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Posts: 85 ( 6-May-2008 20:13:35) |
Gene,
and someone was telling me that in your day, the heads were still set up just aft of the bowsprit... they must have been pulling my leg, dammit!
Sir Humphrey: Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now when it's worked so well?
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Posts: 171 ( 6-May-2008 21:07:58) |
This is identical to the heads on TEXAS. I heard personal accounts of the flaming trough from a couple of BB35 veterans. Funny stuff. I would imaging that a
battleship could suddenly become a very small place to hide if you did it to the wrong person!
Another issue with troughs is using them in rough seas. Since gravity does all of the work, when the ship noses down, everything rushes back to the wrong end where it stops in a dramatic fashion. Think in terms of waves breaking on the beach. One apparently learned to get closer to the discharge end and to also stand up at the appropriate time in those conditions. |
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Gene Slover |
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Posts: 6264 ( 6-May-2008 21:27:34) |
Craiglxviii
I cain't believe that anyone would try to pull somebodies leg about this:-) |
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Gene Slover |
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Posts: 6265 ( 6-May-2008 21:37:47) |
Ctom3
Yep you got it right gravity works and these things proved it. To point out a little more about gravity and the forces at work on a ship from both the pitch, yaw and roll you could watch the water in the trough and it gave you a pretty good idea of what happens when all the water hits one end of the trough. To carry this a bit further to were it becomes useful information if you will think about the way stuff is laid out on a ship a lot of the layout is due to the forces at work from roll. pitch and yaw. For instance all motor generator sets are set with their centerline parallel to the centerline of the ship. If you place them across the centerline of the ship you will be replacing bearings regularly. The bearings are radial bearings and do not stand up well to end thrust. However when loaded radiauly then can stand much force. So a lot of rotating stuff is placed in line with the centerline of the ship. Gee now ain't that interesting:-) |
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Posts: 131 ( 7-May-2008 23:00:31) |
looking for the Golden Rivet, be sure to ask for a BT Punch...
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AegisFC |
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Posts: 231 ( 8-May-2008 01:19:29) |
On modern ships we have vacuum assisted crapers.
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Posts: 1162 ( 8-May-2008 07:30:37) |
We had 100 proof punch in the fire rooms, it would shame the white lightning, loved to get the deck apes on xtra duty in the evaps that'll teach ya to hose
down decks when not needed ,and does blow tubes ring a bell ?all that nice white lacing gone to he-- ha ha ha
like I said snipes rule!!! and we ate as good as the Officiers as we had sounding tubes in the meat locker LOL take a reading come out with a big chunk of meat to share with the boiler roomfor use of the grill BBQ NUFF SAID BOB
For those that fought for it,Freedom has a taste and meaning ,The protected will never know.
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Posts: 6296 (11-May-2008 04:06:12) |
(((On modern ships we have vacuum assisted crapers.)))
No wonder nobody could get in the crapers:-) |
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Gunnersmate04 |
Bob, the BT punch I was refering too... | ||
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Posts: 141 (13-May-2008 15:45:11) |
was the kind were you are told to ask the biggest meanest BT in the Hole for a "BT Punch" and he procceeds to cave your chest in with a full fis tin
your gut.
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Posts: 1173 (13-May-2008 20:58:50) |
none of us boiler men were that much over sized in fact come to think of it we only had a few oversized men on board "BIG MAMIE" but the biggest one
was the CQM he came in handy during the crossing ceromony his gut was the "Royal Baby's A--" and u remember that do you not?
NUFF SAID BOB
For those that fought for it,Freedom has a taste and meaning ,The protected will never know.
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