USS Bowfin and USS Parche Submarines

All of the pictures were taken from the USS Bowfin Submarine and some of the USS Parche. It was very fun to tour this boat with Steve, he was my own personal tour guide. While we were looking at the Parche Periscope he was explaining a few things and another man had asked him if he worked there and Steve was like not here but yes? So Steve had a little group and talked to them about how most of it worked. It was very funny.

This is looking the other way (can't rember if it's aft or stern) looking towards the ocean and in the direction of the USS Arizona.

We were on top of the sub looking towards the shore and towards the periscopes and radar systems.

This is inside the Bowfin. They only used this "wheel" in emergency situations and when diving. There were so many buttons and controls, I don't know how they knew which to read and which one not to. Thank goodness they knew what they were doing, and still know what they are doing for us! I was wearing headphones because there was an audio tour, which took us through the boat and talked about which rooms did what and what happened where. There is very little room, but more room than I thought. It was very neat to finally go onto a submarine with Steve and see what he does on a daily basis.

This is the periscope and radar systems of the USS Bowfin. Since this is a World War II submarine it is much different than the submarines of today. But it was still cool to hear Steve tell me all about how submarines can communicate while under water and how they can search and attack at certain depths (sorry it's classified, I don't even know that info).

This is the USS Parche periscope on display at the USS Bowfin Submarine tour. The Parche was a submarine that served as a unit of the United States Atlantic Fleet. She was decommished on July 18, 2005 she was scrapped at the Shipyard in Bremerton and her research and duties has been assumed by the USS Jimmy Carter. So as you can see a lot of these things that have taken place with this submarine have links to Steve and what he does at the shipyard.