Post pics you've taken of warship engine rooms

[taterguy]

If this doesn't do it, nothing will

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8044822&mesg_id=8044822

[Turbineguy]

1. That RPM order indicator

Reminds me of my time on the Unrep Tanker, Passumpsic. We usually did unreps at around 62 RPM. You had to bring the engines (steam, geared turbines) to that speed, stabilize the entire plant and then the carrier or whoever would come alongside.

No pictures though.

[taterguy]

2. The pic was taken on the USS North Carolina

I was just being a tourist

[pokerfan]

3. I toured the HMS Belfast in 2000

Alas, that was two years before my digicam.



The flagship of the 10th Cruiser Squadron in which capacity she provided cover for Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union.

The Belfast bombarding German positions in Normandy:



Engine room:

[taterguy]

4. Can't you take the tour again?

I'll keep this thread kicked until you return with pics that you actually took

[pokerfan]

5. LOL

Next time I'm in London. I'll also post the pics of the Cutty Sark I didn't take in 2000.

[taterguy]

6. Did the Cutty Sark even have an engine room?

:shrug:

[pokerfan]

14. Perhaps not in the traditional sense

But the trireme did:

[Kutjara]

7. That brings back memories.

The HMS Belfast was right outside my office window when I worked at the Cottons Center near London Bridge. Even 55 years on from its glory days, it is still a formidable-looking piece of equipment. Well worth touring, as well (certainly much more interesting than the hokey "London Dungeon" nearby).

[taterguy]

8. Get the hell out of my thread unless you have a pic of an engine room to contribute

I will not stand for any thread-jacking

[Kutjara]

10. OK, Cap'n. Here you go:

The propulsion control section of the Transvaal Castle's engine room, taken shortly before the ship was broken up.



Good enough?

[taterguy]

12. Did you take that pic?

I'd like some proof please

[Kutjara]

13. Of course I took the pic.

I took it straight from the ship's commemorative website. You don't think I drew it by hand, do you? :evilgrin:

[pokerfan]

18. I passed on the dungeon

The Belfast floating museum is notable in that it does allow access to the engine room as well as the equally impressive machine shop.

[WildEyedLiberal]

29. The HMS Belfast is wicked cool

I forgot to bring my camera the day I toured it, though x(

[two gun sid]

9. Sorry. I threw most of my Navy pictures away.

One of our more artistic MM's painted a nude Tonya Roberts on our throttleboard after she had done a spread in Playboy. The Old Man came down to main control and had a fit. He made the MM's paint over that beautiful piece of art. Goddamn shame, really.

Flank speed ahead, for this post! Make turns for 30 knots.

[taterguy]

11. Maybe this thread will end up getting 50 replies

But not a single pic that someone else has taken of a warship engine room

[Kutjara]

15. Only if we can turn it into a flamewar about military fetishism.

That should send it straight past 100, for sure.

[taterguy]

17. If I wanted a military fetish thread I would have started a plane thread

I'm as devout a pacifist as anyone else but I think war planes are, well, cool.

[Kutjara]

20. Oooh, planes.

Me likey planes. Let's do planes.

[taterguy]

22. Allow me to retort

[bluesbassman]

26. Here's an F14A Tomcat on the USS Hornet.

I was as far back as I could get and this was all I could get in the frame. Those planes are big! My daughter on the left. About five years ago.

[pokerfan]

30. Planes I can do

Six years ago. DC-3 (C-47) cockpit.

[two gun sid]

16. Oh yeah, it's gonna make it to fifty.

My ship had a crew website and I think there was a picture of M Division around the throttleboard I can look it up if you like. I do have one picture of the IC shop with me in it and a big bag of weed on top of the gyro. Would that count?

[taterguy]

19. Of course it would count

Post away

[two gun sid]

21. Long night off the coast of Liberia...

I should blackout my face 'cause the fuckin' Nav don't take kindly to people using their Capital Ships to smuggle dope. That a Sperry-Rand gyro the pack of Marlboro's is sitting on. You can just make out the dope in plastic bags I got from a mess crank.

[taterguy]

32. Never post anything on the Internet that you don't want your momma to see

I speak from experience

:blush:

[two gun sid]

34. Good advice but it ain't me mother I'm worried about.

[two gun sid]

23. 3 Switchboard room.

my buddy Bub Lewis standing Sounding and Security watch on top of a 400 Hz M/G set.

[two gun sid]

24. Steel Beach.

The fantail underway somewhere in the South Atlantic. Also called the ass end of the boat.

[hedgehog]

25. Can I post one I took off the Net?

[two gun sid]

27. I want to see it.

Do you know what ship it's from?

[hedgehog]

35. This one:

[taterguy]

31. Apparently not

It's not that difficult to get a Photobucket account or something similar

[Fire Walk With Me]

28. I toured a u-boat years ago, but didn't have a camera.

:(

[taterguy]

33. Which U-Boat?

I'll be going to the Outer Banks in a couple weeks but the only U-Boats there are the ones that sank and I don't know how to scuba dive.

[pokerfan]

36. I toured the USS Pampanito (SS-383)

in San Francisco once. No camera.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pampanito_(SS-383)