Mine best command of 27 years was the USS STIMP DD-978, Spruance Class Destroyer. Great crew, fantastic Captain, Capt. Perrota, and we drove the Russian submarine fleet absolutely crazy. Love it and miss it greatly.
I love the smaller combatants. DE's and the 173' PCs facinated me. Wish a PC was saved....I'm impressed with the good condition of the engine room. Hope to visit Slater soon. Keep up the good work!!
Love the Sailors Hymn ‘For those in Peril on the Sea’ We live in a little Seaside Town in Norwich UK called Goreleston. I often think of that Hymn when I pass our Life Boat Station a short walk from our house. All our Life Boat crews are volunteers. Very brave and selfless people.
I'm now following the drydocking of the New Jersey and as they were repainting the bottom of the ship I was wondering if they ever had the "dazzle camo paint job." but they came late in the war. I love how they kept it up on this ship. I wish you were closer to me so I can take my 93-year-old father and Navy/ Coastguard Veteran on board. He would love it. We got the BB Iowa to keep us entertained here in Lower California, but I always loved the DEs and hope I can get on one soon. We did try to get on a Mexican WW1 DD that was docked in SD but the rats that were exiting the ship gave us the creeps. (true story).
Another advantage to the gyro compass is that it produced an electric signal. This could be fed into the CIC for operators there to see and to radars and enable north to show up on the radar plot as well as relative to the ship's heading.
This is fascinating. I believe that diesel locomotives functioned the same as this ship with the diesel engines generating electricity to power electric traction motors that actually turned the wheels. Thanks for sharing.
What ALWAYS blows my mind is how they even built and build these ships ! It’s complicated running all that plumbing and electrical. The engineering is just spectacular.
@@hond654Also, think of the tremendous advances in technology between the wars! This was my parents’ generation. To them, rapid technological progress was “normal.” It was also “normal” to not benefit from it due to poverty. My mother more than my father lived as people lived pre-WWI. They were in a rural area, had no electricity, no mains water, no central heating until after WWII. Mom remembered getting their first car when she was age 12. Before then, they relied on horse power for trips to town. She passed in 2018 at age 98.
Regarding the conning of the ship: those driving the ship NEVER took there eyes off the compass. The OOD (OOW in my Navy) order a course to steer and that's what I did. Yes, I did glance out the scuttle every now and then and sipped my coffee. This all is to say that having visibility on where the ship is going is not essential at all. In most other allied navies (RN, RAN, RCN, RNZN, RIN etc) the wheelhouse was down at or below the waterline.
One of her sisters, USS Atherton, served the JMSDF and phil navy. Sadly, plans to make her into a museum ship did not.push through. She capsized in one of the storms she had to endure while moored. Not sure if she has beem fully scrapped.
Mine best command of 27 years was the USS STIMP DD-978, Spruance Class Destroyer. Great crew, fantastic Captain, Capt. Perrota, and we drove the Russian submarine fleet absolutely crazy. Love it and miss it greatly.
I love the smaller combatants. DE's and the 173' PCs facinated me. Wish a PC was saved....I'm impressed with the good condition of the engine room. Hope to visit Slater soon. Keep up the good work!!
Thanks, appreciate it!
Love the Sailors Hymn ‘For those in Peril on the Sea’ We live in a little Seaside Town in Norwich UK called Goreleston. I often think of that Hymn when I pass our Life Boat Station a short walk from our house. All our Life Boat crews are volunteers. Very brave and selfless people.
It good to see the Sea Cadets are still active.
I'm now following the drydocking of the New Jersey and as they were repainting the bottom of the ship I was wondering if they ever had the "dazzle camo paint job." but they came late in the war. I love how they kept it up on this ship. I wish you were closer to me so I can take my 93-year-old father and Navy/ Coastguard Veteran on board. He would love it. We got the BB Iowa to keep us entertained here in Lower California, but I always loved the DEs and hope I can get on one soon. We did try to get on a Mexican WW1 DD that was docked in SD but the rats that were exiting the ship gave us the creeps. (true story).
Another advantage to the gyro compass is that it produced an electric signal. This could be fed into the CIC for operators there to see and to radars and enable north to show up on the radar plot as well as relative to the ship's heading.
Wow!! What an excellent video!!! Thank you!!
Thanks, Madison, we're really glad you enjoyed it!
Nice job to all! Great tour of the engine rooms John!
This is fascinating. I believe that diesel locomotives functioned the same as this ship with the diesel engines generating electricity to power electric traction motors that actually turned the wheels. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, appreciate it!
These are very very closely related to even modern EMD diesel electric drivetrains on trains. They share the same heritage from the Winton 201.
What ALWAYS blows my mind is how they even built and build these ships ! It’s complicated running all that plumbing and electrical. The engineering is just spectacular.
Keep in mind, they did not have to start from scratch - WW I era destroyers served as basis for WW II designs. Just more complexity :)
They are also designed to operate with battle damage. There are connections for plumbing and electricity to bypass damaaged sections.
@@hond654Also, think of the tremendous advances in technology between the wars! This was my parents’ generation. To them, rapid technological progress was “normal.” It was also “normal” to not benefit from it due to poverty. My mother more than my father lived as people lived pre-WWI. They were in a rural area, had no electricity, no mains water, no central heating until after WWII. Mom remembered getting their first car when she was age 12. Before then, they relied on horse power for trips to town. She passed in 2018 at age 98.
Very very cool 😎
旧日本軍の駆逐艦は、多分現存していないので、アメリカの駆逐艦がまだ完全な状態で現存しているのが、羨ましいです！
Gyro compass gives you true north where magnetic gives you magnetic north which is constantly moving
Regarding the conning of the ship: those driving the ship NEVER took there eyes off the compass. The OOD (OOW in my Navy) order a course to steer and that's what I did. Yes, I did glance out the scuttle every now and then and sipped my coffee. This all is to say that having visibility on where the ship is going is not essential at all. In most other allied navies (RN, RAN, RCN, RNZN, RIN etc) the wheelhouse was down at or below the waterline.
And I have walked on the bulkheads in a rough sea too!
Tatenll DDG 19.. Out of Mayport ,Florida
One of her sisters, USS Atherton, served the JMSDF and phil navy. Sadly, plans to make her into a museum ship did not.push through. She capsized in one of the storms she had to endure while moored. Not sure if she has beem fully scrapped.
i'm getting horrors thinking about the guys trapped in there during combat. those guys had balls the size of planets.
How much hard liquor do to trade a usmc marine in ww2 for an air cooled .50 caliber machine gun?
There's a big difference between a porthole and a window.
Those sailors would have been wearing blue hats, not white, in the engine room.
Its very difficult to visit the ship as it is still dazzle painted and very hard to see.
BS the helmsman
steered the ship by the gyro compass it wasn't a backup