[TheForge] Quesiton about a weird event
Demon Buddha
osan at netlabs.net
Wed Jun 7 08:26:52 EDT 2006
James Binnion wrote:
> When the shaft separated the prop would have pulled out the back end of
> the ship maybe all the way out! Due to the drag on the prop. This
> happened to a submarine in the Med. I don't know if it was smooth break
> but.it did not pull all the way out it did rip out the shaft seals and
> there was massive flooding almost caused a loss of ship incident.
>
> Frankly it sounds like a sea story to me.
Could be but knowing walter as I did, I tend to doubt it.
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