Despite what they showed in the movie Battleship, it would take many months if not over a year to make her move on it's own.USS Missouri. Currently in Hawaii.
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Despite what they showed in the movie Battleship, it would take many months if not over a year to make her move on it's own.USS Missouri. Currently in Hawaii.
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That's gonna take A LOT of frog lube.
And duct tape.That's gonna take A LOT of frog lube.
I remember looking this up after the movie. If the ship were in perfect, ready-to-run condition but completely cold, with boilers off, the time to achieve initial heat, steam, and electrical power to start core systems; then more heat, more steam, and actual motive power is measured in days. IIRC, when the ship was active the transition from cold to moving took a week to ten days.Despite what they showed in the movie Battleship, it would take many months if not over a year to make her move on it's own.
Not that I'm out to ruin the movie, but I witnessed the decommissioning of the Missouri and it was very much scavenged. Engineering spaces are mainly empty of equipment. From the outside it looks complete, but the inside is a whole different story. Also, before decommissioning all was ordinance removed.I remember looking this up after the movie. If the ship were in perfect, ready-to-run condition but completely cold, with boilers off, the time to achieve initial heat, steam, and electrical power to start core systems; then more heat, more steam, and actual motive power is measured in days. IIRC, when the ship was active the transition from cold to moving took a week to ten days.
In the movie, it took about two minutes. Actually, I think the gap between lighting the first boiler and having steam was just a few seconds.
That film was, as expected, totally unrealistic garbage. Numerous youtubers and all the critics have torn it apart.
Screw reality, though. It's a throwaway popcorn flick designed to entertain for a couple of hours and it did that. Successful movies can be ridiculous and I liked this one. I like pretty much any movie that celebrates a battleship taking hits, continuing to fight, and coming out on top.
Good choice. Stupid, feel-good sci-fi where aliens come to Earth and get their collective butt kicked are always reliable fun.Redbox tonite
You can't ruin the movie. Everybody who saw it knew, going in, that it was going to be ridiculous.Not that I'm out to ruin the movie...
It was entertaining, even though I laughed when I saw the ship fire up and saw that lo and behold it had ordinance on board.Off Topic Warning
Good choice. Stupid, feel-good sci-fi where aliens come to Earth and get their collective butt kicked are always reliable fun.
Heck, I totally loved Battle: Los Angeles even though it got 35% on Rotten Tomatoes and Roger Ebert (whose reviews I've found illuminating, even if I often disagree) called the movie "noisy, violent, ugly, and stupid" and singled out the director as completely incompetent.
So, my standards for a fun movie are the same as my standards for a fun woman: quite low.
The "old dogs teaching tricks to the new kids" theme more than made up for that. For those few little scenes where the WWII vets taught the young sailors, the movie endeared itself to me....I laughed when I saw the ship fire up and saw that lo and behold it had ordinance on board.
Beautiful, love those tall ships.To get back to the thread topic, a couple of cool pictures.
First, the Royal Clipper, the largest full-rigged sailing ship in the world.
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