Battleship Vs Battleship

Bloomers

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:26:12 GMT

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/AMMUNITION/BLOOMERS.html

Quad 1.1

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:54:43 GMT

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/US-NAVY-GUNS/QUAD-1.html

Renown's refit

feeds@yuku.com (Throd) — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:10:44 GMT

When HMS Renown was refitted in 1923 its new 9" belt was fitted somewhat higher than Repulses to account for the extra weight making the ship run deep. Does anyone know how much higher, and was the main deck adjusted to meet its top?

Did the fact that Repulse did not have this improvement be the reason it only had a 2nd class refit in 1933? In many ways a fully modernised Repulse would be tactically more useful than of one of the modernised QEs.

Through Red-Colored Glasses

feeds@yuku.com (Tiornu) — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:48:21 GMT

At a 1928 Soviet meeting on military and naval affairs, the chief of the naval technical department rated the quality of the Soviet Union's battleships. Of the fifty battleships in the world's navies--presumably a reference to the treaty powers--the Sevastopols were superior to thirty-five.
I believe there were seventeen battleships at that time with guns of 15in or larger.

Battleship nuclear shells

feeds@yuku.com (Michael Garrity) — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:42:53 GMT

Ahoy, there:

Did any of the Iowas ever fire one of the Mk-23 'Kate' nuclear shells in a test? If so, which one was the ship that did it?

Mike

Fueling at sea was such fun:-)

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:06:20 GMT

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/AMMUNITION/FUELING-AT-SEA.html

We spent more time under water

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:44:35 GMT

than on top of it.

USS DeHAVEN DD 727 Sumner class destroyer refueling from the USS ORISKANY CVA 34

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/AMMUNITION/DD-REFUELING-FROM-CARRIER.html

Figure 7-5 illustrates a turbine and reduction gear

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:35:40 GMT

installation in a DD-692 class destroyer. Most ships do not have cruising turbines and cruising reduction gears, so details will vary; but most propulsion reduction gears used on destroyer type ships follow the same general pattern. Note the size of the locked train double reduction gearing for the main turbines as compared with the size of the single reduction gearing for the cruising turbine.

This turbine and reduction gear The cruiser minelayer-Adventure originally had a transom stern but it was quickly realised that transom sterns and minelaying don't go well together and she was rebuilt with a conventional stern.

How big a job was that and if a could be done one way with Adventure, could a non transom stern ship be rebuilt with a transom stern?

The last 2250 USN DD snif snif:-(

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:44:14 GMT

http://www.hnsa.org/sound/mexico/index.htm

BOBC 59

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:06:50 GMT

My pictures are not too good but I thought you mught enjoy them.

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/ENGINEERING/ENGINEERING.html?1210125879687

Turbines

feeds@yuku.com (Ed) — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:36:50 GMT

I got a lot of my questions on boilers answered, thanks.

Now, lets move down the piping to the steam turbine. It is my understanding that high pressure steam turned the turbines at a very high RPM, 8,000 to 10,000 RPMs. Was the turbine speed constant at all ships speed? I know the reduction gears were used to reduce the high shaft RPMs down to a propeller speed (about 185 RPMs for a SoDak at 28 knots, and 195-200 RPMs for an Iowa at 33 knots). But was the reduction gears the...

The most important part of the ship is

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:01:37 GMT

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/US-NAVY-GUNS/TOILET-HEAD.html

Emergency generator

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:48:11 GMT

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/US-NAVY-GUNS/EMG-GENERATOR.html

Navy beans?

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:52:53 GMT

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/US-NAVY-GUNS/NAVY-BEANS.html

Live steam kettle

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:49:15 GMT

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/US-NAVY-GUNS/GALLEY-STEAM-KETTLE.html

Turret rangefinders

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:55:17 GMT

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/US-NAVY-GUNS/TURRET-RANGEFINDERS.html

USS Nevada question

feeds@yuku.com (BB64) — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:02:47 GMT

As well understand the battleship was able to get underway doing the bombing on Dec 7th 1941, there is something that had me wondering.

According to some of the members...( Gene I hope you have answers lol) Most of the battleships boilers were cold ( I assume that the term use when they are not lit) except the Nevada as she was able to go full steam ahead while getting pounded. My question is this, was she due to leave port? I am asking this because she got underway quickly and did...

Great Ship Pics

feeds@yuku.com (USS ALASKA) — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:21:18 GMT

Posted this elsewhere. For those who haven't seen it, some VERY cool pics on this site that might be of interest to the members of this board

http://futabamil.hobby-web.net/souko/index.html

USS...

Amassing of fire

feeds@yuku.com (Gene Slover) — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:41:54 GMT

When steaming in a battle line there are times when all ships cannot see the target.

To amass the firepower of all ships came the range clocks and the degree markings on the turrets.

Because it may be a ship in the middle of the battle line rather than the lead ship that has the traget in sight there are range clocks both forward and aft. The range on the clock is set manualy and the ahead ship as well as the aft ship can see the target range on the range clocks. These...