, work, and sleep in, knowing that help on the surface isn’t coming to save them.
U.S. Naval Institute
On May 10th in 1921, the submarine USS R-14 ran out of fuel and lost radio communications while searching for a missing ship. The crew stitched together blankets, hammocks and battery deck covers, and then spent 5 days under sail to travel 120 miles back to Hawaii.
