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To: UNGN; texas booster; Texan5; Lazamataz; Kaslin; BenLurkin; Liz

Thank you. One of my earliest memories is of looking at the steam pistons inside the Battleship texas engineroom. Thinking “I could stand in that! And it goes up and down drives that! (Looking back at the propeller shaft.)

http://battleshiptexas.info/images/Systems/Steering/SteeringRm.html

Then I realized that this “modern” battleship still had Nelson-era steering wheels and ropes for emergency steering! And with an analog computer up forward that used dials for the latitude, the speed and the temperature and the course ... Just so it could shoot straight for miles and miles.

I was hooked forever!

9 posted on 09/11/2022 8:02:23 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)

To: Robert A Cook PE

Texas was not a ‘modern’ battleship after the interwar period, though she was modern*ized*. She’s a dreadnought type which was technically obsolete after the end of WW1.

15 posted on 09/11/2022 10:50:30 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)

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