LostinTexas Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Batesmotel said: What’s the story on the rudder? Scientific Wild Guess,,,,,,,,,,, it was resting in that position and corroded in place. Just guessing, but salt water don't play. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 12, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted September 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Batesmotel said: What’s the story on the rudder? Like most of Texas, it leans to the right. 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbie18 Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 5 hours ago, Eric said: Like most of Texas, it leans to the right. For now, you hope at least 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M&P15T Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 I saw a good video. The hull below the waterline looks remarkably good. The coating they applied back in 1988 worked well. It's at the water-line where the corrosion happens. Surprising they don't have a coating answer for that by now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Rabbi Posted September 15, 2022 Administrators Share Posted September 15, 2022 On 9/12/2022 at 6:09 PM, LostinTexas said: Scientific Wild Guess,,,,,,,,,,, it was resting in that position and corroded in place. Just guessing, but salt water don't play. This. They never centered the rudder after getting her into her slip in 1948. So the rudder is stuck at about 14 degrees and there is no need to fix it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 On 9/1/2022 at 1:25 PM, Eric said: WOW What a sight... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbie18 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 She is a fat girl of a ship when you pull her out of the water. I guess that is the thickness of the armor, and probably other things I admitt I poorly understand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 16, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted September 16, 2022 28 minutes ago, kerbie18 said: She is a fat girl of a ship when you pull her out of the water. I guess that is the thickness of the armor, and probably other things I admitt I poorly understand. The swells on her sides were added in a 1925/26 refit, for protection against torpedoes. They are called torpedo blisters, or bulges. I guess they were meant to keep the worst of the explosion from a torpedo strike away from the primary hull. I understand that those additions are the source of a lot of the vessel's leaking woes. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Couple of months before they moved from Port of Houston to dry dock for repairs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Cicero Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 The band actually visited the Texas earlier this week. Sabaton is one of the few bands everyone in this family likes... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 16” shell and barrel section… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 3 minutes ago, railfancwb said: 16” shell and barrel section… That's Micro-Groove, only bigger! And those lands are spectacular! Also, consider the ratio of barrel thickness to bore. We often speak of this ratio as it concerns .45 Colt cylinders, but I wonder how these compare. Of course, I'm neglecting the relative pressures of a 16/45 en flagrante delicto... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted October 8, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted October 8, 2022 The poor girl is a mess. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 On 10/8/2022 at 6:41 AM, gwalchmai said: That's Micro-Groove, only bigger! And those lands are spectacular! Also, consider the ratio of barrel thickness to bore. We often speak of this ratio as it concerns .45 Colt cylinders, but I wonder how these compare. Of course, I'm neglecting the relative pressures of a 16/45 en flagrante delicto... Best I could tell the brass band at the bottom of the shell was the only thing which actually rode in the rifling. The bulk of the shell rode on the rifling. Read that the big German rail gun which shelled Paris from 80 miles away had the shells delivered sequentially, each slightly larger than its predecessor to allow for barrel wear. Another section of barrel had a throat area machined larger with no rifling where the brass band rested before the gun was fired. Unfortunately I did not photograph that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GT4494 Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 For those that care about these things, The UK is calling their new class of Ballistic Missile launch submarines the "Dreadnaught" class. They will be carrying the Trident D5 missiles. Go figure!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 18 minutes ago, GT4494 said: For those that care about these things, The UK is calling their new class of Ballistic Missile launch submarines the "Dreadnaught" class. They will be carrying the Trident D5 missiles. Go figure!! Run Silent, Run Deep - REAL deep - and dread naught 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M&P15T Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 On 11/7/2022 at 7:52 AM, GT4494 said: For those that care about these things, The UK is calling their new class of Ballistic Missile launch submarines the "Dreadnaught" class. They will be carrying the Trident D5 missiles. Go figure!! That's so bizarre. HMS Dreadnaught; the Battleship that caused The Great War by being built. It is a great name though; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M&P15T Posted December 1, 2022 Share Posted December 1, 2022 Yeah, she is a huge mess. Worse than I had imagined. I am surprised there's been no serious structural failures. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 Was that mud inside the blisters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 6, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted December 6, 2022 On 12/1/2022 at 7:30 PM, Batesmotel said: Was that mud inside the blisters? Mud and an Imperial Standard Buttload of expanding foam. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted December 6, 2022 Author Administrators Share Posted December 6, 2022 These are pieces of her torpedo blister plates. I assume those are bilge valves attached to them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Rabbi Posted December 12, 2022 Administrators Share Posted December 12, 2022 I spent some time with her in drydock recently. I even stood (and eventually had to crouch) UNDER her! Things are going well. In 1988, they applied an experimental coating to the hull. The surprising thing, is it is still elastic. No cracking, not dried out, still has some give. That has been one of the "better than hoped" things. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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