Battleship Conning Stations
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2024
- Few men can say they have controlled a battleship, those that did used a conning station
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Fantastically informative! Thanks for this detailed overview!
To echo the comments below: This is one of the best organized and presented overviews of Battleship conning stations and the various changes implemented over the years. Very well done and thank you for your time and effort in putting this together.
Before the end of WW2, it was normal for all ships to have open conning stations - bridges. Remember, air conditioning was not available until then. The first two ships I served in were both commissioned in 1956, and while fully air conditioned (except of course for engineering spaces) they were conned from the open bridge. They did not even have chairs in the pilot house for the captain and XO until around 1980. Later ships I served in, built in the 70s and 80s, although they had fully enclosed air conditioned bridges, still retained, to my surprise, open conning platforms with all the normal conning controls - voice tubes, gyro repeater, alarm panels, comm panels, etc. No chairs or windshields or framework for awnings like the earlier ships had.
thank you for this video, i learned something
Fantastic presentation. Well organized and clearly presented. I always enjoy a video where I learn something new to look out for the next time I visit BB55, and you managed to do that more than once in this video. Many thanks!
This is really good.
I can't wait to see this channel grow in the next year or so.
This was fantastic. Thanks. 🙏
Well done! I’ve wanted for some time now, to see a channel that goes into the details regarding more specific systems like navigation lights, optical systems, internal navigation control, etc.
I asked the battleship New Jersey guys about possibly doing a video along those lines, but I get the idea that they’re shooting for viewers with more basic interests. Thanks for making videos that tickle my “nerd” fancy. 🤓
I'm not surprised about the weather conning bridges. Many ships of the day had open bridges, at least as built. Even merchantmen of the day, the mate and helmsman were on the monkey island on the flying bridge.
I always thought the captains of these ships HAD to be top notch! Best of the best.
Thanks for your video
Nice!
😅 yay! More naval content
It seems completely reasonable to me but I know nothing about Maritime engineering or being a captain so as an ignorant person it sounds great I’m getting the impression as an educated person on this subject you disagree