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Posted on 04/10/2017 8:45:57 PM PDT by johnk
Impressive for sure. Now Kimmy Boy has to deal this. Should have kept his fat yapper shut.
Not true...there were times we were unaccompanied, or if we were, the escorts were nowhere in sight. It did happen. I don’t know if steaming doctrine in the Seventies was that much different than it is today, but I do recall it was not uncommon to not see another vessel anywhere out to the horizon. Of course, they didn’t have Aegis class missile ships back then, so maybe it was different.
unrepping?
I remember back in the late 70's doing Flank Speed runs back and forth through the Straits of Messina one night. We were doing war games with subs best I remember and were not escorted. A carrier at Flank Speed you can feel it throughout the ship. Under normal Full or lower you don't feel the rise and fall or list but you sure do at Flank and you can also hear the turbines from Hanger Deck and lower.
That must have been the cruiser Princeton (CG-59). I was on the carrier Princeton (LPH-5),which was scrapped in 1972. But it figures.
There once was a sailor (Aircraft Hydraulics Mate) who managed to install the actuator to fold wings. Upside down. Which was “impossible” to do. Broke both wings up on the flight deck. True story; it was written up in Naval Aviation News, circa 1961.
Some years ago one of our space capsules came down off target and the closest ship was the Enterprise, said to be 60 nautical miles away. It was also said she would be on sight in an hour for the recovery. She was.
I worked for a company that made jet engine platforms, and we had one aboard the Enterprise for evaluations. One of our guys was aboard for the tests. At one point he was on the bridge. A calm day. The captain ordered 'attack speed'...my friend watched the airspeed indicator hit 60 knots.
I believe the 60 knot capability.
Fun movie. Kind of hokey but fun.
Could be they were off over the horizon unrepping...I remember specifically on cross-Atlantic runs, there were times we had no escort, but we did always have two Tomcats tied down and ready for launch during that time.
I think I have probably told you this before (hehehe...doing the same thing with Freepers now that I do with my wife and friends “I’ve probably told you this before”...:)
On my first transatlantic crossing out of Norfolk, we left late in the day, and I hit my rack. I woke at the early hours of the morning around 0200-0300 I think, and the entire compartment was shaking in time with a thudding sound. It was going “WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM” about 240 times a minute. (That might mean something to you, but when I reconstruct it today, I remember the sound, and can time it for 24 “whams” in six seconds multiplied by 10.
I got out of my rack and went back to the fantail, and there was a mountain of white water behind the ship!
You probably know this-was that “Wham” one rpm, or was it one of the screw blades making the noise (so divide 240 by the number of blades on the screw?) I don’t know how that works...I always just assumed one wham was an RPM.
I’m not Navy but that would be called a “sharp left turn”. :)
Would that not cause a tilt in the other direction?
Dern your hide you posted that to make me think LOL. It sounds like it was a screw that had fouled something like a cable. Here’s the problem calculating the RPM’s by the sound though. You have 5 blades. How many blades fouled or was it actually two shafts fouled or two pieces of cable one on one shaft or screw and one on another? To be honest I can’t remember but I think upper 100’s or low 200’s was Flank RPM territory. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Propellers_of_USS_America_%28CV-66%29_in_dry_dock_at_Norfolk_NS_1985.jpg
LOL
yeah....that
pesky fellers can be such light hitters, sometimes...gotta get the feel...
Or coulda been a shaft bearing issue. I can’t imagine CHENG keeping the screw going if that were the case.
LOL...my mission for the day is now accomplished! (The mighty cva66snipe must now plumb the depths of long forgotten lore...:)
I always thought that it was sound of the cavitating screws smashing against compartments of air and water, but never thought to ask anyone...you seemed an appropriate person to ask!
Well I can tell if a ship has a port of starboard list LOL. I’m not sure about cavitation causing it. If it were a fouled shaft or screw though I think CHENG would have stopped that one shaft. I remember America was the only carrier with a sonar dome in the bow. Every night at sea down in berthing at waterline it was like an old rocking chair or a screen door spring opening and closing. They removed it in the 80 overhaul.
Now I'll mess with you. Which conventional was a Super Carrier by deck design but had the old 600 PSI propulsion plant instead of the 1200 PSI. One clue it was a class namesake meaning first of class.
Got me there. I will guess Midway or Forrestal class! (I could go look it up, but...that would be cheating!)
You guessed it. Forestall CV 59 had a 600 psi propulsion plant and Saratoga CV 60 had a 1200 psi plant the first 1200 plants.
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