[Milsurplus] A Visit to Battleship Cove

[Bob Camp]

Hi

It's been about 6 years since I saw that gizmo ....

Bob

On Oct 28, 2007, at 4:06 PM, J Forster wrote:

> Paddle?? The thing was powered.
>
> -John
>
>
> Bob Camp wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm betting that they had at least a half hour delay on those things.
>> You can only paddle a kayak just so fast, even when there's a bomb
>> behind you ....
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> On Oct 28, 2007, at 3:45 PM, J Forster wrote:
>>
>>> I omitted it, as it had no radio interest, but there is one on
>>> display at
>>> Battleship Cove in the same Quonset Hut as the PT Boats.  It looks
>>> sort
>>> of like an overweight kayak. Apparently it carried two mines that
>>> could
>>> be attached to a ship. I wonder how long the fuzes were?
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David Stinson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Speaking of museum subs:
>>>> Have any of you seen the Japanese suicide sub
>>>> ("Ki-ten," or somethin' like that) that's on display at Pearl  
>>>> Harbor?
>>>> It looks like something out of "The Flintstones."
>>>> I don't understand how that thing could even float,
>>>> much less sink a U.S. cruiser.
>>>> 73 Dave S.
>>>
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