The Marine Adventure Centre
..was sooo cool. We had a voucher for free entry form the Student Organisation. From the short text we gathered that there is one destroyer "Smäland" (ä substitutes for a with a circle, I don't know how to get it with my keyboard) and one submariene that we can visit. So we thought we go and have a look.
It turned out that there is much more than only those 2 ships. There was also one lifting ship (used to lift heavy objects during rescue, loading and building), one lighthouse ship, one cargo ship, one military ship for couast guards, one icebreaker (pretty small, built for winter 45, when there was ice on the Göta Älv, a singulary cold winter, it never occured again) and some others.
Begin at the beginning:
The destroyer - it was never used, built in Gothenburg (Eriksberg), held a crew of 173 people and was a gift from the Swedish Navy.
It held several sea mines (tricky evil things these mines)
The nobs fitted glass cones that were filled with quicksilver, they would break at the slightest contact, the quicksilver would drip into the bomb and fire it.
FLAKs had water-cooled pipes to allow for higher firing-frequency.
Now to the inside. Steep ladders,
narrow beds, a model kitchen that showed plates with half a pear, one sausage and two eggs sunny side up.. (do they really eat that??)
I don't want to give you the impression that I freak over ams and guns, I really don't, but I have never seen that so close, it was interesting.
I have tenthousand other pics, but I have to be careful with my space here on twoday, so no nonsense.
The submarine
is actually a copy of a German submariene. During WWII it was abandoned by the crew, they dreaded the allied armies, saved their lives and left the submarine to sink to the bottom of the Göta Älv. The Swedes recovered it after saving the crew, kept it to copy and obviously returned the original years later to Germany.
The inside of the submarine is not made for people taller than 160cm, you bump your head every other step.
This is one of my neighbours friends, he is much shorter than I am and still..
Of course I had to climb everything that I could for the realistic feeling: in this case the uppermost level of beds.
Not exactly cosy.
This is me climbing through a torpedo-revolver, that seved the actual torpedo firing-pipes. The orange ones are torpedos.
The other ships were nice too. The merchant ship for example was so much more comfortable than the two military ships, partly because the crew is much smaller on a merchant ship so that each member can have his own cabin (no females on board) and space is not a rare gift. It is almost a leasure ship compared to the others.
It turned out that there is much more than only those 2 ships. There was also one lifting ship (used to lift heavy objects during rescue, loading and building), one lighthouse ship, one cargo ship, one military ship for couast guards, one icebreaker (pretty small, built for winter 45, when there was ice on the Göta Älv, a singulary cold winter, it never occured again) and some others.
Begin at the beginning:
The destroyer - it was never used, built in Gothenburg (Eriksberg), held a crew of 173 people and was a gift from the Swedish Navy.
It held several sea mines (tricky evil things these mines)
The nobs fitted glass cones that were filled with quicksilver, they would break at the slightest contact, the quicksilver would drip into the bomb and fire it.
FLAKs had water-cooled pipes to allow for higher firing-frequency.
Now to the inside. Steep ladders,
narrow beds, a model kitchen that showed plates with half a pear, one sausage and two eggs sunny side up.. (do they really eat that??)
I don't want to give you the impression that I freak over ams and guns, I really don't, but I have never seen that so close, it was interesting.
I have tenthousand other pics, but I have to be careful with my space here on twoday, so no nonsense.
The submarine
is actually a copy of a German submariene. During WWII it was abandoned by the crew, they dreaded the allied armies, saved their lives and left the submarine to sink to the bottom of the Göta Älv. The Swedes recovered it after saving the crew, kept it to copy and obviously returned the original years later to Germany.
The inside of the submarine is not made for people taller than 160cm, you bump your head every other step.
This is one of my neighbours friends, he is much shorter than I am and still..
Of course I had to climb everything that I could for the realistic feeling: in this case the uppermost level of beds.
Not exactly cosy.
This is me climbing through a torpedo-revolver, that seved the actual torpedo firing-pipes. The orange ones are torpedos.
The other ships were nice too. The merchant ship for example was so much more comfortable than the two military ships, partly because the crew is much smaller on a merchant ship so that each member can have his own cabin (no females on board) and space is not a rare gift. It is almost a leasure ship compared to the others.
niknuk - 21. Sep, 11:03
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