Glory Hole: Berthing, Storage, Armor, and Office Spaces
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ย. 2024
- In this episode we're going down into a glory hole, a compartment with only one exit path. Down here there is the berthing compartment originally assigned to the ship's only Black and other minority sailors. Further down there is rarely seen storage spaces, offices, and a few hints at the ship's structural armor.
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“This is an original desk that’s obviously been through some shit.”
Had to laugh 🤣
Muh delicate ears!
I cracked up too.
@@IvorMektin1701 with a name like "buttpounder 420"..... im going to ASSUME you are being sarcastic lol
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but ya.... its kinda shocking to hear a "smart dude" to cuss.... especially when you can watch 100 vids and not see it
however, when he does cuss.... it REALLY emphasizes the topic/verb in the sentence
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im a HUGE fan of cussing.... when used fucking correctly
@@kainhall
Nobody in the history of the United States Navy has ever used bad words.
Now those Coasties on the other hand....
@@IvorMektin1701 hahaha lol
I served aboard her from 83 to 86 I was in A divison EN 3rd class TODD GLICK . when you showed that part with the pull down ironing board my rack was directly in front of that on the bottom. Brought back a lot of memories. THANK YOU
I served in the Lebanon peacekeeping mission. I was helo/ helicopterd to her from Italy after arriving from Philadelphia USA. Served on her from 84 - 87. My original battle station was Turrent #2. Truly an Honor to been on this ship my whole enlistment minus naval boot camp and a few months to get to her in the Mediterranean. I was a IC-3/ Interior Communication Electrician. Made a better man out of me. Hope to visit Her one day.
Thank you for your service.
@@markmatthews8520 Thank you for your service.
Thank you both for your services.
@@markmatthews8520I have a question for you.
What do the gunners do all day when the ship is not in battle? Do they have secondary jobs?
I just love these videos of: "I've got a battleship with lots of compartments, lets go walk/crawl through some of the spaces I have never been to before and see what we find"
@Maximillian Wylde as a former Damage Control PO, it is imperative to know the layout of a ship. That said, you knew where to hide, nap and skate the day away.😂
That's what I love about this channel. Hey this is cool, check it out. Oh yea, and here is all the background, history and sailor witness goodies that pertain to it. See ya tomorrow!
Subscribed for life.
"I've seen maybe 750 of the 1100 compartments on this ship. Let's go see a few more together!"
I'd love to see a video that covers: "The top 10 things that the museum wishes the Navy had left on board."
16in HE rounds-34
Powder charges- enough
Bunker C oil
Permission to use the engines and go for a cruise
That would be a great and very interesting video and have what they wish was left from each commission.
@@unluckyirish2763 great idea! Sign me up for a cruise!
Yes!
@@unluckyirish2763 The _Iowas_ were converted to burn Naval Distillate Fuel (basically diesel) in the 80’s. No more Bunker C in the USN.
Navy planning: Heavy stuff goes down as many ladders as possible, store items in the bow for divisions located aft, keep your engineering staff separate from everyone else, label cabinets as "cabinet".
You forgot, ensure heavy and awkward objects must be carried through as many decks and bulkheads/'knee knocker' doors as possible
Also weapons, stores, and damage control swap outs must be scheduled on the same weekend.
@@halfgecko3202 on two occasions myself and two other guys got to move a 300lb 8" brass valve from the hanger bay up to a second level storage room. They'd accidentally ordered two. We tied them to the floor and they were never used because it was the wrong valve.
@@roundy_roundy6064 sounds about right
@@roundy_roundy6064 why didn’t they just throw it overboard
These videos are like eating chips, can’t eat just one, can’t watch just one. Better every time
Just watched video on glory home, aka A division berthing I saw my rack right behind the ladder middle bunk thanks Ryan it brought back memories Calvin Fletcher En2
Your 3M Coordinator would have been in charge of the ship's Maintenance Material Management System (3M). He would act as the liaison between ship's force and outside repair entities (shipyard, NAVSEA, NAVELEX, SPAWAR, etc.). He's the guy who "gets stuff done." Hence, the non-standard desks, shelves and horse-traded shipyard furniture and equipment. The microfiche reader in that space makes perfect sense, as ships drawings and OPNAV 4790-series documents and publications were on film through the mid-1990s.
Since 3M is relatively new to Battleship New Jersey, it makes sense that they converted THAT space into an office.
While I have not seen a shipboard rotary J-dial phone, yes, I can operate (and have) one just fine.
You are correct about the3M coordinator info. As a former HT, and R div PO, I wrote volumes of3M reports, especially on my last ship.
The 3M Coordinator was a fellow that you just loved to hate. Documentation of maintenance (and training) was the name of the game. Without documentation, any action was deemed to be either incomplete or did not take place at all. All divisions had maintenance requirements of some sort and so reports had to be submitted to the 3M Office either in paper format or through the fledgling SNAP computer system. And we all remember those delightful PMS cards for conducting maintenance actions. Yes, the 3M Office would have been a busy place, even as out of the way as this one seems to be.
The safes in the Tech Library would of course to used to safeguard any manuals that were classified as "Confidential" or higher. Those manuals could be for Crypto gear and the such. The Radio room would also have safes for Key Codes and the equipment that codes things like secure radios and IFF.
I love when Ryan randomly gets excited finding something during a video. Sometimes I wonder whats the big deal... sometimes i get excited too!
Snipes are wading birds. As far as I know there are no extant burrowing birds.
That said, my dad served on the Wisconsin in Korea. We were able to take him to see the ship shortly after she was first put i reserve and available for visiting in Norfolk. It meant a lot to him even though we were very limited as to which areas we could see. It was the last two we were able to take him on and he passed away in 2009. I just wanted to say how much I enjoy and appreciate these videos. These truly are magnificent ships.
In the early 2000s had to take training for a light rail project (Sacramento, CA) to protect the Western Burrowing Owl. Taking a quick look, they are endangered, but still around.
11:52 I just noticed the two Commodore 64 external floppy drives on the shelf to the right. Dad was Navy up until '85, and damn straight they had C=64s on board.
That's not a shelf, it's a "rack', for sleeping on.
@@edwardmoran5178 id rather not
I thought so! I thought for sure it must be something similar looking but not the same, but sure enough.
P⁹9@@KnapfordMaster98
I was gonna note the drives, see someone else noticed them too
Just a point of clarity.
“SNIPES” was a name given after a person, not the animal. It was the engineering officer who lead a revolt against the deck departments, because of how the engineers were treated as second class sailors. They refused to operate the ship until the engineers were treated fairly. Since it was Jonny Snipes who started the revolt, engineers have become to be known as initially “Snipes Men” then finally “Snipes”. Originally it was a derogatory term, we find it as an endearing term.
As I recall, the 3M space you were in was our maintenance office. They kept records and ensured our program was current for engineering department.
And the bird called, "snipe", is a shore bird that doesn't burrow at all.
I knew some “spooks” …….
The reason that the office is on a level below the storeroom is actually quite simple. It also used to be a storeroom. When the ship got rid of the landing force, it became vacant. And then when the Navy was looking for where they could put something new, that was the space that was available.
Hey, knock it off! That makes too much sense!
Yeah, he figured that out a few minutes later when he saw the old WW2-era labels indicating it was a store room before it was an office.
Engineering tech libraries in the early 80's had money to purchase manuals, but other supplies we had to scrounge. The primary source would be salvage yards or comshaw.
Awesome. A hundred years from now these videos will be part of the history of the ship.
Its these videos that really help show just how you might squeeze nearly 2k people and supplies on to the ship and what their day to day life might have been like.
This is amazing. I had the good fortune to get 2 tours of the ship and loved it back in 2004-5. Vast sections of the ship were cordoned off due to the hazards of steep stairs ect. I was always curious about all aspects of the ship and the history behind it. Thankyou for the videos, they are appreciated.
This reminds me of a visit to the Queen Mary back in the 80's. We were on a tour and as the guide was leading our group my friend and I hung back at a point and just let them go on. Apparently nobody noticed and we crawled all over the engine room on our own. We spent a good hour climbing up and down the lower levels and actually got down to where the driveshafts go through the hull. The steering mechanism where the two pistons attach to the tiller was very cool.
I doubt we would get away with something like that today.
You could do this in about 25 more places ! The extra details really make it interesting !
The ironing board shows the remnants of sailors ironing on the "crow" on the left sleeve of the dungaree uniform. Although some sailors 'inked' a crow on their shirts, such uniforms were generally used to stand watch or working in the engineering main spaces, hence known as "steaming dungs". Also, many a dungaree shirts crow had "void" or another unauthorized display of rank or former rank. Some dungarees had "tailor-made" embroidered crows on chambray blue cotton...some with and most without rating emblem below the crow.
My mom use to call an long distance access line to call Australia with a phone card on a rotary phone. 60+ digits and you can't get one wrong!!!
I screw up my 4-digit ATM number sometimes. I'd never make a call if I had to type 60 without a mistake. Haha.
I was 12 yrs old went to the Smithsonian, they had this New phone where you just push the buttons instead of circling the dial. 1965 was the year I believe.
"But clearly it has gone somewhere".
I'll bet a lot of stuff suffered that fate.
Interesting stuff! been watching for awhile. never been in any service. glad to watch someone who cares about these ships. Thanks!
I loved this video! I would love to see more videos like this! I think it’s fascinating to see just the random spaces and all the cool stuff that was left behind.
Must be so interesting and fun to be able to explore a ship like this and go anywhere you want
Yes, I grew up with rotary phones. There is a lot of similar equipment aboard New Jersey that my DD used because it was the mid-80’s. I bet the ship gets spooky when you are moving through it by yourself. When you were in the berthing compartments, I imagined the crowding and movement of guys in it like my ship. I haven’t looked yet, but there should be a ghost video on New Jersey for Halloween made if one hasn’t been done. Great video....BTW, the 2nd class “crows” on the ironing board were ironed on with appliqué style crows. I bet the guy doing it placed it the wrong side up somehow when ironing?
Rotary phones were still the default in the UK until the late 80s. My first job, in 1990, I had 2 rotary phones on my desk and those shoulder pad things so I could go 'hands free'
Everybody always talks guns I love to see the day to day grind of the real navy and love your explanations and saying what's original and later add on parts. Are any compartment's untouched since ww2 or are all modernized? I used to hate on a rotary phone if you messed up a number then you had to start over and it took forever.
Everywhere has been modernized. We have a radio room and one stateroom that we superficially made to look WWII though.
The watertight door being used without a gasket: it is much sturdier than simple doors and thus would be harder to break into. A burglartight door if you will.
Great video Ryan. Getting to see you explore and comment on parts of the ship is really interesting. You provide lots of knowledge while you look around.
One of the most fascinating episodes, how litterally everything they felt could be used elsewhere was raided when she was decommissioned, so there is a mismatched Mashup of desks and such as well as creative engineering.
The "one ironing board" problem is one I'm familiar with, in a previous life I was a Boy Scout and our leaders were a lotta ex-military people. One of the cheats I learned was, if you aren't hot bunking, just leave your uniform flat under your mattress so it stays pressed perfect all the time instead of actually bothering to iron things - do it the lazy way. In scouting we didn't even HAVE irons but at summer camps and organized events we'd get yelled at for having wrinkled uniforms, so that was an easy way.
i can just imagine a senior crew member showing some new guy around and the very pointed look that would be required when mentioning the name of a certain area
.....on a SHIP....:p
Commented about this before, where I do love the videos with the old vets, I do honestly like seeing the random strange stuff :) I know for a fact that I could spend the rest of my life exploring around, and find something new that I never realized was there.
I can't wait for Drac to come and visit!
@11:51 I see some commodore 64 drives. Lots of old tech guys would love those.
Really interesting video. I like seeing all the strange stuff from modifications over the ships service life. I would love to see a video covering some of the strangest modifications (Official or carried out by sailors in an "unofficial" manner) and things that leave you wondering "why would somebody do that?"
Thanks for taking us exploring, Ryan. Very interesting stuff!
"... and a cabinet, labeled... Cabinet." that got me good:D
I remember seeing that when I was in the Air force back in the 80'S!
Logical
There most likely was a memo about the labeling of the cabinet to identify that it is a cabinet.
Same here.
And a study to determine the need for it to be labeled cabinet
Great video, loved it when Ryan spotted things and let out an "ooo". Like a kid in a toy store :)
Reminds me of George Carlin’s skit about a place for your stuff lol. I love these tours of areas that are off the beaten path! Thanks
I love these types of videos it’s a look into every day life in the navy.
5000 tons of rivets? Wow, that's the weight of two Fletcher class destroyers that could have been saved if she were all welded.
That could have been a fourth turret, those 2700 tons each, plus the balance for the extra mounting space.
Welds add mass, too.
Minus the weight of 5000 rivet holes!
The thing with rivet construction is that the metal needs to overlap to allow the rivets to tie together. Welded construction can weld metal edges together and does not need that overlap. The weight savings is not just from the rivets, but also not having so much metal overlapping to do the riveting.
At the time she was built, welding for ships was relatively new, and not trusted too much by the navy. You also can’t really weld the armor plating, otherwise it ruins the hardening.
I somehow feel like this was a missed opportunity to simply say, "This is where we keep the shoe," and move on with no further explanation.
No matter the storage space, no matter the ship the guy who gave you stuff out of those storage spaces always acted like it was coming out of his own paycheck. Great video.
Thanks for a really great video. It was an interesting tour of different compartments that aren't normally seen by the public.
I know the names of places and equipment on ships come from long and sometimes strange maritime traditions, but calling the place a “glory hole” has to be the best one ever. God, I love a sailor’s sense of humor.
Thanks for all the content. I really appreciated you pointing out all the tiny features like the welds and markings. I would be doing the same thing.
This has to be one of my favorite most interesting videos on this channel, yet there are alot I have to watch yet. very Informative.
My grandmother used a rotary phone for years, she still had one in use till at least 2000. I loved using them.
These videos are fantastic, I came to see the New Jersey in 2012 when I was across seeing friends in NY. Unfortunately I could not do the tour as I came mid week. I have a great time though going round exploring by myself and spent quite a while talking to the people you have onboard. Hopefully I can come back one day and do the tour.
6:38 Love those commodore 64 disk drives on the berth behind him lol!
I was not expecting to see those on this channel
Saw those, wondered if it just looked coincidentally similar, rewound and sure enough. Then I came to the comments to see who else would have noticed it. Well spotted.
Ryan: Informative tour as usual. Thanks! Your knowledge is deep as well as wide... as if you had served on board.
The B&W photo you showed while talking about Machine ratings being in a Glory Hole berthing area actually showed third-class midshipmen, so not rated enlisted men.
"3M" was a manual (paper) training and qualifications system introduced in the early 70s. So that one space was dedicated to those who maintained the records and manuals. I'm sure that unwieldy system was replaced by 1980.
I suspect the "non-reg" shelving and desks were obtained from a salvage depot at a base or shipyard. The stuff was free to the receiving ship and quicker to get than ordering through the supply system. As PAO on a destroyer I got some great camera gear that way that our Captain would never have paid for (e.g. Nikon camera & lenses and a Speed Graphic 4x5.
I noticed some sounding tubes behind you in the last shot. Have you explained how that's done & why? It might interest some people.
Yup, I've used rotary phones. Not aboard my first ship, an updated WWII destroyer. But aboard the USS Blue Ridge in 1973, yes. And at home, I grew up with 'em. I had a 5-digit phone number: 9-0100.
I lived with my aunt and uncle when I was a kid. Still have their phone number memorized, CY5-4050 and they had the standard black rotary phone.
The museum is really branching out! lol
Is that a multi-gender glory hole now?
Engineering berthing on USS Saipan (LHA-2) had a storage room attached with an office/classroom space for working on our CLEP courses.
Also, during the mid-90s we were so short handed that I had three racks and three lockers all to myself (not that I had any time to sleep).
And you're right about engineering departments having some of the most "customized" berthing and recreational spaces. It's within our skill set and in our very nature to be creative and resourceful little pit snipes.
I always notice that Marines are berthed as low as possible. Makes me wonder if the Navy officers would just berth them in the oil tanks if they could get away with it
if a ship has marines on it usually they are guarding the NUKES - worst kept secret in the navy
Many years ago my crew and I had to redesign and make operational the sound powered comm. System on the old sub tender proteus.
Including executive over rides . Pulling new armored cables which love to cut you .
Once one of my guys left a bridge one up. And started cussing to me over it . That went over just great.
I would leave smokes in critical boxes to see if my crew were doing their job.
This was all due to the ship being cut into half to add a missile and rad compartments .
The rad space was very restricted access but we had access . Even the master at arms were not allowed . Rad badges showed less rad than being outside .
One large box? That made weird sounds in that space .
Thx a ton for your efforts.
3M is Maintence Material Management. It is a system for maintaining the ship. It covers ordering parts, maintenance schedules, tracking materials, etc. “tech edit” is part of that process. That “weird” office is likely where they processed parts orders for preventative and corrective maintenance.
I am well versed in the use of a rotary phone. I was a teenager before we got a push button phone. Back in those days the phone company owned the telephone.
It really puts it into perspective how big that ship really is. I like videos like this
i served aboard the uss. taluga ao62 in the tonkin gulf in the late "60s. We replenished the New Jersey many times with black oil and propelant for the 16 inch guns. It was always exciting to be along side the huge and graceful lines of the mighty battle ship.
Great video.
I like when you find or see something that makes no sense or you see something that is out of place..
If my great uncle was still alive he might have been able to explain some things about the ship.
Keep up your great work
Of all the things you might find on an old battleship I expectet two(2!) 1541 Comodore floppy disc drives with the original closing mechanism (not the lever) the very least (7:17, behind you on the bed). If they are still in working condition you should try to sell them. They might be worth at least a little donation for the upkeeping of the ship.
How ironic. I get to see my berthing space since I was an A Gang.
I remember rotary phones as well as party lines.
I bet that 1st Lt.’s storeroom was used as a seabag locker. A space where sailors would store belongings that didn’t fit in their personal lockers.
Thank you-🙏you are a wealth of information. I absolutely love history of the battle ships. Will be glad to donate what the government doesn’t take. Thanks again ‼️‼️
What do you mean, 'if you know how to use a rotary phone'? The ski chalet in my small town in the Yukon still USES its rotary phone! Granted, much of what the Territory has would be new to the builders of BB62.. Seriously though, loving these vids! Keep up the excellent work campers!
Thank you for showing all of use the inside of this ship
3M Coordinators life was hell. trying and keeping that system running, feed back reports, departure from specifications, making sure that people had the right MRCs and the deck was up to date. Let alone making sure the "R" Checks were being done right!..... Alll of it done by hand for the most part! In the 90s we went to computers but still had to do some of the boards by hand from time to time.
I can only guess that every ship's crew has 1 or more expert "scroungers". I say this because of a comment made at approx. 25:09 in reference to shelves snagged at a shipyard instead of being purchased through proper channels. I was Army and we certainly had expert scroungers in most units.
Around 25:00... "3M" was part of the whole wraparound maintenance and spares program. Planned maintenance, maintaining manuals for currency and changes, etc. The engineering tech library had a safe because some engineering rates actually dealt with classified equipment or equipment which supported classified equipment, primarily the IC guys. The safe would have held the manuals for the various intrusion and other security alarm systems, prints and wiring diagrams for same, etc.
I've actually gone to the "Base Supply Store" in Japan back in 84 - 86, this is where you would get typewriter ribbon, carbon copy paper, pens, pretty much whatever, including the phone "shoulder support." I distinctly remember opening the small box and installing it on my desk phone. My phone at the time was "push button," not "rotary."
Yeah I used the quotes "too much."
Thank you for you and your teams hard work I very much enjoy the videos and the history! Odd question would you talk about the ship morrings you use to keep the New Jersey in place? Thanks 😊
Very good. Really appreciate the lapel microphone. Keep up the good videos.
Great Videos, would be so fun to wonder around just like this with some of the people who served on the ship to give some insights as to what happened in those areas. One question, how many sq ft of deck space is in the NJ, if you added it all up? How many beds and baths? What would the house listing look like? 👍😲
Did you find the engineers secret spot to smoke cigs?? Lol. Great video as always, can’t wait to come to Camden to visit in person.
The ironing board crow appears to be from an Iron-On Crow. These were standard in the 80s. Many a uniform was ruined from not properly ironing (melting) the crow into the material. Also, if not cleaned properly, the black residue would stick to other uniforms, and the ironing board itself. Embroidered crows were a welcome improvement.
Sure enough, you almost ALWAYS put down one of your personal white towels so that the 'shit' on the board didn't get onto your whites!
At 24:00 I noticed the "Engineering Tech Library" and what immediately comes to my mind as a maintainer for the USAF Aircraft Fuel Systems is that we use Technical Data that used to be stored on books, we still call them T.O.s, and within these books you find paragraphs on system knowledge, Fault Isolation, Operational Checkouts, and Step-by-Step Removal and Installation tasks. Every job has one, and every single "shop" has their own series of T.O.s to use. I expected the Navy to have their own, and as the material within each book is FOUO (And some are secret or above), it makes sense to keep it all locked up. Now all those keys and key stuff could just simply be for the engineering crew or their tool custodian? But that's a guess. And the shelves could be for bench stock maybe?
My grandparents had a rotary dial phone in their finished basement. I used it once or twice, in the 1990s and maybe 2000s. I had to think about it to get started though. Like, "How do I use this again? Oh yeah." I was probably able to jog my memory about how to use a rotary dial phone, because I believe as a child in the 1980s I had at least some exposure to toy phones with rotary dials. Maybe they weren't my own personal toys, but at various church nurseries, relative's houses, etc., I'm guessing I came across some old style toy phones.
This isn’t the gloryhole i was expecting
DDG man here, 3M, that's the ships maintenance office. 3M is Maintenance and material management for those who don't know. In my time on a DDG our 3M usually had a chief who we called simply 3MC. Alot of stuff here looks familiar to the time I was on a DDG from 2000-2004. The Ironing board we had maybe 2 for a 100 man berthing. Usually a lot of us used available tables.
As always an excellent video. And yes i had a rotaryphone as a child. If possible make a video in/about the galley/foodstorage or have you done that already?
I used the rotary phone when I were a child, here in Denmark the former emergency number were 0-0-0, today changed to 1-1-2. But you can imagine it would take a longer time, to turn not dial the emergency number.
We found one rotary phone at work, we painted it red like the ones which you normally see in the presidential office, which in movies connects directly to a Kremlin office phone.
I still have rotary phones in my house made by ma bell. The audio works fine but the telephone people stoped the electronics that recognize the dial signal or the would still be able to dial a number
All the standard duplex receptacles look strange to me. When our Air Group was aboard the USS Randolph ('67-'68) the electricians where very strict that every outlet was a salt water plug, even in the JO bunk rooms which were right under the catapults. They would come through and if they found any standard home power cable sticking out of a locker (stereo was inside) they would cut the cord. This forced the JO to get the stereo converted to salt water plugs. Fifty five years later I still have one on my desk here at home.
Rotary phone. One of the funniest videos I have seen was where they took two teen boys (15-17) and had them try to make a phone call on a rotary phone. They were clueless.
You would never find entertainment speakers in sleeping compartments. You might find a TV with VCR (1980s) in the berthing area lounge if it had one. It was common in the 1980s for technicians to have small entertainment systems (ie boomboxes etc) on their work bench. One of the crew had a Commodore computer we used to play games during off hours. In 1985 we were issued an early DOS computer and had to enter the information of every spare part within our department into a database. The ship I was on had about 1200 personnel including about 5 officers not counting medical officers. (CO, XO, Operations, Engineering, Supply, Personnel). The CO liked to stay to himself but the XO liked to challenge the navigation crew to see who could get the best celestial fix. The XO always won because he was that good at it. The winner was determined by who's triangle was the smallest.
Thanks so much for the tour into places seldom seen...it’s like an adventure into a time capsule....someone turned out the lights and walked away...
...i have the same “red tile” shown at 15:30 in my bathroom. 9” squares.
Could you some time layout what a sailor would store in his locker and rack storage space ie: uniform, whites, blues, work clothes, personal stuff. Maybe show the difference between ww2 items and later items allowed.
The 3-M Coordinator sign is for the Departmental 3-M (Material Maintenance Management) Coordinator. This would be the guy in charge of training and spotchecking the Divisional Damage Control / 3-M supervisors and their maintenance men in the writing of maintenance schedules and proper performance of maintenance to machinery, ventilation, valves, fittings, watertight closures, Damange Control and fire fighting equipment assigned to their respective Divisions.
I served as the Damage Control / 3M Coordinator for Admin Department onboard USS Nimitz CVN-68 from 1984 to 1986.
We had 12 Divisions with a total of 144 spaces we were responsible for maintaining including the Print Shop equipment.
Funny story about a water heater. When I was in Scotland the water heater had a malfunction. They used steam to heat the water and the was controlled by a small steam valve that opened and closed according to the water temperature. This valve stopped working and the water was dangerously hot, but you could easily adjust the temperature in the shower by simply adding more cold water. The only problem was was at the end of the day when everyone was trying to get showered. The showers in our berthing compartment had 8 stalls, 4 on one side and 4 on the other, with a narrow path in the middle. If, while all the showers were full and most of the sinks were in use, a guy turned on the cold water at the very last sink, all he cold water for the showers would suddenly lose pressure and boiling water would come flying out of the shower heads. You’d be standing there enjoying your relaxing shower one second and then everyone would scream and start tearing down the shower curtains trying to get out. Then you’d be standing in a tiny space with a bunch of wet Harry pissed off naked guys wondering what the heck just happened … lol
Eventually we demanded it be fixed. What did they do? They determined we needed a new control valve, put a lockout tag on it, and we had to walk across the mess deck wrapped in a towel for two months to use another shower.
What's cooler than urban exploration? Warship exploration!
Great work guys!
Great entry to your video series!
I'm going to assume that a naval term that has now been repurposed...
Actually the term originally referred to a large deposit of gold being discovered
The term dates back to the gold rush then of course it took on its infamous meaning
Love those 'temporary' repairs where nobody thinks about electrolytic corrosion and it's just, let's get the head working so we can shit.
RE. rotary phones: I used to live in India from 1973 until 1982. There, using the rotary phone was a real art form, as you needed to rotate it slowly at just the right speed and also hold for a fraction of a sec to even have a chance to get through to the correct number...
I was a crew member on the LCI 713 and LST 1166
Excellent video. The audio is much improved recently.
Glory holes seem like they would be good for morale!
He definitely learned a lot more about editing since making this video
Ah, the good old days when you had to swap out revised pages in technical manuals! I entered the federal civil service a few years after Nee Jersey was decommissioned for the last time, and updating the tech manuals was a common practice for the new guy who hadn’t been to technical training yet. It was a big change when the manuals were updated to the agency’s Intranet and updated without the need for issuing change bulletins. I have lots of experience with rotary phones, too. Good grief, I’m old. 😄