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Barn Red ( iron oxide) paint still is cheap and is widely used as an industrial primer.  

I think red was the cheapest color available. Also the reason most barns in New England are painted red.
 
Regards,
Henry

To update, I haven't found anything specific yet, but an idea came to mind. I imagine that a Knox Class FF could have served as plane guard at some time. So I'll add a Knox Class FF, USS Pharris as the plane guard. My friend had also served aboard the Pharris.
 
Dave
 

The designated plane guard would vary from day to day, maybe even from flight op to flight op. The duty would generally fall to the smaller escorts (ie. FF, FFG, DD, maybe DDG, but not a CG or CGN).

I am starting a new topic as the last one just got huge....over 2000 replies.
 
Its fitting that I would do so today actually.   Today marks ten years since I have started Syren.  Its been a long and interesting journey.  Ten years and miles and miles of rope made and thousands and thousands of blocks sold.   Here's to the next ten years.  Maybe not that long, LOL.
 
For a bit of news....I have finally received the parts to maintain my CNC Mill.  So blocks are on tap over the next few weeks.  In fact I have already started.   3/32" singles and doubles are now in stock.   More will follow. Although half of the 3/32" singles already sold out.  UGH!
 

 
Onward and upward as they say.
 
Chuck

Is the CA old?  CA glue does go bad after a time and won't hold, or at least will take longer to hold.  Might be wise to try a new bottle of CA and see if it works better.

I think some of the old movies (e.g., Mutiny on the Bounty) show sailors scrambling up to the top.  Makes me queasy just thinking about it.
 
Cheers,
 
Keith

HMCS Sackville passing 'Ocean Pilgrim' North Atlantic WW2
16" X 11"

On the River

 

Did this a long time ago. I think it was a 'J' class and a QE class Battleship.
acrylic on Mountboard about 16" X 11"ish.

The specific reference I have for both late C18th French and Mid C19th English practice had the implements for weatherdeck ordnance stowed in chests under cover on the upper deck fore/aft under the castles. Along with similar provision for the boarding weapons where boarders would be mustered. For a spar deck, either a covered chest on the deck, or on the upper deck alongside a hatch would be my expectation.

On beating to action the 6 'numbers' (Captain, No2, Loader, Rammer, Assistant Loader, Assistant Rammer) of the British gun crew would prepare the gun & collect the implements. The static powder boy (1 per pair) and divisional powder man (roughly 1 for each 4 pairs) would collect two cartridges in boxes each from the magazine to be hung in rear of each gun, and kept on hand for distribution, each cartridge loaded to a gun freeing up an empty box to pass down to the magazine for filling and return via the scuttles (later a powder whip). The French procedure was similar with a main crew (divided into halves if fighting both sides) and an auxiliary group for hauling and pointing which served the piece, moving between the two if fighting both sides. Both examples divide the crew to 'the gun and that adjacent' on alternating sides, rather than 'same number on both sides'.

The remainder of the men from the gun crews would aid clearing for action and join with their guns once their assigned task was complete. On the covered decks, where the implements were protected from the elements the major tools were stowed on the carriage or hull side between the guns (competing for space with shot and canister and wads), but smaller pieces such as gun locks, hausses and priming tools and supplies needed to come from the gunnery stores on coming to action anyway.

Got the helo hanger and ECM platform completed and installed.  The gun mounts are just sitting loose for 'effect'. LOL!

There is no doubt that the term jolly boat refers to the smallest of the ships' boats and whether they were cutters or some other design seems to always be up for debate.   Looking at books by Lavery and May they both refer to jolly boats.  May gives scantlings for all types of boats for 1705 and 1800 but nowhere is there a jolly boat listed with scantlings.   Lavery goes into some detail about what they were on page 223 of The Aming and Fitting of English Ships of War. He writes that jolly boats appeared to be cutters of 16 to 18 feet and one authority said that four oared cutters were called jolly boats.    In doing a little digging  I found the following drawing called Seamen Painting a Jolly Boat  by Lt. Gabriel Bray of the Pallas which he did in 1774.  It looks like a four oared cutter to me but I may be dead wrong. 
Allan

Wow, this is better than 95 percent of Hollywood productions (and all of the crap served up by the “History” Channel).
 
Thx for sharing!

Wow, this is better than 95 percent of Hollywood productions (and all of the crap served up by the “History” Channel).
 
Thx for sharing!

Wow, this is better than 95 percent of Hollywood productions (and all of the crap served up by the “History” Channel).
 
Thx for sharing!

Wow, this is better than 95 percent of Hollywood productions (and all of the crap served up by the “History” Channel).
 
Thx for sharing!

Wow, this is better than 95 percent of Hollywood productions (and all of the crap served up by the “History” Channel).
 
Thx for sharing!

Bare wood decks, specifically teak, also offer decent traction. Painted decks (absent non-skid grit) can be pretty slippery when wet.

Bare wood decks, specifically teak, also offer decent traction. Painted decks (absent non-skid grit) can be pretty slippery when wet.

Back in the days of "useta-fish" (US attack submarines were named after sea creatures until they started naming them after random congressmen, then cities. "Fish don't vote!"—Adm. Rickover), we typically stood one-in-three, six-hour watches underway. Generally, attack boats (SSNs) were able to keep their watchbills manned with qualified watchstanders because we did frequent local ops when not deployed. I don't ever recall a dog watch in an SSN because the watches rotated through the 24-hour cycle and everyone could get at least six hours of sleep per day. Boomer crews, on the other hand, arrived at the turnover site with a large portion of the crew either provisionally qualified on their watch stations—or not at all. This was because, for the Offcrew period, we had no boat, and personnel transfers occurred during Offcrew. For the first month or so on patrol, there were a lot of port-and-starboard (we called it "port-and-stupid") watches. After four months at sea on a Westpac in USS Hawkbill, nearly everyone was qualified to their most senior watch stations, so we were able to go to one-in-four watches for the crew and the officers were one-in-six. As Senior Watch Officer, I even let the Engineer off the watchbill completely because he had an ORSE (Operational Reactor Safeguards Examination) to prepare for on the way back to Hawaii after that deployment.
 
I have no idea what modern submarines do. It's been more than 30 years since I've been on a boat...

In my experience (minimally-manned FFGs) the underway watch rotation varied by steaming condition (where we were and what the threat level was) and by the particular manning of each division. For example, on a particular deployment the FCs managed a “normal” watch rotation (4 on, 8 off) but the OSs were short qualified watch standers and had to run 6 on, 6 off.
 
But then we FCs also had to maintain and repair our equipment between watches. The OSs just broke stuff then called the ETs to come fix it while they slept.
 
On deployment the needs of normal watch rotation; equipment maintenance/repair; UNREPs; flight ops; GQ, fire, DC, and engineering drills (and actual events); housekeeping, training, etc, ensured that everyone was sleep deprived…always.

In my experience (minimally-manned FFGs) the underway watch rotation varied by steaming condition (where we were and what the threat level was) and by the particular manning of each division. For example, on a particular deployment the FCs managed a “normal” watch rotation (4 on, 8 off) but the OSs were short qualified watch standers and had to run 6 on, 6 off.
 
But then we FCs also had to maintain and repair our equipment between watches. The OSs just broke stuff then called the ETs to come fix it while they slept.
 
On deployment the needs of normal watch rotation; equipment maintenance/repair; UNREPs; flight ops; GQ, fire, DC, and engineering drills (and actual events); housekeeping, training, etc, ensured that everyone was sleep deprived…always.

In my experience (minimally-manned FFGs) the underway watch rotation varied by steaming condition (where we were and what the threat level was) and by the particular manning of each division. For example, on a particular deployment the FCs managed a “normal” watch rotation (4 on, 8 off) but the OSs were short qualified watch standers and had to run 6 on, 6 off.
 
But then we FCs also had to maintain and repair our equipment between watches. The OSs just broke stuff then called the ETs to come fix it while they slept.
 
On deployment the needs of normal watch rotation; equipment maintenance/repair; UNREPs; flight ops; GQ, fire, DC, and engineering drills (and actual events); housekeeping, training, etc, ensured that everyone was sleep deprived…always.

I was a Division LPO for half of my 20-year naval career and had to write many an underway watch bill. The process is determined by the nature of your deployment and subject to change as world circumstances evolve. For most peacetime deployments you can go to a three section watch with everyone standing 8 hours of watch in a day, have 8 hours of rest time and 8 hours to complete shipboard housekeeping duties. Underway replenishment and GQ drills of course put everyone not on watch into work mode. In a quasi-battle mode the watch bill goes port and starboard with the schedule now 8 on 4 off, 4 on 8 off to accommodate getting rest but maintaining mental acuity. I used to sit down with my division chief and Division officer before any underway time to establish what we were expecting during a deployment and always had a backup plan. It is much easier today to plan such things than back in the age of sail.