Perhaps they can strap his motorCOACH (not motorhome, please...) onto the roof rack.

on Big Guns. Seriously. How do they maintain Ship's Heading reference? This is a real question.

on Big Guns. Seriously. How did they maintain an accurate Ship's Heading reference for Fire Control solutions?

What about the modern Lightweight 5" guns? Are they also mounted that way?

If they can go around in a circle then they are supported by a slewing bearing.

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Not exactly so...they definitely are ballasted to keep the wheels in the water when the bunkers are light but I guarantee you they aren't ballasted to recover from a roll because there's no reason to ever worry about roll on an inland waterway...there's no swell.

The pics you speak of was the Towboat Cahaba being pulled under the Rooster Bridge by her tow on the Tombigbee River near Demopolis,AL. The only reason she survived and didn't sink like a stone was because the engine room hatches were closed and the only reason she didn't get rolled all the way over was because she'd fueled earlier in the day and had 20,000 gallons of diesel in her bunkers acting as ballast.

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I will accept your knowledge. That wasn't what was being said about it when it was posted--or at least I didn't see it, but it makes sense.

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In the Sydney to Hobart that got a little messy a few years back one Swan rolled over I think it was 3 times and came up with the rig still on!

A modern ocean going sailboat should be good to past 90 degrees.

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Bank on it.

You could publish a Bible-sized book from the erroneous crap posted about CAHABA's 1979 trip under the Rooster Bridge

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A Grandson of the owner of the motorcoach brand I own, blogged a trip from the Twin Cities/Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota down the Mississippi River all the way to I believe Chattanooga, Tennessee - with pictures. If I can find the LINK I'll post it. He knew nothing about maritime or should I say inland waterway stuff, as an unemployed freshly graduated law school student, but learned over a period of a couple three months. He bought and sold his vessel on craisgslist for the river/waterway adventure.

This LINK takes you to the END of the blog - go to it's beginning as with all blogs to it's START:
http://huckfinn2010.blogspot.com/

Huck Finn 2010
1700 miles, 5 weeks, 1 antique boat, no prisoners
As promised, here are some statistics:

We traveled 725 miles down the Mississippi, 47 miles up the Ohio, and 617 miles up the Tennessee for a grand total of 1,389 miles.

We locked through 37 locks.

We spent 36 nights on the boat.

We lost 2 anchors.

We saved one life (Melanie).

We took no prisoners.

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I know, I think I read much of that.
I wondered how they avoided sucking water into the engine intakes if that was part of the design, but figured someone must have looked into that little detail, as well as how to maintain crew safety.

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Everything you never wanted to know about the BB61 class 16' gun operations
79 men it took to man one turret--from the magazine to the gun house.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OmOQs0ziSU

That was cool

Upon further review it s/b 16" not 16'/ My bad (typing)

Speaking of naval guns and "gun decks", there is an old slang sailor's term called "gundecking". I hadn't thought about the word in years until I looked at a cutaway of the turret and saw the Gun Deck identified.

"Gundecking" generally meant to make something up or cut corners or do a half azzed job.

Something like " I gundecked the report" or "Quit gundecking your work."

Amazing!

The Japanese had a super battleship at the beginning of the war with 18" guns. I believe that may have been the biggest ever for a ship.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I grew up just outside of Baltimore. We were told that the 16 guns could fire the equivalent of a Ford sedan to Washington.

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