[Public-List] Incline test on an Alberg 30?

[Gordon Laco]

Great story!

I'm afraid I am not a senior officer yet.  Still just a subie!

Gord





On 18/05/10 3:38 PM, "Robert Kirk" <isobar at verizon.net> wrote:

> Gord... It is entertaining. I reported as Chief Engineer of USS Ernest G
> Small (DDR 838),  shortly after she emerged from a long rebuild with lots
> of new equipment.  I couldn't find a record of the shipyard having
> performed a new inclining experiment, so I persuaded the CO to let me Sally
> Ship. He was a good-humored fellow who would sometimes stop the ship to go
> fishing.
> 
> We lined up a goodly portion of the crew - deck gang, gunners, & snipes -
> on the forecastle, quarterdeck, & fantail and I got on the ship's PA system
> with a whistle. (I wanted to use the loud ship's whistle but the skipper
> didn't want to bring down the wrath of the harbor.) I blew the whistle and
> the crew ran from port to starboard (Not too far; the maximum beam of our
> destroyer was only 39 feet.) Blow again, and they ran back to port, and so
> on. We got the timing down quickly and the Ernie G took on a noticeable
> roll at her sympathetic period, which I can't remember now but
> I think was around 11 seconds.
> 
> The crew enjoyed it thoroughly. Sailors can get a little buggy after a
> while at sea. There was a minimum of good-natured (?) elbowing and shoving,
> and a few bloody knees. My calculations showed that the engineers at the
> Bureau of Ships were pretty good because our stability remained ok. I was
> told an aircraft carrier can do the same thing by driving trucks from side
> to side, though I've never actually heard of it being done.
> 
> Perhaps now that you're a senior officer you can persuade the RCN to do a
> little Sallying and spread the science.
> 
> An Alberg couple is pretty small beer compared to that, but it would be
> nice to claim that my period is shorter than yours.
> 
> Bob Kirk
> Isobar #181
> 
> 
> 
> At 03:46 PM 5/17/2010, you wrote:
>> I can just see A30'S all over North America being sallied tonight.
>> 
>> In some ports where we are thin on the ground there will be only one...in
>> others, whole bunches.  Aboard each will be giggling crew members rushing
>> back and forth, the ones who have to get over the boom occasionally
>> tripping.  Seen from a distance, the affected ports will exhibit the usual
>> forests of stationary rigs... But here and there one mast will be swaying
>> like an inverted pendulum.
>> 
>> To individual observers it may appear a local anomaly; but what if somebody
>> talks to somebody and realizes it is happening all over...
>> 
>> Perhaps we should warn our respective Coasties that the unusual activity is
>> about to begin so as not to alarm the authorities...
>> 
>> Gord #426 SURPRISE
> 
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