I toured this as a kid when it was still in the water and again less than 10 yrs ago. As a kid, it seemed huge. As an adult, I couldn't get out of that metal tube fast enough so I basically fast walked from one end to the other. So thank you for this tour so I can see what I forgot as a kid and what I missed as an adult.
my father was a navy diver from 1967-1971 , he rode the uss jallao, uss bang, uss drum, and a short run on the uss swordfish, they kept changing subs to which one wasnt broke down at the time haha. he took us to mobile alabama for the old diesel boat there. i spent my life as a soldier with several deployments and was scared during all of it, but theres no way in hell that anyone could ever get me into a submarine thats not on land. those guys truly have balls of steel
The Alabama and Drum, they are THE BEST warship museums in America. Thanks to all who maintain them, and a salute to all who served. Dad served on the Bergall SS320.
I’ve visited this display. It’s in Mobile. The USS Alabama is moored there. There is also a Aircraft Museum on site. It’s a days worth. The Alabama is incredible. The Drum is cool af. The restoration on all of their displays is incredible. Well worth a visit. And I believe that you can arrange a campout on the Alabama. Always wanted to do that.
2:10 Intersting fact: On USS Tang, 13 sailors escaped through that forward escape hatch. It's notable because it's the only known instance of the Momsen Lung being used, though not all who escaped that way used a Momsen Lung that day, apparently.
That was a great tour! Thanks. I've visited two subs, the USS Cod and the USS Requin, but I've never had access to the conning tower. Nice to see it for real outside of the movies.
In comparison to a german type VII c or the greater type XXI this US submarine was very comfortable. Thanks for this interesting video and kindly regards from Germany.
Thank you for a great video, especially for showing a closeup of the list of men who served on the Drum. My father was a CEM and served on several patrols in WWII on the boat. It was exciting to see his name on the plaque. What a wonderful restoration!
Great video! One minor comment: In the forward engine room there is an auxiliary diesel generator below the two main diesel generators. If all four main diesels are being used for propulsion on the surface, the auxiliary diesel can be used to charge the battery.
While it is very much appreciated that the USS Drum is a museum ship, and available to the public to see, it is somewhat sad that most of the crew areas have to be blocked off to keep visitors out of those areas. I am glad , however , that the crew and staff of the Drum have taken such wonderful care of this historical treasure .
First, the USS Drum is NOT a ship, it is a BOAT! On November 22, 1943 while on her 8th war patrol, the Drum suffered a severe depth charge attack. The aft door frame upper hinge and adjacent plating in the conning tower (common on early Gato-classes) cracked and was letting in water at about two to three gallons per minute when submerged. The Drum headed immediately for Pearl Harbor, where an attempt to fix the door was made by replacing the after bulkhead with a new one without the problematic aft door. However, on a test dive on January 1, 1944, the conning tower began to buckle. Lockwood sent the USS Drum to Mare Island for an overhaul and a entirely new conning tower. At Mare Island, she received a new, much stronger Balao-class ("thick hull") conning tower. This makes the Drum very unique! She's a Gato-class submarine with a Balao-class conning tower!
Utterly amazing technology of the 1940’s. So very complex and so we’ll kept by the curators. It looks like it could go on a cruise today! It’s amazing the crew was so well trained to operate this, not to mention-battle! I’ve sailed on the water, but can’t imagine operating blind UNDER the water😳
Blown overboard ... these subs only dove to avoid detection and attack. Since diesels only ran surfaced it wasn't an issue. Air trapped in the boat was sufficient for 24 hours give or take. But such long submergence was rare.
I heard they are going to fix the sub and put it back in the water, otherwise, I have visited a while back like 5 months ago or so, and it was fascinating how it was in 1941-1945 in the War World ll. Great to see this like me and other young folks. Especially that theres very few ships and subs to look and go through.
There are a handful of WWII subs around the U.S., but this one is the best or nearly the best because of it's wartime record. It was one of the stars. The one in the Midwest has a working Diesel Engine that they run sometimes and the one in San Francisco (Pampanito?) has a working Torpedo Data Computer.
The Drum made thirteen patrols and was depthcharged on everyone. On the eighth patrol a depth charge cracked the conning tower and they had to go to mare island naval ship yard and have it replaced. They had to go back to calif after the thirteen the for more repairs. No the Drum will not be put back in the water
Quite the change from the time I was there. They had just pulled it out of the water. That thing was a mess inside and out. As I remember it had zero paint. A Rusty mess top to bottom. The inside was almost unbearable. Looking down into the lower deck there was water with grease, oil and diesel floating on top. They were in the process of pumping it out. Cudoz to the people who cleand her up. I may take a trip to see her again.
it seems just viewing this walk through of this american submarine from a ww2 era how much effort the US Navy put into the welfare of its crew its comforts habitability as much as possible considering want it was designed to do as its primary purpose just a few little comforts goes a long way and getting the basics right and making it more bearable as opposed to the german high command perspective of its submarine force where crew comforts took a back seat living in cramp, unhygienic, really atrocious conditions for months at a time it shows you how little of value you the nazi regime cared for its men and yet the german u boats continued to fight till the very end of the war
One thing about it subs definitely weren't designed BY a big bodied person like me and it shows undoubtedly they were designed by a skin and bones built person considering how tight quartered a sub is and was when the drum was designed and built
Fun facts: One of the officers serving on the sub was reported to be 6'7" and one of the skippers was said to be 6'4". The people who served on this sub and even of this entire era are some of the best the world has ever challenged, but with that I feel like this video is a great example of how we are not that far removed from people like that. Our appreciation, knowledge, and most of all the example they provide shows us we can believe in our own strengths and over come - especially in times of need - the fortitude to find a way is in our very being.
I like that this is out of the water. You can see the whole thing and you know it isn't rusting away.
I toured this as a kid when it was still in the water and again less than 10 yrs ago. As a kid, it seemed huge. As an adult, I couldn't get out of that metal tube fast enough so I basically fast walked from one end to the other. So thank you for this tour so I can see what I forgot as a kid and what I missed as an adult.
my father was a navy diver from 1967-1971 , he rode the uss jallao, uss bang, uss drum, and a short run on the uss swordfish, they kept changing subs to which one wasnt broke down at the time haha. he took us to mobile alabama for the old diesel boat there. i spent my life as a soldier with several deployments and was scared during all of it, but theres no way in hell that anyone could ever get me into a submarine thats not on land. those guys truly have balls of steel
The Alabama and Drum, they are THE BEST warship museums in America. Thanks to all who maintain them, and a salute to all who served. Dad served on the Bergall SS320.
USS Bergall (SS-320)
They have done an incredible job restoring that boat. It looks as if it could sail today.
Great video, brought back some olde memories. Served on two gato class boats, USS Cobbler SS 244 and USS Irex SS 482. EN2SS
I'm especially glad to see people like you liked it. I did my very best on this one.
I’ve visited this display. It’s in Mobile. The USS Alabama is moored there. There is also a Aircraft Museum on site. It’s a days worth. The Alabama is incredible. The Drum is cool af.
The restoration on all of their displays is incredible. Well worth a visit. And I believe that you can arrange a campout on the Alabama. Always wanted to do that.
2:10 Intersting fact: On USS Tang, 13 sailors escaped through that forward escape hatch. It's notable because it's the only known instance of the Momsen Lung being used, though not all who escaped that way used a Momsen Lung that day, apparently.
That was a great tour! Thanks. I've visited two subs, the USS Cod and the USS Requin, but I've never had access to the conning tower. Nice to see it for real outside of the movies.
In comparison to a german type VII c or the greater type XXI this US submarine was very comfortable.
Thanks for this interesting video and kindly regards from Germany.
Thank you for a great video, especially for showing a closeup of the list of men who served on the Drum. My father was a CEM and served on several patrols in WWII on the boat. It was exciting to see his name on the plaque. What a wonderful restoration!
That's great that you were able to see your father's name on the plaque! It is a great restoration.
Great video! One minor comment: In the forward engine room there is an auxiliary diesel generator below the two main diesel generators. If all four main diesels are being used for propulsion on the surface, the auxiliary diesel can be used to charge the battery.
Very informative narration, well done. One nitpick: I believe the conning tower was the primary helm position, and the control room secondary.
While it is very much appreciated that the USS Drum is a museum ship, and available to the public to see, it is somewhat sad that most of the crew areas have to be blocked off to keep visitors out of those areas.
I am glad , however , that the crew and staff of the Drum have taken such wonderful care of this historical treasure .
Beautiful presentation. Thank you.
USS Drum was the 16th Gato produced. Nice video
Regardless of the numbering, USS Drum was the FIRST Gato class submarine to be completed.
Is that a campaign ribbon between the navy cross and the silver star at 4:59?🤨
First, the USS Drum is NOT a ship, it is a BOAT! On November 22, 1943 while on her 8th war patrol, the Drum suffered a severe depth charge attack. The aft door frame upper hinge and adjacent plating in the conning tower (common on early Gato-classes) cracked and was letting in water at about two to three gallons per minute when submerged. The Drum headed immediately for Pearl Harbor, where an attempt to fix the door was made by replacing the after bulkhead with a new one without the problematic aft door. However, on a test dive on January 1, 1944, the conning tower began to buckle. Lockwood sent the USS Drum to Mare Island for an overhaul and a entirely new conning tower. At Mare Island, she received a new, much stronger Balao-class ("thick hull") conning tower. This makes the Drum very unique! She's a Gato-class submarine with a Balao-class conning tower!
Utterly amazing technology of the 1940’s. So very complex and so we’ll kept by the curators. It looks like it could go on a cruise today! It’s amazing the crew was so well trained to operate this, not to mention-battle! I’ve sailed on the water, but can’t imagine operating blind UNDER the water😳
Very cool. My father served in Barb (SS-220) in the early '50s.
Seems to be quite a few steps up from the U boats I've seen on YT ?
My Dad volunteered for submarine duty in WW2, but he was too tall. Ended up on a heavy cruiser.
where did all the exhaust from the engines go? How were the crew still able to breathe properly underwater
Blown overboard ... these subs only dove to avoid detection and attack. Since diesels only ran surfaced it wasn't an issue. Air trapped in the boat was sufficient for 24 hours give or take. But such long submergence was rare.
I heard they are going to fix the sub and put it back in the water, otherwise, I have visited a while back like 5 months ago or so, and it was fascinating how it was in 1941-1945 in the War World ll. Great to see this like me and other young folks. Especially that theres very few ships and subs to look and go through.
There are a handful of WWII subs around the U.S., but this one is the best or nearly the best because of it's wartime record. It was one of the stars.
The one in the Midwest has a working Diesel Engine that they run sometimes and the one in San Francisco (Pampanito?) has a working Torpedo Data Computer.
U.S.S Cod in Cleveland, Ohio GATO class just had work on it in Buffalo and back to tip top shape on the lakefront again.
Has this sub ever survived or sustained Emmy fire or depth charges. If so what were the damages?
It survived years of depth charges. My grandfather was on this boat.
The Drum made thirteen patrols and was depthcharged on everyone. On the eighth patrol a depth charge cracked the conning tower and they had to go to mare island naval ship yard and have it replaced. They had to go back to calif after the thirteen the for more repairs. No the Drum will not be put back in the water
1:15 this would make a badass tattoo
So much better a sub than the U-Boats
Quite the change from the time I was there. They had just pulled it out of the water. That thing was a mess inside and out. As I remember it had zero paint. A Rusty mess top to bottom. The inside was almost unbearable. Looking down into the lower deck there was water with grease, oil and diesel floating on top. They were in the process of pumping it out. Cudoz to the people who cleand her up. I may take a trip to see her again.
Been there
Looks like US sailors had it good in the sub compared to a German Uboat.
Indeed. The US fleet subs were built for crew comfort because they knew a happy crew was most effective.
Plus our subs were air conditioned, not so much for the crew but for all of the electronic equipment the subs carried.
Пятизвездочный отель по сравнению с немецкими лодками того времени
.Beautiful Stories Channel in Year Thursday September 5,2024.😐.
Pick up a program and complete a science projectvwith one of those.
The oldest sub we have boys.
it seems just viewing this walk through of this american submarine from a ww2 era how much effort the US Navy put into the welfare of its crew its comforts habitability as much as possible considering want it was designed to do as its primary purpose just a few little comforts goes a long way and getting the basics right and making it more bearable as opposed to the german high command perspective of its submarine force where crew comforts took a back seat living in cramp, unhygienic, really atrocious conditions for months at a time it shows you how little of value you the nazi regime cared for its men and yet the german u boats continued to fight till the very end of the war
The labored breathing of whoever is filming makes this unwatchable
One thing about it subs definitely weren't designed BY a big bodied person like me and it shows undoubtedly they were designed by a skin and bones built person considering how tight quartered a sub is and was when the drum was designed and built
Fun facts: One of the officers serving on the sub was reported to be 6'7" and one of the skippers was said to be 6'4". The people who served on this sub and even of this entire era are some of the best the world has ever challenged, but with that I feel like this video is a great example of how we are not that far removed from people like that. Our appreciation, knowledge, and most of all the example they provide shows us we can believe in our own strengths and over come - especially in times of need - the fortitude to find a way is in our very being.
I've moved and worked aboard Drums Cleveland sister since 1976... and I'm a big guy. They're large enough for me...