Oct. 20, 2025

I Don't Do Nautical Things: Submarine R-14

I Don't Do Nautical Things: Submarine R-14
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Stuck 100-plus miles off Hawaii with dead engines and a silent radio, a 1919 submarine shouldn’t have had a chance. Ours did. We walk through the improbable rescue of USS R-14—how a small crew turned hammocks into sails, bunk bed frames into a mast, and a steel cigar into a wind-powered lifeboat. From the first gust that nudged them to one knot, to the clever moment they used spinning propellers to charge their batteries, this is grit and creativity at sea, told with a cold beer in hand.

We set the stage with R-14’s specs and life aboard: cramped width, diesel-electric power, and a conning tower that doubled as a bridge. Then we trace the urgent search for the missing tug USS Conestoga, the fuel contamination that left R-14 bobbing like a cork, and the decision to sail a submarine back to land. Step by step, we break down how the crew rigged multiple sails from blankets and canvas, used a torpedo loading crane as a support, and coaxed the boat toward Hilo Harbor at a patient two knots. It’s a masterclass in seamanship and problem-solving under pressure.

The story widens with Conestoga’s mystery. For 95 years, no one knew where it went. In 2016, NOAA confirmed the wreck near the Farallon Islands, just off San Francisco, pointing to a brutal gale shortly after departure. That revelation reframes the search effort without dimming R-14’s feat. We close with the sub’s later years training sub-hunters in Key West, a friendly-fire scare, and a quiet decommissioning in 1945. Along the way we keep things human, fun, and sharp—naval history, survival tactics, and the kind of ingenuity that never goes out of style.

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00:00 - Banter, Lumbar Support, And Beers

02:25 - Listener Note: Tunguska Pronunciation

03:45 - Beer Show-And-Tell: Hot Dog Lager & Nosferatu

10:21 - Setting The Stage: Why R-14 Matters

12:20 - R-14 Specs, Design, And Crew Life

22:02 - Training Role And Early Service In Hawaii

25:30 - The Conestoga Vanishes

30:20 - R-14 Runs Out Of Fuel At Sea

34:05 - Bedsheets To The Rescue: Rigging Sails

41:00 - Charging Batteries With Spinning Propellers

45:20 - Landfall At Hilo And Aftermath

49:10 - What Really Happened To Conestoga

56:40 - R-14’s Long Career Through WWII

01:03:05 - Friendly Fire Scare Off Key West

01:06:40 - Decommissioning, Legacy, And Toasts

01:12:55 - Wrap-Up And Listener Callouts

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Oh, hey there.

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Oh, hey there.

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Started first.

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How are you?

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I'm the history buffoons.

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So am I.

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I'm Bradley.

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I'm Kate.

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I am well.

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And we are the History Buffoons.

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As said previously in this exchange.

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I am well too.

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Thank goodness.

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I was I was nervous.

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I was on the edge of my seat.

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I'm really not.

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I'm all the way back for lumbar support, but um, either way.

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That is so important.

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Well, you would know you're a licensed massage therapist.

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I have to have lumbar support all the time now because my car too.

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My pelvis is tilted anteriorly, so towards the front.

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So I have a little curve in my back and it is painful.

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And you got this confirmed because you work at a chiropractic office giving massages for because you're an LMT, and you had you get services through your work, which is great, and you had that confirmed.

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It's like, well, that makes sense.

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That makes sense.

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That's why I'm hurting.

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That makes so much sense.

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Yeah, so no, I I get it.

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That's lumbar is important.

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It's funny.

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My I had my mom and my brother and my niece over was it two weeks ago or give or take.

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And my mom hasn't been to my house in a long time.

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Not because I don't like my mom, it's just didn't work with my dad.

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You visit her.

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I visit her well more than they come down here.

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Yeah.

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Because we live about 45 minutes away from each other.

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And so they came down.

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My brother picked her up because she just doesn't really drive long distances anymore, and that's fine.

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But um, she had never seen my couches, and they all have lumbar support that you can use.

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And so I put it on, she's like, Oh, that's nice.

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Like, yes, yes, it is.

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Oh my.

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I'm like, you can put your legs up.

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She's like, No.

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I'm like, you can put lumbar.

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She's like, Yes.

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I'm like, all right.

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I remember sitting at my um breakfast bar, I guess, part of the kitchen, you know.

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At your parents?

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Yeah.

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And my mom would come up and just shove her finger into our back so we would be like, whoop, and like set up straight.

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She knew what she was doing.

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Well, okay.

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Thanks, Moi.

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Oh, and real quick, I wanted to mention that someone had corrected us on the pronunciation.

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Of Tungusta.

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Yes.

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Is that how it was sent to us?

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Well, our last origin of weird was on the Tungusta um event.

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Yeah.

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Which is um pronounced Tungusta, and I said Tungusta.

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So um there was a a person in South Carolina who said it was Tungusta, so thank you very much.

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Myrtle Beach.

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Okay.

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Represent.

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No, we actually, even though I was correcting us, which I'm perfectly fine with, I'm super fucking happy.

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We got a fan mail.

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I'm like, sweet.

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Thank you, random person.

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I have the weirdest looking beer ever.

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Alright, so can I start this off?

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Even though I just said I have the weirdest looking beer ever?

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I didn't say I was gonna start off with my beer.

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Can I talk about it?

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Yeah, for this fuck's sake.

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Jesus Christ.

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So we as anyone who might listen to this podcast, tell we love you.

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Thank you very much.

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I like to get random beers for us, and so does Kate, for podcasting.

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I've seen this one before.

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Yours.

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Okay.

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I've seen this one before, and I'm like, and I walked past it again twice.

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I thought about it the first time, I went and looked at other stuff, and I'm like, no, I'm getting that.

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And it's funny, so I saw this and I picked this specifically out for Kate and read and show what you got.

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It's called hot dog lager.

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But you gotta read the rest of it too.

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Made for hot dogs, not with them.

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So does that mean like beer brats kind of a thing?

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Or are you calling me a hot dog?

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That'd be weird.

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But what it what it means is have a hot dog and a beer.

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That sounds delicious, doesn't it?

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Okay, so the back of my beer says, Well, hot dog.

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What we have here is delightfully light, crispy goodness that is an American, as American as hot dogs in baseball, brewed with the finest barley, corn, and rice to lend a distinctive light body, and a healthy dose of Hallertoe.

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Hallertoe hops.

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Hallertoe hops for that satisfying zip on the finish.

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Yep.

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So it is gluten removed.

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Uh either way.

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For for those who need to know, from Greendale, Wisconsin.

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Yep.

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It's so it's a local beer.

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What where's Greendale?

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Uh, it's uh roughly 30 or so give or take minutes east-ish, a little north of where I am, I live and where we are recording this right now.

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So, like near-ish Madison, or not quite that far east.

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I I said east.

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Madison is west.

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That's right.

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Towards the lake, Lake Michigan.

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Where's north?

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That way.

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East is behind me.

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Okay, let's talk about your beers.

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Madison is over there.

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Anyways.

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So I used to sell this beer, and I'm pretty sure you know this.

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I love vampires.

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Vampires are one of my favorite creatures of the night and all that.

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Dracula.

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Dracula.

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I love Dracula.

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Which brings me into my beer.

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Nosferatu.

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Sorry.

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So you can see that.

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It's by Great Lakes Brewery.

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Uh Brewing Company, sorry.

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They're out of idea.

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They're out of Ohio.

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Great Lakes?

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah.

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I mean, they're all over here.

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Well, but I guess I didn't know they had that one.

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Yeah.

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It's they make some pretty good beers.

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Is this like a Halloween or fall-ish?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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It's a it's a release this time of year because of Halloween and so on.

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Yeah.

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Uh, but it's a double red IPA.

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It's eight percent.

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Holy shit! Yeah, it's got some kick to it.

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Uh, but it's funny.

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So in my shitty old age, I'm gonna read you this.

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Now playing, sink your teeth into a rich, roasty, red double IPA with a frighteningly delectable hop bite.

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Oh, like I said, eight percent bite.

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I'll take a bite out of that.

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One of my favorite movies is Nosferatu, which is the the original.

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Okay, the original.

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But the new one?

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Oh my gosh! So good.

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So good.

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Um I loved the new Nosferatu.

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Oh my god, I just lost his name.

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The kid who played Nosferatu.

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He played Pennywise.

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Pennywise and it.

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Uh Skarsgard.

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Yeah, what's what's his first name though?

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I am so drawn up like goddamn.

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Steven Star Steven Stefan.

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Starsgard.

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Star is it Stefan?

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Skard.

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Because Alexander's his older brother.

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Stellan.

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Stellan.

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That's goddamn.

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Okay.

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Bill Skarsgard is like the big famous guy.

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He's the matriarch.

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Alexander Starsgard is from True Blood.

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Well, he's from more than that, but yes.

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Yes, Stellen.

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Did you know that Alexander Skarsgard is from uh oh my god, uh, Zoolander?

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Uh-uh.

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He's in that movie.

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Stellan Skarsgard is Pennywise.

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Pennywise, yes.

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Who is Nosferatu, and he is brilliant.

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And I I like him a lot.

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He is fantastic.

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Weird throaty thing he did with the voice.

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So great.

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And if you have not seen the new Nosferatu, go see it.

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Go see it.

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It's it's lovely.

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It's worth at least a watch.

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Okay.

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I kind of want to watch that now.

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Same.

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Let's let's crack this open.

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Cheers to us, History Buffoons.

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Cheers.

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Cheers.

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Ooh, interesting.

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Gosh, it tastes like hot dogs.

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Hot dog flavored water and that's the worst.

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Chocolate starfish in a hot dog flavored water.

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That's a lip mist could help them.

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No, I'm kidding.

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It's good.

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Yeah, I like that.

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How how light is it for being a light logger?

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It's light.

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It's light.

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Yeah, it's like it's like a bed light, cooers light.

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Yeah, definitely.

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It's that bad.

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Oh, sorry.

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No, it's good.

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No, I I figured it would be on the lighter side, but I I just thought it was funny because it's hot dog logging.

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Hot dog.

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So I had to get that for you.

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Yeah, that was great.

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Um, so I have two of these, and then we've also mentioned I'm so jealous.

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Why?

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Because you have this and I don't in front of me.

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No, I have more for us.

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Oh, good.

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I just have one.

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Okay.

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Well, you're just you're interrupting.

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Sorry.

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All right.

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What do you got for me today?

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Tell the people what they want to hear.

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We got more of that.

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Was it called Domingo?

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Domingo?

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Uh yeah, Domingo.

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We so we sampled this on the last.

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Um I think my parents would like that.

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They might.

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It's a paloma grapefruit paloma, which is kind of redundant because all palomas are grapefruit, as far as I'm concerned.

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I could be wrong because I'm a little wrong a lot.

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Anyways, um, we had that on uh I think we had New Belgium last episode.

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But we had some of those that came in a variety pack and they were so good.

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Yeah, so we had pleasantly surprised.

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We had a variety pack and we chose two other ones for our last podcast.

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Yep.

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And this one was part of it, and we're like, oh shit, this is delicious.

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And we were kind of disappointed that like we're just hanging out talking about the podcast, and we had we we shared these uh because it came with three, and I think yes, I had to, you had to, I don't remember even, but we're like, oh my god, these are really good.

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Yeah.

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So when I was it's like an ale fresca.

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So good.

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But so we tried something else too, because just to compare it, because we couldn't find a six pack of this because where we were looking just didn't have it.

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Um we tried something else, it was very good, but I like this one better.

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Yeah.

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So when I was looking for beers for the for us for today's episode, I saw that I'm like, I gotta pick a six pack up because we were we were trying to after we had these, they were so good.

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I feel like we're rambling.

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Let's get into it.

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We are gonna go back to World War II because it is my favorite era to learn about.

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But this one is um strictly about a submarine sandwich.

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Oh, that does sound good.

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That sounds delicious.

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We're gonna go aboard the USS R14.

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R14.

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Yes.

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So on a scale of one to ten, and I might even put like a meter on the screen for this.

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Depressing level, where are we at?

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Seven.

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Oh fuck.

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That high?

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Oh, sorry, three.

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Okay, Jesus Christ.

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Do you not know how scales work?

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Ten is the highest.

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I would say about a three.

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So the majority of this is gonna be about the the USSR 14, which is a zero on your scale, but there is a little side story that could be like it could you know.

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It bumps it up, and then the average is like a three.

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So, like if there if we associate it with like a a uh earthquake, it would bump it up three on the Richter scale kind of thing with that side story.

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It was a bad analogy.

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I wanted to move on.

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Okay, so the USSR 14 was an R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine.

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I never would have guessed the R part of it with the name, but all right.

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It was commissioned in 1919 just after World War One.

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Wow, okay.

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Okay, so she was not a giant submarine um by submarine standards.

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Yeah, it was about 186 feet long and 18 feet wide.

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Okay.

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On the surface, she okay.

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The amount of additional research I had to do about boats in general is massive.

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Okay.

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Sure.

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So some of the things that I'm talking about, I have an explanation for because I like I didn't know what that meant.

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No, that's I mean, I'm glad you looked into it because I probably will have questions.

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So stop moving.

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So she displaced about 570 tons.

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Now, what the fuck does that mean?

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It means the submarine weighed enough to push aside 570 tons of seawater when floating.

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So, like going, going, and this is submerged?

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Is that right?

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This is above water.

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Oh, so they're at the the sea level, whatever.

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Okay, okay.

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So it's basically the water being pushed aside.

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Think about like the movie Titanic when they show the ship moving and the water just kind of spoke.

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Yeah, and they're and the dolphins are like, I'm trying to keep up, I'm trying to keep up, I'm trying to keep up.

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Anyways, so it's basically like that.

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Yes, so it displaced about 570 tons.

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Now, when submerged, yeah, it displayed 680 tons.

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That's quite a bit more.

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It is still considered lightweight compared to other submarines.

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So do you have another class to compare it to or no?

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No.

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Okay, cool.

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No, yeah, that seems like something that would be just additional fleets displaced more.

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So 1919.

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Wow.

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So submarines can adjust their weight by filling or emptying the ballast ballast tanks, exactly, with seawater.

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Yep.

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So when diving, the tanks would fill with water, therefore heavier, therefore, more tons of water displaced.

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Sure, that makes sense.

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Yeah, because they have to fill it up to sink and they release it to float.

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So yeah.

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So the R14 was powered by two diesel engines.

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That's wild to think about.

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Yeah.

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Where did the exhaust go?

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When they're underwater.

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Does it just go into the water?

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Into the water?

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I wonder.

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Right?

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Isn't that don't wouldn't you think that's kind of weird?

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Because like I mean, it wouldn't have reached surface.

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So yeah.

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It's not like they have an exhaust pipe to go up that far.

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No, nor would they have that in their submarine.

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No.

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So that's I won I wonder how that worked.

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I'm I'm not looking, I don't want you to look it up right now.

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I'm just curious.

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Yeah.

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So uh so it was powered by two diesel engines, okay, driving generators, and battery-powered electric motors.

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So it was a standard diesel electric setup.

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Crazy.

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Okay.

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So this gave her a top speed of about 13 and a half knots on the surface, which is about 15 and a half miles per hour.

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Gotcha.

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So about two miles per hour more than knots.

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So that's how you figure out that we don't know.

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We're not sure.

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But 10 and a half knots submerged, so maybe it's around 12 and a half miles per hour.

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That's not exactly right.

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But either way.

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So obviously it makes sense why it's slower or submerged because it's got more drag with the water and everything.

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Yeah.

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And it's it's not a 100% cylinder because there's obviously a tower on the top and so on.

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It is a tower, which we are gonna talk about.

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Oh, nice.

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Yes, but obviously that's gonna create more drag underwater because when you're above water, it's more or less just the cylinder portion, not the tower.

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So yeah, I get why it would slow down, but could you imagine that's still gotta be pretty quick, even underwater?

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So aerodynamics.

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Wow.

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So depth-wise, yes, she was built to dive around 200 feet.

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Wow, okay.

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Yeah, which is about 61 meters.

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Okay.

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Safely.

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She can go lower.

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It ain't so safe.

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Not so safely.

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She had four torpedo tubes.

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I love I love how our first episode comes back to us once in a while.

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Torpedo tubes.

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Torpedo tubes.

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And she had a three-inch deck gun on the bow.

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Okay.

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Bow?

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Bow, not the bow.

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Oh, sorry.

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I don't do nautical things.

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The bow.

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Spelled like bow.

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So can that be our title?

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I don't I don't do nautical things.

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That's the front runner in my book right now.

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And I know we got a ways to go, but that's fantastic.

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So the R-14 was modestly armed.

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Okay.

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Because it was for training.

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So it had a gun on the bow and then torpedo tubes.

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Or it had torpedo tubes and a bow gun.

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But anyways, what else did it have?

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Is that it?

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That's pretty much it.

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Okay.

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Um, yeah, so um submarines heard they often weren't engaged in targets on the surface.

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I mean they're they're meant for they're meant for underwater warfare.

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Yes.

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Obviously.

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They're meant for stealth because they're underwater and it's hard to fucking see.

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You're like, I'm gonna get that boat.

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Boat.

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I'm gonna fill up my torpedo tubes.

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Okay, so the R-14, yeah.

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It had a crew of two officers and 27 enlisted men.

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Seamen?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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So 29 people crammed in this 186-foot sub.

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Do you know what I always really find funny?

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Like, especially in like old older timey movies, even like Pirates of the Caribbean kind of thing, like had 29 souls on that ship.

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Yeah.

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I just always find that funny.

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But anyway, sorry.

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So let's just say the living conditions weren't that great.

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You would say they're not ideal.

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Not ideal.

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No, because that's pretty cramped quarters.

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You said 18 feet wide.

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I'm like, if I laid down three times, I am longer than that.

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By nine inches.

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So I I'm tall, but holy fuck, because obviously it's just not a cylinder and nothing in it.

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There's other shit in here.

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Lots of stuff in there.

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That's just its fucking width with other stuff in there.

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Oh, I couldn't imagine, like, excuse me, I gotta use the John.

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Yeah.

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Gotta hit the head.

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You know what I'm saying?

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That's that's a saying to go to the bathroom.

00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:52.799
But, anyways, um that's what my dad always said, because he was a navy manager.

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He was a navy manager.

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Yep.

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But I was gonna reach for my beer, but it's in the turn of my legs.

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Well, you know, I mean so in 1920s subs.

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What?

00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.720
In nineteen twenties, submarines.

00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:11.759
Okay, because that sounded weird the first time you said it.

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I'm like, wait, what?

00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:15.680
Luxury, quote unquote, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Meant having a small electric fan.

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Oh god.

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So was it pretty steamy inside?

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Super steamy.

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There's no air conditioning.

00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:31.519
Um, they were intended for coastal defense, meaning that they weren't designed for very long voyages, right?

00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:32.000
That makes sense.

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Far out at sea.

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Sure.

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Okay.

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That makes sense.

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So they had a range of about 3,700 nautical miles at 10 knots on the surface.

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Okay.

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I said 10 and a half earlier.

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10, yeah.

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Give or take.

00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:58.880
So enough to get around like the Pacific Islands or along a coast, but small fuel storage compared to like longer, large, excuse me, larger ocean going ships or subs.

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Yes.

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So or or whatever.

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Whatever.

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Nautical things.

00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:08.240
So you know, nautical things.

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Nautical things.

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Oh so the USS R 14 was built as like a stubby workhorse.

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It was reliable in coastal waters, but never meant to like circumnavigate the globe.

00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:21.519
Obviously not.

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It was meant for short range, more or less.

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Yes, basically.

00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:26.319
And what did you say?

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Stubby what?

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Workhorse?

00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:34.079
Yeah, I think stubby workhorse is second in line for the title.

00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:35.839
Stubby workhorse.

00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:39.039
The R14, stubby workhorse.

00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:44.160
So to visualize R14.

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Um picture like a steel cigar.

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Sure, yeah.

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Okay.

00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:57.200
Yes, with like and then it had like a little coning tower.

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Now, a coning tower, C O N N I N G coning.

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Yeah.

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It's basically the submarine's bridge.

00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:05.599
Oh, sure.

00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:05.920
Okay.

00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:09.519
So the race section you would see like sticking up from the hull.

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So, and you can obviously only use this set bridge when you're at surface.

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Surface, yeah.

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Okay.

00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:16.640
Surface level, yeah.

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Yes.

00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:23.200
So this is where the periscope, the compass, and controls for steering and driving were located in early submarines.

00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:24.000
Okay, sure.

00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:24.799
Yeah, yeah.

00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:30.079
So as I said earlier, she had a diesel electric engine system.

00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:30.640
Yep.

00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:35.680
Diesel for surface cruising and electric batteries for underwater.

00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:37.839
Well, that kind of answers what I said before.

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Where does the exhaust go?

00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:40.960
But they only they only use the electric.

00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:43.200
Oh, okay.

00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:44.319
That makes more sense, though.

00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:45.119
It makes more sense.

00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:46.480
I didn't read ahead.

00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:48.480
Well, that that always makes sense.

00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:54.400
But no, that makes sense because obviously surface going, diesel, they have the exhaust, so on.

00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:57.119
When they submerge, use the electric.

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Okay.

00:21:58.319 --> 00:21:59.519
That totally makes sense.

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It does make sense.

00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:02.079
You know what else makes sense?

00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:02.720
Beer.

00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:05.839
Going to the bathroom after having beers.

00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:11.920
So we're back.

00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:13.920
I had to take a pee.

00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:15.599
Um back again.

00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:21.920
I when I was washing my hands, I noticed somewhere I have a I have a a mark.

00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:22.799
Other side.

00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:23.839
This this side.

00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:25.920
Your cup cupper cup cupping side?

00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:26.319
Yeah.

00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:32.000
So if we're watching on YouTube, this is a cupping mark, not a hickey.

00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:35.039
No, we we've we've talked about it before, haven't we?

00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:35.440
Yeah.

00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:40.960
I had like a major knot in my upper trap here, and cupping just helps me so much.

00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:42.559
So that's a cupping mark.

00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:46.880
No, and that's one thing I love about you being a licensed massage therapist.

00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:48.400
You know, we've talked about it.

00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:51.119
My arm uh fucked up with my son.

00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:55.039
Well, um literally next month will be seven fucking years.

00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:56.400
Uh, it's still hers.

00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:02.880
I literally can feel it right now, and I'll have you cut my arm from time to time because it helps relieve that muscle for a bit.

00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:05.119
Not forever, obviously, but for a bit.

00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:06.640
Yeah, it's a good modality.

00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:08.640
Yeah, no, we've we've talked about that.

00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:09.599
So okay.

00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:11.359
So yes.

00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:16.559
So as I said, diesel for surface cruising and electric batteries for underwater.

00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:18.000
That makes so much more sense now.

00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:19.039
So yeah, okay.

00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:24.720
So on the surface, the engines um charged the batteries and propelled the ships.

00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:26.000
Sure, makes sense, yeah.

00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:31.680
While underwater, she ran on the battery power, which was standard practice then and now.

00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:34.640
Oh, they still do that to this day?

00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:35.519
Oh wow.

00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:36.640
Maybe not all of them.

00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:40.480
Well, because some are nuclear, which is a little bit different, right?

00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:41.839
Sounds intense.

00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:44.160
Or true, but okay.

00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:51.039
Her surface speed of 13 and a half knots wasn't lightning or anything, but it did beat most earlier sub.

00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:53.839
So it was still like for its time it was.

00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:55.279
For its time, it was still good, yeah.

00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:56.160
Pretty good, yeah.

00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:06.000
So a there's a photograph from 1921 who that actually shows a crewman casually working on bow planes, and I'll insert a picture here.

00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:07.200
Bow planes, okay.

00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:09.680
Bow planes on the um nope.

00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:15.359
Bow planes or nautical and things.

00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:17.440
Bow planes.

00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:21.359
A crewman working on bow planes.

00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:27.279
It's spelled like bow, and I've always heard it as bow because I'm not a nautical person who says bow.

00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:30.960
So here's the thing with that.

00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:34.000
It's clearly bow.

00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:36.720
But I read bow.

00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:39.359
That's that sounds like a you problem.

00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:44.160
Maybe if I typed it out as B-A-U-G-H, I would say bow.

00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:46.079
No, you'd be like bugger.

00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:49.680
Boogie?

00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:53.359
This is so funny because you laughed at that.

00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:54.319
That was great.

00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:56.880
He he worked on the booger.

00:24:57.359 --> 00:25:00.559
Okay, so the the bowel planes are horizontal.

00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:01.519
Did I say it wrong?

00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:02.640
No, you said it right.

00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:05.200
I just thought it was funny that you actually got it right.

00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:07.200
That's why I laughed.

00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:15.599
The bow planes are horizontal fins mounted near the front or the bow of the submarine.

00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:16.079
Right.

00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:18.960
So they like come off the the front.

00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:19.359
Okay.

00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:22.640
So these are actually planes that like take off from the submarine?

00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:23.039
Nope.

00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:23.839
They're fins.

00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:26.000
Oh, fins on the submarine.

00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:26.960
Oh, I'm sorry.

00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:35.200
Is it just literally because it looks like an airplane if you look at it kind of thing?

00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:35.759
Yeah.

00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:36.160
Okay.

00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:39.359
Um, they work like airplane wings, but underwater.

00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:40.240
Right, right, right, right.

00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:41.759
Okay, that makes more sense now.

00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:42.000
All right.

00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:45.599
Instead of controlling altitude in the sky, they control depth in the water.

00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:46.079
Yes.

00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:46.640
Okay.

00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:53.519
So this guy had no harness, no safety line while the sub was basically running.

00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:57.759
So the safety standards back then were pretty well.

00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:00.960
This is pre-OSHA because radium girls, but anyways.

00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:02.400
Exactly right.

00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:06.400
So tough men on these boats.

00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:08.240
They did a thing or two.

00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:09.759
Can I interject real quick?

00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:13.039
I love that we can reference other episodes.

00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:16.640
That's how long we've done this so far, and I've enjoyed every single one of them.

00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:17.200
Perfect.

00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:17.759
I'm glad.

00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:19.200
So, anyways.

00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:26.000
So, despite the R14's small size, it did play a role in advancing submarine tactics.

00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:26.240
Okay.

00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:26.720
Really?

00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:36.480
So after commissioning, she sailed to from excuse me, from New England to the Pacific Fleet, arriving at Pearl Harbor in September of 1920.

00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:37.359
Oh, wow.

00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:38.079
Yeah.

00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:41.039
So just within a year from being within a year.

00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:42.319
Like built, basically.

00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:43.200
Okay, wow.

00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:49.839
So she participated in exercises to improve submarine warfare techniques and anti-submarine tactics.

00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:50.400
Sure.

00:26:50.480 --> 00:27:03.200
Um, the R-14 had other sister subs in the R class that helped Navy figure out how to use um the subs better, how to sink them, um, during like the intra-war period, so peacetime period.

00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:04.880
They're like going through all of this.

00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:07.119
It's between one and two, obviously.

00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:11.839
I mean, I mean, two didn't really well, especially for us, didn't start for 22 years at this point.

00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:12.559
Exactly.

00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:20.000
But um isn't it wild to think they were doing this over a hundred fucking years ago in a submarine?

00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:20.640
I know.

00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:25.759
Because like flight was still pretty fucking brand new at this point.

00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:29.359
Like literally, you had in World War One, you had biplanes.

00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:34.799
Like the um, I always think of Snoopy in the what what do they call him?

00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:36.160
Fuck, I'm drawing a blank.

00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:40.079
But in the Red Baron, you know, all that stuff, like the pizza.

00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:44.559
But it's like, holy shit, this was like literally a hundred and five years ago.

00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:46.480
That is wild to think about.

00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:53.440
That there's you had literally people a hundred and five years ago under the fucking water, and they're like, Yeah, we're cool.

00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:58.240
And here we are talking about it 105 years later, educating people.

00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:01.039
Well, me and Al.

00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:04.720
I told one of my my clients about this story.

00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:06.079
He was fascinated.

00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:06.720
Was he?

00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:12.000
Yeah, good, because we're just talking about the the the boat, not the actual action of what I'm gonna talk about.

00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:15.200
Like we're just talking about the submarine at this point.

00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:20.079
No, and it's funny because like I I told you I was training my the my new guy Brandon.

00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:27.200
He I really enjoy working with him, and he he's I got him onto our podcast, and he's like, that's pretty cool.

00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:33.759
So it's funny because like he'll he'll like make comments about did you spill me.

00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:36.640
He'll make comments.

00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:37.440
Hot dog water.

00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:38.880
Hot dog water.

00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:49.680
And uh, you know, he's it's it I like that we can, you know, yes, he knows me, so that's I feel kind of oh it's not a random person, but I still like it.

00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:50.720
It's great.

00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:51.440
Anyways.

00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:58.319
Okay, so yes, R14 also took part in occasional search and rescue operations.

00:28:58.559 --> 00:28:59.119
Where at?

00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:02.640
Um off the coast of Hawaii in the islands.

00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:03.359
Nice.

00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:11.920
So in May 1921, okay, this vessel turned into a naval legend.

00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:12.799
How so?

00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:13.440
Do tell.

00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:14.880
Oh, I will tell you.

00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:24.880
So the R-14, um this cruiser was recruited to search for a missing tugboat.

00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:26.960
A missing tugboat?

00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:29.839
The USS Conestoga.

00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:31.680
Conestoga.

00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:34.559
How important was this tugboat?

00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:38.960
Well, it had secret documents.

00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:43.920
Sorry, 56 souls.

00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:45.519
56 souls.

00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:46.400
That's a lot of souls.

00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:48.880
This is funny because that's like what pirates would say.

00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:51.920
Ah, she's got 56 souls on that.

00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:52.799
Whatever.

00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:56.559
So the Conestoga was a Navy fleet tug.

00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:58.720
Okay, an AT 54.

00:29:58.799 --> 00:29:59.839
For those who know about this.

00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:00.559
Kind of shit.

00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:07.200
And this was they were in Hawaii, or they just did stuff in Hawaii and this is not part of Hawaii.

00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:08.559
I so I'm sorry.

00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:09.039
No, that's okay.

00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:10.960
No, that's okay.

00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:13.759
So um the R-14 is in Hawaii.

00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:14.160
Correct.

00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:18.880
The Conestoga is leaving from California to Hawaii.

00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:20.319
Oh, so it's heading there.

00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:21.519
Okay, perfect, perfect.

00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:21.839
Sorry.

00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:22.880
So that's okay.

00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:29.519
So this fleet tug uh was a stout um ocean going tugboat used to tow ships and barges.

00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:30.240
Sure, sure.

00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:32.640
And it had mysteriously vanished.

00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:35.279
Like ghost ship kind of thing?

00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:37.599
Like, no.

00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:39.599
It was never found.

00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:40.240
No.

00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:41.680
It was never found.

00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.519
Did they find it eventually with the perhaps not.

00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:46.640
Maybe so.

00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:47.440
I don't know.

00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:49.279
Well s well, I do know.

00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:51.039
That's one thing I do know.

00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:51.519
Okay.

00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:55.759
I'm so proud of you for knowing something.

00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:57.680
It was part of my research.

00:30:58.000 --> 00:30:58.720
Oh, thank God.

00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:06.240
That is that is a snippet I will take and use over and over because that is the first and shut the fuck up.

00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:08.000
Wow.

00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:10.400
Oh my dear.

00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:11.039
Okay.

00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:11.680
Yes.

00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:18.079
In March of 1921, the Navy ordered the Conestoga to steam from California.

00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:19.920
Correct.

00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:20.319
Okay.

00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:27.119
Um, from California to American Samoa in the South Pacific, where it was needed as a station ship.

00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:27.680
Okay.

00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:36.319
So America Samoa, if you don't know because I didn't, is roughly halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand.

00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:36.880
Yes.

00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:39.119
So Fiji is like over there.

00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:41.839
That water is so delicious.

00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:43.200
Kidding.

00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:46.880
I have a bad story about that, but not for not for now.

00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:47.839
Enough for now.

00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:58.720
So on March 25th, 1921, the Conestoga departed San Francisco's Golden Gate, heading for Pearl Harbor for the first leg of its journey.

00:31:58.799 --> 00:32:00.960
Because like I said, they're going to American Samoa.

00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:02.480
And you're going past Hawaii.

00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:03.119
Correct.

00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:03.599
Yep, yep.

00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:07.359
So there are 56 all officers and sailors aboard.

00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:10.079
There it is.

00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:10.720
Thank you.

00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:12.960
After it left San Francisco.

00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:15.839
So 56, that's more than normal.

00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:18.240
Oh no, this is the tugboat.

00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:18.640
I'm sorry.

00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:19.039
Yeah.

00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:22.880
I'm confusing the amount of people uh on the sub compared to the tugboat.

00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:23.440
I apologize.

00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:24.000
My bad.

00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:24.799
That's okay.

00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:26.640
I can open up another beer now.

00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:27.519
Let's do it.

00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:28.400
Cheers to that.

00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:29.200
Cheers to that.

00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:31.039
Cheers to another.

00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:33.839
I'm so jealous you have the Domingo right now.

00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:34.240
I know.

00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:36.960
But I do like my little lager, my hot dog lager.

00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:37.759
Not bad, right?

00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:38.559
Yeah, like it.

00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:47.279
So I am glad I also have a domingo because if I had any more Nosferatu, I might not make it to the end of this.

00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:47.759
Okay.

00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:50.160
They are 8%, and I am feeling that.

00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:50.960
So okay.

00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:52.000
I'm glad you stopped.

00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:52.640
Okay.

00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:58.240
So after it left San Francisco, Conestoga simply never arrived at Pearl Harbor.

00:32:58.480 --> 00:32:58.799
Okay.

00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:01.759
Now, if you you've been there, yes.

00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:05.119
Pearl Harbor is on Oahu, which is not the big island.

00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:05.680
Correct.

00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:10.720
So it's like two or three in uh islands to the west.

00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:11.359
Sure.

00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:11.920
Okay.

00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:21.440
So the conestog Conestoga was set to arrive at Pearl Harbor by early to mid-April 1921.

00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:22.079
Okay.

00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:25.359
By late April 1921.

00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:27.039
No no go.

00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:28.720
No conestoga.

00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:31.839
Okay, so they're like, um, we got an issue.

00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:33.200
We have an issue.

00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:34.720
Houston, we have a problem.

00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:36.240
Alarm bells went off.

00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:42.000
The Navy launched a massive air and sea search around the Hawaiian Islands.

00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:42.480
Okay.

00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:47.519
As they assumed the tug must have like run into trouble closer to its destination.

00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:49.119
Not further away.

00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:49.920
Correct.

00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:51.119
Which is interesting.

00:33:51.359 --> 00:34:00.160
The R-14 and several other ships and submarines were assigned sectors to scour the ocean for any sign of the tug truck.

00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:00.559
Sure.

00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:01.200
Makes sense, yeah.

00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:01.759
Yeah, exactly.

00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:03.359
Like a grid system almost.

00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:03.759
Perfect.

00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:04.799
For the most, yeah.

00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:05.359
Yeah.

00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:12.800
So May 1921, the Pacific Ocean, about 100, 140 miles southeast of Hawaii.

00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:13.039
Okay.

00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:19.280
The USSR 14 is chugging along the wave on the surface on a mission to find this missing tugboat.

00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:19.679
Yeah.

00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:20.880
So it's hot.

00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:24.400
There's a tropical sun um beating down on the submarine.

00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:25.679
I have no doubt.

00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:27.519
Trouble strikes.

00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:29.519
Uh what happened?

00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:34.639
The R-14's engines sputter and die.

00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:38.800
And they're they're they're at surface level at this point.

00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:42.239
100 to 140 miles away from Hawaii.

00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:44.400
Oh, I mean, that's quite a bit.

00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:48.800
Man, if you can picture where Hawaii is, there ain't much around.

00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:51.280
There's literally nothing around.

00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:52.400
Not much.

00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:53.519
Nothing.

00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:57.519
So the sub had run out of usable fuel.

00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:01.920
It turned out that seawater had contaminated the fuel supply.

00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:02.960
Oh shit, really?

00:35:03.119 --> 00:35:03.360
Yes.

00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:05.280
And I had to figure out why.

00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:06.239
How?

00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:06.880
Okay.

00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:10.719
The USS 14 ran on diesel fuel.

00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:11.199
Correct.

00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:15.679
Stored in tanks inside the pressure pressure hole.

00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:16.239
Oh.

00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:21.039
And sometimes in external tanks called saddle tanks.

00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:21.599
Yeah.

00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:29.599
Now these external tanks were partially exposed to seawater, separated only by valves and seals.

00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:31.039
Oh shit.

00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:32.639
So did a seal break?

00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:36.320
So if a seal had no seal.

00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:39.039
And it would just allow seawater.

00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:39.679
Yes.

00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:52.400
If one valve gap gasket or fuel cap wasn't sealed perfectly, seawater could seep into the sink into the tank when the sub was submer submerged or rolling in heavier seas.

00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:53.119
Sure.

00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:54.079
Wow.

00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:55.440
That yeah, that's not good.

00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:55.840
Yeah.

00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:58.639
Because that's fucking up your gas diesel.

00:35:58.800 --> 00:35:59.039
Yeah.

00:35:59.280 --> 00:35:59.679
Right away.

00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:02.960
That was like my biggest like, how the heck did that happen?

00:36:03.039 --> 00:36:04.639
I was like, oh, seals and valves.

00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:05.679
Wait a minute.

00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:14.960
No, and and that instantly will fuck your your fuel source because it's mixing with something it obviously should not be mixing with.

00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:15.519
Nope.

00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:18.559
And is not gonna run properly or at all.

00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:19.760
Or at all.

00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:24.639
So to make matters worse, because of course they have.

00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:28.159
Well, yeah, their radio had failed.

00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:28.960
How?

00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:30.320
Oh boy.

00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:32.639
They could not call for help.

00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:33.599
Oh dear.

00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:34.320
Bad day.

00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:39.119
No engine, no radio, 100 to 140 miles from the nearest port.

00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:40.079
I like that.

00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:41.199
Bad day.

00:36:41.440 --> 00:36:42.639
Bad day.

00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:51.119
R14 was basically a 600-ton cork bobbing in the middle of the Pacific in dead ass water.

00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:55.840
So just like bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum.

00:36:56.960 --> 00:36:57.679
Jaws coming?

00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:00.079
Bottom bottom.

00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:03.760
So but they were they were at sea level.

00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:04.719
Yes.

00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:07.519
Thank goodness for that at least.

00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:08.719
Yes.

00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:09.760
Right?

00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:14.480
Well, so they use the diesel on the surface and the electricity underneath.

00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:15.039
Yes.

00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:20.880
However, they really didn't have power underneath either.

00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:31.199
Well, because the diesel generated the batteries for the electric, and if you don't have that, you're not generating energy for the batteries.

00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:33.679
The crew checked the batteries.

00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:34.159
Yeah.

00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:39.840
Electric batteries alone did not have enough juice to propel her all the way to Hawaii.

00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:41.280
So they were too far out.

00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:47.760
So to add pressure, the R14 had food food provisions for only about five days.

00:37:48.079 --> 00:37:49.039
Oh shit.

00:37:49.679 --> 00:38:00.079
So if they did nothing, they drip drift helpless help helpless helplessly, perhaps for weeks, with starvation looming.

00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:01.519
Uh cannibalism.

00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:04.719
The likely cannibalism, am I right?

00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:11.360
The likely, the likelihood of a random ship passing in this area to rescue them is basically zero.

00:38:11.760 --> 00:38:12.639
Some no none, yeah.

00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:13.039
Yeah.

00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:14.400
It was a dire situation.

00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:16.320
So they were in dire straits.

00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:17.920
Dire straits.

00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:19.039
Good band.

00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:22.400
Got my money for nothing and my chicks for free.

00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:24.719
It's such a good song.

00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:30.000
So it was at this moment that the officers and chief petty officers put their heads together.

00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:31.760
They probably hit each other, but that's fine.

00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:33.119
Well, they didn't have much room.

00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:34.159
Probably not.

00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:38.400
They decided on a solution that was pretty unorthodox for the time.

00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:39.760
The 20s?

00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:45.039
They said, let's sail back to Hawaii.

00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:47.280
So they put up a sheet?

00:38:48.159 --> 00:38:49.119
A few.

00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:52.239
Uh attention.

00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:53.199
Attention.

00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:59.840
We need all crew members, please bring your sheets.

00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:02.639
Sheets to the deck.

00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:04.559
To the to the bow.

00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:06.320
Shut up.

00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:11.039
We need to erect a sail.

00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:11.760
Okay.

00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:12.559
That is all.

00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:15.519
Desperate times call for desperate measures, right?

00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:16.719
I mean, can you blame them?

00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:17.440
Not at the end.

00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:21.119
They're trying to figure out, like, hey, we are fucked right now.

00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:23.840
And luckily, again, they're at the surface.

00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:27.679
Because I don't know if you know this, but wind doesn't blow below water.

00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:36.800
Um, so if they're erecting a sail from sheets or whatever they have, at least they're at the surface.

00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:41.199
And like you said, desperate times call for desperate measures, you gotta figure something fucking out.

00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:44.400
You're like, we are on our way to Hawaii.

00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:47.119
We're trying to get back to Hawaii.

00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:48.239
We left Hawaii.

00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:50.559
When was Hawaii a state?

00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:53.039
Not 1921.

00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:55.679
I was gonna say like 49.

00:39:56.800 --> 00:39:58.000
I was gonna say 59.

00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:01.679
Uh uh we're so wrong because we had Pearl Harbor in 42.

00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:02.639
Shut up.

00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:03.199
Okay.

00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:07.440
Why but what why such hostage?

00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:09.360
July 7th.

00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:16.000
Wait, Hawaii was officially annexed by the United States on July 7th, 1898.

00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:17.519
1898?

00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:24.079
And then they made the islands part of the United States on August 12th, 1898.

00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:27.199
That seems like that is so long ago.

00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:28.639
That is wait.

00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:31.119
When was it a state though?

00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:32.639
1898.

00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:35.760
You're saying it's annexed then, but when was it a state?

00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:36.880
Oh, here we go, here we go.

00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:39.039
Mother, I didn't I didn't keep reading.

00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:40.800
No, you did clearly did not.

00:40:41.039 --> 00:40:42.159
1959.

00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:43.280
What did I say?

00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:45.760
You said 59, I said 49.

00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:50.320
So we had Pearl Harbor, and it wasn't even a state yet?

00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:52.400
So fucking shocked I got that.

00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:54.800
Everybody is so fucking shocked.

00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:56.000
I know, I know, I know.

00:40:56.320 --> 00:40:59.840
I can't believe you're still alive right now without that knowledge.

00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:01.920
Oh my god, 1959.

00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:02.719
Look at that.

00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:04.159
Boom, boom, baby.

00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:07.760
Okay, you need to calm the fuck down that you got one thing right.

00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:12.400
Hey, Kate, can I ask you a question real quick?

00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:13.280
Don't know.

00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:14.480
When is Pearl Harbor?

00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:16.320
You were gonna say that.

00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:18.960
Tell me the date.

00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:20.880
December 7th.

00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:23.840
Only because we literally brought this up earlier.

00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:25.119
1921.

00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:28.239
She still thinks this is a sixth.

00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:28.880
Shh.

00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:32.719
She only knows it's a seventh because I corrected her earlier already today.

00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:33.360
Today.

00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:34.880
Literally today.

00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:37.280
Okay, let's let's get back to it.

00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:39.119
Okay, so I was trying.

00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:41.840
The crew immediately got to work.

00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:42.320
Okay.

00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:45.760
Improvising sails from wherever they could find.

00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:49.440
So, how did they erect like a mast?

00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:50.960
Let me tell you.

00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:51.840
I'm sorry.

00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.719
I I am the one who asks questions.

00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:58.719
You don't have to get mad at me for asking said questions.

00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:03.039
Like you could have been instead of let me tell you.

00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:04.079
Let me tell you.

00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:06.159
That's a great question, Bradley.

00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:09.840
We're not even halfway through the story.

00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:12.880
Well, I have a lot to edit out, so don't worry about it.

00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:18.719
Why I like the Italian, like, well, what's a little boot?

00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:19.679
What's it a little?

00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:22.559
I don't mean that was like Italian-Canadian, but either.

00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:32.239
So they took eight canvas hammocks and sewed them together to make a for-sale.

00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:33.519
A what?

00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:35.199
A for sale.

00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:36.159
A front.

00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:38.079
This house is for sale?

00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:39.360
F-O-R-E.

00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:42.639
S-A-A-S-A-I-L.

00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:47.119
Like for for sale.

00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:49.920
Like I'm golfing and yes, exactly.

00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:53.599
So it is a front sail that catches the wind first.

00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:54.639
I'd hope so.

00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:55.119
Okay.

00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:57.199
I hate the back ones that catch it last.

00:42:57.440 --> 00:42:59.440
For a yard arm.

00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:00.719
Yard arm.

00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:07.119
It is a horizontal pole that stretches across a ship's mass.

00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:07.599
Okay.

00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:13.199
They put together some spare pipe bunk bed frames.

00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:13.840
Oh shit.

00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:16.639
They literally took apart their dismantled their beds.

00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:17.920
They dismantled their beds.

00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:18.880
Jesus Christ.

00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:19.360
Wow.

00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:20.880
I mean, I guess it makes sense, though.

00:43:21.039 --> 00:43:21.440
It does.

00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:26.079
Because they needed everything they could use to help themselves.

00:43:26.239 --> 00:43:26.480
Yes.

00:43:26.639 --> 00:43:27.119
At this point.

00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:27.440
Okay.

00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:32.320
So they secured this pole upright to the sturdy torpedo loading crane on the foredeck.

00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:32.480
No.

00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:33.039
Torpedo.

00:43:33.199 --> 00:43:33.280
No.

00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:35.920
A torpedo loading crane.

00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:38.960
It's a small deck mounted crane.

00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:39.440
Okay.

00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:43.760
Or hoist used to lift the torpedoes into the submarine.

00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:44.639
Right, right, right, right.

00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:46.320
So I had to do all this extra research.

00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:47.679
I'm like, what's the foresail?

00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:49.760
What's the f what's a yard arm?

00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:54.000
I like how you're like, look at me, but it's like, way to go.

00:43:54.239 --> 00:43:55.519
Do your job.

00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:57.199
Anyways.

00:43:58.239 --> 00:43:58.559
Okay.

00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:06.000
So once raised, the improvised foresale actually caught the breeze.

00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:14.239
And the R14 began to creep, and I mean creep like TLC.

00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:15.119
Forward.

00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:16.639
And I creep.

00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:17.760
That was my fault.

00:44:18.239 --> 00:44:19.199
I'm sorry, everybody.

00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:20.800
I'm I apologies.

00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:23.119
She yells at me to get back on it.

00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:24.639
So let's get back on it here.

00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:29.440
So that was about one knot of speed.

00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:30.559
Oh my god.

00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:33.599
Could you imagine how slow that fucking felt?

00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:35.280
Like literally creeping.

00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:37.679
That's a very gentle walking piece.

00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:38.480
Oh my god.

00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:39.360
That's like.

00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:40.480
Yes.

00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:41.519
Let's go with that.

00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:42.079
Yes.

00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:46.800
With some forward motion, they regained rudder control.

00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:53.280
So the sub could be steered towards land instead of drifting aimlessly.

00:44:53.599 --> 00:45:00.480
So did they not have control prior to the not with no power, essentially.

00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:10.960
I mean, I guess that makes sense because uh I guess that makes sense because I don't even know what to say right now.

00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:12.320
Holy shit.

00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:14.320
Okay.

00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:16.960
I am still releasing the burp track.

00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:18.719
God damn.

00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:23.039
So the sub could be steered towards land instead of drifting aimlessly.

00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:31.920
Okay, so the crew pieced together a main sail out of six blankets, literally raiding every bunk for bedding.

00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:34.719
Well, I mean, what else are you gonna get from?

00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:36.559
I mean, you're on a fucking submarine.

00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:39.599
You'd be like, hey guys, sorry, we need this.

00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:49.599
So they hoisted this blanket sail on um the mass, which was a sturdy steel pole near the conning tower.

00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:50.880
What's the coning tower?

00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:52.000
That was the bridge.

00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:52.480
That's okay.

00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:53.519
That was the bridge.

00:45:54.239 --> 00:45:58.320
So this map, this mast wasn't always there, though.

00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:01.599
Did they have to build this as well, right?

00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:04.320
Out of bed bunk frames.

00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:05.360
That's okay.

00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:05.920
I'm sorry.

00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:07.280
Yep, yep, yep.

00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:09.360
That was me.

00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:20.559
So with the second sail catching wind, the R14 speed by jumped a whole other half knot.

00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:21.519
Half knot.

00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:25.440
We're talking about 1.5 knots in total.

00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:26.880
But you know what?

00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:29.679
That's better than zero knots.

00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:30.320
Exactly.

00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:32.800
Because they were dead in the water otherwise.

00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:35.360
And then they made a third sail.

00:46:36.320 --> 00:46:39.119
So they three fucking sails on a submarine?

00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:43.840
Three sails made out of more blankets, blankets, and hammock canvas.

00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:44.800
Wow, okay.

00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:52.800
And the third sail was tied to another jerry-rigged boom on the aft part of the tornado.

00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:53.360
Nope.

00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:54.880
Torpedo tube?

00:46:57.119 --> 00:46:57.599
I don't know.

00:46:57.679 --> 00:47:00.960
Maybe tornado tube is the title, but either way.

00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:03.519
But this added another 0.5 knots.

00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:10.559
So they're up to two we are up to two knots or approximately 2.3 miles per hour under sail.

00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:14.960
But still at water, that still feels a lot different than in land.

00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:15.920
Exactly.

00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:16.559
Wow.

00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:21.360
That's it's wild it took that much to get them even to that fast.

00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:24.880
But I mean, like you said, they had to figure out something.

00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:25.599
Exactly.

00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:27.280
Because they were stranded otherwise.

00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:40.480
So the crew who likely had minimal sailing experience are now essentially acting as deck hands on this like jerry reaged sailboat.

00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:48.639
Yeah, but at the same time, it's like, yes, they're submarine folks, but they're still seafaring people.

00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:51.119
So they adapted, right?

00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:57.519
I mean, it's just funny that it's so different, obviously, because obviously submarine underwater, typically.

00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:01.760
Yes, it can surface and so on, but it was like we are fucked.

00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:03.840
We are now sailors.

00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:04.320
Yeah.

00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:11.199
It's just it's wild to like see that like transformation, be like, we gotta do what we gotta do, guys.

00:48:11.519 --> 00:48:14.320
Get your shit, get your what was it?

00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:17.199
The bunk bed hands for the mast.

00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:19.199
Yeah, the bunk bed frames.

00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:22.960
Yeah, the frames and then the sails and stuff that had to build.

00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:28.320
I mean, good for them to like adapt, yeah, basically, because otherwise you're literally fucked.

00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:28.719
Yeah.

00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:31.679
So it was an all-hands-on-deck situation.

00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:37.440
Below decks, it was unbearable unbearably hot with no engine running.

00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:43.280
Yep, they couldn't use ventilation fans or any for any fear of like draining their battery.

00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:44.960
Yeah, that makes sense.

00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:45.519
Okay.

00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:51.119
So the ingenuity did not stop.

00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:52.719
It just sales bread.

00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:54.320
No, it did not.

00:48:54.639 --> 00:48:56.159
On May 12th.

00:48:56.480 --> 00:48:57.840
Jesus Christ.

00:48:58.159 --> 00:48:58.320
Okay.

00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:08.880
Two days into the Odyssey, some crew members noticed that the sub's twin propellers weren't working.

00:49:09.119 --> 00:49:15.519
Were slowly windmilling as the water flowed past them under the sail.

00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:21.199
They weren't being turned by power, they were being turned by the ocean.

00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:22.079
Yeah.

00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:28.960
So why not use the spinning propellers to generate electricity?

00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:30.800
Well, yeah, makes sense.

00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:31.679
Exactly.

00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:36.639
So normally a submarine's propellers spin because the engines are running.

00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:37.119
Right.

00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:39.519
And that spinning pushes the sub forward.

00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:50.320
But if the spin, if the sub is already moving because of the sails, correct, water rushes past the propellers and makes them spin.

00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:50.880
Exactly.

00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:52.960
So how do they hook those up to the battery?

00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:58.000
Somehow they hook up the propeller shafts to the generators.

00:49:58.239 --> 00:49:58.559
Yeah.

00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:02.400
And got a charge going to the batteries.

00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:03.280
That's wild.

00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:06.719
I mean, good for good for some ingenuity.

00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:06.960
Yeah.

00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:08.239
Such ingenuity.

00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:12.400
Good for somebody to recognize what what is happening.

00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:15.519
Like, hey, we got our sales going, but look at that, man.

00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:16.320
Yeah.

00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:18.239
Propellers are moving.

00:50:18.719 --> 00:50:19.840
I think we can use that.

00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:20.719
We can use that.

00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:21.519
Right?

00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:22.239
Right.

00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:24.400
Are you repeating everything I say?

00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:25.599
Are you repeating everything?

00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:26.480
Okay, stop.

00:50:26.639 --> 00:50:32.960
So anyway, so I was gonna finish, but you can interrupt and say weird shit.

00:50:33.679 --> 00:50:34.320
Go on.

00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:37.679
So it was just a small trickle of power.

00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:39.519
What?

00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:41.360
That was pretty cool, actually.

00:50:41.599 --> 00:50:42.960
I like that sound.

00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:46.880
I think that 8% is getting to you.

00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:48.320
I had a dominga.

00:50:48.719 --> 00:50:50.000
What's the the Dominga?

00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:52.079
4.5.

00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:56.000
That's uh because you had two A percents.

00:50:56.239 --> 00:50:56.960
I really got a P.

00:50:58.239 --> 00:51:00.800
You got a P break, I get a P break.

00:51:03.519 --> 00:51:10.880
So it was just a small trickle of power, but it did recharge the sub's batteries while sailing.

00:51:11.119 --> 00:51:11.840
Oh, that's good.

00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:21.840
So, in a sense, R14 became a hybrid wind electric vehicle harnessing green energy before it was ever a thing.

00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:26.559
Oh, there's so many people these days on a certain side that would be so excited about this.

00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:28.559
Good for them.

00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:41.519
Okay, so this was a lifesaver because it ensured that when they were finally near land, yeah, they would have enough battery power to like maneuver or even motor past like the last stretch.

00:51:41.760 --> 00:51:42.639
So if needed.

00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:48.960
Would they have to submerge for that power, or could they use that power when they're at surface?

00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:50.960
I think they did it at surface.

00:51:51.199 --> 00:51:52.159
Okay, fair enough.

00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:57.679
So for 64 hours over the course of five days.

00:51:57.920 --> 00:51:58.239
Yeah.

00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:00.400
64 hours, goddamn.

00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:08.000
The R-14 crew the R-14's crew nursed their their submarine sailboat towards Hawaii.

00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:08.559
Okay.

00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:13.199
It covered roughly 120 to 140 nautical miles.

00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:14.000
Jesus.

00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:17.599
At an agonizingly slow speed.

00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:18.400
Yeah.

00:52:18.639 --> 00:52:20.079
But it was steady.

00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:22.239
Steady winds are race.

00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:23.440
Look at look at the tortoise.

00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:32.559
They each day under sale eight undersale eight into their like meager food supply.

00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:33.119
Okay.

00:52:33.280 --> 00:52:36.159
But by day three, they still had a lot of ration left.

00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:39.920
So they were really, really positive that they were actually gonna make it through this.

00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:40.480
Sure.

00:52:40.719 --> 00:52:48.800
So finally on the morning of May 15th, 1921, they sighted the big island of Hawaii and approached Hilo Harbor.

00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:50.320
And they're like, thank God.

00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:51.280
Mm-hmm.

00:52:51.840 --> 00:53:02.320
So once close to port, with their batteries partially charged, they removed the sails and use the electric motors for the final approach into Hilo.

00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:03.039
Okay.

00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:03.599
Okay.

00:53:04.239 --> 00:53:10.320
After nearly three days under sale, so it was like one day there, three, you know, three days under sale.

00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:10.719
Yep.

00:53:10.960 --> 00:53:20.880
US the USS R-14 glided into Hilo under their own power, under their own battery, safe and sound.

00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:22.960
It's just while they've made it there.

00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:28.159
And the crew of the R-14 had literally saved themselves by sailing a fucking submarine.

00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:29.039
That's crazy.

00:53:29.199 --> 00:53:29.920
That is wild.

00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:36.000
It is believed to be the most unique story in the US Navy history.

00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:37.840
Well, rightly so.

00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:42.639
I mean, how many fucking people can say I sailed a submarine?

00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:43.599
Submarine?

00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:44.800
What the fuck?

00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:47.440
Because you're not supposed to do that.

00:53:47.679 --> 00:53:48.400
That ain't right.

00:53:48.800 --> 00:53:52.000
Because they're underwater vessels, if you will.

00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:52.559
Yep.

00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:57.360
And the fact that they had to sail it with literal sails.

00:53:57.760 --> 00:53:59.519
It's like, holy fuck, wait a minute.

00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:00.800
Blankets and hammocks.

00:54:01.039 --> 00:54:01.199
Yeah.

00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:02.480
What happened now?

00:54:03.679 --> 00:54:06.159
Boy, do I have a story to tell to you, sir?

00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:11.440
Buy me a pint and I will regale you with my tales of sails.

00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:16.400
After a couple dafter days in Hilo.

00:54:17.119 --> 00:54:17.679
Yes.

00:54:18.719 --> 00:54:24.800
R14's sister submarine, the USS R12, arrived.

00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:31.679
How is R14 and R12 like I feel like R12 came first.

00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:34.400
Anyway, I'm kidding.

00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:35.760
You said sister.

00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:38.639
I mean they are sisters.

00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:40.480
12 and 14.

00:54:40.559 --> 00:54:41.360
They're sisters.

00:54:41.599 --> 00:54:42.719
Where's 13?

00:54:43.280 --> 00:54:45.280
Did 13 run away to join the circus?

00:54:45.519 --> 00:54:48.000
13 is still on the lookout for the Condostoga.

00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:51.519
Oh my god.

00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:54.320
Poor poorly timed joke.

00:54:54.719 --> 00:54:58.639
So the USSR 12 arrived with fuel and supplies.

00:54:58.800 --> 00:54:59.039
Okay.

00:54:59.840 --> 00:55:03.039
So the crew refueled their sub.

00:55:03.360 --> 00:55:03.679
Okay.

00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:06.960
And got a good meal and some rest.

00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:10.639
And then they steamed back to Pearl Harbor, which is on Oahu.

00:55:11.119 --> 00:55:11.360
Yes.

00:55:11.599 --> 00:55:16.159
Under normal diesel power to get back to routine operations.

00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:18.000
You've never been to Hawaii, correct?

00:55:18.239 --> 00:55:18.880
Correct.

00:55:19.840 --> 00:55:21.199
We're going to fix that.

00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:25.360
We're going to take a buffoon trip.

00:55:25.599 --> 00:55:26.800
I'll bring my family.

00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:28.159
I've been there once.

00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:28.800
Okay.

00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:30.400
So I'm sorry.

00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:32.559
I wasn't done talking, but that's okay.

00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:38.159
So the Conestoga, unfortunately, was nowhere near Hawaii.

00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:38.800
Okay.

00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:45.440
In reality, the tugboat met disaster much closer to California.

00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:46.800
Oh, sure.

00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:48.480
But nobody knew that at the time.

00:55:48.719 --> 00:55:50.320
Of why would they though?

00:55:50.559 --> 00:55:54.480
So the R-14 and the others were looking in the wrong direction, so to speak.

00:55:54.559 --> 00:56:02.960
So they found no trace during the 10-day search around Hawaii, both with the R-14 and then others.

00:56:03.199 --> 00:56:03.519
Right.

00:56:03.760 --> 00:56:15.119
So on May 17th, 1921, a merchant ship off of the coast of Mexico discovered a battered lifeboat with a faint letter C on its bow.

00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:16.000
Oh dear.

00:56:16.239 --> 00:56:23.599
So this clue sparked hope that it might be the Conestoga leading to a new search down near Mexican waters.

00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:26.800
Dang them.

00:56:27.119 --> 00:56:33.039
It was a wild goose chase, but the lifeboat turned out to be like a false lead.

00:56:33.119 --> 00:56:34.400
It wasn't the same type of.

00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:35.760
It wasn't related to it.

00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:37.360
It wasn't related, yeah.

00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:47.199
So by the end of June 1921, no wreckage, no survivors were found, and the Navy declared the USS Conestoga loss with all hands.

00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:48.559
That's messed up.

00:56:48.719 --> 00:56:49.519
It's really sad.

00:56:49.679 --> 00:56:49.920
Yeah.

00:56:50.159 --> 00:56:54.559
This is that three-degree sadness.

00:56:55.840 --> 00:57:00.800
Well, I mean, it's better than the 96th degree usually is.

00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:03.039
So, anyways, continue on.

00:57:03.440 --> 00:57:06.800
Newspapers across the country were captivated by the mystery.

00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:09.039
It was extremely rare for a U.S.

00:57:09.119 --> 00:57:12.480
Navy vessel to vanish without a trace in peacetime.

00:57:13.039 --> 00:57:14.719
Yeah, and it's during peacetime.

00:57:14.960 --> 00:57:15.360
Right.

00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:24.639
So, in fact, the the Conestoga was the last US Navy ship to be lost at sea in piss peacetime without any immediate explanation.

00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:25.280
Really?

00:57:25.440 --> 00:57:25.760
Okay.

00:57:26.159 --> 00:57:27.360
I never knew that.

00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:36.800
So the disappearance of the Conestoga remained one of the top mysteries in naval history for nearly 95 years.

00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:37.760
Good lord.

00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:39.840
So 21?

00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:41.599
Right?

00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:43.440
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:57:43.519 --> 00:57:43.679
Yeah.

00:57:43.920 --> 00:57:44.400
1921.

00:57:45.199 --> 00:57:45.920
Yeah, 1921.

00:57:46.239 --> 00:57:47.199
Sorry, I should have been more clear.

00:57:47.519 --> 00:57:48.079
No, that's okay.

00:57:48.159 --> 00:57:49.039
I don't do math.

00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:51.280
But it was 2016.

00:57:51.840 --> 00:57:53.599
Which is 95 years later.

00:57:53.920 --> 00:58:00.639
When they confirmed where the conestoga excuse me.

00:58:01.679 --> 00:58:04.079
Well, really, what happened to the conestoga?

00:58:04.480 --> 00:58:05.360
They could figure it out.

00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:05.840
Yeah.

00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:06.320
Okay.

00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:22.639
Maritime archaeologists and the NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced that they had found Conestoga's wreck near the Farallon Islands just off of San Francisco.

00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:24.960
So they barely fucking made it.

00:58:25.199 --> 00:58:25.760
Barely.

00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:26.400
Wow.

00:58:26.480 --> 00:58:27.360
That's wild.

00:58:27.519 --> 00:58:27.840
Okay.

00:58:28.559 --> 00:58:39.519
They uh the tug uh boat sank not long after leaving California, nowhere near where the R-14 was looking.

00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:41.599
Why would they have known that though?

00:58:41.840 --> 00:58:42.719
They wouldn't have.

00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:43.119
Yeah.

00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:43.920
Yeah.

00:58:44.239 --> 00:58:52.960
So the evidence suggests that the Conestoga sailed into a vicious gale storm shortly after departure.

00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:57.280
If I'm not mistaken, San Francisco Bay can get a lot of those.

00:58:57.519 --> 00:58:58.320
I heard that, yeah.

00:58:58.480 --> 00:59:02.480
Yeah, if I I could be wrong, but I've been to San Francisco once.

00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:03.760
It was beautiful.

00:59:03.920 --> 00:59:06.079
Went to Joe DiMaggio's steakhouse.

00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:06.960
Delicious.

00:59:07.599 --> 00:59:08.639
I didn't have to pay.

00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:09.519
Even better.

00:59:09.840 --> 00:59:17.760
Um but no, from what I understand, is like the weather in that bay can be pretty fucked up.

00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:22.880
Obviously, the whole story of Elcatraz with the people who escaped.

00:59:23.519 --> 00:59:25.440
They don't believe that ever happened.

00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:27.840
People claimed whatever, blah blah blah.

00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:29.840
So on sharks, so on.

00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:33.119
So I'm like, that bay is fucked up.

00:59:33.519 --> 00:59:35.679
There's a lot of weather that can happen.

00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:44.000
So I'm I'm I guess I'm not I don't know the circumstances of why they didn't make it past that, but it makes sense.

00:59:44.320 --> 00:59:46.079
Yeah, it makes sense that it would be a gale.

00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:47.280
So, anyways.

00:59:47.679 --> 00:59:59.760
There were weather reports from March 25th, 1921, that show that winds in the Golden Gate area picked up from twenty three to forty miles an hour with very.

01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:01.039
Very rough seas.

01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:03.599
Yeah, that will that will fuck some shit up.

01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:12.960
Yeah, so the Conestoga maybe like have been towing a barge and radioed that she was in like a battling storm before all contact was lost.

01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:17.199
What did it so we're they were headed to Hawaii though?

01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:18.000
They were.

01:00:18.320 --> 01:00:22.320
That also seems like a really long voyage for a barge to do that.

01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:24.559
Again, I am not a seafaring person.

01:00:24.800 --> 01:00:25.679
A tugboat.

01:00:26.079 --> 01:00:27.519
I'm sorry, a tugboat, not a barge.

01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:30.880
I don't know how long they were like with a barge, but yeah.

01:00:31.199 --> 01:00:36.400
But it's like that seems like a really long journey for a for a tugboat.

01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:39.440
Would you put a tugboat on top of a barge?

01:00:44.320 --> 01:00:45.280
But I don't know.

01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:46.000
Anyways.

01:00:46.239 --> 01:00:49.199
I'm gonna open this Dominga and I'm super excited about it.

01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:49.920
Good.

01:00:50.320 --> 01:01:00.400
Okay, so finally, yes, the wreck was found in about 189 feet of water.

01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:01.599
Wow, that's wild.

01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:10.320
Only three miles off southeast Fairlane Island, which lies about 30 miles west of San Francisco.

01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:10.960
Okay.

01:01:11.599 --> 01:01:19.360
It appears the tugs captain tried to save the ship by heading for a protective cove at the island.

01:01:20.559 --> 01:01:23.199
So the the waters were just too choppy.

01:01:23.519 --> 01:01:23.840
Fierce.

01:01:23.920 --> 01:01:24.159
Yeah.

01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:24.559
Basically.

01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:26.719
Yeah, he was like, fuck.

01:01:26.880 --> 01:01:28.559
This is not good sailing weather.

01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:31.760
Let's head there and shit went south.

01:01:32.079 --> 01:01:41.440
And as a desperate move, that area is ringed with rocks and had claimed several ships beforehand.

01:01:41.760 --> 01:01:42.800
Not surprised, yeah.

01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:47.199
So tragically, the Conestoga never made it to safe harbor.

01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:52.400
She likely foundered in like the storm and all aboard, unfortunately, perished.

01:01:52.639 --> 01:01:53.599
That's terrible.

01:01:53.920 --> 01:01:56.239
They found it in 2016.

01:01:56.480 --> 01:01:57.119
That's wild.

01:01:57.280 --> 01:01:59.119
And it finally gave some closure.

01:01:59.440 --> 01:02:10.800
Underwater videos show that the tugs hole, hull, hull, hole on the seabed, largely intact but covered with marine growth.

01:02:11.039 --> 01:02:11.360
Sure.

01:02:11.599 --> 01:02:13.280
And I will insert a picture here.

01:02:13.440 --> 01:02:14.079
All right.

01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:22.400
The evidence of the single three-inch deck gun and other features matched Conestoga's design.

01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:25.840
So they weren't like confused, like, could this be?

01:02:26.000 --> 01:02:26.880
They were like, this is it.

01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:27.360
This is it.

01:02:27.519 --> 01:02:27.679
Okay.

01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:27.920
Yeah.

01:02:28.079 --> 01:02:28.559
Fair enough.

01:02:28.800 --> 01:02:30.639
Obviously, you know, human remains were found.

01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:31.920
Well, not in the ocean.

01:02:32.079 --> 01:02:32.719
I mean, yeah.

01:02:33.119 --> 01:02:39.119
Even in the Bay of San Francisco, that the water, seawater, everything, it eats away at everything.

01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:40.320
So anyway, sorry.

01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:45.440
And but the wreck, as of now, is a protected war grave.

01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:46.480
Oh, okay.

01:02:46.719 --> 01:02:47.280
Fair enough.

01:02:47.440 --> 01:02:47.920
Yeah.

01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:57.440
So by 1930, the R-class boats were aging and be being faced into secondary roles.

01:02:57.679 --> 01:02:58.000
Sure.

01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:05.519
So in December 1930, the R-14 departed Pearl Harbor for the last time, bound for the Atlantic.

01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:06.000
Oh.

01:03:06.239 --> 01:03:13.360
So she passed through the Panama Canal again and arrived at the New London, Connecticut in early 1931.

01:03:13.599 --> 01:03:13.920
Okay.

01:03:14.159 --> 01:03:21.360
And through the 1930s, the R-14 served as a training submarine in the submarine school in New London.

01:03:21.599 --> 01:03:22.159
All right.

01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:29.360
So countless submariners got their first taste of undersea duty aboard the R-14 in those years.

01:03:29.519 --> 01:03:30.159
Right.

01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:36.480
By 1941, even though she was over two decades old, which is pretty ancient for a submarine.

01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:37.760
Yeah, at that time, yeah.

01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:40.079
The R-14 was still in service.

01:03:40.239 --> 01:03:40.559
Okay.

01:03:41.360 --> 01:03:45.679
In mid-1941, with World War II raging elsewhere.

01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:46.079
Yeah.

01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:47.039
But the U.S.

01:03:47.119 --> 01:03:48.239
not yet in fight.

01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:53.920
The Navy removed excuse me, the Navy moved R-14 down to Key West, Florida.

01:03:54.159 --> 01:03:54.400
Oh.

01:03:54.639 --> 01:03:55.840
Have you ever been there?

01:03:56.159 --> 01:03:56.960
Yes, once.

01:03:57.280 --> 01:03:57.840
Me too once.

01:03:58.079 --> 01:03:58.400
I believe.

01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:01.599
Uh my parents used to go there quite often.

01:04:01.920 --> 01:04:02.239
Really?

01:04:02.400 --> 01:04:03.440
I guess I would call it.

01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:04.079
But yeah.

01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:05.920
Just for vacation?

01:04:06.079 --> 01:04:06.719
Yeah.

01:04:07.280 --> 01:04:08.320
Not for work.

01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:10.079
Just vacation.

01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:18.559
Key hook Key West was home to the Fleet Sound School where they trained crews in anti-submarine listening and detection.

01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:19.119
Okay.

01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:22.320
The R-14 was used to train both U.S.

01:04:22.480 --> 01:04:25.199
and Allied personnel in hunting submarines.

01:04:25.519 --> 01:04:30.480
And sometimes the best way to trade train sub-hunters was to do it.

01:04:30.719 --> 01:04:32.800
Have a real submarine as a target.

01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:33.280
Exactly.

01:04:33.599 --> 01:04:34.480
Makes sense, yeah.

01:04:34.719 --> 01:04:42.079
So when the US entered World War II after Pearl Harbor, R-14 was one of the oldest subs still operational.

01:04:42.480 --> 01:04:45.119
It's wild that it was still operational, but yeah.

01:04:46.159 --> 01:04:49.280
She was obviously not fit for frontline combat.

01:04:49.519 --> 01:04:50.480
No, of course not.

01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:51.760
Yes, exactly.

01:04:52.000 --> 01:04:56.559
So, but she did find some uh a good niche in like home waters.

01:04:56.800 --> 01:05:08.239
So throughout World War II, R 14 conducted training exercises and even patrolled the Yucatan Channel, which is between Cuba and Mexico, right?

01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:10.079
And the Florida Straits.

01:05:10.320 --> 01:05:13.039
So that's kind of like the Yucatan Peninsula.

01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:18.320
Is the peninsula different than the channel?

01:05:18.639 --> 01:05:22.320
I mean, channel would be water, peninsula would be land, so yes.

01:05:22.480 --> 01:05:23.440
I would say it's different.

01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:25.280
So is that part of Mexico?

01:05:25.519 --> 01:05:25.920
I believe so.

01:05:26.159 --> 01:05:26.880
Yucatan?

01:05:27.119 --> 01:05:27.760
I believe so.

01:05:28.159 --> 01:05:35.360
I am not a geo-girl or geographer or whatever, but yeah, I believe so.

01:05:36.400 --> 01:05:43.039
So these areas were where German U-boats prowled in 1942 and 43.

01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:44.960
It's fucking wild to think about.

01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:46.400
They were so close.

01:05:46.559 --> 01:05:47.440
Yeah, they were.

01:05:47.760 --> 01:05:53.519
Um, the R-14, despite her age, was out there on the lookout in the Caribbean and the Gulf.

01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:54.400
That's crazy.

01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:59.840
It's unlikely that she ever encountered any enemy U-boat.

01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:06.159
And if she had, her chances in a duel would have been very slim considering her design.

01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:07.920
A duel, yes.

01:06:08.159 --> 01:06:10.079
But she did do something useful.

01:06:10.239 --> 01:06:16.000
She trained and she cautiously patrolled close to home.

01:06:16.320 --> 01:06:16.800
Sure.

01:06:17.599 --> 01:06:27.440
So one anecdote from 1944 excuse me, from the R14's later years came in June of 1943.

01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:28.159
Okay.

01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:33.280
By this time, US homeland was on high alert for German subs.

01:06:33.599 --> 01:06:35.280
Well, yeah, which makes sense.

01:06:35.519 --> 01:06:37.280
But sometimes they were too alert.

01:06:37.599 --> 01:06:37.920
Okay.

01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:42.559
On June 29th, 1943.

01:06:43.039 --> 01:06:43.440
Yeah.

01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:43.840
R.

01:06:44.159 --> 01:06:46.880
Kelly I was gonna say R.

01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:47.840
Kelly.

01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:50.079
He peed on somebody.

01:06:53.119 --> 01:06:55.039
He married an underage Aaliyah.

01:06:55.199 --> 01:06:57.119
I mean R.

01:06:57.280 --> 01:06:57.840
Kelly.

01:06:59.039 --> 01:07:02.719
The R-14 surfaced off Key West.

01:07:03.519 --> 01:07:04.960
You gotta give me a second.

01:07:08.800 --> 01:07:10.320
R fucking Kelly.

01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:13.920
Wow.

01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:16.320
Alright, anyways.

01:07:16.559 --> 01:07:21.519
Okay, so June 29th, 1943, the R-14 surfaced off of Key West.

01:07:21.679 --> 01:07:22.000
Yes.

01:07:22.239 --> 01:07:22.719
The U.S.

01:07:22.880 --> 01:07:30.239
Army Coast Artillery mistook the R-14 for a German U-boat.

01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:30.960
How?

01:07:31.199 --> 01:07:32.400
And opened fire.

01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:33.840
Oh, Jesus Christ.

01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:35.440
How did they mistake it?

01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:37.039
Did you come across that?

01:07:37.440 --> 01:07:40.880
They did not do their due diligence and figure out that.

01:07:41.440 --> 01:07:44.559
Oh my god, that is a Nazi flag, not a United States flag.

01:07:44.639 --> 01:07:46.320
No, it's got 13 stripes, Dick.

01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:47.840
But fucking hell.

01:07:48.159 --> 01:07:51.280
Thankfully, the gunners were not very accurate.

01:07:51.599 --> 01:07:52.079
Oh, good.

01:07:52.239 --> 01:07:54.880
Good old American ingenuity there.

01:07:55.280 --> 01:07:57.599
Or perhaps the range was too far away.

01:07:57.679 --> 01:08:00.320
But let's go with their inaccurate because they suck.

01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:04.559
The R-14 survived without any damage.

01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:05.840
Oh, thank goodness.

01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:12.320
Because it would kind of suck to have you shoot on your own fucking personnel, basically.

01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:21.279
So by 1945, the R-14 was a geriatric vessel.

01:08:22.800 --> 01:08:24.399
They still have their place, man.

01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:28.159
She has served through World War One.

01:08:28.399 --> 01:08:29.359
That's crazy.

01:08:29.600 --> 01:08:32.159
The entire That's fucking wild.

01:08:32.399 --> 01:08:36.000
The entire interwar peace period.

01:08:36.319 --> 01:08:37.680
Interwar peace period.

01:08:38.159 --> 01:08:42.239
And all of World War II up to the final months.

01:08:42.479 --> 01:08:45.119
That's what's wild about it, is like you wouldn't think that.

01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:51.600
I mean, such an old submarine, and like submarines have been around for a while.

01:08:51.920 --> 01:08:58.319
And not not long after flight, even this thing was built.

01:08:58.800 --> 01:09:01.920
And it lasted for 20 plus years.

01:09:02.239 --> 01:09:04.319
This particular model, obviously.

01:09:04.479 --> 01:09:08.560
Obviously, submarines are still going and so on, nuclear, blah blah blah, whatever.

01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:09.600
But fuck.

01:09:09.760 --> 01:09:11.439
I will you would never guess that.

01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:11.920
Yeah.

01:09:12.399 --> 01:09:14.800
Being built in 1919, right?

01:09:16.399 --> 01:09:18.720
And through World War II.

01:09:18.800 --> 01:09:20.239
That's fucking wild.

01:09:21.279 --> 01:09:23.359
Especially with the shit with the sails.

01:09:23.439 --> 01:09:27.840
I mean, they they fucking it's even amazing that they survived that.

01:09:28.479 --> 01:09:29.760
Because they could have literally sunk.

01:09:30.159 --> 01:09:30.640
They could have.

01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:32.479
So anyways.

01:09:33.439 --> 01:09:42.239
So it is a obviously remarkably long career for a submarine, and most World War II subs had a service life far shorter.

01:09:42.479 --> 01:09:42.880
Correct.

01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:45.279
Finally, that was amazing.

01:09:45.520 --> 01:09:51.760
With World War II winding down, the Navy, the Navy was set to retire the boat.

01:09:52.079 --> 01:09:58.640
So R 14 was decommissioned on May 7th, 1945, in Philadelphia.

01:09:59.039 --> 01:10:03.840
So like that was what a month after Hitler killed himself, basically.

01:10:04.079 --> 01:10:04.399
Yeah.

01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:04.960
Wow.

01:10:05.119 --> 01:10:05.600
Yeah.

01:10:05.760 --> 01:10:05.920
Okay.

01:10:06.479 --> 01:10:07.840
So so May.

01:10:08.399 --> 01:10:09.439
Sorry, where was the location?

01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:10.479
Philadelphia.

01:10:10.640 --> 01:10:10.880
Okay.

01:10:11.039 --> 01:10:13.840
So May 7th was when they was decommissioned.

01:10:13.920 --> 01:10:14.079
Yeah.

01:10:14.319 --> 01:10:18.079
It was the day after Germany's surrender in Europe.

01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:20.079
Oh, so oh, so even that close.

01:10:20.399 --> 01:10:20.560
Okay.

01:10:20.640 --> 01:10:20.720
Yeah.

01:10:20.880 --> 01:10:21.760
Gotcha, gotcha, gosh.

01:10:22.079 --> 01:10:30.319
So she was removed from the naval vessel register later in May 1945 and sold for scrap by September.

01:10:30.560 --> 01:10:31.199
That's crazy.

01:10:31.359 --> 01:10:31.520
Yeah.

01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:35.520
I mean, I get it because they're trying to keep money all that whatever.

01:10:35.600 --> 01:10:36.079
But okay.

01:10:36.479 --> 01:10:44.640
By 1946, R-14 was likely melted down, perhaps to become part of some new constructions, maybe a new part of submarine.

01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:46.000
Maybe a nuclear.

01:10:46.640 --> 01:10:47.039
Whatever.

01:10:47.119 --> 01:10:47.359
Yeah.

01:10:47.520 --> 01:10:48.079
Either way.

01:10:48.319 --> 01:10:49.920
So that's crazy.

01:10:50.159 --> 01:10:55.920
The R-14 in all of its glory never fired a single torpedo.

01:10:56.239 --> 01:10:58.319
From its torpedo tubes.

01:10:58.560 --> 01:11:00.399
Never sank a ship.

01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:03.760
Um it was just kind of hanging out.

01:11:04.239 --> 01:11:04.720
Yeah.

01:11:05.039 --> 01:11:16.159
She was one for training, experimentation, and one spectacular feat of seamanship as a sailboat.

01:11:16.399 --> 01:11:17.920
That's fucking wild.

01:11:18.159 --> 01:11:20.079
Never even shot a torpedo.

01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:23.520
I mean, it's almost like, what's the point?

01:11:23.680 --> 01:11:25.439
But at the same time, I get it.

01:11:25.600 --> 01:11:28.560
I mean, scenario, all that stuff, but that's that's crazy.

01:11:28.720 --> 01:11:30.319
Never even shot a fucking torpedo.

01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:30.880
That's wild.

01:11:31.039 --> 01:11:32.159
Yeah, isn't that crazy?

01:11:32.399 --> 01:11:34.239
It really kind of is, honestly.

01:11:34.319 --> 01:11:34.800
But yeah.

01:11:35.279 --> 01:11:38.479
So that was the story of the submarine R14.

01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:40.239
The USS R14.

01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:45.279
Of course, because fuck all the birds where you are from.

01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:47.279
And I have a Domingo now.

01:11:47.600 --> 01:11:48.560
How'd that happen?

01:11:48.880 --> 01:11:49.600
Domingo.

01:11:49.680 --> 01:11:50.560
My apologies.

01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:51.439
Domingo.

01:11:51.520 --> 01:11:51.760
Yeah.

01:11:51.920 --> 01:11:54.319
Um, okay, so a hot dog lager.

01:11:54.479 --> 01:11:56.079
It was fantastic.

01:11:57.359 --> 01:11:59.279
It was more on the basic side.

01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:01.359
It's a it's a light lager.

01:12:01.760 --> 01:12:06.159
It's not gonna be a normal.

01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:07.920
I don't know what I'm trying to say.

01:12:08.800 --> 01:12:09.199
Unique.

01:12:09.359 --> 01:12:10.560
Yeah, it's not super unique.

01:12:10.960 --> 01:12:11.760
It's very light.

01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:12.880
Dominga.

01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:14.560
Delicious.

01:12:14.960 --> 01:12:15.760
10 out of 10.

01:12:16.079 --> 01:12:16.560
I love.

01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:18.399
How was your nosferatu?

01:12:19.039 --> 01:12:20.319
It was really good.

01:12:20.880 --> 01:12:22.079
I've never had them.

01:12:22.239 --> 01:12:24.479
I sold them in before in the past.

01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:29.760
Um, I love the packaging, the can, everything.

01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:31.199
It was it's really good.

01:12:31.359 --> 01:12:36.960
I am not a huge red fan, so red ales, red IPA is all Ambers, yeah.

01:12:37.119 --> 01:12:38.720
Yeah, but that was really good.

01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:39.279
Awesome.

01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:42.640
I will look forward to enjoying the rest.

01:12:42.800 --> 01:12:45.119
It's eight percent, so maybe tomorrow.

01:12:45.840 --> 01:12:47.359
Because holy fuck.

01:12:47.600 --> 01:12:51.199
But um, I also had a Domingo or two.

01:12:51.760 --> 01:12:52.399
So good.

01:12:52.720 --> 01:12:55.600
I really like this from New Belgium.

01:12:55.680 --> 01:12:59.279
I'm a big fan, and I'm gonna have to see if I can have El send me some for free.

01:12:59.439 --> 01:13:00.000
I'm just kidding.

01:13:00.159 --> 01:13:04.880
I'm joking, Al, because you know that's what I do.

01:13:05.680 --> 01:13:13.439
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01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:16.159
We are happy to oblige.

01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:17.840
Welp.

01:13:18.079 --> 01:13:18.960
I suppose.

01:13:19.199 --> 01:13:21.680
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