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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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Bud: The name if the book is Black oil Chief USN by William F. Sneed
Am Glad to see the activity on this site. Am going to be looking for the book "Black Oil King" Here in Ft. Myers.
Thank Very Much!! Edgar!!
Chief Water Tender Tomich USS Uath 7 December 1941.
There was a Chief Water Tender back in those days that got the Medal of Honor during the attack on Peal Harbor,he keeped the Boiler on line.
Rusty remember the words on 1B's steam drum that Goodrich painted,I can't remember the words.
Book By William Snead on Amazon.com
BT Kilgore, Remember getting oil samples from the FDB and running them to the MMOW alot.
Remember the old "Stick Shift" Plants, Checking the stack for smoke when lighting off. Burner in, Air In. Good Old Days
"Snipes rule the lower world". Had that on a Sweatshirt I got at the exchange on Base at Great Lakes after I graduated BT A-School. The picture above it was a BT and MM with their hands around the neck of an ET. Wish I still had it.
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