Repairing a Damaged Warship - Ship Triage and Treatment
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2023
- Today we take an overview look at the process behind repairing a ship that has suffered combat damage.
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The most important part of repairing a ship? Replacing all the binoculars the admiral threw overboard
Early step in the triage process: "Is there any unexploded ordinance on the ship?" No body wants to start draining the drydock only to find an armed torpedo or 14 inch shell sticking out of the hull.
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The long awaited sequel to "Survival at Sea - Oh Lord the ship is on fire/sinking/exploding/disagreeable"
Don't forget the cleaning out of the damaged spaces... including bits and pieces of people, sludge/oil/grease buildup, grey water, etc. As a Navy Veteran of the 90's ... I cannot fathom the experience sailors had during the world wars... truly the greatest generation
Honestly there are an awful lot of photos there which show just what a Herculean task the crews did with their damage-control procedures. With a lot of them it's a case of "how the hell did it survive THAT???". Some of those chuffing great holes look way too wide to have survived.... but still they did. My respect for the sailors of various navies has gone up several points.
This was actually my grandfather's job during WW2. He was the foreman of a repair crew at a naval shipyard in the San Francisco area that the ships damaged vs the Japanese in the Pacific would be sent to. He worked there before the war, actually. After Pearl Harbor he went to enlist but the military turned him down flat. They said that he was in an absolutely war-critical role, and he could contribute FAR more to the war effort by staying right where he was than he could by enlisting.
A note re: avoiding splicing wires. I can confirm, at least in a mining environment, when re-building equipment we ALWAYS re-cable. Any splice, no matter how carefully done, will quickly corrode and cause problems. I can imagine this is much worse in saltwater spray environments.
Having been on ships going into overhaul, though fortunately not damaged from combat. The whole triage process is kind of a balancing act. Stuff that has been broken for years will appear on the repair list, and many things you have to ask yourself is this something that really needs to be fixed or is this something we can live without. It's the old warrant against need contest. I really want this thing but do I need it? Then you add the needs the fleet to the time it takes to repair that thing, and you get things like Yorktown leaving Pearl Harbor before Midway in 77 hours.
An interesting future video would be design, development and deployment of the Advance Base Sectional Docks (ABSD), the moveable dry docks which were used in the Pacific conflict to allow repairs at sea or in those instances where proper repair and refit facilities didn’t exist at a nearby port. The first ship of the class was the USS Artisian ABSD-1 which was used to repair damaged US Navy ships initially at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Islands.
My employer's late father-in-law was an officer on USS New Orleans (CA-32) during the Battle of Tassaforanga. After the entire front quarter of the cruiser's length was blown off by a Type 93 torpedo and subsequent magazine explosion, the ship had to lay to Tulagi the next morning.
I would very much like to see a video on the salvaged ship's of pearl harbor and what repairs/ modernization were done to them
I like the fact that you point out the floating drydocks. My father served aboard ABSD (Advanced Base Sectional Drydock) #1 during WW2.
Descent into Darkness by Edward Raymer is a first-person account of a salvage diver at Pearl Harbor. He was the first to dive the USS Arizona only a few days after it sank. He and others mention men dying from hydrogen sulfide gas generated by decaying biomass when entering dewatered compartments (aside from bodies, the larger ships had what were essentially meat processing plants). His account is very interesting, as was your series on salvage operations at Pearl (especially the Oklahoma) and a follow up on the subsequent repair of those or other ships would help flesh put this outline.
I'd be interested in any damage report compiled after the first Tallboy hit on the Tirptz. Damage, at her bow, left her confined to Norwegian coastal water. There must have been an appreciation that this was no normal weapon but bigger, a major step up in risk.
Would definitely love to hear the full story of repairing the West Virginia. Seems like a special case of essentially making a new ship on top of an existing ship in almost a ship of Theseus sort of way.
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I watched your video on the salvaging/raising of the ships at Pearl Harbor. We always hear about the attack, that was the first time I realized the scope of the horrors that were faced and overcome by the men and women in the aftermath. My heart simultaneously swelled with pride and died at the same time. I hope that made sense.
Yorktown & Enterprise: That's enough repairs. I'm going back to sinking ships.