Sunday, 25 July 2010

Pearl Harbour - 2nd Tour USS Blowfin
















Given an audio headset, worked all the time and plenty of information given. Take your own time exploring through the submarine from stem to stern. Not my first time on a sub but the audio was helpful and it was a very interesting tour.
The Blowfin is a Balao class submarine and named after a voracious and predatory fish. Well named as she racked up a total of 44 ships sunk during the nine patrols she undertook in WW2. As the audio says the crew felt she was a lucky ship as no lives were lost, however beside the sub is a memorial to all 52 subs lost during the war, a total of 3500 men lost at sea.
Just by the Blowfin is a real coning tower that one can see and sit in as well as a set of periscopes for the visitors to use.
Time for lunch before the coach heads over to Ford Island and the two afternoon tours.




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