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At random: In 1921, a United States submarine, the R-14, having run out of fuel at sea while looking for the missing tug USS Conestoga, rigged sails from blankets and hammocks sewn together. Bunk frames were used for yardarms and booms. The torpedo loading king post for a fore mast, the torpedo loading boom for a mizzen mast and the telescoping radio mast, for the main mast. The R-14 sailed 100 miles in five days to the port of Hilo, T.H. at a speed of two knots. It has been reported in March 2016 that the Conestoga has been located 3 miles off Southeast Farallon Island, probably sinking with-in a day of leaving port. All hands lost.
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Runner485
Posted 2010-09-06 5:30 PM (#40549 - in reply to #40543)


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Subject: RE: Express your opinions..furriners included..of course

Corabelle - 2010-09-06 3:55 PMJohn - Ithought it was, "We fired our guns, but the British kept 'a-comin."Cora


You missed the point Cora.
whalen
Posted 2010-09-06 5:32 PM (#40551 - in reply to #40533)


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Ralph Luther - 2010-09-06 4:07 PM Just seems like the gears ain't meshing just right. Kinda like the verticle drive has slipped a few degress..Know what I mean, Vern?

Close, Ralph, but on the later boats they replaced the verticle drive with a Turbo Entabulator.

Here's more info on the Allen Bradley Turbo Entabulator (usually found on diesel boats):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBp5ag6SJH4

On the nuke boats, of course, they used the Rockwell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjXTOlsE8k0

Stoops
Posted 2010-09-06 6:21 PM (#40553 - in reply to #40551)
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Subject: RE: It isn't the BBS it is the SERVER

whalen - 2010-09-06 4:32 PM

Ralph Luther - 2010-09-06 4:07 PM Just seems like the gears ain't meshing just right. Kinda like the verticle drive has slipped a few degress..Know what I mean, Vern?

Close, Ralph, but on the later boats they replaced the verticle drive with a Turbo Entabulator.

Here's more info on the Allen Bradley Turbo Entabulator (usually found on diesel boats):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBp5ag6SJH4

On the nuke boats, of course, they used the Rockwell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjXTOlsE8k0


I thought it was a turbo ENCABULATOR, but what the hell.....they came after the nukes......Don't know how many of you are aware of freecycle, but a friend of mine, a disabled USMC forward Recon fellow with a great sense of humor posted a Turbo Encabulator on the board!..  His description of it was a riot.  And when I got in touch with him, he said he bet a guy that if he posted anything that sounded as if were of value, the cockroachs would come out of the walls for it.  He was right....Somewhere I have his original freecycle post....and everynow and then one of us will post something having to do with a turbo encabulator......that is a gift that keeps on giving.....


My niece's father-in-law, a boomer chief, teaches technology in the Seattle area and loves the you tube.....Damn, don't cha just love technology and what a know-nothing salesman can do with it?  Explains the resident of the whit....whooops.....wrong forum....belay my last.



Edited by Stoops 2010-09-06 6:22 PM
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