Here is one of the submarines 3 luxurious toilet facilities. Did I mention 78 men lived on this thing?

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After the petty officers bunks and radio room there is this door. Wow.

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Anyway, that door leads into this room, machinery control. It's pretty small, I hit my head on that padded thing.

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That last room leads onto the most spacious compartment in the sub, the deisel engine room. The sub is powered by 3 2,000 horsepower deisel engines, one for each of the 6-bladed propellers. On the surface these engines give the sub a 20,000 mile range, or 36,000 kilometers. The Foxtrot class submarines were also equipped with a snorkel, to allow the deisel engine to breath (and thus run) while submerged. I do not believe the fan in the upper left corner of the picture was standard equipment.

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