I was aboard Growler (SSG-577) when she was launched. That was at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The life jacket was almost as big as I was at that time. The submarine my late father was a "plankowner" of, also built at Portsmouth, USS SWORDFISH (SSN-579), was also being built at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at that time. USS GROWLER dates back to when submarines were named after fish. Andrew "Andy" McKane IV, age 76, 28 November 2024, Maunaloa, Molokai, Hawaii.
My dad was an employee at PNS and worked building many of the subs built there between the mid 40''s through the mid 70's including the Growler. I have documentation of over 30 subs that he worked on over the years.
Hats off to our brave Submariners, I couldn't do what they did in the past or do today..To me they are all heroes that allowed me to sleep in peace at night. God Bless all these Brave young men for their service to this nation...🙏🇺🇸❤
It’s most likely not that bad. I’ve slept in the back seat of my small car with no leg room for a month to save money on a road trip. I was shocked that it actually was not bad and I tended to sleep better than in my bedroom
My dad was career Navy, Sonar, above the waterline on ships. I toured his ships while a child & teen and was impressed with crew's quarters, his as a chief later on but couldn't imagine doing that for months at a time. In New London I went aboard a sub and realized it took a special breed to do that. I joined the Army 1971. 😎
Here in the UK, most of my older male family served at sea in one way or another. Lost more than a few along the way. In my own turn, I was adjudged unfit for service. Never quite got over that, though I sailed when I could afford to. Much later in life, I gained a friend who'd been a submariner for decades after WW2. Half the Cold War stuff he related would probably still get me in trouble, even today. When he passed, I found he had no remaining family beyond a sister so disinterested she didn't even attend his funeral. Only my family at the ceremony. With some legal juggling I somehow managed to become his next of kin - though he left nothing of value beyond a small book collection and his riggers knife, none of which I'll ever part with. Which I did simply to afford the guy a halfway decent send off. Retired myself, I didn't begrudge spending some of my savings on a boat from a N.E. England harbour to spread his ashes where he'd spent most of his life. R.I.P. People forget and ignore so easily...
Very interesting video. My neighbor is a retired Navy Captain and commanded a number of nuclear submarines. He was captain of the real Dallas sub when the movie "Hunt for Red October' was made. He has lots of very interesting stories. Love to get him talking.
If you think that's cramped, you wouldn't believe how tight things were in a British Oberon class sub. I got a tour of one visiting Halifax. Nightmare!
There was an old Oberon class submarine in a museum on the Wirral Peninsula, I went aboard her one day, claustrophobic doesn’t even begin to describe it, it’s even more mind blowing when you read that they had an extra 20 men on board when she sailed to the Falklands war, they were SBS and they took over the forward torpedo room, you literally couldn’t swing a cat in there
I have fond memories of working as a tour guide on the Growler back in the 90s. It's been a while since I've visited the Intrepid, so I'm not sure if guided tours are still offered.
I've visited the Growler last summer. Inside were very friendly and enthusiastic tour guides, who took time to have a chat and explain this engineering marvel.
@@richardwillson101 For Americans here, if no-one has said it already (if they have, I apologise) it needs to be mentioned that in certain parts of British society 'growler' is very crude slang for a certain part - the most delightful part in my ancient opinion - of a lady's anatomy...
Must be referring to regional slang? I have only heard the word used for a bottle or jug that is made of glass or porcelain and has a handle on the side of it.
I agree with the torpedo room sleepers. I used to be an evening projectionist at a movie theater, and the rhythmic sound of the projectors always made me sleepy 😅
Most young women professionals are copying each other's growling-at-the-end-of-sentences, & it's strong fad for them. Some are incensed when men, esp., mention it - but I think men are just noticing that it's an unusual sound for women, & know that it's simply a female fad that has become very popular. Ladies - men make a bit of fun of *anyone* having unusual speech, sayings, & accents. It is not a personal criticism directed only at women - it just sounds strange when anyone does it, & men are more willing to mention unusual things.
My dad, Mike O’Day, was navigator on Growler, based at Pearl Harbor. They’d be gone sometimes months at a time, then mom would get the call - “They’ll be docking tonight”, and all the families would go down to the base to pick up dad - and you instinctively knew never to ask where they had been. Many years later dad did claim he had once looked through the periscope at the Odessa steps, but I just don’t know how that would have been possible. It was a very tight knit group, lots of parties. My older brother recalls one particularly extravagant party that ended with cases of leftover lobster tails, so everyone was sent home with a case or two. He says he got so sick of lobster for dinner… I sent off some things connected with Growler to their collections, including dad’s bowling shirt, Growler Screwballs.
My father served aboard several diesel boats from 1946-1950. The Blenny, Boarfish, and Sea Owl are a few of their names. He said watching the film Das Boot was the closest recreation to the real deal. He disliked the oily feel of the mattresses, battery acid, b.o. and sweat. 4 hours on and 4 hours off watch. He was always tired and always hungry.
Ahh...the smell of a 50-man messdeck in the early hours of a Monday morning when first returning from weekend leave. No words will do justice to that delicate aroma. Strip out all the mattresses, bedding , towels, curtains, and an assortment of clothing items, ( steaming kit ) and all messdecks look like this.
Qualified on SSBN611B in 1978, made 7 patrols out of Guam and was on her when we transitioned to an SSN. Transited thru the Panama and to Charleston for re-homeporting and Atlantic ops. Great boat and crew and I I have tons of great memories. A-Gang Rules!
@deepsubmergence9357 nice. Came aboard a few weeks after she went into dry dock in Bermerton. Left after we fully trained for seal ops. E-div ruled better!
A story about sleeping in the torpedo room. In UK subs of the 1980s they slung hammocks above the torpedoes for guest accommodation. A friend of mine was a civilian electronics engineer who was put onto a sub on patrol to do emergency commissioning of some new systems and was sleeping in the torpedo room. What the crew didn’t tell him (deliberately he suspected) was that every few hours the torpedoes were programmed to spin up their gyroscopes to keep them calibrated so in the middle of night my friend heard this whirring and clicking coming from the front of the torpedo beneath him and, not knowing what it was, jumped out of bed and rushed to find someone to tell them that a torpedo had armed itself. The crew of course thought this was hilarious hence his suspicion that it was probably something of a hazing ritual that they played on all new visitors.
I earned my first set of Dolphins on SS-580, USS Barbel. Hot racking is 3 people 2 bunks. When on an 18 hr day, at any given time, 2 people are off, one person on watch. You rotated bunks. Luckily, I didn't have to hot rack till i was on a 688 class.
@@gusloader123 thanks for that, but as a Brit it's always going to give me the giggles, sorry. BTW, I'm ex Royal Navy, 27 years. We had a Frigate called Beaver once. You can imagine what happened when she went to America on a visit (with female sailors onboard).
So I should not mention to you that what you saw were some of the most spacious areas of the sub? The only two areas larger than the ones shown in this video are the Bridge and the Mess. Quite honestly, the bridge has so much stuff shoved everywhere I don't think it qualifies, and the mess has a bunch of tables, though it is slightly larger than the average living room. Though on the mess, that space is made to hold something like a quarter of the crew at any given time. Forgot to mention, they might be in these spaces without break, no sunlight, for as long as 3 months. Sweet dreams.
I served on the Boston Growler. Also the Weeping Spaniard. Then the USS Mississippi Floater Did a tour on the Cleveland Steamer After that the Sheboygan Mudslide Finished my duty on the Hungarian Strangler.
The space is fairly wide. In the 80's The Royal Netherlands Navy had some older subs and sleeping eating and personal hygiene like washing your face , brushing your teeth ( shaving was mostly optional) for ranks below Corporal all was done i one space.
@@DieFlabbergast It's amazing how quickly & completely the trend took hold. It doesn't seem to afflict men, tho we sometimes do it naturally, but not at the end of every single sentence.
Americans had a submarine called USS Growler 🤣🤣🤣. In the Royal Navy, we had HMS Beaver 🦫, anti-submarine frigate. Type 22 batch 2. Americans found that highly amusing, too.
My dad had to ditch at sea and he had to circle for half an hour and he ditched and was picked up by a submarine about 20 minutes later. He was on the boat for 2 nights and he said one extra guy really threw everything out of wack. I asked him where he slept and he said there was an empty bunk in the forward torpedo room. He told me that he could hang out in the wardroom or his bunk or on deck, that was it. He said when a Destroyer came to pick him up he was glad. The Skipper wanted to put a boat in and get him and my dad told him to drop a line amidships and he would get up on there or on the screw guards and he walked down the hull and dove in. He said one of the chiefs said "You still have my lighter!!"
Ha. I could never be a submariner, I'd be launched out of a torpedo tube before the first day was out. But it would take weeks for the atmosphere to clear within the boat.
My dad was stationed aboard the SSBN-642 USS Kamehameha, and he said that about half the men were snorers. The sounds of the propellers spinning and the engines working, plus the air circulating, do wonders for drowning that out. Also, remember, entire crew is on one shower a week, snoring is the least of your issues.
No. She is a curator at the Intrepid Museum Complex in New York, NY where the former USS Growler is open for tours. And while it is not common yet, the U.S. Navy has put a small group of female sailors on a few active submarines.
As a Brit I was so tempted! But I will refrain from the jokes many of my countryfolk have already waxed lyrical upon in the comments! One of those glorious times when UK and US English ae the same languages until suddenly they very much are not 🤣. Not that we can really say much about ship names as we have had some... unfortunate ones in the past. Hell we named an entire 294 ship class after flowers....
The Intrepid museum is worth a visit to NYC. Great museum with great staff. Really impressive You can forget the rest of the city, it's all overpriced shit
Yep, I always preferred being assigned a rack in the Torpedo Room. I didn't have to share a rack and I had quick access to the Lower Crews Head. Also, I get to tell sea-stories about sleeping next to multi-kiloton nuclear warheads............
berth vs birth -- Nowadays there are sailors having babies, and readiness takes a back seat to political correctness and keeping the politicians (including the ones in uniform) happy.
I was aboard Growler (SSG-577) when she was launched. That was at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The life jacket was almost as big as I was at that time. The submarine my late father was a "plankowner" of, also built at Portsmouth, USS SWORDFISH (SSN-579), was also being built at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at that time. USS GROWLER dates back to when submarines were named after fish. Andrew "Andy" McKane IV, age 76, 28 November 2024, Maunaloa, Molokai, Hawaii.
As Admiral Rickover said, "Fish don't vote."
@@tgflack I wanted to give this same answer, but opted to be politically correct instead.
Thank you for your service. Did you actually get any sleep in those tiny bunks?
@@tgflack Dogs: "They don't growl, either."
My dad was an employee at PNS and worked building many of the subs built there between the mid 40''s through the mid 70's including the Growler. I have documentation of over 30 subs that he worked on over the years.
Thank them all. There's no way I could do that. It takes very special people to do a very special job.
Nothing but admiration to you.
Yeah, they're all crazy :). They know that, we know that, it's fine. :)
I agree, I could never be a submariner. I like to sleep with the windows open!!!!
Hats off to our brave Submariners, I couldn't do what they did in the past or do today..To me they are all heroes that allowed me to sleep in peace at night. God Bless all these Brave young men for their service to this nation...🙏🇺🇸❤
I served on USS Lapon SSN661 81-85 1st class machinist mate leading elt. Good memories
It’s most likely not that bad. I’ve slept in the back seat of my small car with no leg room for a month to save money on a road trip. I was shocked that it actually was not bad and I tended to sleep better than in my bedroom
That is surprisingly tidy for a growler that’s had 100 men in it.
Isnt it just. Just imagine what they would be like packed full of Seamen for weeks at a time
@@mcmc6621 Seaman Stains didn't last long.
For those non-Brits amongst us: x. Growler - n - A term for female genitals covered in pubic hair.
@@mcmc6621 Come on now. Keep it clean..
@@geneharrogate6911 Yeah. Cut the ladyparts references.
My dad was career Navy, Sonar, above the waterline on ships. I toured his ships while a child & teen and was impressed with crew's quarters, his as a chief later on but couldn't imagine doing that for months at a time. In New London I went aboard a sub and realized it took a special breed to do that. I joined the Army 1971. 😎
Army all the way for me too. If I died I wanted to taste dirt not drown.
Ive been in a few Growlers, but none as tight as this one…
Some people wouldn't get that but I do. Lol!
This Growler has considerably less pubic hair than the ones I have encountered.
Grotopotomus
Bremolo
Dunoon Dollies
:-D
I get it because I have a mate from Coventry.
Yanks: posting submarine related comments.
Brits: posting fanny related comments.
Came to the comments for Fanny jokes and was not disappointed.
Fanny, another level of two people separated by a common language.
Here in the UK, most of my older male family served at sea in one way or another. Lost more than a few along the way.
In my own turn, I was adjudged unfit for service. Never quite got over that, though I sailed when I could afford to.
Much later in life, I gained a friend who'd been a submariner for decades after WW2. Half the Cold War stuff he related would probably still get me in trouble, even today.
When he passed, I found he had no remaining family beyond a sister so disinterested she didn't even attend his funeral. Only my family at the ceremony.
With some legal juggling I somehow managed to become his next of kin - though he left nothing of value beyond a small book collection and his riggers knife, none of which I'll ever part with. Which I did simply to afford the guy a halfway decent send off.
Retired myself, I didn't begrudge spending some of my savings on a boat from a N.E. England harbour to spread his ashes where he'd spent most of his life. R.I.P.
People forget and ignore so easily...
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
Do the brits still paint their subs in yellow? :-)
@@algoy001 Well, initially they did when they copied the US subs, but they've changed the colours now.
@Jake-z3f Much respect to you Sir.
Thank you for your loyalty to a dear friend. You are serving right now! Thank you for your service. Andy McKane, Maunaloa, HI, 7 Dec. 2024.
Very interesting video. My neighbor is a retired Navy Captain and commanded a number of nuclear submarines. He was captain of the real Dallas sub when the movie "Hunt for Red October' was made. He has lots of very interesting stories. Love to get him talking.
As a Brit, I'm amazed by just how tight American growlers are. I'd love to spend a few hours in one.
Say what you like about the yanks, but they do keep us entertained with the suggestive names they inadvertently give to things...
I see what you did there.
@@bluesrocker91 The UK is paying them back tenfold with the Snatch Rover.
If you think that's cramped, you wouldn't believe how tight things were in a British Oberon class sub. I got a tour of one visiting Halifax. Nightmare!
There was an old Oberon class submarine in a museum on the Wirral Peninsula, I went aboard her one day, claustrophobic doesn’t even begin to describe it, it’s even more mind blowing when you read that they had an extra 20 men on board when she sailed to the Falklands war, they were SBS and they took over the forward torpedo room, you literally couldn’t swing a cat in there
I have fond memories of working as a tour guide on the Growler back in the 90s. It's been a while since I've visited the Intrepid, so I'm not sure if guided tours are still offered.
I've visited the Growler last summer. Inside were very friendly and enthusiastic tour guides, who took time to have a chat and explain this engineering marvel.
I still can't believe there was a submarine called "Growler" 😂
I really need to grow up a bit, couldn't stop smirking every time it was mentioned 😂
@@richardwillson101
For Americans here, if no-one has said it already (if they have, I apologise) it needs to be mentioned that in certain parts of British society 'growler' is very crude slang for a certain part - the most delightful part in my ancient opinion - of a lady's anatomy...
The Royal Navy used to have a class of patrol boat called the “gay class”. There’s a few choice boat names in that class such as the HMS Gay Bruiser
@@Dr_McKayIn older times, "gay" was commonly used as a synonym for "happy."
Tsk tsk---try being on a sub called the FLASHER -SSN--613--crazy times--steel boats---iron men!!!!!
Must be referring to regional slang? I have only heard the word used for a bottle or jug that is made of glass or porcelain and has a handle on the side of it.
Hi Jessica. You do a fantastic job here. Like 👍
Just moved from a large UK Victorian semi to a bungalow. Feels like a submarine. I call the kitchen the galley and the shower room the heads.
That's a lovely story. You must tell it at dinner parties.
I agree with the torpedo room sleepers. I used to be an evening projectionist at a movie theater, and the rhythmic sound of the projectors always made me sleepy 😅
2 years ago i went on a submarine in mobile alabama. i wasn't on 3 minutes and i was very happy to get off.
Her vocal fry is a real Growler 🤣
A mild case of vocal fry: many of them are MUCH worse.
It's so distracting.
Most young women professionals are copying each other's growling-at-the-end-of-sentences, & it's strong fad for them. Some are incensed when men, esp., mention it - but I think men are just noticing that it's an unusual sound for women, & know that it's simply a female fad that has become very popular. Ladies - men make a bit of fun of *anyone* having unusual speech, sayings, & accents. It is not a personal criticism directed only at women - it just sounds strange when anyone does it, & men are more willing to mention unusual things.
My dad, Mike O’Day, was navigator on Growler, based at Pearl Harbor. They’d be gone sometimes months at a time, then mom would get the call - “They’ll be docking tonight”, and all the families would go down to the base to pick up dad - and you instinctively knew never to ask where they had been. Many years later dad did claim he had once looked through the periscope at the Odessa steps, but I just don’t know how that would have been possible.
It was a very tight knit group, lots of parties. My older brother recalls one particularly extravagant party that ended with cases of leftover lobster tails, so everyone was sent home with a case or two. He says he got so sick of lobster for dinner…
I sent off some things connected with Growler to their collections, including dad’s bowling shirt, Growler Screwballs.
Is this a stealth submarine? My mates in the Royal Navy said Growler was always hard to find
Ha ha they were taking the piss
@@privatechannel8462he's joking Einstein
I heard they spent most of their time helping Roger the cabin boy.
@@jonb3311 Who was a cabin man when they returned from cruising.
Hence the occasional use of Marines as a reasonable substitute.
Mad respect for anyone who could be in such a tight quarters....
My father served aboard several diesel boats from 1946-1950. The Blenny, Boarfish, and Sea Owl are a few of their names. He said watching the film Das Boot was the closest recreation to the real deal. He disliked the oily feel of the mattresses, battery acid, b.o. and sweat. 4 hours on and 4 hours off watch. He was always tired and always hungry.
Seems very stark with the colours in the bunkspace, no cosy feel to it at all compared with british submarines on which I served for 22 years
Ahh...the smell of a 50-man messdeck in the early hours of a Monday morning when first returning from weekend leave. No words will do justice to that delicate aroma.
Strip out all the mattresses, bedding , towels, curtains, and an assortment of clothing items, ( steaming kit ) and all messdecks look like this.
@@stephennelmes4557 I agree, but s/m bunkspaces look far nicer than this one
I was a pipe fitter at tampa ship and helped with the retro fit to make it a museum piece
Sure is upscale of my enlisted accommodations aboard the USS Bryce Canyon, AD36, in 1966.
While it's certainly not comfortable, it's looks so much better than the Balao class subs I've toured.
But did you knock and uncover prior to entering the Goat Locker?
SSN-611, navy seal carrier. Brings back memories...
Qualified on SSBN611B in 1978, made 7 patrols out of Guam and was on her when we transitioned to an SSN. Transited thru the Panama and to Charleston for re-homeporting and Atlantic ops. Great boat and crew and I I have tons of great memories. A-Gang Rules!
@deepsubmergence9357 nice. Came aboard a few weeks after she went into dry dock in Bermerton. Left after we fully trained for seal ops. E-div ruled better!
Visited Intrepid Museum in 2019! Cheers from São Paulo, Brazil.
A story about sleeping in the torpedo room.
In UK subs of the 1980s they slung hammocks above the torpedoes for guest accommodation. A friend of mine was a civilian electronics engineer who was put onto a sub on patrol to do emergency commissioning of some new systems and was sleeping in the torpedo room. What the crew didn’t tell him (deliberately he suspected) was that every few hours the torpedoes were programmed to spin up their gyroscopes to keep them calibrated so in the middle of night my friend heard this whirring and clicking coming from the front of the torpedo beneath him and, not knowing what it was, jumped out of bed and rushed to find someone to tell them that a torpedo had armed itself. The crew of course thought this was hilarious hence his suspicion that it was probably something of a hazing ritual that they played on all new visitors.
Definitely not a place for people with claustrophobia.
I've heard about some sleep in torp tubes.
Great video, thank you!
Thank goodness you had subtitles her perfect English was very difficult to understand.
I earned my first set of Dolphins on SS-580, USS Barbel. Hot racking is 3 people 2 bunks. When on an 18 hr day, at any given time, 2 people are off, one person on watch. You rotated bunks. Luckily, I didn't have to hot rack till i was on a 688 class.
Had to giggle whenever she said "Growler". From a Brit.
@offamaheid ---> A "Growler" is a Largemouth Bass fish. U.S. Submarines were named for fish species for decades.
@@gusloader123 thanks for that, but as a Brit it's always going to give me the giggles, sorry. BTW, I'm ex Royal Navy, 27 years. We had a Frigate called Beaver once. You can imagine what happened when she went to America on a visit (with female sailors onboard).
All I could hear was Richard Hammond giggling, "I'm sorry... It's called the Growler"
I was confused until I looked on Wikipedia and learned that the Growler had both a bow and stern torpedo rooms.
Didn't most submarines have both?
how does that woman work with only 1 foot?
Thank you for your service. 😐😊😐
Nice growler.
Yikes - My claustrophobia kicked in just watching that video...
yes felt walls closing in as she was speaking
So I should not mention to you that what you saw were some of the most spacious areas of the sub? The only two areas larger than the ones shown in this video are the Bridge and the Mess. Quite honestly, the bridge has so much stuff shoved everywhere I don't think it qualifies, and the mess has a bunch of tables, though it is slightly larger than the average living room. Though on the mess, that space is made to hold something like a quarter of the crew at any given time. Forgot to mention, they might be in these spaces without break, no sunlight, for as long as 3 months. Sweet dreams.
@@Jeremiah90526 😐😧😑🥹🥲
I served on the Boston Growler.
Also the Weeping Spaniard.
Then the USS Mississippi Floater
Did a tour on the Cleveland Steamer
After that the Sheboygan Mudslide
Finished my duty on the Hungarian Strangler.
The space is fairly wide.
In the 80's The Royal Netherlands Navy had some older subs and sleeping eating and personal hygiene like washing your face , brushing your teeth ( shaving was mostly optional) for ranks below Corporal all was done i one space.
That is a shocking vocal fry.
Very very common these days among young American women: it's even gaining ground in Britain. Most of them don't even realise they're doing it.
@@DieFlabbergast It's amazing how quickly & completely the trend took hold. It doesn't seem to afflict men, tho we sometimes do it naturally, but not at the end of every single sentence.
Thank you.
Ditch the CC and the background music.
choice of soundtrack is distracting
That’s amazing! I had no clue. Thanks
Americans had a submarine called USS Growler 🤣🤣🤣.
In the Royal Navy, we had HMS Beaver 🦫, anti-submarine frigate. Type 22 batch 2. Americans found that highly amusing, too.
My dad had to ditch at sea and he had to circle for half an hour and he ditched and was picked up by a submarine about 20 minutes later. He was on the boat for 2 nights and he said one extra guy really threw everything out of wack. I asked him where he slept and he said there was an empty bunk in the forward torpedo room. He told me that he could hang out in the wardroom or his bunk or on deck, that was it. He said when a Destroyer came to pick him up he was glad. The Skipper wanted to put a boat in and get him and my dad told him to drop a line amidships and he would get up on there or on the screw guards and he walked down the hull and dove in. He said one of the chiefs said "You still have my lighter!!"
Another pilot rescued by a submarine was George H.W. Bush. He spent more than a few nights on it after his rescue.
My snoring wouldn't work in that environment. 😂
Ha. I could never be a submariner, I'd be launched out of a torpedo tube before the first day was out. But it would take weeks for the atmosphere to clear within the boat.
My dad was stationed aboard the SSBN-642 USS Kamehameha, and he said that about half the men were snorers. The sounds of the propellers spinning and the engines working, plus the air circulating, do wonders for drowning that out. Also, remember, entire crew is on one shower a week, snoring is the least of your issues.
Miss are you Navy?....do they put both male and females on the same sub together?
No. She is a curator at the Intrepid Museum Complex in New York, NY where the former USS Growler is open for tours. And while it is not common yet, the U.S. Navy has put a small group of female sailors on a few active submarines.
I wanted to see how you got into one of those bunks
That's what I thought. No ladders. How do you get into the top bunk without treading on the four men under you?
@@Nooziterp1 : you treaded on those under you. You live with it, it’s part of submarine life.
Salute to Bubbleheads!
Whats up with her voice, sounds like she has a cold.
Sincerely hope this sub had a few UK port calls.
What a name for a submarine.
I bet all the British people are laughing their asses off right now. 🤣
Guffaw Guffaw 😁🤣Woof Woof
@gregakablackie ---> Submarines were named after fish species. A Growler is a Largemouth Bass fish.
Definitely fishy
@@nickps4894 😂
@@nickps4894 🤣
Nice video! Thank you.
Snorers must be real popular on a submarine! 😋
Very cool video. Thanks!
What do you think her crank smells like after a 90 day cruise underwater?
I'd love to also hear about the food served.
A Growler in the UK means 2 things. 1, a victoriana era 4 seater taxi, 2, a woman's 70s bush.
Glad I'm not the only one thinking that 😂
@@MisterSandsfirst thing I thought of to.😅😅
@@MisterSands Pervs love company?
I feel I was mislead by the title of this video…
Thanks for the laugh. Needed that.
can you imagine being aboard a submarine with this woman that speaks in vocal fry all the time?
I bet it must’ve been fishy sleeping in a growler
This is why submariners are volunteers to the job not assigned.
They also have to do psych tests. My dad was a submariner and told a couple of stories about guys not handling the confinement very well.
Wow, it can't be easy to get a good night's sleep when the Growler is full of seamen!
You know, TH-cam _has_ a built-in closed caption function. You don't need to overlay the CC text right on top of the video itself.
you have a bed, so what is the issue...
Her ‘vocal fry’ made this very hard to listen to.
That's from waitressing and/or serving lots of coffee, I think.
Screws,not propellers
My dad was on the USS Ticonderoga 67-70... for a ship that big he said the bunks weren't any bigger and you still shared.
If I do a tour on this sub, I am going to bring a growler on board.
I’m claustrophobic just watching this
As a Brit I was so tempted! But I will refrain from the jokes many of my countryfolk have already waxed lyrical upon in the comments! One of those glorious times when UK and US English ae the same languages until suddenly they very much are not 🤣.
Not that we can really say much about ship names as we have had some... unfortunate ones in the past.
Hell we named an entire 294 ship class after flowers....
I was thinking the same mate.🇬🇧
I was going to comment that as a Brit I smirked every time she said "Growler" - but I see many of my countrymen have made it in before me.
Has anyone done the joke?
When I'm in a Growler, the wood is all real.
Breh they letting vocal fry in the navy now
90 to 100 MEN. Not crew members, we are not hurting anyone's feelings since this submarine has not ever seen a woman on it in its operational heyday.
100 sailors sailed out to sea. 50 couples came back….lol
Why put annoying "music" onto the soundtrack?
The Intrepid museum is worth a visit to NYC. Great museum with great staff. Really impressive
You can forget the rest of the city, it's all overpriced shit
Stacked 4 deep?! We were only 3 deep on surface ship. 😂
I was on the Flying Fish SSN 673 had to hot rack, it was gross.
I couldn’t do it. The brave souls who do are diehards for sure.
Yep, I always preferred being assigned a rack in the Torpedo Room. I didn't have to share a rack and I had quick access to the Lower Crews Head.
Also, I get to tell sea-stories about sleeping next to multi-kiloton nuclear warheads............
Neptune watch over our Bubbleheads 💙
"Enlisted birthing quarters", is this where they have their babies?
berth vs birth -- Nowadays there are sailors having babies, and readiness takes a back seat to political correctness and keeping the politicians (including the ones in uniform) happy.
Not birthing, berthing.
@@TK-593 Jeez, really?
I have a difficult time sleeping on a bed that isn’t still warm
Oh hell no, (claustrophobic🤣).
Did you get to launch a torpedo? I would insist on that! 😁
Thank you Navy! This retired USAF wasn’t built for the Sea! 🫡🇺🇸🏴☠️
Growler in Uk Slang is a hairy lady garden.
What about the USS Ponce?
What is with the voice that seems to be the rage now, the vocal fry thing. It's awful. Growler is an appropriate name.
Voice rust.
Imagine the room on the Hunley...
That's crazy. Where would one go to "Jack It"? Asking for a friend.....
'Growler'... Who's idea was THAT?
It's an American submarine. Whoever named it was likely unaware of the British slang.
"Growler" here in UK means something quite different!
No idea what you mean. But it looks like this Growler can hold a few torpedoes