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kirkcudbrightLast weekend, went down to Wilmington NC to visit my friend Dan. He's the amputee cyclist who figures in a few of my stories. He's currently planning a round-the-world trip to raise money and awareness for landmine and bomb survivors. (Check it out! The bike on the right in the banner is mine - picture taken at the start of the John O' Groats to Land's End trip.)
The rest of this post is not about bikes. See, Dan's wife is curator of the USS North Carolina, so we got a personal tour, with some behind-the-scenes stuff as well.
Lots of pictures, so it's all behind a cut.
20mm anti-aircraft gun. I showed a close-up of the magazine to my cow-orker Bruce, and he successfully identified it.
Kingfisher float plane, one of only a handful remaining. At the far left, you can see a little of the crane that picks the plane out of the water and puts it back on deck.
Wiring harness inside the rear 16-inch gun turret.
Bread cooling pans in the bakery. She had a crew of 2300 in wartime.
Engine room control stuff. Each unit is labelled "Vent Exhaust System", with buttons "Slow", "Fast", and "Stop".
Mess hall trays.
Kylie on a bunk. They were 4 high, and jammed in anywhere there was space.
Map of Iwo Jima, with Schedule of Fire, from the curator's archives.
Instruction Book for Computer Mark I. This was an analog computer (mechanical/electrical) for directing the big guns. It was apparently accurate enough that it was borrowed for the Gulf War.
One of the Mark I computers, restored to the fire control room.
Toobs!
Under the floor in the fire control room. This is my new wallpaper (1280x1024).
A couple of the tools in the machine shop. You have to be able to fix anything on the ship...
16-inch shells, with Francie and Dan for scale.
These cannisters each held some number of 90-pound powder charges.
Below is one of those 16-inch shells, with 3 of the 6 powder charges that was required to propel it - that's 540 pounds of powder. At top is a 5-inch shell, with its 2 powder charges.
This is part of the elaborate firewall between the powder magazine and the rest of the ship. Charges were removed from a canister, manually fed through these chutes one at a time, and carried over to the lift.
It's just a hatch, but I love the mechanism.
The view from the bridge.
Francie, Mary Ames, Dan, and Kylie.
Kylie working the elevation control for a set of 40mm guns. There's another pair of guns, and another control station that rotates the quad, out of the picture to the left.
The rest of this post is not about bikes. See, Dan's wife is curator of the USS North Carolina, so we got a personal tour, with some behind-the-scenes stuff as well.
Lots of pictures, so it's all behind a cut.
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20mm anti-aircraft gun. I showed a close-up of the magazine to my cow-orker Bruce, and he successfully identified it.
Kingfisher float plane, one of only a handful remaining. At the far left, you can see a little of the crane that picks the plane out of the water and puts it back on deck.
Wiring harness inside the rear 16-inch gun turret.
Bread cooling pans in the bakery. She had a crew of 2300 in wartime.
Engine room control stuff. Each unit is labelled "Vent Exhaust System", with buttons "Slow", "Fast", and "Stop".
Mess hall trays.
Kylie on a bunk. They were 4 high, and jammed in anywhere there was space.
Map of Iwo Jima, with Schedule of Fire, from the curator's archives.
Instruction Book for Computer Mark I. This was an analog computer (mechanical/electrical) for directing the big guns. It was apparently accurate enough that it was borrowed for the Gulf War.
One of the Mark I computers, restored to the fire control room.
Toobs!
Under the floor in the fire control room. This is my new wallpaper (1280x1024).
A couple of the tools in the machine shop. You have to be able to fix anything on the ship...
16-inch shells, with Francie and Dan for scale.
These cannisters each held some number of 90-pound powder charges.
Below is one of those 16-inch shells, with 3 of the 6 powder charges that was required to propel it - that's 540 pounds of powder. At top is a 5-inch shell, with its 2 powder charges.
This is part of the elaborate firewall between the powder magazine and the rest of the ship. Charges were removed from a canister, manually fed through these chutes one at a time, and carried over to the lift.
It's just a hatch, but I love the mechanism.
The view from the bridge.
Francie, Mary Ames, Dan, and Kylie.
Kylie working the elevation control for a set of 40mm guns. There's another pair of guns, and another control station that rotates the quad, out of the picture to the left.
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Date: 2007-02-26 06:30 am (UTC)