I know.
I have pictures of the insides.
Not pretty.
And, a real shame.
I don’t know how long this particular sub has been there. If it has been about 20 years then I might have toured it. We spent an overnight in the park with thew Boy Scouts when my oldest was not quite a teenager. They used to call it Battleship Cove. We slept in the racks on one of the ships. There were definitely some spirits to be felt there. The same as the first time I wandered around the EBT shops when no-one was there.
I wonder what the true cause of the sinking was - pump failure, failure of the staff to batten down, or something else? I would think a
sub should be able to weather just about any storm.
No, Battleship Cove is up in Fall River.
This one has been here in Providence for 6 years or so.
I went out a couple of times to work on it.
They are saving the CV-60 Saratoga, and I told them several years ago to drag this Russkie rustbucket up to where the Sara will be moored, dig a trench in the pier/parking lot (fill), pull it into the trench and fill it in.
One of the BIG problems was the rubber tiles, 3" thick, on the ballast tanks.
And salt water.
Maybe the best use would be as the article said, drag it out to sea, sink it as an artificial reef, give it a decent burial at the least, should do that to the big Rusty Boat down here that used to host a famous train show, instead of waiting until the hull rusts through.