John,
Hooligan Navy [Hotel-56] '64-'68, on the 311' good cutter Barataria
W381 [ex-WW11 Navy seaplane tender] in B-2 eng room, CG Squadron 3
Operation Market Time '67. Portland ME to Alameda CA by way of the
South China Sea, trip of a lifetime.
Good power, they really ran nice on JP-4, a lot less carbon build
up in the exhaust ports to clean out. Some of the WW11 subs had the
same power, set up like the Wind Class ice breakers, diesel-electric.
Didn't work out as well for locomotive use later, too many speed changes
was hard on the vertical driveshaft between the 2 cranks.
Ed
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