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Re: To ladder or turbolift?
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:03:33 GMT
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In lugnet.space, James Simpson writes:
> Two weeks ago I visited the USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier
Ugh, that means you were in Corpus Christi. I'm sorry. :P
> (Fought in WWII,
> decommissioned in 1992 after serving for many years as a training ship) and
> was
> suprised to find an escalator within the bridge superstructure. The escalator
> was for the top brass to use in moving from the war room in the (forgive me,
> but
> I'm ignorant regarding nautical terminology) bridge tower superstructure to (I
> think) the interior hangar level.
Eh, I was under the impression it was more for moving pilots to the flight deck
in a timely fashion...
> I doubt that the escalator existed in WWII,
> but I could be wrong. Anyone know if this is a common feature in modern
> Aircraft Carriers?
I toured the Lex with my father, who served aboard two carriers of the same
class (the Ticonderoga and the Kearsarge) and he had more than one amusing
story about the escalators, so they were at the very least a "feature" that
crossed the class of ship as far back as the 60's and 70's (I dn't know the
exact dates of my father's tours on those vessels).
eric
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| (...) I didn't know that CV-16 was still afloat! It was converted along with the other Essex-class carriers still in service in the 1950s to have the angled flight deck, and redeployed as ASW ships in the late 1950s. I think they were redesignated (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: To ladder or turbolift?
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| (...) Don't be! ;^0 I enjoy Corpus! (...) I confess that I made an assumption that the escalator would be for the command because, if I remember correctly, the escalator was reached almost immediately after leaving the war room (which was in turn (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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| In lugnet.space, John D. Forinash writes: in a ship of this class/size. (...) Two weeks ago I visited the USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier (Fought in WWII, decommissioned in 1992 after serving for many years as a training ship) and was suprised to (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.space)
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