Docked Submarine Mono
Three days ago I posted a colour version of this image. roseysnapper commented on it, wondering what it looked like in mono. Here it is. Your thoughts on which version is preferred would be appreciated.
This is the former HMS Ocelot (S17), seen in dry dock at The Historic Dockyard in Chatham, Kent.
Ocelot was the last warship to be built for the Royal Navy at Chatham (although three Canadian Oberon-class boats were built after her at the yard). Commissioned in 1964, she was one of six O-class diesel-electric submarines built at Chatham, three for the Royal Navy and three for the Royal Canadian Navy.
The design was one of the most successful for conventional patrol submarines and 13 were built for the Royal Navy in total, with a further 14 commissioned by Australia (6), Canada (3), Brazil (2) and Chile (3).
Ocelot served in both the 1st (Portsmouth) and 3rd (Faslane) Submarine Squadrons, operating in the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea as well as the north Atlantic and one trans-Atlantic trip to North America. She was decommissioned in 1991 and sold in 1992 to be turned into the walk-through museum that she is today.
The streamlined sonar dome perched atop the bow housed a Type 2051 Triton sonar produced by Plessey. The complete suite included a "clip-on" towed array.
What can't be seen from this perspective is that there is a further 2,450-tonnes of submarine behind the sonar and torpedo tube outer doors. She had a standard crew of six officers and 62 men, although additional "sea riders" were carried on occasion. The cut in the hull just visible on the right is the space for the anchor.
Ocelot was decommissioned in 1981. She is now resident in No. 3 Dry Dock, which was built in 1820. It was the first of Chatham's dry docks to be built in stone. It, and the associated South Dock pumping station, were designed by John Rennie the Elder, who also designed docks in Hull, Greenock, Liverpool and London.
Note the second submarine in the background - a model of a Russian Victor II-class nuclear-powered submarine used in the 1999 James Bond film, "The World is Not Enough". The aggregates yard visible beyond it is on the far bank of the River Medway.
Docked Submarine Mono
Three days ago I posted a colour version of this image. roseysnapper commented on it, wondering what it looked like in mono. Here it is. Your thoughts on which version is preferred would be appreciated.
This is the former HMS Ocelot (S17), seen in dry dock at The Historic Dockyard in Chatham, Kent.
Ocelot was the last warship to be built for the Royal Navy at Chatham (although three Canadian Oberon-class boats were built after her at the yard). Commissioned in 1964, she was one of six O-class diesel-electric submarines built at Chatham, three for the Royal Navy and three for the Royal Canadian Navy.
The design was one of the most successful for conventional patrol submarines and 13 were built for the Royal Navy in total, with a further 14 commissioned by Australia (6), Canada (3), Brazil (2) and Chile (3).
Ocelot served in both the 1st (Portsmouth) and 3rd (Faslane) Submarine Squadrons, operating in the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea as well as the north Atlantic and one trans-Atlantic trip to North America. She was decommissioned in 1991 and sold in 1992 to be turned into the walk-through museum that she is today.
The streamlined sonar dome perched atop the bow housed a Type 2051 Triton sonar produced by Plessey. The complete suite included a "clip-on" towed array.
What can't be seen from this perspective is that there is a further 2,450-tonnes of submarine behind the sonar and torpedo tube outer doors. She had a standard crew of six officers and 62 men, although additional "sea riders" were carried on occasion. The cut in the hull just visible on the right is the space for the anchor.
Ocelot was decommissioned in 1981. She is now resident in No. 3 Dry Dock, which was built in 1820. It was the first of Chatham's dry docks to be built in stone. It, and the associated South Dock pumping station, were designed by John Rennie the Elder, who also designed docks in Hull, Greenock, Liverpool and London.
Note the second submarine in the background - a model of a Russian Victor II-class nuclear-powered submarine used in the 1999 James Bond film, "The World is Not Enough". The aggregates yard visible beyond it is on the far bank of the River Medway.