For you military buffs.

[Nitroaddict]

I Was bored, so I thought i would post some info, and photos about the Submarine I was stationed on in the Navy, the USS Helena (SSN-725)

Here are some cool specs, and pictures.

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USS Helena SSN-725 Facts
Ship Class : Fourth Flight 688 - Los Angeles Class
Fast-Attack Nuclear Submarine
Crew : 120 Enlisted
13 Officers
Length : 360 feet
Beam : 33 feet
Draft : 32 feet (surfaced)
Displacement : 6080 tons (surfaced)
6927 tons (submerged)
Max. Depth : "In excess of 1200 feet"
Max. Speed : "In excess of 40 knots (submerged)"
25 knots (surfaced)
Propulsion : 1 pressurized water nuclear reactor
2 steam turbines/
1 shaft
40,000 saft horse power
Armament : 4 Forward (21") Torpedo Tubes
12 VLS - Vertical Launch Missile Tubes
Weapons : Mk-48 Torpedo
Mk-48 ADCAP Torpedo
UGM-84 Harpoon
UGM-109 Tomahawk, VLS (Vertically Launched)
UGM-109 Tomahawk, TTL (Torpedo Tube Lauched)
Navigation : GPS - Global Positioning System
ESGN (Electro-statically Suspended Gyro Navigator)
NAVSAT
OMEGA
LORAN
Bottom Contour Mapping
Communications : Classified
Builder : General Dynamics, Electric Boat Division - Groton, CT
Keel Laid : 16 SEP 1984
Launched : 28 JUN 1986
Commissioned : 11 JUL 1987, commanded by CDR Thomas Moore
Home Port : Pearl Harbor, HI
Motto : "Proud and Fearless"
International Callsign : NHMT
Namesake City : Helena, MT USA
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couple of external photos:

two sailors loading a TLAM:

Personell Roster, scroll down about halfway to see me:
http://www.hullnumber.com/cgi-bin/attack_subs1?SSN-725&725&USS&HELENA

Our badge we worse on our uniforms:

Us docked in Korea, thats a Korean Sub passing us:

Where we slept.....well, when we slept

The Galley, where we ate....good underwater chow

Missle launch center (FC) on left, con on right. look far right, that is where the boat is driven

Sonar control. towed array systems space.

Sonar Control. BPS-15 and waterfall system

Torpedo room, panoramic photo. tubes on right.

 

[msly]

Thats very cool, Thanks for sharing...i think i would freak out if i had to spend more then a few days in that little tube...props to all the submarine crews out there.


sLY

 

[mcvickj]

Nice looking pics NA. What is with the blue tint in the sonar pics? Is that just the way the lighting is in the room?

 

[Nitroaddict]

msly - my longest underway was 108 days without surfacing.

Originally posted by mcvickj
Nice looking pics NA. What is with the blue tint in the sonar pics? Is that just the way the lighting is in the room?

yeah - they want it dark in there, so u can see the 'waterfall' better. usually its red light, but they can do that color too.

 

[bmoc2008]

those were cool pics i probably couldnt live on a sub because i dont like being in little places for long or claustrophobia

 

[Nitroaddict]

yeah - they send u through alot of tests before they let u on.

 

[bmoc2008]

I wonder could submarines just go right under a hurricane?

 

[Nitroaddict]

Originally posted by bmoc2008
I wonder could submarines just go right under a hurricane?

yes - did that several times. We usually travel at about 400-600 feet, so that deep, there is no movement in the water from the surface swells.

 

[robriguez]

How in the hell did you get a waterfall in a Submarine???? Yo thats some custom ass work! I've heard of hooking up your ride....but a waterfall??? Props to you bro!

LMFAO!!!

 

[bmoc2008]

thats cool can u look up in a submarine can u see like the surface moving or something

 

[Nitroaddict]

robriguez - waterfall, lol. the screen on the bsq15 sonar display is called the waterfall, because the diagram looks like one.

bmoc - no looking at the surface, bro - no windows!

 

[bmoc2008]

thats what i figured

 

[Mondo]

NA sub culture

NA,

Wicked stuff man. Lovely photos too, really gives some insight to the real Submariners lives.

Excellent!:winnar:

 

[Scummer]

Hey NA, as an old submariner.. have you ever watched the movie "Das Boot"
Its available on DVD in german with english subtitles or in english (but the syncro sux ass)

Its about life in a german submarine during WW2. Pretty darn good movie.

Thomas

 

[Nitroaddict]

Originally posted by Scummer
Hey NA, as an old submariner.. have you ever watched the movie "Das Boot"
Its available on DVD in german with english subtitles or in english (but the syncro sux ass)

Its about life in a german submarine during WW2. Pretty darn good movie.

Thomas

no need to explain it to me, bro - seen it a hundred times, lol!!!

accidently watching it in crew's mess durning a port call, when a German group of MI guys came to tour the boat. Didnt like that too much, lol