[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Digest Number 640

[Ash]

Could be , only i distinctly remember the uss vreeland. a nice little knox 
class destroyer escort that we picked up
right out of the yards in louisanna.we went to gitmo for the shakedown 
cruise. right in the middle of an excercise in which we dropped the load 
(lost all power) and were supposed to restart engines, we found we couldn't 
restart.
the emergency fuel oil pumps to the boilers which were supposed to be on the 
emergency electrical circuits were not. they had been wired into the main 
circuits. we had 2 lines of guys from the main deck to the pumps hand 
cranking them, trying to raise enough oil pressure to get the boilers going. 
this was in extreme heat of around 160 deg. guys were pucking up their guts 
just waiting in line . 2 guys were cranking at a time on each pump and could 
only last around 2-3 min . yours truely was in one of those lines . it 
didn't work . the vreeland was adrift and we floated in towards cuba. we 
were so close to going aground on the shore, it wasn't funny. we got lucky. 
a
destroyer happened to be close by and came in, passed us a cable and towed 
us back out to sea. castro almost had a brand new destroyer escort . the 
bridge story could easily be a myth . I don't think the navy would spend 
money on something like that . they would just do it if they wanted to. the 
machine shop actually happened , i think .
I had a friend who was onboard when they found it . he said it was a mustang 
officer in engineering , who first figured it out .

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Hartman" <alhartman at yahoo.com>
To: <ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Color Computer] Digest Number 640


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> Those sound like urban myths to me...
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> I dont' think either of them are true.
>
> Al
>
>>    Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 02:23:45 -0700
>>    From: "Ash" <teamick at cox.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] The evolution of the Coco..
>>
>> the one I find hard to believe is the one about the
>> us navy buying the
>> startrek enterprise blueprints and the right to use
>> the bridge layout and
>> ideas( such as video screens instead of windows )
>> for use on the next
>> nuclear carrier. then i remember how they actually
>> lost a fully equipted
>> machine shop on the present enterprise nuclear
>> carrier, by not installing
>> any hatches into the compartment. that happened when
>> it was built.
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