Answers for Sub Questions of the Week - April 04, 2013

For background information and photographs relating to question set A or B see the original posting.

Question Set  'A" with promised Answer

1)  Identify the content (compartment, vessel, and year) of the above photo.  ANS: Control Room of German submarine UB-110 photographed in Nov. 1918.
The next two questions are thought experiments:
2)  About what percentage of today's female submarine recruits do you imagine might have volunteered to serve in a U.S. vessel of the same vintage?  (no answer will be given)
3)  About what percentage of today's male submarine recruits do you imagine might have volunteered to serve in a U.S. vessel of the same vintage?   (no answer will be given)

Question  Set 'B' with Answers

4)  To what port is this sub headed? ANS:  submarine base at Pearl Harbor,  Feb. 10, 2001.
5)  Identify the sub by name and hull number. ANS:  USS Greeneville (SSN-772).

Submarines are always silent and strange.