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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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Remember while at SIMA Long Beach we Water Jetted the boilers on the New Jersey and the Mighty MO. Hot Job!!!!
Firesides watersides Hydro light off underway 6 and 6 midwatch night orders boiler flex unrep sea and anchor restrive manurveering standard bell oil samples shift make up feed sound tanks that readings sweat!!!sweat!!! and the there was Bayett the AH!!!
6 & 6, A 'pit snipes BT's" life! Like it was said, it took 3 differnt rates to split up the BT rate!! Hardest job in the Navy!!! First on, Last off!! BT's wait'n to hook up shore power, & twights in cive's befor brow was even down!!
Walter I guess your right we were young and had the world by the horns. I actually got out for 18 months after a 5 year tour on Indy went straight to Edson in Newport. So fool kept telling me a NRF can was great 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks in the summer. First year we wre underway 265 days. 6&6 wore me out I can remeber 6 weeks straight standing upper level in B-3 eat, stand watch, eat, sleep and do it over again. Have to check out that book.
Have any of you BT'S ever served with a Chief William Sneed? He served aboard the following ships.U.S.S. Howard D Crow DE-252,U.S.S,.Robert H McCard DD-82, U.S.S.Compton DD-705,U.S.S. Dyess DD-880,U.S.S.Charles H.Roan DD-853,U.S.S. Bennington CVS-20,U.S.S. Jouett CG-29, U.S.S.Barbey FF-1088,U.S.S.Doyle FFG 39. He wrote a book called Black Oil Chief. it's 348 pages,softcover,available on E-BAY & AMAZON.COM. It's pretty interesting.I have a copy.
I actually got use to 6 & 6. The consistant rythmn of life made long underway periods more tolerable. Why did we do this to ourselves......youthful foolishness. Hey, like the posters said, "Its not just a job, its an adventure." I sure learned alot about myself and what I did/did not want to do with my life.
6&6 was a way of life on Edson and if we were lite off inport port and starboard was the best you could expect. Wasn't much better on a carrier either 3 section underway 4 section inport never figured out why we needed a inport cold iron oil king. Port and Starboard inport with the plant on line. Somewhat better on the FFG-7 only needed 4 watchstanders underway and 2 inport. Why did we do this to ourselfs?
All I remember is standing watch 3 days before getting underway and last to leave.Stood 6 and 6 for a Westpac deployment!!
Heck I was crazy enough to go back did 5 years on CV-62 made BT2 got out for 18 months and went back in. Kept my crow and got a reup bonus. Made CPO with 11 years in then was force to change rate to EN did a tour on a FFG-7. That was cool start the SSDG's about an hour before sea detail and start the mains when they called sea detail. No more liting fires a day or 2 before or a week before on the carrier.
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