US WWII Submarine Walkthrough & Audio tour - The USS Pampanito/SS-383 - Balao class 

golferroyce hi, that is great!!

Qualifying on boats now is easy, the smoke boat guys could do everything, now...were skarewed

Your Dad had balls, i'm nuc sub stewburner retired

John Butler...Your father and mine must have known each other... Maybe they shared a cup of coffee together and talked about home (while playing cards) in between very long and stressful days.

@@London2362 According to the ships crew log my dad was on the fourth, fifth, and sixth war patrols listed as F1c. Yes, your father is listed also as MoMM2c so they more than likely crossed paths. John Butler

That is amazing. You 2 should get together and have a cup of coffee in the mess! I think that would be so cool

You must be very Proud! May he RIP.

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USS "Stingray" by captain Tomas Dodge

@@valentinvorobiov2765 who has "welcome aboard" tattooed on his.....

balls to the walls, guys, balls to the walls! @@spankyharland9845

​@@valentinvorobiov2765that pirate

Great story!

Fantastic

Yeshead Thank You and rest in peace, sir.

Awesome story and what a memory for you to retain of your father. 🙌👍😃❤️

Yes.. that is awesome to hear that. My dad had literally done the same thing with me and my mother on a tour of a sub in Groton, Connecticut. He served as Yeoman Chief Petty Officer Y1C on the SS350 Dogfish. People had stopped listening to a young lady reading of a piece of paper and started listening my dad..who was wearing his dolphins at the time. Everyone was literally enthralled and listening to him intensely about the sub, the workings of it, his life aboard, some war stories, actual sea stories ..the young lady asked if he could still run it, he said sweetheart, with a small skeleton crew I could probably fire this up and head out to sea..You were lucky to come back from a patrol when the survival rate for a submarine sailor was grim. WWII submarine vets have a special place in my heart coming from a military family. I care about all military but sub guys especially. I just wish he had lived long enough to write a book. I had him almost convinced to do such a thing. His stories about being in the Navy were something I always enjoyed listening to whenever he would decide to open up and actually talk about it. He lied about his age to get in the Navy when his dad died when he was 16. His uncle had to "verify" his age..lol By the time he was 18, he had made rank very quickly...not bad for a orphaned boy from Iowa/Missouri. I only wish I could have actually seen and boarded his boat, but it was one of many that were decommissioned and sold for scrap 😮‍💨 I had always wished I could have somehow obtained that boat and restored it to a museum piece.... wishful dreaming I know...but something I would have been happy to do.

God bless those brave men. We owe them our lives, freedom and more.

The "Oil King" is a rotating position designating who is in charge of transferring fuel oil and keeping the ship's trim level. There would be a different one every 4 hours.

@Big Bill O'Reilly Some Generations just LIVE of the accomplishments of the Preceding Generation, taking more than giving.

Thank you for your service sir.

They were the greatest generation . 😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Thanks for sharing your family's story 👍

@@BecksHobbyProductions thank you for sharing the video - was great to see the sub up close again and hear some of the ex sailors who crewed her.

DANGEROUS,,,, drowning, smoke, runaway torpedo in the sub, circle back around torpedo after leaving the sub, depth charges, crashing into a uncharted underwater mountain,,,

You can see the leg of one of the association members in the movie as they had to have some staff on board when they towed her and he was on deck. This is the guy that restored the fire control system he said it was a thrill to see the computer solve the last firing equation entered when they got it running! Navy was still a bit worried when they turned her over to civilians so there are a number of changes made so she can't be fully operational. The hatch you enter at the beginning of this tour is one reason you can't submerge anymore. At that time the some navies had just stopped using these subs! So their fears were well founded.

And to think these US fleet subs were large and spacious compared to the German TypeVII boats!

Was this recently? Such a good program. The same group also runs the living history program at Hyde St. pier AKA San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park. I have friends in the association that owns this ship and until recently ran the program at the pier. Alice invited me to help out a few times but never got to do the overnight program on Pampinito. Who enjoyed the experience more, you or your daughters?

Agreed

Big Bill O'Reilly, Times sure have changed.

Big Bill O'Reilly, Well you certainly got a point bout that 👍

notsosilentmajority1 hi, yes indeed!!

The Kriegsmariners would be amazed. Big bunk room, not just toilets but tile floored showers, dinning booths in a dedicated mess deck, officer's pantry with an attendant, officer's staterooms, a refrigerator and freezer for food. That's what you get in a big submarine with four diesel engines.

@@craftpaint1644 Wow !! Crazy stuff. Thanks.

😊 It's clear that there were different priorities on f.ex. crew comfort. Here, the US subs were clearly superior. Thanks for watching and sharing a comment 👍

I was shocked at how many bunks they had and how big the mess was. Paradise compared to what the Germans had

I agree,one superb Movie. My Father Served in the Merchant Navy during the war,he was on North Atlantic Convoy Duty,up to Murmansk And Archangel in Russia. He said that the one thing that terrified them,was the threat of U boats.

Great Movie but the Silent Service series in the 1950's showed more detail about the Amazing Us Navy at the time.. Silent Service

It's a bigger sub with a larger crew but the German type VII in Das Boot seems much more cramped.

Excellent movie, we would never burn that flick under way, considered bad luck

@@captasparagus6908 Indeed, the large size of the Gato and Balao class boats allowed for many luxuries German Submariners couldn't afford. In my opinion they had it much harder.

You think the Baleo class is cramped? Have a look at the 2 other submarines on my channel! :)

In glad you enjoyed it 🙂 It is indeed a great tour they have there. Been there twice

Archibald Tuttle I recognise this sub from the movie Down Periscope.

It's pretty amazing that both the US and German navies has target computers which helped with calculations for the torpedo solutions

@@BecksHobbyProductions Yep - the British were far behind, though they entered the way with a torpedo (the Mk 8) that was up-to-the-job.

YES am a Australian thanks to all you guys that pulled the guys from the sea Thank you very much ,many familys went on because of this act cheers

Thank you very much, however credit does go to the museum, as they created the audio tour :)

Absolutely! Please extend my thanks to those who spend their time keeping this submarine in good working order. I have visited it twice and loved both. The first time I had the pleasure to talk to one of the veterans. I wish I lived nearby so I could spend time helping...

@@BecksHobbyProductions I wish I were not such an adult that I have family, home, car, work, boat to keep up. I always say when I retire I'll do more volunteer work and this would be one of my choices, also back to SFMNHP to work on those ships again (I spent 10+ years volunteering there. But now the communte to do the work is insane, not like 88-98.

The stories of the USS Barb is also a great read :)

A great part of the praise should go to the Pampanito museum as the audio you hear is from they audio tour, however I am very happy that my video makes the tour available to people who are not able to go on the actual tour :)

The new ones still feel small. More room but more people on board, too.

Well, that's interesting. The audio in this video is from the audio tour of the Pampanito . Maybe they changed it.

That is the beauty of Museums dude.

Right. The US lost 25 percent of its submarines and crews during WWII. For the Germans, it was half, some 1,500 boats and crews.

@@tsmgguy 40 000 germans served on u-boots 30 000 never returned

First thing I noticed too.

Maybe check with the museum if they have a copy?

For the enlisted men's accommodations were not great on US submarines, but if you compare it the to WWII German submarines, the US versions were luxury yacht :D

When I lived there I went on both several times. The liberty ship more often. For a while they gladly took used motor oil from repair shops to fuel the burners, once a month they fired her up and ran the old steam engine and generators. Was a lot of fun gling and checking her out. If I had been able to, i would have volunteered to take the trip to Omaha beach in celebration of D day.

World War 11 ? Now that's a very pessimistic view of the future if I've ever seen one.

Heard the same

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Fantastic tour. Done it twice!

@@BecksHobbyProductions My favorite tour (as a local I've been many times) was with a mostly deaf and totally blind friend of mine. This was back before so much was closed off and we went on a quiet week day and literally were crawling along and feeling stuff every where while I helped interpret for him. We both enjoyed it! I wonder if he still remembers the smell of diesel and shale. Something you can't reproduce in a video.

@@alwaysbearded1 Oh yes - this is NO replacement for an actual visit. I try to emphasize this in all videos

One of the submarines I hope to visit

The thanks goes to the museum for their excellent tour ☺️

Yeah, it's got way better accomodations

The type VII is a lot smaller (around half the displacement) and kinda an unfair comparison. The type IX was closer in capability to a Balao in terms of range, speed, and torpedo-carrying capacity.

@@rapth0r Agreed, the type IX is a better comparison on the size, that being said it still didnt have the crew comfort accommodations the Gato/Baleo classes had. I dont think that was even thought into designs until the type XXI, where there was a fridge for cold storage and other things. I have seen it in the plans for the XXI, but dont know for sure of the contruction included it.

A crews bunk room and mess deck with dinning booths. Kriegsmariners would be shocked 😳

@@craftpaint1644 Yup - a regular luxury from their point of view :)

It's bigger on the outside due to the ballast and compressed air tanks. The ballast tanks contained more weight in water than the weight of the entire boat otherwise it wouldn't float or submerge.