[Irvingman]

Supern..... Thanks for posting this light hearted article. It must have amused your late husband for him to keep it tucked away with his papers for all these years.(Thumb)
John
(Engineer with a sense of humour (*)))

 

[TommyRob]

Thank goodness for ART6. I thought I was on the wrong site for a while there.

 

[Dickyboy]

Art 6
That photo I posted of the valve wheels was taken on a WW1 German submarine. So I would imagine they would have been operated by Ratings.

 

[BobClay]

Art 6
That photo I posted of the valve wheels was taken on a WW1 German submarine. So I would imagine they would have been operated by Ratings.

I took this also in a submarine.

To an engineer, this is heaven.

To a Sparky (or at least what they might have become since) this is something that needs to be replaced by some computers and several thousand sensors and activators. (Oh, and a reliable power source.)

[=P]

 

[Mad Landsman]

#24 :
Nice shiny things, Things that actually do stuff when you move the levers and turn the wheels. That's good!

And what looks like nicely kept Drummond lathe in the foreground, what more could one need? - Well maybe a bit of daylight and fresh air perhaps.(Smoke)

 

[BobClay]

#24 :
Nice shiny things, Things that actually do stuff when you move the levers and turn the wheels. That's good!

And what looks like nicely kept Drummond lathe in the foreground, what more could one need? - Well maybe a bit of daylight and fresh air perhaps.(Smoke)

I had thought of cropping that picture so that only the top half was displayed, but yes that would have been wrong. That's a nice shade of green and without doubt the cleanest lathe I've ever seen. Of course this vessel is in the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth.

 

[5036]

I had thought of cropping that picture so that only the top half was displayed, but yes that would have been wrong. That's a nice shade of green and without doubt the cleanest lathe I've ever seen. Of course this vessel is in the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth.

Should that read "Royal Naval Museum in Gosport."?

Amazing place and well worth a visit. We had a tour from one of the original crew. Sent shivers down my spine, I dived in LR3, a fibreglass mini-sub then owned by Fred Olson Oceanics which is also there.

Before we closed the hatch for a dive we set a clockwork cooking timer to twenty minutes, set the barometer to surface pressure, closed the hatch and carried on with the pre-dive checks. Before we even got into the water, the alarm went off. Without thinking you reset the alarm to twenty minutes, turned on a fan which you timed to 90 seconds which dragged the whole atmosphere of the two metre diameter sphere through some crystals which took out all the CO2. The bell pressure dropped so you turned on a little needle valve that replenished the atmosphere with pure oxygen until the barometer matched surface pressure. And that continued every twenty minutes for up to fourteen hours. If you didn't do it, you died. Simple. That was engineering and that's what you did.

ps I worked in the Pisces boats which were positively primitive and I was told by the old hands that on the original boats the observer hung onto a rope that held the hatch shut until the water pressure forced a seal. I was fortunate that P8 and P10 had latches.

pps I hate the water and I can't swim. Not that it would have been a help.

 

[Dickyboy]

I took this also in a submarine.

To an engineer, this is heaven.

To a Sparky (or at least what they might have become since) this is something that needs to be replaced by some computers and several thousand sensors and activators. (Oh, and a reliable power source.)

[=P]

All I can see is noise, lots and lots of noise.

 

[BobClay]

Have to admit that's the only time I've been on a submarine. (In Gosport/Portsmouth/sumwhere darn sarf.)

Generally speaking during my time at sea on Merchant Ships the better plan was to stay on the surface of the sea rather than go below it. Having been through that sub (HMS Alliance) I'm filled with admiration for those who chose to do that.

It is an engineers world for sure, and as you say, well worth a visit.

What I'd like to do now is visit a modern nuclear submarine in the same way, but I suspect I'm not going to live long enough for one of those to appear in a museum.

 

[BobClay]

All I can see is noise, lots and lots of noise.

The engine room on that sub is fitted with speakers which make engine noises as part of the 'atmosphere.' Quite normal practice in museums (at Bletchley they have a speaker under a bush in front of the mansion that periodically makes BSA Motorcycle noises to mimic the constant flow of despatch riders back in the day.)

However something tells me the real time decibel level in the sub was just a tad higher than those of that speaker. (EEK)

 

[Supern]

Goodness me its a bit of fun, can you lot not laugh at yourselves, take life so seriously. It depicts young engineers having fun, fun have you all forgot what that is. I have been to sea on submarine as well as with my husband. I had fun when I was young and I still have fun and laugh, so come on this too serious. If you find it crap well then you have the problem ha ha.

 

[Sebe]

Goodness me its a bit of fun, can you lot not laugh at yourselves, take life so seriously. It depicts young engineers having fun, fun have you all forgot what that is. I have been to sea on submarine as well as with my husband. I had fun when I was young and I still have fun and laugh, so come on this too serious. If you find it crap well then you have the problem ha ha.

Well said! (Thumb)

 

[uisdean mor]

Fun

Goodness me its a bit of fun, can you lot not laugh at yourselves, take life so seriously. It depicts young engineers having fun, fun have you all forgot what that is. I have been to sea on submarine as well as with my husband. I had fun when I was young and I still have fun and laugh, so come on this too serious. If you find it crap well then you have the problem ha ha.

Indeed Supern. Well said. It was fun and a sense of adventure that got us into and out of all sorts of scrapes but which also formed us as adults into reasonable and tolerant beings. You keep on having fun and I will join you when i can. (Applause)

 

[Tony Morris]

(Thumb)

Goodness me its a bit of fun, can you lot not laugh at yourselves, take life so seriously. It depicts young engineers having fun, fun have you all forgot what that is. I have been to sea on submarine as well as with my husband. I had fun when I was young and I still have fun and laugh, so come on this too serious. If you find it crap well then you have the problem ha ha.

Can't agree more(Thumb)

 

[sternchallis]

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Was that a Wally Trickett special, from back of the oil book.

 

[5036]

Goodness me its a bit of fun, can you lot not laugh at yourselves, take life so seriously. It depicts young engineers having fun, fun have you all forgot what that is. I have been to sea on submarine as well as with my husband. I had fun when I was young and I still have fun and laugh, so come on this too serious. If you find it crap well then you have the problem ha ha.

God bless you!

 

[James_C]

That dit about Engineers is actually a variation on another old dit about Seamen in general.
I quote:

"THE SEAMAN.
Between the inner sense of infancy and the recklessness of humanity there is a being known as the seaman.
A seaman can be found in bars, in arguments, in bed, in debt and intoxicated.
They are tall, short, fat, thin, dark, fair but never normal.
They hate ships food, chief engineers, writing letters, sailing on fridays and dry ships.
They like getting mail, pay off day, nude pin ups, sympathy, complaining and beer.
The seaman's secret ambition is to change places with the shipowner, to own a brewery and to be loved by everyone.
A seaman is Sir Galahad in a brothel, a pyschoanalyst with a Readers Digest on the table, Don Quixote with a Discharge Book, the saviour of mankind with his back teeth awash, Valentino with a fiver in his hand and democracy personified in a Red Chinese prison.
A seaman is a provider in war and a parasite in peacetime.
No one is subjected to so much abuse, wrongly accused so often and misunderstood by so many.
He has the patience of a saint, the honesty of a fool, and the heaven-sent ability to laugh at himself.
When he returns home from a long voyage no one but a seamen can create such an atmosphere as he walks through the door and utter those magic words 'I'm home, get your gear off and have you got the beer in?
And when he has told of his adventures and his money is spent, he sadly says farewell and returns to sea once again.
I was one of those GREAT MEN."

I've seen a few variations of the above, but they're all very similar. Often seen in many different ships and in different companies, usually typed out and posted on the bulkhead in the bar for the appreciation of those who actually had a sense of humour and was not a professional misery - unlike some of the obvious perennial whingers who've posted on this thread.
I'm in no doubt those same shall find some contrived and convoluted way to be offended regardless - they must have been a barrel of laughs on a long trip.

 

[funnelstays]

I took this also in a submarine.

To an engineer, this is heaven.

To a Sparky (or at least what they might have become since) this is something that needs to be replaced by some computers and several thousand sensors and activators. (Oh, and a reliable power source.)

[=P]

How the Friar Tuck did they get the main engine in the workshop?

 

[BobClay]

How the Friar Tuck did they get the main engine in the workshop?

Two main engines in the workshop ..... :sweat:

 

[jg grant]

To answer, an engineer is a tradesmen who usually served his apprenticeship in a shipyard but I have known some who worked in the pits. Never figured that one out. In essence, he is part of the crew, and without him the ship would not function. A bit like everyone else aboard really. Nothing more or less. Some I knew could kick a ball but.