How a World War Two Submarine Works
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2024
- A thorough examination of a WWII submarine. Our creation is a generalized model taken from Gato and Balao class boats.
Special Thanks to the Naval History and Heritage Command
www.history.navy.mil/
CREDITS
Jacob O'Neal - Modeling, animation, texturing, vfx, music, narrative script
Wesley O'Neal - Research, technical script
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SOFTWARE USED
We use Blender 3D to create these models. It's free and open source, and the community is amazing:
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0:00 Intro
01:35 Bow Machinery
02:39 Forward Torpedo Room
05:24 Officer's Quarters
06:51 Control Room
13:04 Conning Tower
13:22 Periscopes
15:02 Conning (Cont'd)
16:23 Torpedo Data Computer
17:17 Radio Room
17:35 Crew's Galley and Mess
18:36 Crew's Quarters
19:24 Engine Room
21:53 Motor Room
22:14 Battery Compartments
24:02 Maneuvering Room
25:01 Aft Torpedo Room
25:27 Pump Room
25:47 Guns / Exterior Details
27:10 Air
27:55 Diving
29:07 Doors
30:16 Full View
Correction:
0:10 Before commenting, check the top pinned "VIDEO CORRECTIONS" thread. - Наука та технологія
VIDEO CORRECTIONS (Compiled from viewer comments)
Feel free to add your knowledge, with patience and a civil tone so it's easier to digest, if you please.
from @kk6aw:
I thought the screws turned inboard and were opposed.
from @paulwilkinson8308:
Nice work, but you do realize “hull” rhymes with dull, null or cull, not bull, full or wool…just saying…
from @fredericklynch7113:
Water was not blown from the ballast tanks to provide neutral buoyancy, it was blown from the "Negative Tank", as in "Blow negative to my mark..."
Note: I did show animation in the negative tank only at that part of the video, but the narration is more general.
Bow and Stern plane labels are accidentally reversed in the Control Room
from @jimpiper5297:
"walls" "hallway" ARGH!!! Fingernails on a chalkboard! "PASSAGEWAY!" "COMPARTMENT" "BULKHEADS" etc. Sheesh! land lubber!
Can we have a round of applause to the engineer who came up with the idea to put a dedicated ice cream storage container in the crew quarters?
Yes
That would have been Commodore Biden. Most people don't know biden was a Commodore in the navy when he was just an infant.
During the war the crew was pretty young. I was drafted in 66. We were all pretty young. The mess hall had chocolate milk. Mass quantities were consumed.
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@@iguanapete3809 Thanks for serving. I was a Stryker combat vehicle driver in Iraq on a radio retransmission team. I only realized I wish I would've been a submariner years later. Oh well, I just think modern nuclear submarines are incredible. Completely self sufficient minus food stores, they're basically spaceships except they fly through an atmosphere which can be separated into potable water and oxygen, youre cut off from the world except for an ultra low frequency radio (Good for just saying "Hey, call me on HF"). And most importantly, they will avenge the United States if any nation is dumb enough to execute a first strike nuclear attack.
I think our modern boats are more responsible for halting nuclear ☢️ war than any politician. Certainly these days.
I'm amazed at the detail you go into, and doubly so the work involved in rendering and producing such a fantastic animation
This presentation lends poignant detail to the exciting operational accounts I've read.
:D It's a pleasure to hang out on the channel with y'all and appreciate amazing things together. We've got some of the wholesome-est comment sections on the 'Tube and I'm proud of that, including the many corrections and fine-tooth details that passionate folks share.
@@animagraffsI've been diving (pun intended) into submarine UA-cam over the last few years out of curiosity and absolutely wonder mostly through the Sub Brief channel. I majored in aerospace systems engineering for a few semesters before switching it up and it's amazing learning about the challenges, technologies involved, the absolute chads who operate these vessels, and the stories that go along with them. With my frankly surface level knowledge (yes pun intended again) I can say that this is not a fantastic representation, but a work of art. The visuals, the description, and all the work you put into this is unlike anything I've ever seen. You my sir are a legend. o7
-edit Seeing that this is done by two people?? What kind of space wizardry have you pulled to do this. Once again mind blown
@@animagraffs what are nuclear power engine submarines make a video about it
Indeed! Yet you call it a ship, not a boat.
The master gyrocompass 7:28 is one of the most elegantly designed things ive ever seen in any setting, ever. The first watch makes it a bit difficult to truly take in how perfect it is.
For a short video, this was an outstanding intro to the WWII American Gato and Balao class U-boats. Two machines the German type 7 and type 9 U-boats did not have that the US did was, 1st, a fresh water condenser that made fresh water out of sea water allowing the crew to actually take a shower once in a while, and 2nd , air conditioning. Neither were luxuries in the Pacific. A 1940's U-boat could not carry enough fuel and fresh water to keep the crew alive in the tropical heat. Given the vast distances they sailed it was a required device. Even with a fresh water maker they had to take a "navy-shower". The AC was installed mostly to keep the air in the boat dry so that electrical failures, and fires, were reduced. Even with AC a WWII U-boat was an uncomfortable ship. Which is why I was a surface navy officer. I'll admit it- Subs scared the hell out of me.
What's a navy shower?
Also, after viewing this video I'm curious about the differences between these American WWII U-Boats and WWI U-Boats as well as German XXI-Class U.Boats (which afaik are considered to be the first 'real submarines').
Actually, u boats did have a water maker....... just a small one
(Navy brat here) Navy shower: a brief squirt of water just to get you wet, then shut it off, apply the soap just to where it was needed, then just enough water to rinse it off.
@@thomasbeach905 Thank you. In German we call this "Katzenwäsche" (Cat bath). :)
Basically a “Spit bath!” 😂
As someone that does some computer animation, I respect the insane amount of work that goes into a video like this. I've watched dozens of submarine videos and learned so much ! I shows a lot of research. Excellent content!
Also check out "Smarter Every Day" for his excellent series on visiting a Los Angeles class nuc in the Arctic ice.
Yes I quite agree , amazing work !
I totally agree! Excellent animation and detailed content!
@@arniestuboud no idc
@@Agent-ie3uv The comment wasn't for you, but you're so important you gotta butt in to barely grunt that you don't care!
I was a submariner aboard a Canadian Oberon class boat for 8 years and I can attest that this video is highly accurate.
water in the fuel to keep it balanced ? that's getting me .
Apart from occasionally calling it a ship :)
@@rickherman4539
I think the fuel tans were outside the pressure hull. So when fuel was used, it had to be replaced with seawater to keep the pressure equal.
Wonder if they mixed to any degree, and if that was a problem.
@@davehageman7513 Apparently, there were windows into the tanks that pumped fuel into the engines when it was running. Since the sea water was denser than the fuel, it would settle at the bottom of the tanks given enough time. When the diesel engines were running, the engineers would monitor the fuel levels through these windows, and keep a look out for the visual separation between the fuel and the water. If the water was getting too high (close to being pumped into the engine), they would switch the fuel intake to come from the other tanks, staggering the usage of fuel tanks so that while one was being used, the other could have time to “settle” with the sea water and allow the liquids to separate.
In short, there wasn’t a major issue with sea water in the fuel, due to the density differences between the liquids. When one tank came close to being of issue, they’d switch to another one to give that tank time to become safe to use again.
For reference I just googled “diesel fuel mixed with seawater submarine issue”, and I’m paraphrasing a forum post I found on a submarine enthusiast site (who knew those existed!)
Except for the part of the narration that says the escape chamber leads to the bridge.
This is currently my favourite channel. This video and the sailship video are my favourites. Apart from that the technology is simply amazing, considering how long ago it was built.
Hi @BrickTechnology! I love your channel too! I guess it makes sense, we probably have similar interests. There've been other channels/creators I like hanging out in the comments too, and it surprises me. Maybe I'm a little "star-struck" since we humans just tend to have an interesting kind of bond with the shows, podcasts, etc. that we get into. Anyways, welcome!! - Jake
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It's sailing ship, not "sailship"...
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I earned my dolphins in 1970 on USS Hardhead SS-365, a WWII submarine similar to the one in the video. Hardhead was in the improved, deeper diving Balao class and was retrofitted/upgraded in the 50’s and again in the 60’s from the one in the video. We didn’t have a deck gun and our bow was more rounded like modern “nuke boats”. We had a tall “North Atlantic sail” over the conning tower and mast area. The sail was made of a steel frame with a fiberglass covering and was free flooding. The tall sail was to protect the guys on watch when on the surface in the stormy North Atlantic. There were many changes inside the boat as well including electronics that I worked on. All of these changes made it an HK (hunter killer) “Guppy IIA” submarine. Guppy stands for “greater underwater propulsion”. One key point in the video… We flooded tanks when diving to subtract buoyancy, not to add weight. We’d “drive” down with bow and stern planes then level off by pumping water back out.
We trained often, stalking anything that came across our path.
We believed …. Convinced, we were bad-ass hunters.
Sir. Anybody who can live, work, thrive in a submarine, especially WW1/2 type, IS a bad-ass period.
So when a submarine stalks strangers to practice the hunt it's training but when I do it I'm "creepy"
LOL.. yeah. @@jdlamb4212
Very interesting thanks!
I received my first dolphin pin while aboard my 1st of 5 subs, the USS Sea Poacher SS-406 in 1958. This video didn't show anything I hadn't known about and trained for but it was a fun and very rewarding viewing. I went on to qualify aboard 3 nukes during the balance of my career. Included was a TDY, 72-day sea buoy-to-sea buoy trip aboard the USS Shark where we experienced a crazy Ivan. It happened so fast that the only person to even know what happened was an ET manning the sonar PPI.
Stay safe fellow bubblehead.
Insane the amount science and technology put into these submarines and this is what we had during WW2. Fantastic video!
Amazing that we built all this technology and stuff so far back.
Agreed! and on top of that the amount of pressure the engineers were faced with in the race against time.
These boats were slowly (and often unsuccessfully) developed during the 1920s and 1930s to the point that we finally had EXCELLENT relatively safe and habitable long range subs when the Pacific war broke out on Dec 7, 1941.
@@arniestuboud the first submarine attack in the world was during American revolution against the British... the monitor and the Merrimack on both sides of the American civil war. the legacy is far greater than the "1920's".
@@jessdunaway8423 Yes, but those were very primitive, special-purpose vessels. The large, capable, and highly-successful Gato- and Balao-class submarines focused on in this video came from an extended development and testing program that ran through the 1920s & 1930s to develop the "fleet sub" concept. They were a huge advancement over the interwar S-boats.
Submarines are truly one of humanities most advanced and interesting inventions. Truly, for it's time, packed with technologies the civilian World wouldn't see for another 20-30 years, the same with WW 1 and military submarines of today. Submarines are just incredible, but it must also have been some of the scariest fighting conditions of the World Wars. This was an incredible video, I knew in general how they worked, but this is just amazing.
Iff we ever build starships submarines would be a good starting point
@@philgiglio7922 what is a spaceship if not a space submarine
NASA went to US Navy sub force for help designing the things. Hell, a lot of submarine officers have made it as astronauts
@@Vivi-yw1eu This reminds me of the Futurama joke about how many atmospheres of pressure their ship could withstand under the ocean as they plunge down. "Well, it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one."
In World War II it was the scariest fighting condition imaginable because days into the war we realized that the fancy new torpedoes that had been developed for our subs, destroyers, and torpedo bombers (The Mk. XIV) Was defective, the submarine fleet deployed to fight a war with a weapon that would not maintain depth properly, would not detonate when fired under an enemy ship (Magnetic detonators of the day were very unreliable), would rarely detonate when fired in contact detonation mode, and would occasionally wheel around and bounce off the hull of the boat that fired it (And this problem persisted past the redesigned detonators and has been attributed as a likely cause for some boats never returning). Any sailor that maintained their sanity fighting in those conditions is one tough SoB.
The engineers over time who have machined and perfected these machines are true genius és. 😊
Knew a guy in my early years whose job during WW2 was to grind the sealing surfaces of submarine hatches on a large, perfectly flat, hard steel table, using a slurry of abrasive compound to make the surfaces also perfectly flat for a watertight seal. He built up massive arms in making those slow circles with the hatch on the table.
Mind BLOWN! Not just for the incredible animation, but also for the INSANE level of engineering involved in building one of these engineering marvels! Especially considering there was ZERO CAD available at the time! All slide rules and drafting tables! Again, mind BLOWN!
Ditto!
We are amazed they could build these precision machines with zero computer power, no software. Yet they did it. We are amazed that the pyramids of Egypt were built with zero electrical power, no steel, yet they did it. Yet so many people disrespect them and want to say aliens or some lost civilization did it, just because we're not sure how they did it.
The compass animation was amazing. Have you read "Thunder Below"? That's a Gato class sub in the book.
The Captain of the boat was Eugene Fluckey. A Medal of Honor citation recipient.
I read Thunder Below, too. A great book about WWII subs indeed!
Destin in the HOUSE!
! @Zulatek666 He knows a thing or two about the subs
thumber below is uss halibut 220.
I served nearly 4 years on a WWII Balao class in the 1950s. Your work in compiling the info in the video was outstanding. I enjoyed the walk down memory lane. Thanks.😊 My boat, USS Guavina SS362 did not have the ice cream machine or the washing machine.
Man, we sure could've used this video 40 years ago in Sub School at Groton, CT. Very well done with plenty of detail. I'm sure by now that you have been corrected from using "doors". We called them Hatches. Really slick video and thank you for taking the time to make this incredible, realistic animation!
My dad was an instructor there at Sub School and we lived in Conning Towers, a Navy projects housing project.
My sister and I would go to the escape tower and make the ascent in any group of sailors who had not made the ascent during the regular training days. They HAD to do it if a couple of kids could!
I also remember playing with the torpedoes that were running to test their electronics. They would move their rudders as we walked close to them, pointing at us.
As kids, we moved a lot - from Gitmo to Key west, to New London to Norfolk to Boston to Scotland to Egypt. Sometimes we'd move every other month.
I always liked the submarine smell that my dad would wear when he came home -- I guess it was a mix of Diesel, sweat and Old Spice. I miss that a lot.
This is a great video animation of the inside of a sub. I have many books on subs, but I have a much clearer understanding of how the compartments are laid out now. I have been inside the Pampanito on display the San Francisco waterfront, but the video gives me a better picture of the boat. Amazing what was done during WWII.
I graduated sub school groton in 77, things have changed since then.
This is the best civilian produced video on the Gato class boats I have seen, and it rivals the navy produced videos from the 40s and 50s.
from a working lifetime draughtsman. Absolutely brilliant drawings and animation, the incredible complexity of the submarine set out with almost startling clarity and dialog to match. Easily the clearest and most informative video I have seen o any subject. My congratulations, I'm green with envy.
I wish my father and uncle were still alive to watch this most excellent video. My father served on a Gato-class submarine, like the one depicted in this video, while my uncle served on a later Tench-class submarine. Decades after WWII, my father and uncle could still recall minute details of the subs' layout. When the narrator of this video says that "the running engines were loud," believe him. Both my father and uncle were motor machinist mates and they suffered profound hearing loss throughout the remainder of their lives.
Man, the attention to detail to ensure there are NO graphical glitches is incredible. I love all your videos! Keep it up Mr. 1 million!!!
This video was superb. I have no doubt it's the best illustration of a WW2 sub ever produced. One example of your artistry: The inclusion of the renowned Emeco 1006 Navy chair. You perfectly modeled it and presented it in the interiors without comment. Amazing detail. I cannot praise this video highly enough. Kudos.
And the green linoleum floor tiles!
@@danielgregg2530 I've watched several USN training films and I've never seen one as good as this. What was "inaccurate" (your word) about this one?
but where can you see them
Oof, $2k for a chair? I knew our government was corrupt but this is a new low lol
so true! so much junk videos of this type. This one is exceptional!
Wasn't expecting such an in-depth and detailed breakdown of most of the instruments, controls and machineries. Well done.
This was an awesome video! Thank you for putting this together
at first i thought this was a fake account then i realised it was actualy jyd LOL
Kevin is a man of culture
Amazing how complex and sophisticated it was, not relying on any external devices but totally independent.
I was impressed with the "live map" device. The math and engineering required is just unreal.
Our uncle Frank Edginton is still on patrol aboard the USS Herring. Sunk by a shore battery in the Kurile Islands. I try to watch these educational videos to try and get a feel for what he did day to day.
Thanks for putting this together.
A heartfelt thanks to your uncle for his service, and kudos to you for honouring his memory
I'm glad you used the phrase, "still on patrol". You know your traditions.
USS Herring. A few years ago I found a document that was a Japanese report of the sinking. I can't find it now, but according to the shore battery that sunk the boat, they hit the sub (it was running on the surface) with the first shot, which was in the conning tower. I believe it was something like a 5" round, which would have been devastating and probably killed the entire crew on the bridge and in the tower itself. A second round was reported to hit in the same area as well.
If you ever been to Groton Ct, they have a active sub base as well as a absolutely wonderful and free USS Nautilus sub museum and an indoor museum as well. Right down the road the have a WW2 sub conning tower and 52 individual headstones for all US subs lost in the war. How, when and where for each one. Also the name engraved in I assume granite for all 3500 crewmen. It’s just a great place if your a WW2 history fan
Have you visited the Lost Submarine Memorial at Pearl Harbor? Your uncle is indeed listed on the plaque for the USS Herring (Edginton F K F1). I was there a few weeks ago, and photographed every one of the memorials plaques.
Wow! The graphics, camera angles, intonation and pacing are all perfect. You guys are doing such a great job!
This is incredible. Both the submarine and the animation and explanation.
Thank you so much for sharing these with us!
just love this series of videos. Being a 60's child I was hooked on those "see through" books that showed you how stuff worked...these videos give me the same feeling I had as a kid paging through books of 3d see through pictures.
I served and qualified on a Balao class boat, and we had 16-cynder Gimmies in a V16 configuration. The aux engine in the after engineroom was replaced with the HP air compressors. Some pieces of equipment were placed in different locations on a Balao class boat. We never used the term "closed" for a hull opening or hatch, as it could be confused with the word "clothes", we only used to refer to a hatch or valve as being "open" or "shut." I was on the USS Blenny, which had been reconfigured to a Guppy-II class bow configuration for greater underwater speed, although it didn't add that much speed. As fresh water was at a premium, no washing machine, and we didn't have icecream lockers in afterbattery birthing area, it was in the freezer below the crews mess and galley. We had a sonar room down there too, for our special Puff Mounted sonar which had been installed on four Balao class boat, Blenny being one of them. We had no reduction gears between the main motors and props. The main motors, two of each of the four main motors were connected fore-to-aft on the same prop shaft, with direct speed control of each shaft and it's motors controlled by the controllermen at "the sticks" in Maneuvering room. The fwd head had a sanitary tank of it's own, as did the two side-by-side heads in afterbattery, but the aft torpedo room head had no sanitary tanks, and I think it only used while on the surface. Not a bad presentation, took a nice trip down memory lane, thanks. Benny
This is easily one of the finest UA-cam videos I’ve ever seen. Extraordinary work, astonishing detail and beautifully designed and presented. I am 63 and I grew up learning about WWII because my father fought in Europe from 1944-1945. I’ve been in a couple subs but never learned anything close to what you have explained here. Thank you, and best wishes for more success and enlightenment.
One of the best videos that shows submarine structure
You're in awe? So am I....at how good this was. Fantastic work!
If this does not deserve a thumbs up I do not know what would. Absolutely brilliant work on this video. Also much respect to the people that managed to build these submarines without usage of the technology we have nowadays.
My father was a machinist mate on
the USS Ray, SS 271 in WWII based in Perth, Australia. Great video, Thanks
Absolutely fantastic. Where did TV go so wrong that even formerly science channels will have nothing close to such quality ?!
My dad spent 8 war patrols in a Gato class sub inn WWII ( SS222 Bluefish). This was a great video showing much more detail of his sub than I've ever seen before. Thank you so much.
Torpedo room hatch does not lead to the bridge; it leads topside. It's an escape trunk. There's also a torpedo loading chute in the TR and after TR. The screws counter-rotated. The 40mm guns were forward and aft of the SAIL, not the conning tower. After planing to the surface, the diesels were started and their exhausts could be routed to the main ballast tanks to expel the seawater inside them, thereby conserving air in the blow banks. It took hours to recharge blow banks with high pressure compressors, so this was a good strategy called "surface without air". It also created an oily diesel residue inside the ballast tanks, which slowed corrosion. Air for the diesels first ran through the rest of the boat to ventilate and cool it before making its way to the engine rooms. These boats were quite hot and humid and fresh air coming through the vents and doors throughout was very much welcomed when the diesels started up. The diesels could also be deployed to remove smoke from a specific compartment in the event of a fire after it was extinguished.
I'll include these details in a corrections thread, as per usual with the channel. Really appreciate such in-depth knowledge!
Another spectacularly well conceived and produced tour of a very complex machine. Cannot describe how enjoyable it is to watch/study. Thank you immensely!
Nice, we want more of those, please... some aircraft carriers, battleships, whats next? Give some ideas in the reply :)
I never realized how complicated a torpedo (or firing one) is!! Too COOL!!!
They're so complicated, and thus expensive, the US never bothered to test its Mk 14 torpedo before the war because it cost too much. This was a bad idea as they either didn't work, or were more dangerous to the user than the target. This cost the US dearly early war, as they would have crippled Japanese shipping and brought the war to an end years earlier if they had a working torpedo (instead impacts were duds). Among other issues 1: It turns out things the primary detonation sensors were looking for actually vary quite a bit by when and where in the ocean you are 2: The firing pin for the backup detonator wasn't parallel to the front, so the shock of impact would bend it rather than slam it into to the primer to set off the explosives
I recommend Drachinifel's video on them "failure is like onions" for the full story of how big a disaster it was
@@kanrakucheese But when they did get their torpedoes working the crippling of Japans merchant fleet was even more than what the uboats achieved. However, when bombers got in range of Japan, air-dropped mines in Japans crucial narrow shipping routes surpassed even that, and in a fraction of the time. Come to think of it tuat would be a good video, its a very technical subject where visuals would be invaluable.
Excellent graphics. I wish I had these when I trained on these between 1968 and 1970. USNR STS3
The way you display the various subsystems and devices is excellent. The gyrocompass is a very impressive piece of technology to see explained in animation!
My grandfather served aboard a Gato-class sub, the Tunny. It's amazing to take his old descriptions of his tasks aboard the sub and visualize them with the help of your fantastic rendering. Thank you!
Mine also, aboard the USS Gurnard
I'm sure you already know but your g-pappy's boat received 14 combat stars and 2 presidential citations. Proud history.
@@nihodges yes they saw quite a bit of action and he shared some of the stories of his service aboard the Gurnard and left us with photos and other records. We've always been proud of him.
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This is an amazing video! The amount of detail included and professional production value is astounding. Like you, I am in awe of the engineering effort that went into packing all of that capability into such a small space, and the mechanical computers are an inspiring story all by themselves. Kudos to the men who designed, built, and operated these machines.
Awesome job! Thank you for the video! I'm going to show your video to my children before we go tour the USS Drum (SS-228) at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park.
It brings me to tears knowing there were minds back then that could create something like this without any CAD. Absolutely brings me to tears. Tears of awe.
To imagaine the complexity of creating and building a u boot with no computers or programs. Amazing
By far the best of best video I have ever seen. Animagraffs videos deserve at least 1 Billion likes or more. Truly astonishing.
Every comment here made to Jacob, should begin with, "Excellent graphics, very good narration, and you're doing something NONE of the rest of us could do, but please allow me to make one little correction." In terms of lots of technical details, Jacob, you can't compete with people who have been working with the real stuff all their lives, but most couldn't draw a smiley face without botching it up, and it's your x-ray vision graphics I find most interesting. PLEASE keep doing what you're doing. I've subscribed.
Outstanding, you’ve communicated the vast analog complexity of these remarkable feats of engineering. First rate work, excellent voice over. Both you and your team should be proud of your diligence and commitment to accuracy
One of underrated channel's. Keep up guy's, people enjoying.......
More naval stuff please. Wonderful work!
Can you imagine the smell, the sounds and the vibrations this men had to endure in such tight quarters.
Engine exhaust overboard valves had rubber seats. Seawater injected into the exhaust cools the gas stream and protect the valve seats. GREAT VIDEO......
I'm a huge fan of The Silent Service series (1957-1958) on youtube and watching your video about the fleet boats made me feel like I'm an actual crew member onboard. It was that good.
Thank you for the hard work of making this video. I grew up craving this kind of detail in technical subjects that interested me, but it really wasn't available at the hometown library. UA-cam (and excellent content creators) have given me a chance to relive my boyhood urge for exploration. Beautifully done!
Likewise!
Amen!
My dad joined the USN in the late 40s and served in diesel submarines much like this one through the 60s. I remember eating an ice cream sundae in the (tiny!) officers' mess, and even getting to ride in the conning tower when they repositioned the boat from its debarkation dock to the ship yard, though both of those experience were on the USS Catfish, a Balao class sub. It was fascinating to learn more about the structure and functionality of those old subs. Thank you!
One of the more complicated gadgets, was an automatic trim system, so that as each torpedo was fired, the boat could remain level.
I was just thinking of this. How each torpedo weighed about 2,200lb (1000kg). Meaning if they fired 4 torpedoes at something huge. Suddenly the front of the sub was over 8 tons lighter.
There was also a poppet valve on each tube that swallowed most of the air used to expel the torpedo, so that the subs position wasn't disclosed to enemy on the surface.
@@rpbajbyes, there is an awful lot of engineering to make a submarine into a weapon of war. Even flushing toilets were an engineering challenge.
My father served aboard the USS Scamp as a torpedo man ( aft) and he’d tell tales of his misadventures. - I always thought he was kidding about the tight quarters…thank you for putting this together.
Really amazed by the amount of hardwork you have put in this video animation.
This is remarkable, 1930's and 1940's technology was pretty amazing.
Its rediculous how much effort was put in to develop submarines and other machinery in war time it boosted tecnological advancement to a new level
Excellent video. My grandfather served briefly on WW2 British subs in the Mediterranean. He was a 6foot 4inch Irish man. He died when I was 9. He was a lovely caring gentleman. Also a strong man and a good boxer in the Navy. He was on temporary assignment and he was ridiculously to tall for the sub so he was transferred lol. He told my Uncle he was absolutely terrified all the time he was on the sub and couldn't wait to get off it .
Great story!
Thanks for post. It takes me back to the days when I served on the USS Picuda (SS-382). It had started life in 1943 as a Balao-class boat. It had been converted to a GUPPY II by the time I served on it in 1971. At that time it was the oldest commissions submarine in the US Navy. A lot of things had been changed by then, but the bones were still the same. I was on the decommissioning when it was sold to Spain as partial payment to a extension on the lease to the base in Rota, Spain. Thanks for the reminder.
Nice, Dad was on Bonefish SS582 out of Pearl at that time. Prior he was on Tunny, Tang, Wahoo
Hey Paul, I served on Picuda from 71/72 also and remember you quite well. You were SK I believe, I was IC, Morvant, Richard IC3 (SS). I'm glad to see you're still kicking around. My wife and I were in Key West a year ago to celebrate our 50th and I can honestly say it was a much quieter little town when the Navy was there than what it has become today. Sure brings back some good memories. Take care, buddy.
@@richmorvant9581 You may not remember me as well as you think, but that's okay; it's been over 50 years, after all. It was Jim Cooper who was the SK. I was the bearded QMSN(SS) Cooper who worked with Freeman and Gibson up in the conning tower. I married a girl who graduated from Key West high and went back to her 25th graduation reunion, so I have some idea of how things have changed. It's a real hoot run into a shipmate from so long ago.
Sorry, Paul, I do remember you, Freeman, & Gibson, & standing watch in the control room as fwd aux electrician. My wife & I met onboard Picuda one Saturday a few weeks before decommissioning when we had the boat open for visitors. She's from Cincinnati & I'm from New Orleans but we managed to make it work with 2 grown kids and 1 grand daughter. Life's been good.@@paulcooper3611
Really clear explanation of the basics of how a "stink boat" works. I did my initial submarine training on a diesel/electric. Absolutely loved it! My sub was the SS LionFish.
Its amazing how the designers and engineers came up with this sub without the use of CAD,
I've toured two WW2 Gato Class boats, and this video is very accurate.
Wow I must say this video is absolutely incredible. The level of detail and explanation is remarkable. You have certainly painted a picture I will never forget. Thankyou for all your hard work.
"Complex' could be used to describe not only the sub itself as an instrument of war, but also to describe every single PIECE of her. There is nothing here to be bought at Lowes or Home Depot. Once again, superb job done with your Animagraff! ( My favorite so far has been the 18th Century Battleship!)
Me: airliner first, then 18th century sailing ship ;)
Life sure would be a lot less complicated if we weren't always trying to kill each other, war creates so much innovation, it brings out the best and worst that humanity has to offer. Nice job with the clear and understandable presentation
You've captured some of the contradictions at the heart of my work. These machines are unbelievable works of art made for horrifying reasons. And so it is.
Fascinating early to mid-20th century tech, very impressive and the animation well done.
This is exactly why UA-cam is the only relevant social network. I've watched *many* submarine documentaries from TV networks but none have this level of detail. Only a dedicated, passionate, amateur "crew" could deliver such quality. Amazing Job!
I watch all that stuff too, but I have also picked up a lot about subs by watching old WWII movies.
So what we can conclude from this very well put together and informative video is that a WW2 submariner's life would have been a pretty miserable affair.
Cramped, cold, smelly, mostly dark and the death is at best quick if the hull implodes and at worst, a slow drowning...
Compared to the average grunt in the eastern front: lots of space, digging, mostly wet, cold or both, marching and then more marching, digging, intense fear for days and weeks in one go when assaulting or defending and then little bit more digging.
Tank drivers: cramped, cold, insane noise, practically blind and quick death is ammo rack going off, slow is burning slowly inside the tank.
No matter where you served, it was shitty job. Well, officers in the HQ had it pretty good but other then that... War sucks (to put it mildly), for everyone and everywhere but naturally each section thinks the other soldiers are having it easy :D
@@alaric_80 percent of German submariners during WW 2 never came home. Absolutely staggering.
War life is never pretty. people who used these machines knew what they were getting themselves into.
Why I got the feeling edgy kids loves to romantized all about wars and conflict ? 🤔🙄
I have the full set of Commander Edward Ellsberg's books on submarining and rescue. Fascinating reading that I revisit every few years. Thanks for the fantastic video. So much work involved in this, Bravo!
What a fantastic video. Thank you so very much.
What an excellent tutorial, you all have done a world class job! Helped me understand so much better the stories and recollections of submariners during WW2. Thansk you for that. I am amazed how we made such ships way back in the 1930's and 1940's....what a miracle of advanced technology. Just wonderful and so easy to comprehend for a non-submariner. Airborne infantryman here who has been fascinated with submarines.
I've been enamored with WW2 submarines/U-Boats for years but this just made a lot terms and concepts I've heard make sense for the first time. What a great video! Thanks!
The nave produced a very wonderful and detailed series of films now available on UA-cam about the various systems of these subs. You need to check these out too.
I have always been enthralled with subs. Watching movies from the '60s and later was the reason I joined the Navy. This video is so well produced I didn't want it to end. Thank you for uncovering features on these machines that I was never aware of.
Still to this day these works of art are still so amazing.
As a former silent service sailor (Ohio Class) I'm amazed at how well designed and advanced (for the period) these boats were. Marvels of engineering in their day. Some things I didn't see were how they'd load torpedoes into the boat and their fresh water maker. Also not mentioned is whether or not they had a snorkel valve. Ours had a water sensor and it would slam shut if it got wet, if we were running a diesel it would pull air from the boat momentarily and make your ears pop and we'd use it to equalize air pressure like what was mentioned in this video. Also only 10 secs to rig for dive? Holy crap. That was well before subsafe, though and it was a different time. Fascinating presentation
Forward and Aft Torpedo would have loaded torpedoes through a hatch topside, and the torpedo would be slid down a removable rail system by crane, not too dissimilar to how it’s done on boats today.
Desalination would have taken place below the conn, although most fresh water was fed to the batteries.
In regards to snorkels, it’s kind of hard to say. There was the GUPPY project post-war that upgraded and refit several Balaos to include things found on the German Type XXI, like snorkels for example. However I can’t recall a specific example of an American boat sporting a snorkel during the war itself. It might have been discussed within BuShips, but was more than likely discarded for its complexity and adding another water ingress point.
interesting point about those sensors and alarms on the head valve (ventilation induction through the snorkel mast) SSN 713 the Houston was operating in heavy (state 4) sea's and the officer of the deck got annoyed at the momentary vacuum and annoying alarms on the mast momentary flooding... so he had the alarms silenced and the head valve locked open at periscope depth. the relieving watch made their depth 400 feet with out restoring the SOP line up.. immediately flooding the entire ship through a 21'' hole and caried through out the ship through the ventilation system. almost didn't make it to the surface as the capt only ordered a limited emergency blow of MB tanks and it start down again before reaching PD. if was terribly damaged and required a great deal of time to certify as seaworthy again. every one on board except a few chiefs to man below decks and top side watch were taken out to the pier and told they could leave the navy or the submarine service that very day...
Even a submariner can learn a few new things about their craft, thank you for this.
You say you're in awe of the skilled folks who built these machines
But I am in awe of the skilled folks who made This video. 😆
Magnificent work, thank you!! 👍👍👍I have always been fascinated by the diesel electric boats of WW II, and read a great deal about them, but the 3 dimensional "guided tour" makes it so much more real, giving a better idea of the cramped space, and relationship and relative distance of things to each other inside.
I've always loved the Gato/Balao class submarines. I snagged diagrams of both classes, and they are just incredibly complicated machines.
thanks for this! I've been a submarine nerd for years and even tried to join the Navy as an officer aboard a sub in my younger years. I've consumed countless books, museum exhibits, video games, and movies on the topic. This was a pleasure to watch.
Wonderful video. The first time I watched it for education, now I just watch for fun!
As usual from Animagraphs, a jaw-dropper.
I have watched this SO MANY times. Thank you so much for doing this, I can tell that you put an enormous amount of effort into it, and it really came out great. Amazing job.
absolutely fantastic video. very informative.. well done Animagraffs team
More advanced torpedo control then I would have thought, expected counter rotating prop's. And displacing the fuel with seawater.. that I didn't expect.
Love that they had a lathe on there, the obvious choice if you can have only one machine.
The prop rotation is just a minor error in the animation, not a feature of the submarines. To be clear: yes, I assume that they counter-rotate in a real sub with two props.
People building these Analog computers ,hats off just amazing ...Alot of people have trouble with basic Trig in High School lol..The.Greatest Generation ..
Excellent video as always. As a submarine nerd myself I found this to be incredibly interesting. Thank you!
Quality work! I was so excited to see this after the battleship video you did recently. Keep up the great work! Would love to see more sea-faring vessels!
Super well made video. Seems like shit was more complex back then. Absolutely amazing.
This guy could make explaining how a sundial works fascinating! Bravo!
One thing I forgot to mention. Submarines are built for “Small” people. Being Six Feet Threes I found every overhead Pipe, Valve, Levers etc. I spent 12 Days of fun on board a Boat. Submerged during the Daylight hours. Not one of my fondest memories. They were a great lot of people. I do remember the Food. They ate well, very well. Using the Escape Hatch to leave the Boat was not something I did enjoy, but kudos to the Crew. Professional one and all.
Very well done. The skill in their construction and operation is in many cases is a lost art. Keep up the great work.
Fascinating! Well done my man! Have been aboard a (museum) WWII sub. Truly amazing. Don't think I would have wanted to serve on one. Worked with a former submariner. He said captains were both aggressive and cautious (stealthy) in completing missions.
Videos like this is what makes UA-cam. Thank you, I actually learned something I never knew... Keep learning!! 😊