Bloomers, Blast Bags and Bucklers, Oh My! | Battleship Texas
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Hey y'all! Travis is back and talking about gun bloomers, blast bags, and bucklers, oh my! What they are, their purpose, and a quick history of them on Texas.
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Its good to see these museums getting this info out there
So glad both Texas and New Jersey can use UA-cam to help get info out and publicity in
Cool, I was wondering about those. I don't know about vinyl ... in the Texas sun it seems like vinyl dries out, hardens, and turns to dust pretty quickly.
That was our concern as well, however it’s the same type vinyl that is used in commercial awnings. The 1990s bloomers were made of it as well.
Would "The finest Corinthian leather" last any better?
(Reference to an old Chrysler comercial)
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LOL, EXACTLY!
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Another great video! There was a good reason why bloomers were not used until after the ship's modernization. Prior to that, the only way the guns could be aimed was by the pointer and trainer looking through periscope sights from their positions underneath gun barrel. These looked through depressions at each corner of the gun port. Permanently installed bloomers fully covered the port and prevented them from seeing. Thus, the roll up canvas screens. Part of the modernization included follow-the-pointer instrumentation that eliminated the requirement so that permanently installed bloomers could be added.
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Thanks Tom! You are right about the the openings for pointer and trainer scopes in the gun ports, however Texas was using director control and plotting direction well before 1927.
Director control and mechanical fire control tables started being integrated into the fleet in 1912; it is very likely that Texas had these at commissioning. And that’s setting aside the 1916 range keeper installation. The follow the pointer system of relaying fire control instructions was implemented in the USN between 1910 and 1915, would leave the pointer and trainer sights for checking and redundancy.
I would also point out that canvas bloomers were used from her reconstruction on onward to the early 40s and were cleared before the guns were fired.
I suspect your right about the about the optics being cleared. That would be another reason why the rubber bloomers don’t appear in her WWII combat photos.
Thanks, I appreciate the corrections, they give me at least a few hours of looking and researching, which is a good thing.
I couple of good places to start for me were The Ship and Gun Drills, U. S. Navy, 1922 and The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell (which gave me a good understanding of the development of mechanical fire control computers). Both are available online for free.
@@BattleshipTexas Thanks, I have and have been through both. I’ll review them.
Goodyear actually made the rubberized bucklers for ships for a very long time. I'm sure they have the compound formula and blueprints locked away in a vault somewhere.
poor ol Mr Goodyear, or was it Mr Dunlop, made the formula for rubber over many years to waterproof wellies and ponchos in the wars, the formula was pinched by an employee who took it to Goodyear, Dunlop lost a lot of money on the projects and later still made no money and died a poor man, and yet today rubber is a very important commodity we take for granted (please do correct, its probably on Wiki)
Very Informative....🤔
I live in Canada but did visit the old Lady quite a number of years ago. Great to see that she is getting the restoration that she deserves.
Firing control system and salvo alarm of Battleship Texas
Excellent video! The production quality was amazing and I enjoyed learning about the history of the "bloomers"!
Where did y’all get the audio for the intro? I’m trying to find it but I can’t. I’m making a video on the ships history and could really use some footage.
One of those things that you are too embarrassed to ask, but always wanted to know. Thank You. Never knew what they were called.
Light duty. BB = Blast Bags, Bloomers and Bucklers
Love to see you fixing this wonderful lady up. Been going to her for 40 years now, once every 5 or so years. Does not matter what state I lived in. Lets go Brandon!
Will Texas be available to visit next year?
I plan to go sometime April or May and see her for myself but I’m not sure of the current repair schedule especially since her hull is in bad condition.
Highly doubt it. By then she will be in drydock getting a major overhaul. I think the current prediction is that it will be open in 2023 at the earliest.
As a kid (1960s'), I lived in Galveston, Tx. in the summertime, due to my real father living there. My father was a world-class Tool & Die Maker. Richard Cobb. Dad had an Apartment near the American National building. The place we lived in is still there. The red building at the corner of Postoffice St. & 20th St., on the second floor, on the corner, overlooking, Postoffice & 20th. The spring that I came down just after my 17th birthday, he handed me my Tool & Die Journeymen's Card. And become another world-class Tool & Die, Maker.
I love Galveston! I hated Illinois! Where I am still today, and still hating it here!
After being married, I really tried hard to move back to Galveston in the early 80s'. I worked for VANSKIKE SECURITY, INC. and a gun shop called GUNSMOKE. But it wasn't enough for my wife and I couldn't really blame her after coming from working for JOHN DEER HARVESTER. But I loved Harry and Nancy Vanskike, even though Harry was a first-class prick, who once took me out to a Wanch Barge, in the middle of the Gulf, and left me there for 10 &1/2 days and 11 nights.
So I digress... I still count Texas as my true home. Because I love Galveston so much.
At this point, my life is going through some major changes. My wife of over 45 years won't make another one, and I've been battling bladder cancer for 5 years. But her cancer is on a whole nother level. And lately, I may, or may not, have other issues. At 65, who knows.
But if I remain in reasonably good shape after I lose my wife, I'd love to come down there to Galveston, my real home, and help work on the TEXAS. My real name is Michael G. Dawson (Cobb at birth). 209-203-6332
I enjoy watching these videos about the Mighty Battleship Texas. My Family and I toured her when I was in First grade in the early 2000s and then again in 2017.
Not uncommon to look at photos and say, "now why did they do that?" haha
Right?! There was usually a good reason…
Like Texas never displayed a kill board or her ribbons while in Navy service. Why is that?
It kind of gives her a “there’s a job to do, let’s do it, and do it without a lot of fanfare” attitude.
Been to USS Texas a number of times since 1977. Can her big guns be fired?
I'd bet they could. Powder bags and projectiles? Don't know if I'd trust them...unless I used a real, REAL long string to pull the trigger.
No just powder I have never heard a Dreadnaught fire it’s guns. Only on film
Make more content, we love this ship.
We love this ship too! We are working on new videos, just been a bit busy lately.
Compro 40.000.000 navios dessa classe para a marinha do Brasil rio de janeiro
Pretty interesting stuff. Go TEXAS!!!
Great video Travis. Never knew what they were called.
If I was a betting man I would say that after many, many shots being fired in the bombardments that they were probably torn and destroyed in the process so were removed for repair or replacement during the pics showing them missing.
Also, they were probably not a top priority maintenance item during wartime deployment.
Great job you guys are doing.
Thanks for putting out videos about this amazing warship
Please, may I ask you a (supid ?) question ? Why, on some historical pics, can we see the same battleship with and wihtout blast bags ? (I mean, for example in WWII : Scharnhorst, Bismarck, Strasbourg, Dunkerque...just to name a few ; there are plenty of pics showing them salining in both configurations). Thanks !