For those that know of this sub - it has taken the final trip and has been put into drydock for cut up. To maybe scratch an itch - is there any decent kit for this?
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Some OT: USS Triton X-586
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on 10/12/2007 8:13 AM Andrew M said the following:
The construction of this sub sounds like the guy who built a sailboat in his basement and then couldn't get it out. :-) From
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Until the commissioning of the /Ohio/-class ballistic missile submarines , /Triton/ was the longest submarine ever built by the Navy. Her length presented Electric Boat with many problems during her construction. She was so long that her bow obstructed the slipways railway facility used for transporting material around the yard, so the lower half of her bow was cut away and re-attached just days prior to her launch. Similarly, the last 50 feet (15 m) of her stern had to be built on an adjoining slipway and added before she was launched. Her sail was found to be too high to go under the scaffolding, so the top 12 feet (4 m) of the sail were cut away and re-attached later.
I couldn't find any models of it though.