Strange Profiles of Fast Attack Sailors

Some submariners had something in common with sailors on wooden ships... Speaker (last line of YouTube video below [1:24]):



Profile of vintage navy sailors ...

"One element of the research I've been doing into this has shown that, in fact, the livelier members of the crew, who get into trouble are also the ones you are likely to promote."

Narrator in the same video (1:18) :

"Surprisingly though, being flogged was not necessarily an indelible black mark on a sailor's career."

Rarely do submariners, usually volunteers, miss movement or take unauthorized absences. Recently, there seem to have been a few severe and noteworthy exceptions.

On a more humorous note, there also may have been exceptions of the vintage variety. Would this have been possible on your boat?

From USS GUARDFISH SEA STORIES:

Examples 'Drowning' in San Juan and Eldon's side of the 'Drowning' story.