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...
