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August 2nd Photos Page |
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Onboard again polishing brass today. Some of the crew worked in Turret #1 and did a great job of getting that area ready for visitors. It has been freshly painted inside and with the brass polished up it looks great in there as you will see from the photos below. Today I worked on cleaning and lacquering portholes on the port side. I recently purchased a new product to use to protect the brass once we polish it, and today was it's first test. It's called Incralac and it is specially formulated to protect brass and copper in a marine environment, we'll see how it does. Today we applied it to twelve portholes on the port side, we'll see how it holds up over time. In my next several visits I'll be applying the lacquer to the remainder of the main deck portholes to help keep them shining and cut down on the time between cleaning them up. At lunchtime I ventured down to Broadway for photos of all four engines, a request from a former crewman. While taking them I realized that the Engines and the Engine Rooms they were in didn't always match, an explanation of why is below. That was about it for today's visit, hope to see you onboard sometime soon, we can always use some extra help. As always a few photos from this visit are below, hope you enjoy them. |
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| Members of the Brass Team in action in Turret #1. |
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| The view as you enter Turret #1 from the Main Deck, looks great in here! |
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| A
look to the left as you come up the steps, we're looking at the Gun Room and Powder Hoist operator hatches for "Pete", the left gun in the turret. |
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| Grim Reaper Sailor art on bulkhead inside Turret #1. |
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| A look to the right at the top of the steps. |
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| Visitors
are allowed to enter Turret #1 and look into the gun rooms, note the periscope in this shot, one of two inside each Turret used to see outside. |
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| Looking across the inside of the Turret. Turret
#1 is much roomier
inside, it doesn't have the large optical rangefinder found in the other two Turrets. |
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| Close-up
of the Grim Reaper and his message: "Democracy At Any Cost - Those Who Oppose Will Meet Me" |
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| Engine #1, found in Engine Room #1, simple enough, right? Stay with me. |
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| Another
shot of Engine #1, there are four of these monsters, together they produced a total of 212,000 horsepower!!! |
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| Engine #2, found in Engine Room #3, are you still with me? |
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| Engine #3, found in Engine Room #4, confused yet? |
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| Finally, Engine #4, found in Engine Room #2, makes sense right? |
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| Another
shot of Engine #4.
Now, here's an
attempt at an explanation of why the engine numbers don't |
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| What
was once the Petty Officer First Class Association lounge, is now used as the Volunteer Lounge, hatch visible on the right leads to berthing areas on Deck 3 used for overnight encampments. |
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| Freshly lacquered Portholes on the Port side outside the Ward Room. |
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| Real 16-inch Shells, Powder Bag and Cradle outside Turret #1 on Main Deck. |
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| Centerline View of Bridge and superstructure. |
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| Firepower For Freedom! |
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| Ships Bell on base of Bow Antenna. |
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| "Don't Tread On Me" flag waving on the Bow! |
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| Volunteers on the pier ready to escort visitors onboard. |
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| Volunteers in the ships Radio Room. |
