14-08-2005, 20:03
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Now that's a tow job!!
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A 340-tonne Italian submarine has completed its last, expensive journey, reaching its destination - a Milan museum - on board a huge trailer.
The transport operation, said to have cost 1m euros (£684,000), entailed four years of planning.
Streetlamps and traffic lights were temporarily removed and roundabouts flattened to allow it to pass.
The Enrico Toti was built in 1967 to track Soviet submarines in the Mediterranean during the Cold War.
Three-dimensional computer simulations were used to assess potential damage to buildings and bridges along the way.
"We had to flatten roundabouts, take down street lamps, cover tramlines, not to mention reinforcing the ground covering Milan's underground canal network," said Giovanni di Paolo, the engineer in charge of the submarine's transport.
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14-08-2005, 20:05
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Re: Now that's a tow job!!
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A 340-tonne Italian submarine has completed its last, expensive journey, reaching its destination - a Milan museum - on board a huge trailer.
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Hmmmm Italian, was it in an 'unused' condition 
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14-08-2005, 20:09
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Re: Now that's a tow job!!
25 knots in reverse 
ide love to see the pics of it on the truck that one doesnt show much
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14-08-2005, 20:32
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Re: Now that's a tow job!!
Link not working 
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14-08-2005, 20:34
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Re: Now that's a tow job!!
I just withdrew the link, must be in Latin, never was much good at it !
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14-08-2005, 20:36
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14-08-2005, 20:40
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25 knots in reverse
ide love to see the pics of it on the truck that one doesnt show much |
Haven't found many pics to be honest but there is this one
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14-08-2005, 20:40
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Re: Now that's a tow job!!
loved the website plug on the sub
and the fuel tank on the trailer
and thats one big truck 
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14-08-2005, 20:43
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Re: Now that's a tow job!!
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et tu brute (sob)
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14-08-2005, 20:58
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Re: Now that's a tow job!!
Wouldn't it of been easier to of partly dismantled it and transport it in pieces?
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14-08-2005, 22:30
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Re: Now that's a tow job!!
Why didn`t they transport it by one of the Big ******* Helicoptors?
Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Just read 340 Tonne! 
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14-08-2005, 22:41
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Re: Now that's a tow job!!
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Wouldn't it of been easier to of partly dismantled it and transport it in pieces?
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submarines have to have an outer 'pressure' hull, which is effectively seamless, they are not designed to be dismantled, it would have had to been cut up ???
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14-08-2005, 22:48
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submarines have to have an outer 'pressure' hull, which is effectively seamless, they are not designed to be dismantled, it would have had to been cut up ???
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and 340 tonnes isnt that big it could have been a lot bigger
like this one http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/177.html
15980 tonnes
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14-08-2005, 22:54
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Re: Now that's a tow job!!
I've got some pics that i'll upload soon that make that 340 ton sub a kids toy (5000 tons)
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14-08-2005, 23:04
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Re: Now that's a tow job!!
Hope that they didn't get a puncture on the trailer. 
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