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Charles,
I can't help you in locating the sonar gang plank owners that you named above. But I'm wondering if you knew that Konicki was elevated to COB within a week after he made Chief. I'm not a plank owner, but I made the first 7 Blue patrols, a...
The 1.2 kW rectifiers were part of Weapons Power and were fed from WP3 and WP4. They received 440 VAC and output 28 VDC. Rectifiers #1 and #2 were used for Missile Power Transfer for transferring to internal power and transferring to external powe...
You know, I can't even remember what the 1.2 KW rectifiers were for. I think they were in the upper level and supplied power to SINS, but it gets hazy here. (Just issue me another qual card and a Mickey Mouse Book.) I do remember the 18 kw rectifi...
You may be right on the forward end vs. the aft end. I find it amazing that I can remember some things like it was yesterday yet other things are just foggy.
The MTOW had already been renamed to MCRP (Missile Compartment Roving Patrol) when I got ...
I do remember the heater SPALT. But I thought that the heater was installed at the forward end of the C-3 second stage rocket motor. (By this time I was no longer a Missile Technician and was serving on a different submarine.) I left AH in about M...
The MAM was replaced with what they called DAMP. Digital Alarm Monitoring Panel. You will see it in the photos I have on my profile page. The C3 missile had heaters installed around the aft ends of the motor to help mitigate the huge temperature s...
"Was VAMP there when you were there?"
No. There were two panels called Missile Alarm Monitor (MAM) that were located between the LCPs and IMP. MAM 1 was just forward of IMP and just aft of LCP 1 and MAM 2 was just aft of IMP and forward of LCP 2....
I do not remember that particular Playboy centerfold, but that may have been long gone by the time I got their in '79. I do remember the VAMP (Valve Alarm Monitoring Panel) girl though. Was VAMP there when you were there? It was on Tube 3 just beh...
Yes - I stand corrected. I always knew that MTRE 6 was tactical and MTRE 7 was non-tactical, but was thinking that MTRE 7 made the GO-NO GO decision on battery voltage, but you are right - it would have been MTRE 6. I also remember that MTRE 7 was...
For the first 7 Blue Crew patrols, Joe Birkle would hang a Playboy centerfold at Launcher on the side of the MAM for 1-8 so that it was visible to the Launcher Watch. At the end of every patrol, it was removed and hidden and then subsequently retr...
It was MTRE 6. MTRE 6 was located in MCC on the port side and it was what we called the Tactical MTRE. MTRE 7, on the other hand, was located on the starboard side of MCC and was used primarily for missile testing. MTRE 6 was limited to a simple "...
Looks like MTRE did its job! What MTRE was onboard then. When I got there in '79 it was MTRE Mk 7. I work for Lockheed Martin and it is interesting that MTRE is up to Mk 11 and is essentially nothing more than a single VXI card and it resides in w...
Around Patrol 3 or 4, we engaged in an FOT involving the actual launch of 4 missiles. One of the 4 failed upon transfer to "Internal Power." The problem turned out to be that the battery had been previously activated at some prior time and therefo...
40 some years tends to make one forget certain details, but that it an experience that will remain with me forever. I think I was too young (and too dumb) to fully realize the significance of water flooding through a pipe that large.
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- At 1:11am on June 18, 2009,
Michael Nixon said… - I was stationed onboard USS Hamilton from 1986 -1989. Most of that time was in the shipyard @ bremeton Wa. This is a good SHIPMATE website also:
http://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=Profile&type=Person&ID=219167
Profile Information
- What years did you serve aboard the Hamilton?
- 1963-1967
- Were you BLUE Crew or GOLD Crew?
- Blue
- What was your rate - or were you an officer?
- MT3 to MT1
- Where do you live now?
- Virginia
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