Yes, I saw that, after I posted mine, and after the edit window. If you want to get pedantic:
Yeah, and the Diesels were manufactured by Fairbanks-Morse, and the electrics were General Electric. :p:D
Does the captain bark out “Make it so!” and “Come!”?
He also says, “Engage!”
Actually, back on the throttles of a modern nuclear-powered submarine, you can indeed go past 100% on the steam demand meter. Reactor power lags steam demand, though, and going past 100% reactor power is both an “incident” that needed to be reported to Naval Reactors (and is cause for reprimanding those involved), but will also automatically scram out the reactor.
You therefore need to back off on the throttles as reactor power comes up so that reactor power never exceeds 100%.
On an “Ahead Flank Cavitate” order (i.e. max throttles without regard to cavitation), I had throttlemen who could whip the throttles open so fast that the torque on my single-screw submarine caused the whole boat to take a 10-15 degree roll from all of the torque as the boat accelerated.
ETA: just noticed who I was quoting here. Isn’t the hull number of the USS Billfish actually SSN-676? 
That is VERY interesting.
It has virtually nothing to do with me in THIS reality. But on the flip side, in a slightly alternate universe where I might have made a slightly different life choices (at SEVERAL different times in my life time line, that I came very close to going the other way) it could have EVERYTHING to do with me. I might have even ended up on that exact “boat”.
So, in this case, you play the part of Sherlock Holmes, where his deductions are brilliant but have nothing to do with reality
Just to keep people guessing, I might even throw that “fact” out there once in awhile from now on
Man, thats borderline creepy stuff there…
“Engine room reports 110 percent on the reactor possible, but not recommended.”
And if you go with the book instead of the movie, the sub that line was used on suffered a meltdown because of the overworked reactor (and age, but Clancy blames the high power levels for losing the Alfa class E.S Politovskiy [8th day, December 10])
I love that book…
My observation was that 678 came out to “archerfish”, but let’s see what happens, here. After all, I was just assuming that the name had nothing to do with my interpretation according to US Navy sub numbers…
Alas, I must let you guys down with the real story.
There is a very minor/trivial reason my chosen online name is Bill Fish. Nothing exciting there. 678 was chosen mainly because 666 seemed just a bit too obvious 
Though in an alternate reality I did work for the other side and dream of owning a “recreational vehicle” and traveling without “papers” (and I was pretty damn handsome too if I do say so myself).
I think we have stumbled into a flaw to the storry line. In the movie our hero’s sub was going to be decommissioned, but the out break of war caused her to be reactivated. So she should have been an older boats built in the 20’s or 30’s. Those boats were twin engine and twin motors. A Gato class boat built in the late 30’s early 40’s were 4 engine and 4 motors. So what class of boat do we have here?
No flaw. The Sea Tiger was state of the art in 1941. It was a brand new boat, and Capt. Sherman was her first commander. The sub was being decommissioned after the war.
*Lt. Cmdr Matt T. Sherman: Sir, Sea Tiger was built to fight. She deserves a better epitaph than ‘Commissioned 1940, sunk 1941, engagements none, shots fired none.’ Now, you can’t let it go that way. That’s like a beautiful woman dying an old maid, if you know what I mean by old maid.
Capt. J.B. Henderson: Did you ever sell used cars?
Cmdr. Matt T.Sherman: No, Sir.
Capt. J.B. Henderson: I’ve got a hunch you missed your calling. *
Ok the last time I saw the movie was around 30 years ago. I think I would like to rent it some time.
We own the DVD. 
Find me a picture of it from the movie, and I will ID it. Preferably a profile (i.e. from the side) shot.
Hmmm…I wonder why they used similar nomenclature on Star Trek. None of those conditions exist in space.
My dad bought a copy for the video library of the last submarine I served aboard (SSN651).
Not exactly no, but in the same way, thrust from the impulse engines wouldn’t (shouldn’t) equate to a speed, but to acceleration. Irritatingly, the writers don’t ever seem to have grasped that, and constantly use the graduations of impulse power as speeds.
“The dilithium crystals willna take it, Captain…”
SS-285 Balao (Balao class, obviously) in pink, about halfway down. Another image.
SS-393 Queenfish (Trench class).
I couldn’t find a picture of Archerfish (Balao class) from the movie.
Thanks for the pictures, but I meant a still from the movie, so we could see for sure that those are what were used. However, the people who have the DVD can compare your pictures to the movie and confirm, instead of someone getting a movie still for us to look at.