Inside Decommissioned Submarines

CNET has a great photo essay entitled A Tour of the Ballistic Missile Submarine Redoutable. Le Redoutable is located here, in Cherbourg; when I was looking its location up, I discovered that USS Kearsarge sank CSS Alabama sank here during the American Civil War, and USS Osprey sank here during the invasion of Normandy in 1944. I was entirely unaware that any Civil War naval battles had taken place that far from American waters.

A few weeks ago, I saw these two items: Amazing Photos Of Russian Submarine Being Dismantled (from Trending Wiki), and Here Are Amazing Photos Of Russia Dismantling An Outdated Nuclear Submarine (Business Insider). They depict the transport and early scrapping operations for a Victor-class submarine. A little further digging led me to two related pages about decommissioned Russian submarines: World's Biggest Submarine (English Russia), which includes a bunch of pictures inside what appears to be a decommissioned Typhoon/Akula/"Shark" class ballistic missile submarine (which may or may not be located here, in Severodvinsk); and Inside a Creepy Abandoned Soviet Submarine (Scribol), which has a bunch of pictures of a Foxtrot-class diesel-electric submarine. I once toured the USS Blueback, which was the US Navy's last diesel-electric submarine and is now permanently moored as a museum ship at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Other subs you can tour in America include USS Nautilus in Groton, Connecticut, and USS Albacore in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.