Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Posted on 09/24/2005 9:05:21 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
Good morning feather. Thank you for the tribute to the fallen.
Yes, the temp is beautiful nice and cool and sunny.
I love the fall, just don't care for winter that much..
Prayers up for safety from the storm.
:-)
Thanks for dropping by the Foxhole.
LOL, you are gonna lose your hair over this one PE.;)
Foxholes are great!
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Sad Regards
alfa6 ;>}
It's looks as if we're gonna miss nearly the entire thing at Castle Sparksalot. It's cloudy, with a sustained 20mph breeze, gusting to 30-40. No rain yet, and the chance is small at this point. The picture looked very different for us 24-48 hours ago.
Good news!! Answered prayers.
New Orleans is sure getting it again.
Sad indeed, lovely send off, ALfa.
Afternoon all.
"These are the voyages of the USS Enterprise..." :-)
No pornograph eh? I hear told of places on the internet that can fix that.
You beat me!
I wouldn't know anything about that. ;-)
thanks alfa6.
Oddly enough (maybe) I didn't even think of this. Duh!
Howdy ma'am
The winds have been gusting a bit higher than earlier. Maybe 50mph or so now. great day for a yard sale! Not really, but it is "neighborhood yard sale day". And folks are doing it. We still haven't had any rain.
With winds that high it's a great time to rake the leaves.
This is a great presentation regarding the Big E.
Allow me to add a bit of not well known history regarding the USS ENTERPRISE.
During her first WESTPAC deployment in 65-66, she made an R&R call to Subic Bay, PI. She was tied up to the carrier pier and looked magnificent across the bay from our location at the Ship's Repair Facility Diving Barge/School.
I was attending Second Class Diving School at the time. A job order came in from the Big E. It seems the Snipes aboard E had to repack one of the rudder posts. To accomplish this job, the point under the E where the rudder post penetrates the hull had to have a "dam" set in place to prevent water from entering when the Snipes removed the packing ring deep in aft steering room of the ship.
The method we used to dam the post was to use a 1 1/2 in. line (rope) coated in "monkeys**t" - a thick black sticky substance used to pack around electrical cables as they passed through bulkheads to maintain water-tight integrity of the space. We took this line and wrapped it around the post. To give you and idea how large that rudder post is, there were four of us underwater working at arms length away from each other stuffing that rope around the post.
Once we had it in place, we pounded on the hull to let the snipes know it was safe to remove the packing glands inside. As the gland was removed, the combination of flowing water and underwater pressure forced the dam tighter into place, shutting off the flow of water.
Once the job was done on the inside, we dove again to remove the dam. Mission accomplished.
Now, an addendum to the above story...
Naval vessels have the name of the vessel painted in black block lettering just below the main deck on the stern and the ENTERPRISE is no exception. However, during the intrim period of installing that dam on the rudder post and removing it, we had some down time. One of the divers' name was Hugh AKA Hughie.
Well, during the down time, Hughie found a chipping hammer and began etching his name in the paint on the E - about 4 ft. above the waterline on the stern in large block letters.
When the Big E left Subic, her rudder post was repaired and she bore a two names - ENTERPRISE and HUGHIE.
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