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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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Charlie, your picture shows she was a stick plant. In the bottom of the picture is the controller for a Copes-Vulcan feedwater controls. If she had that, she did not have ACC. Thanks, you've answered some questions I've had for years!!!
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If I am not mistaken, it was all manual control. Three man watch, Oil pressure, air pressure and a burner batter for single boiler operation...
Got dicey one day coming up to doc when the forward boiler room blew a tube and we cross connected. Ran the whole docking procedure from the aft boiler room! Captain said he would not have known we had a problem if he did not hear the realtime reports. She answered all bells without hesitation on one boiler. That was one TOP Watch I will never forget...
since we are showing boiler pics
heres a few off the lex taken this past oct during an all hands reunion
I'm a tad bigger than i used to be at one time i coulda ot in the steam drum
Charlie, if you say she steamed at 1200, I believe you. You're the first person I've talked with from NORFOLK. Did she have ACC? I was on MITSCHER after she had her forced-circulation boilers replaced with "normal" natural circulation boilers and she was stick.
I will see if I can find a picture of the control panel at 1200.
Charles, was NORFOLK a 1200 pound plant? I have some boiler specs and prints of her boilers, but have seen evidence that she may have steamed them at only 900 psi.
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