Per mrAru yes 688 class subs have urinals - midlevel head, officers head both have urinals.
I was on three 688s.
CO/XO head: Toilet, shower. (Sinks in their staterooms.)
Wardroom head: Toilet, urinal, shower, sink.
CPO head: Toilet, shower, two sinks.
Middle level head: Three toilets, urinal, two showers, four sinks.
Lower level head: Toilet, shower, two sinks.
There are two kinds of ships: Submarines and targets.
So what’d he say?
“Targets”?
Still hasn’t answered me. I think he forgot. I’ll try him again today.
I’m reminded of the tale of U-1206, a Type VIIC U-boat that sunk less than a month before the end of the Second World War. Quoth uboat.net:
"In many sources it is stated that U-120 was “sunk by a toilet” (probably a very bad way to go! :). However, the story should rightly be attributed to U-1206, one of the late model boats fitted with a new high-pressure toilet allowing the toilet to be used at greater depths than before (though in reality the culprit was not actually the toilet itself).
On 14 April 1945, the boat was quietly cruising at a depth of 200 feet only 8-10 miles off the British coast, when the commander, Kptlt. Schlitt, decided to use the toilet without consulting a rating trained in its operation (the procedure was complicated). Something went wrong, and when the specialist arrived he misunderstood the situation and opened the wrong valve, which resulted in large quantities of seawater entered the boat. The water reached the batteries directly under the toilet, causing the production of chlorine gas, and the boat was forced to surface immediately; unfortunately right underneath an enemy aircraft. The crew managed to blow clean air into the boat, but were at the same time bombed by the aircraft, causing extensive damage which left U-1206 unable to dive. Considering the hopeless situation, Schlitt had no choice but to destroy the secret material and order abandon ship to save his crew. (Brennecke, J. (2001). Jager and Gejagte)"
Now that would look bad in an after-action report to Adm. Doenitz.
On 14 April 1945, Admiral Doenitz had bigger worries on his mind.
Seen this?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHnyQXyuTGY
The grace of the fortunate “l” in his name saves Captain Schlitt from further ignominy.
Funny story…
I am a tourguide at the world’s oldest extant nuclear missile carrying submarine. Twice a week I give hourlong tours of the boat. (Our sub, btw, was commissioned in 1958 and has only toilets in the heads, no urinals.)
Most of my tour-takers know little more about subs than what they see in those old WWII movies. But every now and then I get a veteran or current submariner. On one particular guided tour back in the spring I had a small tour, just 2 young men, both of whom were currently serving on a British sub. They were sharp and funny and eager to talk shop. We had a lot of fun comparing the old equipment on our sub to the modern stuff they told me they had on theirs; some of it, of course, was wildly different, but a surprising amount of stuff is just the same today as it was half a century ago. (After all, a pipe is a pipe, right?)
We were passing through Officers’ Country. I told them that I really admired the clever and space-saving design of the wash basin in each stateroom.
“Wash basin?” one of them said with a smile. “Oh, you mean the ‘night head.’”
I understand that because of interior design issues some toilets (they call them heads in military speak) you have to kind of back yourself in because of wall curviture. might not be the classiest toilets you have ever seen.
Nautilus? [Last I knew the Robert E Lee was razor bladed] mrAru spent 1990-2003 bopping between NSSF and Miami and San Juan.
Nautilus didn’t carry nuclear missiles.
I am just trying to figure out what boats commissioned in 58 aren’t razor blades …
Might have carried nukes though.
Georgefish was commissioned in 59 and razorbladed in 98, it was one of the 41 for Freedom subs. Washington and Ethan Allen are both 59 boats, but all of them are razorbladed. Rayburn is a floatatype, is that it? But that is a 1962 keel.
Let me correct that to nuke torpedos.
USS Growler?