[Milsurplus] A Visit to Battleship Cove

[J Forster]

Paddle?? The thing was powered.

-John


Bob Camp wrote:

> 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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