by battleshipdev1 | Jan 30, 2023 | Sea Stories
Part One “I joined the Brooklyn Navy Yard in June of 1940 as an outside machinist. My first job was to drill and tap and install stud bolts in the forward stack. From there I worked on the installation of the steering rams. I made the pin gauges for the rudder shafts...
by battleshipdev1 | Jan 30, 2023 | Sea Stories
Part One “In the fall of 1939 I was transferred from Industrial Salesman to the Virginia Division of Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso) to Washington, D.C. to serve as representative of our New York Sales Engineering Division to the federal government agencies,...
by battleshipdev1 | Jan 30, 2023 | Sea Stories
Newspaper headlines across the United States proclaimed Battleship North Carolina’s impressive 19 gun salvo in the fall of 1941. “America’s Mightiest Seadog Bares Her Fangs” “Thunder at Sea” “The North Carolina Barks to Test Her Bite” “Our New Navy Titan Roars” “Our...
by battleshipdev1 | Jan 30, 2023 | Sea Stories
We were in the New York shipyard, getting the ship ready to go to war. The people in the shipyard had the same feeling that I have and that I still have about the wonderful ship the NORTH CAROLINA. Every man on that crew in Brooklyn worked just as hard as they...
by battleshipdev1 | Jan 30, 2023 | Sea Stories
“All of these guys were selected (to make admiral) long before they ever got command (of the NORTH CAROLINA). They would never have gotten the command in the first place. It was too prestigious a job. But they had to wait their turn and they had to have a certain...
by battleshipdev1 | Jan 30, 2023 | Sea Stories
Aboard the NORTH CAROLINA, a detachment of 84-86 U.S. Marines formed the 7th Division in the Gunnery Department. “The Marine Detachment was in the Gunnery Department. The Marines stood lookout watch and in battle manned 20mm and (provided officers in two) 40mm mounts....
