USN GUPPY SUBMARINE CONVERSIONS 1947-1954

APPENDIX I

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and SOURCES

Personal Sources

The information for the notes on the Guppy submarines have been put together from detail provided by USN SubVet George Arnold who mailed so much valuable documentation, as did Bruce A. Broseker.

Other USN SubVets answered questions by E-mail that stretched memories - Patrick Householder, Don Pruitt, Ron Romer, Rog (Tiny) ,Chuck Charlton, Rik Nilsson, Tom Lawson, Tim Spoon, John Clear, Douglas Buchanan formerly of Independence Seaport Museums - USS Becuna (SS 319) and associated SubVets - Gil Miller, Gary McNaught.

John Fakan of the USS Cod (SS 224) Memorial.

Tom Sprowl, preserved USS CLAMAGORE (SS 343), Patriots Point. Mount Pleasant. SC.

Roger Walker, preserved USS Blueback (SS 581), associated Sub Vet James (Pat) Patterson. OMSI, Portland.

Captain Third Rank Igor Kolosov, preserved Project 641 FOXTROT, Long Beach.

Keith Allen. US Maritime history researcher.

And last but far from least Tony Phillipson, General Manager, Rahmi M Koçç Müüzesi, Turkey who provided photographs of switch levers in the preserved TCG Uluççalireis, formerly GIIA USS Thornback (SS 418).

Albert Birchnall, former Stoker Mechanic Royal Navy, retired. HMS Scotsman 1948 - 1951.

Official USN Sources

Here and here - these sites publish the original Fleet Submarine Manual, a great example of how a technical manual should be prepared for the man joining for the first time through to the needs of experienced crew - wonderful drawings. The detail of the unconverted submarine enables the understanding of the construction of the unconverted submarine. As appropriate some data from these USN manuals has been used in this article in reference to pre-conversion detail.

NavPers 16162 June 1946 - Submarine Electrical Installations/NavPers 16161 June 1946 - Submarine Main Propulsion Diesels/Bureau of Naval Personnel/. NavPers 10490 1963 - Basic Enlisted Submarine Text, The Electrical Installations. Navy Department

US NAVAL MISSION TECHNICAL MISSION TO JAPAN 1945 - Operational Archive. Naval History Division. Washington Navy Yard. Washington, DC 20374

N.S.A Battle of the Atlantic: Technical Intelligence From Allied Communications Intelligence-SHR-025 - Ultra in the Atlantic Volume IV-Chap V - German-Japanese Exchange of Information Transcribed and formatted by Ian Williams for the HyperWar Foundation

U.S. NAVAL TECHNICAL MISSION IN EUROPE TECHNICAL REPORT No. 287-47 September 1945-Dr M.S. Livingston - Technician TACTICAL PLANNING FOR HIGH SPEED U-BOATS.

"BR 3043, THE DEVELOPMENT OF HM SUBMARINE''. A N Harrison CB, CVO, OBE, RCNC, FRINA. Director of Naval Construction Ministry of Defence 1961-1966 M.O.D 1979. Compiled for the web by Ian Hillbeck and Sam Morrow

Relevant articles

Peter D Hulme -"HMS SCOTSMAN - 1948 TRIALS AND EXPERIMENTAL SUBMARINE" (compiled notes).

Peter D Hulme - "'T' CLASS CONVERSION". (compiled notes)

Peter D Hulme - "A FRESH LOOK AT THE FIVE STREAMLINED 'T' CLASS SUBMARINES OF THE 1950s" (compiled notes)

Reference volumes

Admiral I. J. Galatin, USN (Ret) - "SUBMARINE ADMIRAL" - University of Illinois Press. 1987.

Commander John D, Alden US NAVY (ret) - "THE FLEET SUBMARINE IN THE US NAVY" - Naval Institute Press 1979.

Norman Friedman - "THE POST WAR NAVAL REVOLUTION". - Naval Institute Press 1987

Norman Friedman - "SUBMARINE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT" - Naval Institute Press 1984

Mark Stille - "IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY SUBMARINES 1941-45 by - New Vanguard 135 - Osprey Publishing 2007.

Ryder and Burchill - "CONCEPTS IN SUBMARINE DESIGN", Cambridge University Press, 1994

Captain RN (ret) John Coote. "SUBMARINER." London: Leo Cooper, 1991

Commander Compton - Hall, RN (ret) - "SUB vs SUB". - Grub Street 1988

Editors of TimeLIfe - HUNTERS OF THE DEEP

Miller and Jordan - "MODERN SUBMARINE WARFARE" - Tiger Books International PLC, 1991

David Miller - "ILLUSTRATED DIRECTORY OF THE WORLD SUBMARINES " - Salamander Books Ltd, 2002

Eric Groves - "FROM VANGUARD TO TRIDENT" - Naval Institute Press (April 1987)

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