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Who remebers cleaning the stacks and the soot in the stacks turned into an acid that burned the piss out of your eye's and any cuts you had and the lagging that was full of asbestos. The Chicago was a great ship to be on.
Read more…nsfo sucked f-76 was pretty good burning jp-5 you could burn but superheater temps woud be higher and it did burn cleaner but was expensive to burn in a boiler and we made ourown overloads on the coral sea drilled out some 11s and made 9s for full power runs and wartimeuse. Steaming an m-type with no abc"s was a real challenge but it made the watch go by fast.
Read more…[URL=http://s983.photobucket.com/user/kingsilver/media/blueridge.jpg.html][IMG]http://i983.photobucket.com/albums/ae312/kingsilver/blueridge.jpg[/IMG][/URL] a couple pieces of memorabilia from my four years (1970-1974) on the blue ridge. this ship is 43 years old and still in commission . "keep on trucking."
Read more…[URL=http://s983.photobucket.com/user/kingsilver/media/blueridge.jpg.html][IMG]http://i983.photobucket.com/albums/ae312/kingsilver/blueridge.jpg[/IMG][/URL] a couple pieces of memorabilia from my four years (1970-1974) on the blue ridge. this ship is 43 years old and still in commission . "keep on trucking."
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Ha, ha. Now that I think about it; our "Control Board" was in manual more than automatic. True, we didn't have the "fun" of cutting burners in & out and driving the mic valve. But all this automation left time for the burnerman to work on his golf swing with the 1 1/2 burner wrench and a crushed soda can on the lower level. We had some good "rounds" on the lower level with the feed pump watch.
There is nothing "SUPER"about us we just did what others did not,hell went I first joined there was ships that could not get underway cause there was not enough "BT's",I made 1st class in less than 6 years!!Alot say, S-Super,N-natural,I-intellengent,P-propullsion,E-engineers. SNIPE!! we just did or jobs!!
ACC was not really new tech in the 60's the Forrestall class carries, DDG-2's and the Forrest Sherman DD's had a mix of Hagen and Bailey systems. I was a Oil King on CV-62 and we had Baily then whent to DD-946 which was kind of a hybrid Bailey/Hagen system. Kind of took the fun out of cutting burners in and out and controling the blowers by hand.
Alphonse the Navy went to automatic contols of their boilers.they would"Flex"the system and it was 2/3 as fast as a Nuc reactor,I was to Automatic Boiler Control maintaince man on board the WHS for 3 years.
I'll 2nd that motion.
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Walter Ruthermund. Please explain to us older BT'S what a control board is. When i was in the Navy had just started introducing ACC automatic combustion control.I was in from 1961-65 active 1965-67 ready reserves. Hey you know our rate no longer exhists..I was talkng to an active duty MM (machinist mate) last year at my ships ( U.S.S.Yorktown CVS-10 ) annual reunion and he told me you BT'S must have been pretty good ,because it Took 3 different rates to replace you guys. Therefore i propose from now on all former BT'S be addressed as SUPERSIPNES. Anybody wanna second that motion?
LOOK WHO I FOUND!!!
Welcome Aboard BTC Urban!!
BTC(SW) Warner, That Be 1FireRoom WHS CG-32!!!
Tell me thats not the Forward Fire Room on the WHS CG-32!!
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