Inside a Foxtrot-class submarine (56k out)

[Bounty]

Boat!



I was strolling down the coast when this boat caught my eye. It's a 1960's vintage Foxtrot submarine, open to the public. Now, I'm not good with confined spaces, but an opportunity like this I couldn't pass up.

I'm not sure about the maintenance on the boat itself; the outside looked pretty weathered, but that might be normal for submarines. The insides were supposedly kept exactly as they were when the Russians sold it, apart from a few extra light fixtures. Supposedly. To me it looked like it could fall apart at any moment and the thing needs a new paint job bad.

It's not seaworthy any more as far as I know, especially now that they installed stairs in the torpedo rooms.



Aft torpedo room:











Lower ranks' loo and sink:





Engineering spaces:











Crew quarters - higher-ups only:





















Control room; a very cramped space, but part of it was cordoned off:







Executive shitter off the bridge:



View through the periscope:









Forward torpedo room:













And finally coming back up through the bow:

[Col. Crackpot]

NicePics! I'm Jealous! We had one docked at the Port of Providence as a museum but it sunk in a blizzard last winter before i could check it out. Been down ever since. Navy Divers have been down to see if they can re float it, but it's likely rotted to shit by now.

[Knife]

Cool. Looks a lot smaller than the USS Blueback I toured last year in Portland.

[Bounty]

Cool. Looks a lot smaller than the USS Blueback I toured last year in Portland.

One the inside perhaps, but it's 30m longer than a Barbel on the outside. This class was the largest conventional Soviet submarine.

The inside was ridiculously cramped. I'd always envisioned submarines as small, but very neat and precise - this however, looked like the basement of a mdad scientist. Pipes and gauges everywhere, no place to stand except in a very narrow corridor down the centerline... all the time I was there it felt like the walls were closing in on me, and that was with an almost-empty boat and no running engines. I don't even want to imagine what it'd been like at sea.

It's too bad the sail was off-limits, I'd have loved to see what was in there.

[MKSheppard]

Jesus that's one corroded as fuck commie boat.

[Bounty]

Jesus that's one corroded as fuck commie boat.

The last extensive repairs I know of were in 2002. All the way through the tour I kept wondering if the corrosion was "normal" or if it was just bad maintenance.

[Kanastrous]

Judging by the condition of the Foxtrot we have down in Long Beach - looks like it's on the lower end of 'normal.'

[wautd]

Wow. I've been into caves less crampy