"Favorite Submarine?" Topic

What is your favorite submarine?

Seawolf.

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Mmmmmmmm………..

Pre 1946-2006?

Fulton's "Nautilus".
CSA's "Hunley".
USA's (not USN's) "Alligator".
Holland's "USS Holland".

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1946-2006?

Beatles' "Yellow".

Nemo's Nautilus

Skipjack

Cavella – first one I saw.

I had a toy Seawolf submarine when I was boy. It had a working propeller (rubber band system) and ran under water. It was dark gray and light gray, with removable black hatches, periscopes, and deck gun.

I was saddened when, years later, I found out that the real Seawolf was sunk by friendly fire.

My favorite name for a submarine was Skipjack. I had a toy Skipjack, too, with two red, spring-loaded missiles of the "You'll put your eye out!" variety.

I also had a yellow Seaview from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. That was probably my favorite submarine.

Although a little past Bill's cut-off date, I have to choose SSN-782, USS Mississippi, named after my home state and the fifth US Navy ship to carry that name (even though the first was named after the river).

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But Nemo's Nautilus and the Seaview carry some memories from earlier years.

Jim

USS Gato class

the flying sub

Skipjack-wanted it converted to a starship with a Dean Drive for STL and a Psionic Jump Drive.

Wet Nellie

Currently owned by Elon Musk who apparently was "disappointed to learn that it can't actually transform."

The one that resurfaces. H

Seaview for me.

Seaview

1. USS Batfish
2. USS Razorback

688 class. Served on one before I went to Tridents.

Dean Drive.

That's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

Disney's version of Nemo's Nautilus
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The one I'm not on.

Although a little past Bill's cut-off date…

No cut-off date

That yellow one.

the Sea Tiger

Oooh, hard to choose!

TOHO duo:

Atragon

Supersubmarine Alpha from Latitude Zero

And a Gerry Anderson duo:

Thunderbird 4

Skydiver from UFO

Yep. Nemo's Nautilus.

Dan

Nautilus
SeaView
Seawolf

HSwMS Halland

Stingray!!!

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Other than that, anything with a consistent track record of re-surfacing.

+1 Supercilious Maximums. Pretty much any Gerry Anderson series sub, but in order Stingray, Skydiver then Thunderbird 4.

USN S Class – WWII

any of the K-Boats…

USS Triton

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I was thinking of another Stingray(played by USS Pampanito),the one from "Down Periscope".

CSS H. L. Hunley

USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23)

"USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is the third and final Seawolf-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine in the United States Navy.

She is named for Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States; and as of her naming, Carter was the only President to have qualified in submarines, having served as an Officer for Communications, Sonar, Electronics, Weapons, and Supply while on board USS Pomfret."

USS Dallas

Disney's version of Nemo's Nautilus

We all live in a yellow submarine …

The Flying Sub
688
Stingray
Seaview
Skydiver

No votes for Red October?

Wait! I forgot one! I love it as much as the Nautilus. And it's REAL.

The one.
The only.
The little boat that started it all:

The Turtle!

Patrick R gave the right answer.

I've never served. But I have been on 3 submarines in my years. The first 2 were really touristing, in one form or another.

Took a tour of the ex-USS Growler in New York at the Intrepid Museum. The only strategic missile boat open to the public. A rather (!) early version of a missile boat, that one.
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I have also been on the ex-USS Pampanito, a WW2 US fleet submarine at the National Maritime Museum in San Francisco.

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In the case of the Pampanito I've taken a tour, but I also managed an overnight stay on it, which gave me the opportunity to get a least a little (!) bit of a sense of how close and claustrophobic (and smelly!) such a boat could be.

But for my favorite, I have to go with TNE's idea:

The Sea Tiger

Here my association is a bit outside of normal tourist experiences. I used to be a bit of an adventurer, and this boat has a place in my fond memories of youthful indiscretion.

TNE's pic is from the film Operation Petticoat. Some of my fellow gray-hairs out there may recall that the movie spawned a (relatively short-lived) TV series as well.

1977 – 1979
It's hijinks on the high seas when a U.S. submarine has to take on a collection of female nurses. Somehow or another, the sub gets painted pink in the process.

That series was shot at Universal Studios in the LA area. I grew up in Studio City, right next door. Getting in to studios was one of my hobbies in my high school years. Sometimes we got in by volunteering for research (focus groups), sometimes we got in by getting tickets to tapings of shows with live studio audiences, and sometimes we just kind of "accidentally" wandered in to look around. Universal Studios was one of our favorites for "wandering" in … generally under the back fence at 2:00am.

I spent many hours dodging the studio security rent-a-cops, and the pink submarine, tied up along a jetty in one of the two lakes in the studio back lot, was one of our most productive hiding places.

;-)

I've been baaaad boy!

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)

This is my favorite sub.

USS Parche SSN-683
The boat that did more we can't talk about than any other.

HMS X20 and HMS X23

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Seaview

USS Daniel Boone

I used to like the fish subs as well as stingray.
Were they terror fish?
Googling now, i'm surprised how big the stingray model was.