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Tue Jun 3 21:49:47 EDT 2014

I know I don't contribute much to the site but did I ever tell you how cool you make me feel. Just knowing you guys is incredible. Awesome history lesson Vance! You're the man.
Best regards,
Greg

> On Jun 3, 2014, at 6:44 PM, via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> Hank,
> 
> Now you're going to make me think a minute. Okay, it's like this. Each number corresponds to some common design theme or trait. The PC really did stand for Perry Cubmarine by the way, although they tended to downplay that later in the game.
> 
> PC-1 & 2 were the experimental psubs style homebuilts, which don't really count here.
> PC-3: was the original fore and aft design and the first commercially viable (3 built)
> PC-4 was the first successful diver lock-out boat, Deep Diver/Shelf Diver (2 built)
> PC-5 a hybrid or transition design between the 3s and what was to come (1 built)
> PC-6 & 7 had other names (I suspect Opsub was one and the transfer bell another.
> PC-8 the first bubble nose sub, 42" OD hull, twin battery pods (2 built)
> PC-9 54" OD with lots of frustrum viewports (custom built for Brown & Root) (1 built)
> PC-10 a 10,000' capable single sphere boat, never built
> PC-11 another design study, never built.
> PC-12 had 48" OD hulls, 28" conning towers, and twin pods. (5 built/4 obs, 1 DLO)
> PC-13 (something military we never got to see).
> PC-14 were 42" hulls, single releasable pods, low voltage, 24" conn. towers (2 built)
> PC-15 was the second bubble nose sub built, a 54" OD hull with DLO (1 built)
> PC-16 had three intersecting spheres for 3000 feet service (2 built)
> PC-17 was a huge, long range multi-task beast with bunks and a bathroom-never built
> PC-18 a 54" hull diameter upgrade on the old PC-4 design (6 built)
> 
> The conning tower thing has to do with viewports. Six in the 24", Eight in the 28". All frustrum ports on all Perry subs are the same size (except the 16s, which are the same OD only thicker). The ARMS bells may have had a series number assigned but I never heard it. We also built a bunch of decompression chambers and sat systems both with and without bells, plus a parking lot full of wet subs, two underwater habitats and who knows what else. At any rate, I think it was 25 commercially viable free-swimming submersibles built over...um...I guess 20 years or so, along with all that other stuff. And then there came the ROVs, which I was not a part of. Perry was a world leader with those and (I think) the first ones to build a commercially available work class ROV for 10,000'.
> 
> I got to tell you -- it was an exciting place to work. The thing is, we knew that we were making history every day. Yeah, we grumbled about the pay and bitched about the heat and all that, but there was just nothing like it anywhere (except in Vancouver at Hyco, of course, where they built (I think) 12 subs including Nuytco's Aquarius).
> 
> Those were the days, for sure. And Hyco wins, as Uncle Phil assumed the mantle and carried on carrying on. Counting hard suits, I'd hate to even guess how many subs those guys have built up there in BC. Probably as many again as Perry and Hyco put together.
> 
> Vance
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> Sent: Tue, Jun 3, 2014 6:08 pm
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> Vance,
> How do the Perry numbers work, is there more than one 1201 or is each sub assigned a specific number. 
> Hank
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