Battleship USS IOWA Museum: Aft Steering
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- You asked for it. We listened! More of the cool interior spaces on the ship - here's the port side of aft steering. This compartment will be on our engineering tour when we're finally able to re-open the inside of the ship to the public.
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Aft Steering my first watch station out to sea. I stood 2 four hour watches a day underway wiping up oil wondering what I got myself into 🤪
I suspect that the entire area looks better than when it was new!
The paint is very well done, and it shows that everything was cleaned and stripped of any old paint and even smoothed out before being painted with the new coatings. Sad that the wall paint still chips due to environmental expansion and contraction tho. But it still looks fantastic!
I can smell this video. Only a sailor can say that.
Welp, in June 1980 in Philadelphia, friend and myself, both journalists in Iowa, were given permission to clamber around Iowa in the company of two young officers (who were equally excited to be aboard). There was some sort of strong machine odor. Does a ship in reserve smell different than a commissioned ship? I've always wondered. Thanks.
@@brianchapman3701 yes i was on board around 1960 when it was in san Pedro my dad a plank owner ,took us to walk around on it , was open to public then i didnt smell anything was nice . i was a kid then
2 huge double acting cylinders and quad balanced tie rods...that's some serious force there, very impressive! Thanks!
I know the smell you speak of. lol found it deep inside the Carrier Intrepid.
Must have been hard to get the rudder stops down there through the hatches & stairs.
Just outta curiosity do the rudders still work or have the been permanently put outta action
AS an A Ganger I have stood watches and performed steering checks in After steering. Much smaller ship, but the smells and sounds would be comfortable and familiar. Thanks for the video.
Mike - Do you have the wheels in storage or are they missing ? Thanks .
You might wanna oil those hinges there, neighbor :D
Looks in excellent shape.
Great video thank you 😊
to bad my dad was first sailor on this ship 1942 December as a sailor i wonder what it was like all bran new . he could of narrated about it but he died few years back
I don't understand why the rudders are not so arranged that one explosion cannot destroy both rudders. Further rudders, it seems to me, should be jettisonable in an emergency.
Basic physics. The rudder is a pivot. It's most effective next to the point of propulsion.
Of course ship designers in the battleship, Dreadnaught and long before knew that it would be great to have a steeting system in a different area so to compartmentalise possible damage. These were the smartest people of their time.
They didn't do so because it wasn't practically possible with the technology of the day.
As an aside. Pre dreds and earlier iorn clads (well some of them) had extra "rudders" at the bow. This was to fine adjust for ramming.
A basic Tennant of tenical/engineering history. Assume the people of the time thought of everything. If they didn't make something you have thought of. Then there is a good reason and it's very unlikely to be lack of imagination and almost always due to impracticality of implementation.
Wow!
How would they replace one of those bars or their bearings? build a temporary overhead crane?
Easy. Bring the ship's Marine detachment into the room and tell them, "Whatever you do, do NOT take this apart and replace the bearings!". Come back tomorrow and the job is done. Problem is, then the rudder will be pregnant.
You are so right about wishing you could bottle up the smell of that ship. I did my time on a converted Essex class carrier. As an R Division snipe, I did a considerable amount crawling around in the lower spaces. That smell brings back so many memories when we tour a museum ship.
It’s hilarious how everyone knows the smell of the iowas, that decades old mixture of sweat and oil hits the nose like nothing else.