Don Kinzer
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2002
- Location
- Portland, OR USA
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
It was recommissioned and refitted in the 1980s and took part in Operation Desert Storm 1991. It is today stationed in Pearl Harbor near the USS Arizona memorial as a museum.I was able to take a tour in January 1979.
Unfortunately, no. Only the first deck below the main deck was open and much of it, too, was off limits. Even so, it was still very interesting to see especially as part of a larger Pearl Harbor memorial tour.did you get any shots of the engine room?
Interesting question. Maybe they had some sort of platform that they set up at the bulkhead, lower the load onto the platform, side it through, then pick it up again on the other side?One of the neat features more-or-less unique to ship machine shops is the (low) overhead rail system so heavy parts (and tooling) can be moved in and out of the shop and to/from each machine. The rail cross-section is typically a small W beam, and the segments are very often bent in the hard direction to steer trolleys through hatches and around heavy equipment.
In the OP photos, the overhead rail serving the Monarch lathe is painted in yellow/black stripes.
There have been a couple of movies showing length-of-ship (or apparently so) shots of a central corridor in the Iowa-class battleships with all the hatches open and an overhead rail system pretty much the whole visible length. There's some sort of arrangement I've never been able to work out for bridging the gap in adjacent rails enforced by watertight doors.
There were short sections of track at every watertight door. When they were moving something heavy they would lift the short sections by hand and bolt them in place. When done, they were removed and the doors were free to be closed at general quarters.
Notice
This website or its third-party tools process personal data (e.g. browsing data or IP addresses) and use cookies or other identifiers, which are necessary for its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in the cookie policy. To learn more, please refer to the cookie policy. In case of sale of your personal information, you may opt out by sending us an email via our Contact Us page. To find out more about the categories of personal information collected and the purposes for which such information will be used, please refer to our privacy policy. You accept the use of cookies or other identifiers by closing or dismissing this notice, by scrolling this page, by clicking a link or button or by continuing to browse otherwise.