ACC on 600# M-type
Has anyone heard of having Bailey ACC on a 600# M-type boiler? As an amateur Navy historian, a 1200# BT and a factory rep for Bailey, I'd never heard of such a thing, but I have a picture of the Bailey console onboard the USS NORTHAMPTON (CLD/CC-1), which had the 600# B&W M-types that all of her sisterships in the OREGON CITY class of heavy cruisers had.My biggest question is, if she had M-types, did the ACC control both furnaces or only the saturated side. The picture looks like only the…
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I was there in 60 not 61
I went there in 1961
my brother, rick was in boot there at the same time, he came aboard the halsey powell dd 686 to serve with me I was fwd fire room he was after fire room
I retired in 1992 as chief engineer of naval hospital san diego co-generation plant. rick went to Christmas island for atomic bomb testing and died from radiation
Chief I remember those. Had the Hat during A-School and remember doing theat drawing during A-School alot.
Remember this?
Alphonse, I have the sprayer plate, intermediate plate and nozzle block from a return-flow, 1200 pound, Iowa type burner from DLG-13.