The USS DRUM (SS-228) Submarine was launched May 12, 1941, by Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire, and commissioned November 1, 1941.
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Inside The Submarine
Over at Battleship Park east of Mobile, AL, is a submarine slowly being restored by volunteers. It is the USS Drum, a World War II diesel electric submarine that has been raised out of the water and placed in a cradle. Visitors can walk its decks and go through its interior. And what an interior it is. Here are a few photographs of the switches and dials and cranks and levers that made a submarine do what it does. Click on the images to make them larger.
The USS DRUM (SS-228) Submarine was launched May 12, 1941, by Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire, and commissioned November 1, 1941.
The USS DRUM (SS-228) Submarine was launched May 12, 1941, by Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire, and commissioned November 1, 1941.
