Yesterday I took Marley, Hunter, and Jenna to the Word War II Memorial park in Muskogee. The submarine USS
Batfish is on display there and is being restored to it's original condition. Most of the ship is set up just like it was when in operation.
The USS
Batfish was 311 ft long. It had four diesel-electric engines. A fuel capacity of 94.000 gallons and could stay on patrol for 75 days. It's diving limit was 400 ft and could stay submerged for 48 hours
Torpedo tubes. There were six tubes in the bow and four aft.
This bunk is over a torpedo and under pipes. Not much room to toss and turn in your sleep.
The toilet is squeezed into a small space amongst tubing and pipes
This is the shower. There were two showers and two toilets on board. The cook was required to shower every day, but the rest of the crew were limited to one shower per week.
The officers' dining room
This is an officer's sleeping quarters
The controls that submerged the vessel and also brought it to the surface.
Radio room.
This is the galley where meals were cooked for a crew of 66 men. This is not a picture of part of the galley. What you see is the entire kitchen.
The mess hall where the crew ate their meals
Crew sleeping quarters
This is one of four engines.
Looking through the submarine. The door on the right leads to another compartment.
I have no idea what these controls were for.
One of the
torpedoes used by submarines.
This is the "Walk of Honor". Each plaque mounted on a pedestal details one of the submarines and crew that were lost during WWII.
Fellow blogger, Mary Lee
Coe Fowler, has written a book,
Full Fathom Five, about her father who was the commander of the USS
Cisco which was lost at sea. This is the plaque commemorating his submarine and crew.
The USS Batfish was 311 ft long. It had four diesel-electric engines. A fuel capacity of 94.000 gallons and could stay on patrol for 75 days. It's diving limit was 400 ft and could stay submerged for 48 hours
Torpedo tubes. There were six tubes in the bow and four aft.
This bunk is over a torpedo and under pipes. Not much room to toss and turn in your sleep.
The toilet is squeezed into a small space amongst tubing and pipes
This is the shower. There were two showers and two toilets on board. The cook was required to shower every day, but the rest of the crew were limited to one shower per week.
The officers' dining room
This is an officer's sleeping quarters
The controls that submerged the vessel and also brought it to the surface.
Radio room.
This is the galley where meals were cooked for a crew of 66 men. This is not a picture of part of the galley. What you see is the entire kitchen.
The mess hall where the crew ate their meals
Crew sleeping quarters
This is one of four engines.
Looking through the submarine. The door on the right leads to another compartment.
I have no idea what these controls were for.
One of the torpedoes used by submarines.
This is the "Walk of Honor". Each plaque mounted on a pedestal details one of the submarines and crew that were lost during WWII.
Fellow blogger, Mary Lee Coe Fowler, has written a book, Full Fathom Five, about her father who was the commander of the USS Cisco which was lost at sea. This is the plaque commemorating his submarine and crew. 
3 comments:
I was going to say I wanted to be the cook since he got a shower a day but with the galley that small, I'm not so sure!
That was a very touching plaque; the photos of the submarine just confirm that WW 2 wasn't all that much fun.
Thanks for this post, Wally. The submarine service was so secretive that it doesn't get the publicity other branches of the service get (just look at any history book of WWII). So your showcasing it here helps to make up for that hole in our knowledge.
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