STACK CLEANING AND LAGGING REPAIR
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.
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OOPS! Should be "sat-side", not "sta-side"!
Rob Sitze----Was standing top-watch on a destroyer when the sta-side fireman did that! We had just got a bell for 2/3 ahead when this happened and it scared the shit out of me when I heard the noise & saw that boiler front :breathe"! Told him if he ever did that again I would put my foot so far up his ass we would both have to go to the hospital to have it extracted!
BT2.uss st.paul. 1963-1966.
Very frowned upon, but in a pinch......
I remember during that and Yes it was Frowned upon.
Who remembers lighting fires off the back wall?
Safety Valve
As I remember the CENG had sprayer plates for JP-5 as well as over load plates in cause of war time,I never burned NSFO and was glad not to, that stuff was nasty!