# Do US Navy submarines have urinals?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-navy-submarines-have-urinals/628164
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 14, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-navy-submarines-have-urinals/628164 "2012-07-14T00:58:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-navy-submarines-have-urinals/628164/61 "2012-08-26T23:45:56Z")
> [@coremelt](#):
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> [USS GROWLER SSG-577 Museum](http://www.wa3key.com/growler.html)
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> USS Growler?
Ah, pig boat. I was thinking nuclear sub =)
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### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-navy-submarines-have-urinals/628164/62 "2012-08-27T02:05:09Z")
[Growler](http://www.heiszwolf.com/subs/growler/growler.html) (SSG 577).
“The USS Growler is an American Diesel Electric submarine commissioned in 1958. The Growler was the forth American submarine to be equipped with guided missiles with a nuclear warhead (Regulus I & II). After the Regulus program was terminated, the Growler was kept in service for amphibious warfare. Inside the missile hangars special forces teams could be transported. The ship is on display at the Sea Air and Space museum in New York city.”
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-navy-submarines-have-urinals/628164/63 "2012-08-27T02:32:00Z")
Hmm. Maybe USS _Growler_?
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### Author:  [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-navy-submarines-have-urinals/628164/64 "2012-09-26T22:02:51Z")
Sorry to bump this (know it’s old) but my son finally answered me. On his sub, they don’t. Have urinals. His is a Ohio class ballistic missile submarine.
Anyway, finally got an answer. For whatever that’s worth.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-navy-submarines-have-urinals/628164/65 "2012-09-27T01:38:14Z")
Thanks! A bit surprising. Are you allowed to say which sub in particular?
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### Author:  [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-navy-submarines-have-urinals/628164/66 "2012-09-27T01:57:38Z")
> [@TurboNuke](#):
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> I dont think this is right. I dont believe US subs use titanium because we dont have a good source of titanium available to the US. Also there are downsides to using titanium vs. steel.
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> The Russians had titanium hulled submarines because they had large reserves of titanium.
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> I dont believe real titanium is used in razor blades, its still kinda expensive.
I read in [Skunk Works](http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003) that the US got most of the titanium to build its SR-71 spy planes from Russia.
[add’l source:](http://iliketowastemytime.com/facts-you-didnt-know-about-sr71-blackbird)
_The C.I.A. created several coverup companies which were used to purchase the required Titanium for the construction of Blackbirds from Soviet Union – quite ironic considering a lot of missions consisted of relaying intel about the country that the materials were purchased from._
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### Author:  [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-navy-submarines-have-urinals/628164/67 "2012-09-27T14:22:03Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Thanks! A bit surprising. Are you allowed to say which sub in particular?
I think so - it’s the USS Wyoming.
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### Author:  [@core\_dump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/core_dump)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-navy-submarines-have-urinals/628164/68 "2012-09-27T22:23:21Z")
> [@Missy2U](#):
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> I think so - it’s the USS Wyoming.
Uh boy. Now the Russians know which submarine doesn’t have urinals. Loose lips sink ships!
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-navy-submarines-have-urinals/628164/69 "2012-09-28T01:56:18Z")
> [@Missy2U](#):
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> I think so - it’s the USS Wyoming.
Thanks! Here’s some info:
> **[USS Wyoming (SSBN-742)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wyoming_(SSBN-742))**
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> USS Wyoming (SSBN-742) is a United States Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine which has been in commission since 1996. She is the fourth US Navy ship to be named USS Wyoming, although it was only the third named after the state of Wyoming.\[a\]
> The contract to build Wyoming was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 18 October 1989 and her keel was laid down there on 8 August 1991. She was launched on 15 July 1995, sponsored b...
[http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/csg10/Boat%20Pages/Wyoming.aspx](http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/csg10/Boat%20Pages/Wyoming.aspx)
[http://navysite.de/ssbn/ssbn742.htm](http://navysite.de/ssbn/ssbn742.htm)
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### Author:  [@Ex\_Bubblehead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Bubblehead)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-navy-submarines-have-urinals/628164/70 "2013-04-13T03:20:11Z")
I realize this is an old thread, but the question was asked “what is a submarine hull made of?”. It’s actually varied a little over the years but on the boats I served aboard (USS Snook - SSN592, USS Plunger - SSN595, USS Haddock - SSN621) it was HY80 & HY100, a very dense, high carbon content steel. I have a 6" piece of Plunger’s hull on my desk (6" diameter x 2.5" thick) that weighs almost 20 lbs. It was cut out to allow installation of the towed array when Plunger was fitted with the BQQ-5 SONAR Suite in the early '80s.
BTW: We did have a urinal in the forward head (Ops middle level) on Plunger and Haddock. It was made of CRES (stainless steel). However, it was usually secured due to clogging because of the buildup caused by the interaction between urine and seawater.
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