Comments on: Thanksgiving Mysteries Revealed

By: tugster

tugster — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:31:36 +0000

thank you, robert. i stand corrected.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:26:46 +0000

and EMERG is “Emergency Back Full”, such that the chief should drop the coffee cup and put her in reverse smartly and fully…

By: bowsprite

bowsprite — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:45:29 +0000

man, doesn’t Olympia look lovely, though. And, I love the flakey look, too. Something just resonates.

By: Rick Spilman

Rick Spilman — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:26:32 +0000

I doubt that tours of the “Big U” are easy to arrange. Star Cruises is trying to sell her so if you could pass for a rich investor they might let you aboard. It appears that the folks who want to save the old ship are mostly limited to going out in boats and touching the hull, which strikes me as a bit odd.

The ship has been thoroughly gutted to strip her of asbestos. For some years the Windmill Point Restaurant in Nags Head, North Carolina had a significant collection of panels and interior memorabilia after buying it at auction before the ship was stripped. Now apparently the restaurant is closed and the SS United States collection has been moved to the Mariner’s Museum in Norfolk. The Celebrity Cruise Line ship Infinity has an SS United States Restaurant with six etched glass panels that were once part of the First Class Ballroom.

By: Les Sonnenmark

Les Sonnenmark — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:14:06 +0000

The name of BECUNA’s device is a motor order telegraph repeater. It indicates the speed, ahead or back, that the helm is ordering the motor to be turned. Circuit 1MB is for the starboard propulsion motor; 2MB would be for port. There is an unwitting theme to the Philly photos–BECUNA, a WWII sub, was propelled by electric motors with power supplied by diesel generators when on the surface and batteries when submerged; nuclear subs are propelled by steam turbines, but the newest have electric motor auxiliary propulsion. SATURN was diesel propelled, as were her sisters SPICA and SIRIUS, but they have been replaced by the brand new LEWIS AND CLARK-class ships which are propelled by electric motors. Also, the UNITED STATES was steam turbine propelled, but newer liners and cruise ships are electrically propelled. So we’re back to an older technology (though much advanced) for ship’s propulsion.