Posted on 12/15/2007 3:17:25 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Or a pop machine.
Supposedly, the welds are better because of all the monitoring of ambient air temp, material temp, torch temp, etc.
The computer will compensate as necessary to maintain the optimum welding process...
The USS Detroit AOE-4 got the boilers from the Kentucky.
At some point in its history, it was struck amidships, and repaired. Any way, it, along with two other O-class boats, was supposed to do a "deep" test dive off of Portsmouth, NH. It was last in line to go, and it didn't come back up.
I had an old neighbor that was in the Coast Guard back then, and he claimed to have been involved in the search a sub. I said the "Squalus", and he said, "no, another one".
So I guess he just wasn't telling a tale.
Then he tells me that the Squalus sank because the captain didn't give enough notice before diving the boat.
He claimed to have talked with one of the sailors from the Squalus and what really happened was that the cook opened a hatch to go out and dump the garbage. "They never found his body..."
You are correct about the boilers and where they went.
Are you sure Iowa was active for Vietnam? I know that New Jersey was. New Jersey was so effect, that the North Vietnamese mentioned it by name at the Paris peace talks.
I notice that they painted a “FR” on the bow of that target.
Good thing, too.
Otherwise, the flyboys might be confused about which end is the front..... 8<)
That might be the 698 boat: missing welds found for the 2nd platform (fwd) on the sound isolation hangers that hold the deck assy from the hull. 1980-81.
She was idly shining her flashlight on the deck hangers, and noticed shadows between the plate and the hull frames. But the welds had been both signed by the welder, the welder foreman, and the inspector(s) ... but were not there.
Arrgh! Yes, you are correct. It was the New Jersey that served off Vietnam. That's what I get for trying to type a post and watch a football game at the same time. The brain turns to mush.
Sounds reasonable to me. That ought to be SOP, and known up front to the welders.
On the original Polaris missile subs, it was even smaller - - 22" as I recall. The boats had three inertial navigation systems, which were too large to be loaded on board fully assembled. The gyros and accelerometers had to be aligned after installation to an accuracy of an arc-second or so. This was done by lapping the interface surfaces and checking the alignment with manually operated optical instruments. All this was before lasers were available for such precision work; it all depended on technicians working with their bare hands. (Accuracy of the ballistic missles was totally dependent on how well they did the alignment job).
The O-9 was lost in 450 feet of water about fifteen miles off Portsmouth, New Hampshire (her crush depth was only 200 feet) with a crew of thirty-three officers and men. Her wreckage was located on September 20, 1997 and the team that located her reports that her hull is crushed from the conning tower all the way back to the stern.
The R-12 was a training submarine that the US was planning on donating to the Brazilian Navy. On June 12, 1943, the R-12 was conducting torpedo attack drills off Key West, Florida when her forward battery compartment began flooding. The crew attempted to blow ballast tanks to bring her to the surface, but their efforts were overcome by the flooding seawater, and she went down with forty Americans and two Brazilians.
The S-28 started the war as a combat submarine, serving mainly in the Aleutians where she sank the freighter Katsura Maru #2, before becoming a training submarine off Hawaii. On July 4, 1944, the S-28 was conducting anti-submarine training with the Coast Guard cutter Reliance when all contact was lost. An extensive search-and-rescue mission was launched, but the only thing they located was a large oil slick that came to the surface near S-28's last position a few days later. Fifty officers and crew went down with the S-28.
In addition, two submarines, the Tullibee and Tang were lost due to defects in their own torpedoes that caused the weapons to circle around and hit the subs. Tullibee went down with 79 of 80 men, while Tang was lost with 78 of 83 men.
I saw the USS Ohio built and launched. Very impressive
They’ve been placed back in service for a couple of weeks now.
My brother is a plank-owner on Iowa from when it was last commissioned. I was on the AE that loaded it when it came out of the yards. I flew over during the UN-REP and Vert-REP and he gave me a tour of the ship.
He was a Senior Chief, then. I thought it was pretty bad that Iowa had 9 Master Chiefs, then. I always one Master Chief was more than enough.
I’m not sure about boomers, but on real submarines the weapon shipping hatch was larger to accommodate the uphaul cables and other rigging.
....that Iowa had 9 Master Chiefs, then. I always one Master Chief was more than enough.....
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