Tag: Submarines
USS Batfish, part 2
Photos taken below deck of the USS Batfish, Muskogee War Memorial Park, Muskogee, OK
Meet Me at the Pole, 1931
The original plan, envisioned by explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins and financed by the Hearst press organization, would have been a rendezvous between the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin and Wilkins’ Nautilus (which was a surplus submarine obtained from the U.S. Navy). Unfortunately mechanical difficulties prevented the vessel from participating in the expedition.
