On our bow was a P250 pump one second, gone the next along with everything else on the bow.
Saturday, April 2, 2022
ON THE SEA ROAD TO CANADA
I once left San Diego in the company of 3 other Minesweepers enroute to Canada. It looked like this most of the way with a 70 knot headwind most of the way and one of the Sweeps losing main propulsion half a dozen times while we 'waited' endured.
On our bow was a P250 pump one second, gone the next along with everything else on the bow.
On our bow was a P250 pump one second, gone the next along with everything else on the bow.
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Reminds me of the typhoon in the South China Sea in 1972 - 40ft waves breaking over our flying bridge - on a DE. Good times.
Song of the High Seas time.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fS9Y13UxFm8
Aahoooga! Aahoooga! Dive! Dive!
Our sister ship with the dead main engines rolled so badly it was taking water down the stacks. Even 40 years later I'm not sure how I'd bleed the water out of the exhaust manifolds of a Packard or Waukesha. On the other hand, I'm positive my Chief would know one or two ways. If I can figure out how to post a video I have of that trip I will.
Packards? Holy Cow! Those go back a long time!
Aluminum block 1D1700s for the Mains, #1 SSDG and #3 MSG. The generator didn't have the turbocharger and to be honest the #3 MSG was, unless I was there to crack the whip, a steady source of spare parts for the main engines.
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