RE: For A Moment I Thought They Had No Potties In Buckingham Palace
December 21, 2017 at 12:59 am
(December 20, 2017 at 11:54 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Yeah, ships and boats leak. All manner of things can go wrong. IIRC, the 'maiden' voyage of the WWII Japanese battle ship Shinano was marred by a bad bearing on one of the propeller shafts. It limited it's top speed to just barely less than a US submarine which chased her for and eventually put some torpedoes in her.
Her Majesty's navy might want to fix the leak . . .
Yeah, I was assigned a duty on the aircraft carrier I was on to watch for leaks on one of the prop shafts where they went from the people part to the sea part. The seals are loosened for use while underway, and then tightened when in port so that the ship doesn't get flooded while not under way. I had a special badge that let me go by the Marines, who were in charge of guarding the nukes, which were not aboard.
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