Tubular submarine device

Usage examples of periscope.

At the outer edges were the periscopes for the flash and rotating prism cameras that would record every microsecond of a blast.

Hugging the parados, messengers carried the word in both directions and presently periscopes were leveled above the parados and keen eyes were searching out the traitor.

The last time we pinged, I bet we had him at periscope depth and he ducked down deep while we came over.

Above his head he could see the two periscopes twisting on the standards as Quinton and Forster made repeated checks to fix their position.

Forster glanced at Quinton who was in his customary place between the helmsman and the raised periscope.

This was so important he would j have liked to raise the second periscope so that Quinton could confirm what he saw.

CHAPTER 12 FRIDAY, 10 MAY 0705 GREENWICH MEAN TIME western pacific ocean dive point, 150 nautical miles southwest OF yokosuka USS seawolf 1605 local time The control room crew seemed tense, the room buzzing with the murmured voices of the watch standers Pacino stood in the forward starboard corner of the room, near the attack center, and watched the periscope video monitor, the television that showed the view out the number-two periscope.

Yes, there was the lake, an amoeboid splotch of liquid silver almost in the center of the periscope screen, its mirrorlike surface broken by a spattering of black islets.

When they came to their point of departure a mile off the Amoy harbor, the sub came up to periscope depth and the captain checked all around.

The junior lieutenant quickly moved away from the scope, and Krakov grasped the horizontal periscope grips somehow reassured by the feel of the antiskid etching on the cylindrical grips.

USS billfish Commander Harrison Toth IV stepped up to the periscope stand of the USS Billfish, shouldering aside the heavy curtain surrounding the periscope stand that was used to screen out the glow from the control-room instruments when the room was rigged for black.

He relinquished the periscope to Officer of the Deck Lieutenant Brayton and spoke to the crew.

He turned the periscope back over to Brayton and picked up the microphone, hit a toggle switch and spoke, his voice that echoed back at him sounding like the voice of a giant bouncing off the ocean floor.

The elevated periscope stand in the control room where the Officer of the Deck usually conns the submarine.

Gazing out his periscope, Luis saw the first globs of rain splash on the deck.