[NRx]

Some scenes obviously staged. Still an interesting look back at a world now long gone.

[exnavy]

bump

[meatloaf]

I just read “Battleship Sailor” by a sailor that was on the USS California before and during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Good read.

[Drew68]

Bfl

[JimRed]

When that one ends it goes to a 1952 film of living conditions on a destroyer. When I served (’61-’64) not a lot had changed, but my ship was larger and so was less cramped in living space.

[Psalm 73]

Displacement: 32,600 long tons
Length: 624 ft
Beam: 97 ft
Draft: 38 ft
Propulsion: 4 screws, turbo-electric transmission, 28,900 shp
Speed: 21 knots
Range: 8,000 nautical miles at 10 knots
Complement: 1,080
Armament: 8 × 16-in guns (4 × 2)
12 × 5-in/51 caliber guns
2 × 21 inch torpedo tubes
8 × 5-in/25 caliber guns

[Chode]

Blues? at SEA??? staged is right...

[Bull Snipe]

Interesting watching the mess cooks setting up the mess tables in the berthing compartments. No central mess decks for the crew to eat. They dined in their berthing spaces.
The food was brought to the compartment in pots called tureens. After meals, the mess kits and tables were stowed out of the way so that the crew could sling their hammocks to sleep at night.