LittleSister
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Still probably cheaper to do it in an airliner.
What is your motivation for crossing the Atlantic is rather crucial to the choice of mode of transport. Nearly as important as which type of discomfort you prefer!
You don’t need to be a millionaire to cross the Atlantic
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Still probably cheaper to do it in an airliner.
What is your motivation for crossing the Atlantic is rather crucial to the choice of mode of transport. Nearly as important as which type of discomfort you prefer!
capnsensible
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If you got a million a trip.....
By air I would have 5 million
By submarine, 3 million
By yacht, 12 million.
Shame.
Frogmogman
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Quite a big if.If you got a million a trip.....
By air I would have 5 million
By submarine, 3 million
By yacht, 12 million.
Shame.
Stemar
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For £12,000,000, I'd set off tomorrow in Jazzcat.If you got a million a trip.....
By air I would have 5 million
By submarine, 3 million
By yacht, 12 million.
Shame.
Mind you, I'd probably take the canals through France to avoid Biscay, and I'm not saying how long I'd take
Romeo
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I have pals who have done it fairly cheaply in a rowing boat. However I think I could do it cheaper, quicker and in more comfort with Cunard. I love coastal cruising, but see no need to cross an ocean in anything so small that it does not have a ballroom.
Wansworth
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No garante you won’t get your socks wet
Cerebus
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Via your avatar and your post, you have been a submariner.If you got a million a trip.....
By air I would have 5 million
By submarine, 3 million
By yacht, 12 million.
Shame.
This may be too personal a question in which case you will ignore it…
But you have completed 3 ‘trips’ via submarine and MANY more by boat.
But were the submarine trips very long in duration?
How long were you in the service?
I know a youngster who went into the service at 16 but quit after some time ( not sure how long). Don’t know why he quit.
I can only imagine (and probably be incorrect) what it is like to serve in a submarine.
I have enjoyed visiting museum piece submarines; Chatham Dockyards- the MOST incredible periscope with the MOST FANTASTIC clarity of optics.
And a mini submarine at Duxford (the mini sub is no longer there alas - that looked really cramped).
I have read in fascination a little about their exploits.
Brave warriors imo. as are / were all (we have just celebrated Remembrance Day) - but submariners stand a bit apart from other services perhaps? I am only going by tv and the very little I have seen via two museum exhibits and a little reading.
capnsensible
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We know a lady who will be setting off again for the 4th time......
capnsensible
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Pay is good.
Frogmogman
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May I recommend a visit to HMS Alliance at the Submarine Museum in Gosport? If for nothing else, it is remarkable as the first submarine my dad served on, back in 1947 when it was a brand new boat and he was a brand new officer.
He was the 1st Lieutenant on HMS Tally Ho when she crossed the Atlantic submerged the whole way in 1954, only the second ever submarine to do so. Photographed here by the Glasgow Herald bringing her alongside at the and of the voyage (aged 26).
Wansworth
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No garante you won’t get your socks wetm
DownWest
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I visited a place in N London to buy a scuba cylinder. Got talking to the owner, who recognised my voice on the phone from several years previous, when he had a second hand car place at Rye House, just by our trailer shop..
The shop was a secondary business to their N Sea diving work and he was involved in the search of the Fjord were the X craft attact the German Battleship.
He said the Fjord was littered with debris from the assorted aircraft that had tried to disable it and they found, and salvaged, two of X craft, one complete, the other flattened by depth charges. I think the complete one is the IWM at Duxford.
The shop was a secondary business to their N Sea diving work and he was involved in the search of the Fjord were the X craft attact the German Battleship.
He said the Fjord was littered with debris from the assorted aircraft that had tried to disable it and they found, and salvaged, two of X craft, one complete, the other flattened by depth charges. I think the complete one is the IWM at Duxford.
Cerebus
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The x craft (that I probably mistakenly called a mini sub further up this thread) is no longer at Duxford - at least not on display - at least it was not last year or perhaps the year before.
It was on display many years ago. Rust covered. Partly crushed I think, but one could enter and view the cramped conditions - my oh my - such CRAMPED conditions !
I was full of wonder and respect.
