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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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2 July 1963
Boilerman "A" School final average of 94%. The highest score in the past year and was #3 in the top 100 Graduates.
Achieved BT2 prior to honorable discharge (30 JULY 1965) at three years eleven months of service. Served aboard the DD-850 USS JOSEPH P. KENNEDY JR and DL-1 USS NORFOLK.
You could relite fires with reletive safety off the back wall if lost burning NSFO. Couldn't do it with DFM or F-86.I know, I did it.
Plank Owner USS Connole DE1056. Went aboard as FN on pre-com detail left in 72 as BT2, Had 24hrs to report to USS Newport News CA148 leaving next day for Viet Nam.
Jim Blanton, We have two GEARING class DD's as museum ships, the ORLECK and the JOSEPH P. KENNEDY JR. You might want to check with the orgs that maintain them for help.
has anyone got pics of number 1 boiler room of a gearing class tin can lost the ones I had of the uss agerholm dd826 want my grand kids to see what it was like down in the pit if so please send them to me
well I read today that the uss ranger is going to the scrap yard in march another good steamer gone . the gov. outa keep them around they just mite need em someday steam ships don't need pc/s to run just good snipes
In #4 FR when first came aboard the BOSTON, then in #1, then the Oil Shack as Oil King!
b div first on / last off was in fwd fire room on all 4 tincans I was on
Jim Blanton----was in reserve uniy=t when the word came down that BT's were no more! Said I had a choice and asked what I wanted to convert to! Replied--S and a month later got my answer--Fleet Sailors had first dibs ( which I fully understood) and I was either an MM or a civilian! Only had a few more years before I could retire, so took the MM rate & sailed off with it! Was able to stick it out for retirement in 2000 as MM! At least I got something from it! Not sorry, as I have endless memories from ACDU & reserve duty!
the old tincans are gone 600 stick plants are a thing of the past and the boiler tec s one day will be to the good days 6 and 6 4 and 8 if your lucky and yes fires off the back wall the top watch went buggy
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