Will the Battleship Have Power While Under Tow to Drydock?
In this episode we’re talking about the tow to drydock and the electrical power she will have.
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Is it not feasible to run the ships rear diesel with hoses over the side for coolent. Better feel for her "under her own power" then a gen set on the deck.
Ryan's getting a little chubby there.
For all those old power plants, I wonder how many would short out the old wiring.
Any chance of drydock tours like what Texas is doing?
I wonder if you could put a radiator on the diesel generator?
Why will the Navy not let you start the engines?
I was supposed to help dead stick Missouri from Bremerton to Aurora for a washdown before going to Pearl Harbor. But I was too vital to my ship to be let go. One day after Missouri left Bremerton, I was allowed two weeks leave. I was too vital to my ship, but not so vital that I could go on leave for two weeks. Gotta love Navy bureaucracy. Otherwise, I may have been able to help with experience, but my experience got shot down before taking off.
I have not watched it yet, but I have to ask, why would anyone think that the ship would have power? It is being towed, and they are not allowed to start the steam engines, or send power to the turbo generators.
How come your not allowed to fire up the boilers? Seems like an odd the for the navy to say?
I think I would be a cool long term project to rebuild one of the aux diesels. Something for camp groups to play with. They still run the USS Silversides main diesels for camp groups.
Why is the vehicle parked with the land on the starboard side? Is there some ship related reason for this? Is it a Navy standard? I was Army so i don't know.
If thay do would that help the bar rings on the entire shaft?
Question: In motion (during tow) are the propellers allowed to spin rotate?
When NEW JERSEY was towed to Long Beach in the 80's, my Air Guard Combat Comm Squadron was tasked with providing generators on board the ship while under tow. I put my name in as being available, but being a radio guy, but Power Production qualified, I did not get chosen. They would have been 10 or 15 generators for lights, radio, etc.
Again … I'm so glad I only had a fleet submarine to deal with on a row two years ago. I was adamant that Cod should have full lighting load and power for our coffee maker and rechargeable phones and cameras. Our emergency dewatering pumps were gasoline powered. One tiny Honda generator hidden under the superstructure and tapped into our lighting bus did the job exceptionally well.
Would the ship be able to use the rudder control while being towed? Like uss texas her rudder didn’t work? Would this be a problem with NJ
Damn shame it can’t sail on its own power
Could something like what was done to steal U 505 during ww2 be done for power?
Hey, Ryan! Do you have moon phase windows, in order for the tides to be as high and low as possible?
True deadstick
Aegis Cruiser uses 10 cables, lighting, fire pumps, HVAC
Conex 150kw generator should work nicely for you. It is only a 16ft conex but could be up to 22ft however should fit nicely on your flight deck.
Contact CaT or Agreco in your area they should be able to point you at some options.
Hope you get some drone footage too!!
How far will the ship move to dry dock? In other words how much total time is it estimated from start to dock ?
It has to be frustrating.
You're expected to maintain the ship, yet bound to a government contract that hamstrings you every step of the way.
There are several older ships in worse material condition still making steam.
Government doing what government does best… find something simple and make it complicated.
Thank you for sharing your plans. I am sure everything will work perfectly. It is a shame the USN can’t help.
In Connecticut, hoping to make it down for the tow next year.
In the event of the ship breaking free during her tow to the yard, is it necessary to have one of the ships anchors ready to deploy if need be? Iowa has successfully reactivated their anchor windlass equipment and use it on a somewhat periodic basis.
Get the boilers ready for future pleasure cruises while in drydock ?
when you move the ship, will it be required to have someone as an acting captain by the coast guard or navy? and how would they pick this person, votelotteryor back room fighting bracket
You guys need to void that contract and fire her engines up or see if you can renegotiate it!! Like they really expect a museum to just get it battle ready? Or the State even allowing it? Heck I still wish you guys would let us sign some waiver to ride that monster to drydock!! I'd be stoked
How many pumps will the museum be using during the tow
Actually america needs more money
Re-negiotiate the contract! She deserves to run on her own power. No harm in that
You should get TimBatsea, a great tug boat channel involved for commentary during the move.
Are there any thoughts among the Museum Fleet to make modifications to be able to reactivate emergency diesel generators? These are purpose made, integrated systems that are designed for powering the ship without main turbine power. For me it would be frustrating to have such a useful back-up system built into the ship and not be able to utilise it. Is it an upkeep/maintenance issue? A fuel issue? Or is the only blocker simply the blanked sea-chests?
I understand the Navy's practice of sealing the hull to remove any and all hull-openings but how hard would it be to modify the connections to make the blank an internal one that could be opened if needed?
It could even be set to 'trip' on if shore power becomes disconnected using modern control. I think of how much that might have helped USS The Sullivans having internal emergency power available, or just a circumstance where a ship breaks free for what ever reason; it would be able to provide some power to systems to warn others. It also removes a complexity of having to crane diesel generators on and off the ship, along with the hire and delivery of them.
Plus, to me, nothing lights the passion of museum goers than seeing an object functioning, so a periodic test run up of a diesel generator could be a minor event for museum ships.
I can't imagine for the life of me, telling Coast Guard Investigator "I didn't know there was a BATTLESHIP in front of me! I couldn't see it"! :-[
Have you considered grabbing a Starlink dish for internet to stream the Tow?
might be a funny question, but does the ship need to run it´s own navigation lights, or is it just a "dead" tow.
That's a shame you can't use the two onboard diesel generators. I understand not wanting the fire up the turbo generators.
Man I am old. When Ryan said she has not been operating her boilers in my lifetime, for a brief second I wondered what does he mean, I have seen the ship going out of port with my own eyes, on her own power. Then he said 1990 🙂
Ryan – what can be done to the berth, while the ship is in dry dock ?
It would sure be neat to put the diesel into operable condition, but I'd bet the idea of opening a sea chest for the cooling water would be considered an unacceptable risk. I wonder though if there is any reasonable way to add a radiator?
Your looking at about a $1,000 to rent a 100Kw diesel genset for a week (plus whatever taxes, insurance, etc they tack on). Probably $2,000 to $2,500 for a 250Kw diesel genset.
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