ACC on 600# M-type
Has anyone heard of having Bailey ACC on a 600# M-type boiler? As an amateur Navy historian, a 1200# BT and a factory rep for Bailey, I'd never heard of such a thing, but I have a picture of the Bailey console onboard the USS NORTHAMPTON (CLD/CC-1), which had the 600# B&W M-types that all of her sisterships in the OREGON CITY class of heavy cruisers had.My biggest question is, if she had M-types, did the ACC control both furnaces or only the saturated side. The picture looks like only the…
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Grad from BT "A" in Oct '68. Served on Wm V Pratt (DLG-13), Mitscher (DDG-35) (ex DL-2) and John King (DDG-3)
when I was Stationed at SIMA-NRMF in Long Beach, CA we did the water jettting of the Tubes on the Jersey and Big MO when they were stationed there back in late '87 early '88
Well she is still serving a purpose at least.
No not me, I was stationed on her,'84-88 as BT1 got my ESWS on her then,now she lays in Davey Jones Locker as a artificial reef off the coast of Australia.
BTC Kevin, did you take the photo or is that you climbing out of the firebox?
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