The Balao class diesel-electric submarine:
or, now with more ghetto, the Gato class submarine:
and finally, the first and great, Tambor class submarine:
A big part of why I loved the early design phases of diesel-electric submarines was how similar they looked to certain classes of destroyers. Almost as though the original naval engineers sat down and just tried to make existing plans work underwater until they hit a point where they could stick a few sealed bulkheads between a compact diesel and the ocean and call it done.
They weren't especially pretty or all that fast, but they always screamed ingenuity under pressure to me.
or, now with more ghetto, the Gato class submarine:
and finally, the first and great, Tambor class submarine:
A big part of why I loved the early design phases of diesel-electric submarines was how similar they looked to certain classes of destroyers. Almost as though the original naval engineers sat down and just tried to make existing plans work underwater until they hit a point where they could stick a few sealed bulkheads between a compact diesel and the ocean and call it done.
They weren't especially pretty or all that fast, but they always screamed ingenuity under pressure to me.