[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

just need to get a general idea of where a few spaces were located...

in the control room..

1- was there a port passageway around the attack center
2- on the starboard side, the way i see it, from fwd was the helmsman station, the ballast vent controls, the planesman stations, the high pressure manifold controls


the crew mess and galley...

1-was it located over the forward battery or the aft battery

thanks loads for any and all information or pointers to any ifno...

--Mike

[Letum]

Sorry, I cant help, but I would love to know what your up to Mike!

[SiragoSailor]

just need to get a general idea of where a few spaces were located...

in the control room..

1- was there a port passageway around the attack center
2- on the starboard side, the way i see it, from fwd was the helmsman station, the ballast vent controls, the planesman stations, the high pressure manifold controls


the crew mess and galley...

1-was it located over the forward battery or the aft battery

thanks loads for any and all information or pointers to any ifno...

Passageways on both Port & Stbd.

Port looking fwd Exhaust Gas/Trim/Air /Hyd manifolds Bow & Sternplansmen. Hatch to Bridge Helm with Navagation table electric electronics on less traveled Stb side.
Under Control room was machinery/pumprooms.

Galley on Stbd stepping aft into the dining mess area , refrig and TDU aft with battery below.

Hope that answers your interest.

Old Navy DBF'r USS TANG (SS-563) '68-'70

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

Letum: something good... real good

SiragoSailor: thanks heaps

ok there were port and starboard passageways around the attack enter area, where the scope and the attack center stations were manned... right...

also... the crew bunks... were they aft of the mess spaces in the aft battery, forward of the engine room?

what was forward of the control room... it seems like an awful lot of space forward... radar and countermeasures stations???

thanks again for all the help....

--Mike

[akula_krieg]

If you're looking at WWII submarines, the Tang was not a class (although there was a Tang class in the 1950s). The USS Tang was a Gato class submarine. The three primary classes of WWII were Gato, Balao, and Tench; the only real difference was a change in operating depth to 400 feet in the Balaos.

I'd recommend "The Fleet Submarine in the U.S. Navy," published by the Naval Insitute Press. It's a fully detailed technological history of the development of U.S. fleet subs, and includes interior layouts. However, good luck finding it...it was published in the 1970s; I've forgotten who the author is and my copy disappeared in a move a few years back.

Hope this helps.

-akula-

[Tori]

i have some interior pictures of a submarine which now serves as a museum. i don't remember the name of the sub but it was introduced as a Tang class sub. is this a Tang class really?

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

Tori: YES that definitely looks like a Tang class boat... i can't make out the hull number, but the PUFFS anttenas and the sail configuration definitely makes it out to be one of the Tang class boats...

if the hull numbers range from 563 to 568, and 576 then for sure it was one of em...

and, yes, i'd be verrrry interested in seeing the interior shots

THANKS T


akula_krieg: thanks, i'm aware that the US didn't have any Tang class subs in WWII... i'm working on the post WWII era... the beginnings of the Cold War... the guppies and early nuke boats...

--Mike

[Tori]

http://rapidshare.de/files/2659161/Pics.zip.html here you can download the file, i had to resize the pics to 1024x768, the originals are in 2048x1536. i hope these pics help

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

BIG THANKS TORI... looking at em now...

--Mike

[TLAM Strike]

You see this image already Mike?

[akula_krieg]

OK...you WERE looking at a '50s Tang-class boat. I apologize for the above post.

-akula-

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

no need to apologize akula... as a matter of fact, keep an eye on me here... and if you see anything that you might question, definitely feel free to buttonhole me about it...

that way i'm doubly sure it's at least half right

--Mike

[CadaverDog]

Mike,

As usual TLAM beat me to it.

Sorry for these crappy scans but the book is pretty big and I had a hard time getting it on to my scanner.

I think you should probably get yourself a copy of "Cold War Submarines; The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines" by N. Polmar and K.J. Moore. It's expensive, but a valuable reference.

[SiragoSailor]

ok there were port and starboard passageways around the attack enter area, where the scope and the attack center stations were manned... right...

also... the crew bunks... were they aft of the mess spaces in the aft battery, forward of the engine room?

what was forward of the control room... it seems like an awful lot of space forward... radar and countermeasures stations???

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1 yes

2 fwd torpedo room was also crew berthing for about 25
Stern room /aft torpedo room had berthing for rest of crew

3 aft battery was fwd of engine room under crews mess and galley

4 Fwd of control room was fwd battery under officers berthing. Also sonar room, radio room and yeomans office. All electronics ecm scopes etc were on stbd side of control room

this site is our crews web page lots of info and links

http://www.geocities.com/rrowe50/tang.html

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

CadaverD... TLAM is kinda fast... he's got tons of pics and stuff you really gotta be quick to beat him out... thx for the pics...

Sirago... great description... answers all of my questions... i think i can visualize the interior layout pretty much now...

THANKS VERY MUCH GUYS FOR ALL YOUR GENEROUS HELP...


--Mike