Cookie, a regular reader here on Underway Life, has some great stories to share.  This one is going to hit home most with submariners. Spending time at sea though, you’ll find it immediately interesting.

Here’s an excerpt to set the stage:

“On the old fleet boats (WWII Submarines)..all the various water and sewage piping drained into the Sanitary Tanks…things like the sinks, showers, coffee urn, heads (toilets), urinals, skuttlebutts (drinking fountains) and few other extraneous systems having to do with water/sewage.”

Please click through to “Ohhh Man..I’m in reeeeal deep“.

“Eight SUB-SAILORS conducted the ONLY GROUND COMBAT OPERATION on the Japanese “homeland” of World War II.” is a great read found aboard ULTRAQUIET NO MORE, a submarine focused blog.

Here’s a snippet:

In the four days the saboteurs had anxiously watched the skies for cloud cover, the inventive crew of the Barb had built their micro switch.

When the need was posed for a pick and shovel to bury the explosive charge and batteries, the Barb’s engineers had cut up steel plates in the lower flats of an engine room, then bent and welded them to create the needed tools.

The only things beyond their control were the weather .. . . and time. Only Five Days Remained In The Barb’s Patrol.

The tail is something of legend or a movie but better; it really happened.

I encourage you to read the full story - U.S.S. Barb, The Submarine that sank a Train.