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At random: Beeman Center at Sub Base Pearl Harbor was named for Arthur C Beeman, PhMC aboard the USS AMBERJACK (SS-219) on 4-Feb-43 - He was killed while the sub was engaged in a in gun action with a Japanese ammo ship..

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Gil Shaddock

Posted 2009-03-04 5:03 AM (#24772)

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Subject: Navy Trivia

What was the first air conditioned ship in the US Navy?

Curt

Posted 2009-03-04 5:14 AM (#24773 - in reply to #24772)

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Subject: RE: Navy Trivia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Newport_News_(CA-148)

Gil Shaddock

Posted 2009-03-04 5:31 AM (#24775 - in reply to #24772)

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Subject: RE: Navy Trivia

Correct.

AtoZ

Posted 2009-03-04 5:47 AM (#24776 - in reply to #24772)

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Subject: RE: Navy Trivia

Huh???? The Newport News was built after WWII. How about all those air conditioned fleet boats [that many of us rode] that were built in the early forties.

Ric

Posted 2009-03-04 8:04 AM (#24781 - in reply to #24772)

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Subject: I come up with this....

"... Carrier invented the centrifugal refrigerating system in 1922. The original machine is now housed at the Smithsonian Institution Museum in Washington, D.C. The first documented example of transport air conditioning by Carrier is the Navy’s U.S.S. Wyoming; the installation was completed in 1925..."

Also: '...1932, ... Cuttlefish differed from her Portsmouth-built sister, Cachalot, in many respects, including more spacious internal arrangements, the first installation of air conditioning on a U.S. submarine...."

The Newport News air conditioning I find is this: "... The NEWPORT NEWS will be the first vessel in the fleet to have air-conditioning in virtually all living and working compartments except the machinery spaces. ..." Looks like Wyoming is still the first Navy Ship with "some" or "any" air conditioning in 1925 and Cuttlefish had full air conditioning in 1932, but the surface navy has always "forgotten" the sub service or liked to ignore it.

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