Unfortunately, I have been slammed between work and getting my LLC going, so I have not had time to sit down and get Part 4 of the EMD 567ATL engine done yet. Hopefully that can be done in the next week or two.

For now, here is a filler post. The cover of Fairbanks-Morse news for March/April 1952, showing a spectacular photo of the Submarine USS Pickerel, SS-524 on her emergency surfacing. The sub hit a whopping 72° incline on her ascent from 250′ down (even though the official record states other).

The Pickerel is a Tench class submarine, commissioned towards the end of WWII. but not completed until 1949, when released as a Guppy II type. The sub was powered by a quartet of Fairbanks-Morse 10-cylinder 38D 8 1/8″ OP engines, with a 7-cylinder 38A 5 1/4″ genset engine.

I was thrilled to find a newsreel video of the test! Who would have thought a submarine could do such a great job impersonating a Saturn V rocket.

Pickerel was decommissioned in 1972 and given to the Italian Navy. https://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08524.htm