[Milsurplus] A Visit to Battleship Cove

[Bob Camp]

Hi

I'm betting that they had at least a half hour delay on those things.  
You can only paddle a kayak just so fast, even when there's a bomb  
behind you ....

Bob


On Oct 28, 2007, at 3:45 PM, J Forster wrote:

> I omitted it, as it had no radio interest, but there is one on  
> display at
> Battleship Cove in the same Quonset Hut as the PT Boats.  It looks  
> sort
> of like an overweight kayak. Apparently it carried two mines that  
> could
> be attached to a ship. I wonder how long the fuzes were?
>
> -John
>
>
>
> David Stinson wrote:
>
>> Speaking of museum subs:
>> Have any of you seen the Japanese suicide sub
>> ("Ki-ten," or somethin' like that) that's on display at Pearl Harbor?
>> It looks like something out of "The Flintstones."
>> I don't understand how that thing could even float,
>> much less sink a U.S. cruiser.
>> 73 Dave S.
>
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