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1978 - More memories of working in a shipyard #0 - note
Here are scanned pages from a pamphlet that was originally published as a magazine article about
the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. I was working at the shipyard at this time, in the Mechanical Maintenance (84) department. I've worked the linear launches as part of the hydraulic team (which literally pushed the ship on rollers onto the floating dry dock), and also worked on the dry dock pretty much full time at this point, and on the cranes. -- Al McCann albert(dot)mccann(at)outlook(dot)com |
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"Kilgore Trout" wrote in message
.. . Here are scanned pages from a pamphlet that was originally published as a magazine article about the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. I was working at the shipyard at this time, in the Mechanical Maintenance (84) department. I've worked the linear launches as part of the hydraulic team (which literally pushed the ship on rollers onto the floating dry dock), and also worked on the dry dock pretty much full time at this point, and on the cranes. -- Al McCann albert(dot)mccann(at)outlook(dot)com Interesting! Thanks for posting. Bob |
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1978 - More memories of working in a shipyard #0 - note
On Thu, 4 May 2017 21:16:40 -0400, Kilgore Trout
wrote: Here are scanned pages from a pamphlet that was originally published as a magazine article about the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. I was working at the shipyard at this time, in the Mechanical Maintenance (84) department. I've worked the linear launches as part of the hydraulic team (which literally pushed the ship on rollers onto the floating dry dock), and also worked on the dry dock pretty much full time at this point, and on the cranes. You have stirred up my ,memories of shipbuilding on the River Tyne, 1954-58. I did not work of a shipbuilder's yard but was the local salesman for Esso which had just introduced mineral lubricants to the market for launching lubricants - tallow and other things before that.. So I was present at several launches, not on the VIP platform but underneath the hull. offering a prayer that the ship would start moving as soon as the chocks were knocked out. There were, of course, hydraulic rams to give it a push if necessary. At least one shipyard would not believe that the coefficient of friction would be so much better than with the old materials so there were some exciting launches. The Tyne is not wide so the ship had to be turned as soon as it was in the water, done with suitably positioned drag chains. At one launch, the ship was going a bit quickly and did not turn quickly enough and hit the boiler house of British Paints on the other side of the river - the chairman of British Paints was on the VIP launch platform but fortunately he could not see his boiler house! Guy Gorton |
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Kilgore Trout wrote in
So I was present at several launches, not on the VIP platform but underneath the hull. offering a prayer that the ship would start moving as soon as the chocks were knocked out. There were, of course, hydraulic rams to give it a push if necessary. When I started in the shipyard in '73, I worked in the Stagebuilders (66 department, shipwright carpenters), who actually performed the launch. So you were there while the Glomar Explorer was being build & launched ? |
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In article , john Szalay says...
Kilgore Trout wrote in So I was present at several launches, not on the VIP platform but underneath the hull. offering a prayer that the ship would start moving as soon as the chocks were knocked out. There were, of course, hydraulic rams to give it a push if necessary. When I started in the shipyard in '73, I worked in the Stagebuilders (66 department, shipwright carpenters), who actually performed the launch. So you were there while the Glomar Explorer was being build & launched ? Yes! I worked on the staging on it, and even lost a lunchbox and paperback book in the inards when a hull section got added while I was working elsewhere :-) -- Al McCann albert(dot)mccann(at)outlook(dot)com |
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Kilgore Trout wrote in
: So you were there while the Glomar Explorer was being build & launched ? Yes! I worked on the staging on it, and even lost a lunchbox and paperback book in the inards when a hull section got added while I was working elsewhere :-) You might get a chance to get them back, she is going to be scrapped soon. ;-) |
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In article , john Szalay says...
Kilgore Trout wrote in : So you were there while the Glomar Explorer was being build & launched ? Yes! I worked on the staging on it, and even lost a lunchbox and paperback book in the inards when a hull section got added while I was working elsewhere :-) You might get a chance to get them back, she is going to be scrapped soon. ;-) Huh, I need to send this on to some old shipyard folks. -- Al McCann albert(dot)mccann(at)outlook(dot)com |
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