SUBMARINE: Designed and built by Pierce Submarine Co
Built 1973
Originally a Diver lockout sub
W x 8' H x 9' L x 20'
Hull Material: Pressure hull A517 steel, Ballast and frame Aluminum
Dive duration 8 hours plus 72 hours for 5 persons
ABS A+ rated (needs to be renewed)
Tested to 1363 FSW
1000 FSW Operational
48" 3 inch thick Acrylic hemispherical View port
New acrylic conning tower 18 h x 26 id x 34 od (7000 ft depth rated)
36 Volt DC as configured
5 - 36 volt 17 hp thrusters
2 - 550 amp PWM motor controllers vertical thruster motors
2 - 275 amp PWM motor controllers horizontal thruster motors
2 - 5000 ft cameras
3 - steinke hoods 300 ft bail out (US Navy)
3 - submarine escape suits 700 ft bail out for MK-9 (British Navy)
1 - Mock up of man. Arm
1 - 4 hp per. mag motor and hyd. pump for man. Arm
1 - Sonavision Model Mercury PC based scanning sonor with PPI, Side Scan, A-scan, B-scan, True Acoustic zoom
Many swaglock S/S fittings, valves, regs, etc.
6 - 4500 psi k bottles (Ballast Air)
6 - 3600 psi k bottles (Ballast Air)
4 - 2400 psi k bottles (o2)
1 - 1000 cf 3200 psi bottles (Reserve Ballast Air) they were used for diver lock out mixes
2 - 500 cf 3000 psi bottes (Reserve O2) they were used for diver lock out mixes
With the additional air and O2 it will increase the emergency time from 5 people 3 days to 5 people 7 days.
Lindberg Hammer Associates Model PURA H-200 L CO2 Scrubbers
The Serial # on the units are (75 08 200 3L), (75 08 200 4L)
O2 Monitoring Meters
Sub as configured is capable of dead lift of 3000 lbs plus crew of 5.
PROJECT DEEP RECOVERY: June 15th, 1942 (From the Naval War Records):
During another trip on "The Triangle Run", the enemy attacked again, this time in the evening at approximately 21:30 June 15. Two ships in the convoy were torpedoed. One was the "PORT NICHOLSON", a freighter, and the other was the U.S. troop ship "CHEROKEE". There were eighty-three survivors from PORT NICHOLSON and twelve from CHEROKEE. NANAIMO picked up seventy-nine of the eighty-three survivors from PORT NICHOLSON. As she did not sink immediately, NANAIMO remained with the ship throughout the night.
The next day a sea boat was sent from the NANAIMO with two of the freighter's officers and five crewman from NANAIMO, one officer and four ratings. These men were Lieutenant Wakely, Leading Seaman; Aubrey Pickles, Signalman; Jack Tedford, Able Seaman; Lorne (Buzz) Horne and an A.S.D.I.C. operator named Pat Ginevin. They went to see if the ship could be salvaged.
The sea boat made its way to PORT NICHOLSON and tied up near her bow. The boat's crew and the two officers from PORT NICHOLSON had to climb about fifteen feet to gain the deck. After the boarding party was aboard the PORT NICHOLSON the boat's party went below decks near the bow of the ship leaving only Jack Tedford above decks. Jack was standing at the ship's side where the sea boat had been secured. NANAIMO signaled, by light, that the ship was sinking by the stern. Jack commented that he had not noticed it as she was going down very gradually. Jack then ran to the hatch and yelled to the others. He commented that some of them got up and some of them did not. The after bulkhead gave-way and the ship went down by her stern very quickly.
