Submarine Sunset

Afther a period under wather the crew of this Walrus-class submarine is allowed on the hull to see thes beatifull Baltic sunset... if you see it up... more

by Alex Hiemstra

Title

Submarine Sunset

Artist

Alex Hiemstra

Medium

Photograph

Description

Afther a period under wather the crew of this Walrus-class submarine is allowed on the hull to see thes beatifull Baltic sunset... if you see it up close... they dance the "Can Can"

A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term most commonly refers to a large, crewed, autonomous vessel. It is also sometimes used historically or colloquially to refer to remotely operated vehicles and robots, as well as medium-sized or smaller vessels, such as the midget submarine and the wet sub. Used as an adjective in phrases such as submarine cable, "submarine" means "under the sea". The noun submarine evolved as a shortened form of submarine boat (and is often further shortened to sub). For reasons of naval tradition, submarines are usually referred to as "boats" rather than as "ships", regardless of their size.

The Walrus-class submarines are unusual in that instead of a cross-shaped assembly of stern diving planes and rudders, they mount four combined rudders and diving planes in an "X" configuration. This tail configuration was first tested in 1960 on the United States Navy's USS Albacore (AGSS-569), but has since been used only by the Walrus class, all Swedish Navy submarines since theSjöormen class, the Royal Australian Navy's Collins class and the German Type 212A.
The submarines were in high demand by NATO during the Cold War since they combined a highly skilled crew with a very silent boat. At that time the majority of NATO submarines were either nuclearor brown water subs, with the Walrus class being among the rare blue water diesel electric submarines in service.

Operational History:

After the Cold War, the subs have been tasked for many intelligence gathering operations (still classified) in the Yugoslavian region, Iraq and the Caribbean.
In June 2010, the Netherlands agreed to deploy one submarine to help combat piracy in the waters off Somalia. Possible missions could include signals intelligence, e.g. going close to shore and intercepting pirates' radio signals, and tracking of pirate vessels.

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August 23rd, 2014