[BITList] more Nuclear Submarine

[HUGH]

Colin,

A complex beast and no mistake, but why do they think it (and an aircraft 
carrier in a previous e-mail) is propelled by a nuclear reactor.  We might 
as well say a diesel ship is propelled by the daily service tanks.  I was 
only aboard one submarine, in drydock, completing in Scotts for the 
Australian navy, and it was claustrophobic.  We were weighed on and weighed 
off.  The lads in Scotts' DO sub department worked to a different script 
from the rest of us.  A cast gunmetal pipe didn't raise one of their 
eyebrows - such were often necessary to solve a problem where a conventional 
pipe was impossible to produce.  And come the day when all was done, they 
went onto nightshift for weeks to sketch measure and photograph the inside 
so as to bring the drawings into line with the many many "to place" items.

Hugh.