[Milsurplus] voice tubes

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi,

On the destroyer escort the engine panel had the dials you describe and 
right under those a tachometer readout for the starboard shaft.  The 
port side engine control was further aft in another space. For backing, 
the engines stopped and were restarted turning the other way. When we 
were underway there wasn't much activity besides staying awake and 
paying attention. Going in or out of harbors and especially docking got 
fairly busy at that panel.

There were sound powered phones at my battle station (not in the engine 
rooms) and no sound tubes. The ship was WWII vintage and about 25 years 
old when I joined the crew. My normal duty on that ship was operation of 
the evap plant to make make sea water into fresh water (magic) and keep 
watch on one of the generators in that same space whenever it was needed 
and one of fire pumps.

Days of long ago.

73,

Bill  KU8H


On 12/28/2014 02:02 AM, Raymond Cote wrote:
> The "engine order telegraph" (EOT) on the ships I've been on was a dial that you turned and asked the engine room to "make turns" for a desired speed. Thus you asked for "ahead(or back) full or standard for instance. The EOT had 2 pointers and the engine room "answered" by turning the pointers to match the bridge's request.
>    "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose"
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> Raymond Cote
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>> On Dec 27, 2014, at 22:49, WA5CAB--- via Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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>> It's called the "Engine Order Telegraph".
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>> Robert Downs - Houston
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>> In a message dated 12/27/2014 22:04:40 PM Central Standard Time,
>> garypewitt at centurytel.net writes:
>>> Yes there was a whistle in the cap of the voice tube to serve instead of
>>> a bell.  When you blew down the tube it announced your call.  It was too
>>> noisy in the engine room for a voice tube so they used a semaphore like
>>> "telegraph".  You've surely seen them in the movies.
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