I was on board the USS North Carolina and overheard a lady saying her father had served on a ship in WW2 that was now a museum. She said she toured his ship just before coming to the North Carolina and actually saw a picture of him. The person she was with said that was really cool. The lady replied, "No, not really. It was a shower scene, complete with black bars over certain areas." It seems she saw a bit MORE of her father than she wanted...
@PsRohrbaugh
Жыл бұрын
Those were called the good old days
@timmer01
Жыл бұрын
I can't believe it! Ryan got a new belt! Look at the shine on that buckle!😂😂
@whirledpeaz5758
Жыл бұрын
I served on Nimitz class, all the flushing water for the Commodes and Urinals were supplied by the Fire main, so Salt water. I can't imagine any smaller ships being any different. We had a 400k gal/day distiller capacity for a crew of 5500+, but know that each catapult shot on the flight deck is 200 gal of feed water lost.
@tbthedozer
Жыл бұрын
Wow, that’s a lot of steam! Holy smokes when launching a bunch of planes there had to be a pretty good tempering system to keep adding all that feed water. 😳 The scale of that kind of operation is mind boggling. When I think about a 150 HP low pressure boiler for comparison, that’s just crazy scale. I can’t even begin to fathom it.
@mongoose388
Жыл бұрын
I was more afraid of the commodes. Ship I was on used fire main water through a pressure reducer to the back of the commode. If that fitting blew out when they regulator failed, your backside would get a salt water wash down. After it happened to someone else, I would wait to flush till I was standing up with my pants up. Then I'd flush with my foot. But then again, I've heard worse stories from submariners that screwed up flushing toilets.
@seldoon_nemar
Жыл бұрын
A certain German captain comes to mind 😂
@kevincrosby1760
Жыл бұрын
Never saw a failure, but a rather common practical joke was to pull the cover off of the Flushometer and crank the regulator wide open. If there were reducing stations on my ship, they weren't set very low. Seemed like you had the full 120-140 PSI available. With a urinal the flushing water would hit the lip on the front and go straight up, leaving both the victim and the overhead soaked with salt water. A "courtesy flush" resulted in an extreme bidet experience with enough volume and pressure to go horizontally between the seat and the commode. Flushing with your foot wouldn't save you from getting wet.
@WillieBrownsWeiner
Жыл бұрын
I'm a retired Army mustang officer and, obviously since we're meeting here, a Naval history geek. There's commonality among branches in a large number of things. Deployments for example. No matter the branch we know what being away from home for 6-12+ months at a stretch is like. But there are some things we in the ground forces never ever have to consider and that's plumbing on a ship/closed system like a submarine and the various potential hazards involved in going to the latrine/head. Wow.
@TrojanManSCP
Жыл бұрын
From a damage control perspective, I never did like that we used FM to provide hospital flushing. It introduces unnecessary points of failure in a critical system and, as your story illustrates, it’s subject to sailor tampering. 😂 Still, it reduces weight and complexity while decreasing the demand for potable water, so I understand why it had to be done.
@johnkelly1083
Жыл бұрын
Is that the German submarine with a toilet that was so over-engineered and complicated that it required a trained person to operate it?
@stevewarman5338
Жыл бұрын
I was on USS Saratoga in the early 70's and worked in the pipe shop for 3 years. Worked on lots 'equipment' in my time. The junior officers shared a stateroom with one small sink. They had what was called 3 finger faucets. Hot, cold and drain stopper. Waste when out the scupper near the waterline. When on a cruise there were 5000 sailors using said 'equipment'. Kinda nasty when we were anchored in some pretty port in the Med. Potty's used firemain with pressure reduced by 1/2 or so as not to cause issues. The problem with saltwater flushing is eventually the lines salted up creating big problems. Saratoga had lots of heads! I have stories!! As do many other turd chasers......
@curtisophillipsjr3203
Жыл бұрын
A former HT, I'm quite used to using a fire hose to unclog urinal drains, and when that method failed, we removed the clogged section of pipe and replaced it
@gmpullman
Жыл бұрын
Sloan valve co. made a model flushometer called the 'Sloan Naval'. Specifically designed for Navy use, probably low-flow. The old factory I worked in built in the 1930s used them. A friend was a machinist on a 'nuke tender' and his entire on-board career was to rebuild the Sloan Naval flushometers.
@seldoon_nemar
Жыл бұрын
That's fascinating! I'd love to know the flow difference. I wonder if they use the same comercial model now that they did back then or if it's been updated to modern flow standard. Because that has me wondering the the old Naval version would just be a standard flow variety today 🤔
@TheSteelArmadillo
Жыл бұрын
@@seldoon_nemar the Sloan Naval is a piston style rather than the visually wider diaphragm style you see used in most commercial applications. It is designed for saltwater operation, which would quickly corrode and disable the commercial units. It’s selectable for either 1.6gpf or (I believe) 3.5gpf, which is on track with commercial units. Older commercial closets would use a 2.4, 3.5, or even 4.5…Today, 1.6 is certainly most common, with some china being designed for less than a gallon (those don’t work great, FWIW). Hope you appreciate my toilet factoids!
@RuralTowner
Жыл бұрын
@@TheSteelArmadillo I can think of at least one place on dry land that would probably benefit from Naval-grade Sloan valves. Work. Our water there is heavy with alkalai & iron maganese while the ground will eat steel & even concrete w/ enough time. We use the conventional diaphragm type & while they last okay the water can still be hard on the rubber. The vacuum breakers especially.
@hankdoughty4375
Жыл бұрын
Sloan still made them and rebuild kits as of five years ago when I worked maintenance at a museum ship
@stevenedington6265
Жыл бұрын
I was a tin can sailor, DD821. My compartment was forwarded and one deck below the mess deck. On the same deck as the mess deck and just forward of the mess deck was the forward head. Flushing water was drawn directly from the sea and dumped right back into the sea. No holding tanks no processing. When the seas were heavy the bow coming out of of the water then plunging back in. The commodes become more like fountains.
@jeffreyyoung4104
Жыл бұрын
I can remember a time like that! But it was on land, and the sewer was somehow pressurized! A crappy situation to be sure!!
@danielseelye6005
Жыл бұрын
They didn't have check valves installed to make sure seawater didn't rush back in the out pipe?
@mrkeiths48
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for recognizing our shipmates that maintain these vital systems. On my sub, the A-Gangers kept the heads operable and pumped the sanitary tanks. I remember desperate times when the ship's still wasn't making water. Don't get caught being a water buffalo!!
@Knight6831
Жыл бұрын
If I remember correctly, Battleship HMS Rodney destroyed some of her toliets while unloading a 9 16" gun broadside on Bismarck
@dannyfromtexas5989
Жыл бұрын
On a hard hat tour on the Texas years ago. In the head it was a trough with sea water running in one end and out the other constantly flowing with five or six seats. Tour guide says tricksters would set a wad of paper on fire and drop it so it passed under the other asses sitting down the line. Haha navy tricks.
@dksekishiro
Жыл бұрын
The thing I remember is that since you flushed with sea water, you couldn’t clean the bowls with scouring powder like Comet. The powder reacts to the sea water and turns into a hard clump, plugging the pipes. We could only use pine oil to clean the bowls which never got rid of the rust stains.
@rustblade5021
Жыл бұрын
Ships having two separate plumbing systems was an essential part of the plot in the X-Files episode "Dod Kalm"
@matthewpoe1056
Жыл бұрын
The US Navy are experts at water conservation. This has been applied in areas where water is a premium on land. I especially like the pull chain shower heads on naval vessels.
@roberthomicz6552
Жыл бұрын
My Dad was stationed on board U.S.S. Little Rock back in fall 1965 to late winter 1967 and at laundry department.
@Tomyironmane
Жыл бұрын
I dunno, I've seen those spring loaded sorts of taps before in the particularly cheap sort of restroom you see in high traffic areas, highway rest stops, or cheap places of business. The idea there is to keep some vandal from flooding your bathrooms by clogging the sink and leaving the taps on. As for the pre-measured commode cycle, you're not just rinsing the wee down the line, you're also moving solids through pipes, and you need enough fluid to get them moving through the system... and if you don't have enough to move it, it tends to... collect.
@JohnHallgren
Жыл бұрын
There’s a high school in Florida that I go to community band concerts at, and they have the spring loaded sink faucets that make washing hands almost impossible.
@holysirsalad
Жыл бұрын
These valves are pretty common in older campgrounds too. Same reasons, water conservation and not being able to flood the comfort station if some jerkwad piles junk in the sink
@philcretired5143
Жыл бұрын
Holding tanks for waste treatment are relatively new to ships. But fresh water was always in short supply as it had to be distilled from sea water. Hence the "Navy Shower". Get wet. Stop the shower. Soap up and scrub down. Rinse off. Minimize the fresh water use.
@kevinsantascott3688
Жыл бұрын
unless you work in engineering dept. We MAKE the water so used what we needed. I doubt I ever took a "Navy shower" in my 3.5 years on ship.
@JoshuaTootell
Жыл бұрын
Every engineer on my ship certainly took sea showers @@kevinsantascott3688 . I 100% did. Water was scarce on my second ship, and no one was too important to not waste it.
@timjohnun4297
Жыл бұрын
Newer ships use RO units, which are far more efficient than the old vaps. I remember times when we had so much fresh water we were dumping it over the side, rather than shutting the RO units down (They hate being started and stopped for some reason)
@stanislavkostarnov2157
Жыл бұрын
to be honest, I do that at home sometimes because of the small hot water tank in my apartment... I live in the desert though, so water conservation is a big thing too... as for any time I spent at sea (purely civilian) was in rather old boats, so we only ever had salt water showers when under way... the plumbing was rather minimal too, so, no big issues with salt buildup as far as I know...
@DavidSmith-cx8dg
Жыл бұрын
Water , especially fresh , is a valuable resource on ships and many of the limited fittings look familiar . Crews were also larger than those needed on more modern ships . New Jerseys last commission ended at a time when IMO. regulations changed requiring sewage to be treated or stored . We spent a fair time on a couple of older ships installing STPs and garbage compactors and she might not have been upgraded .It must be an awkward job as a museum to decide which heads should be kept functional to serve staff and guests when aboard . Ryan seems to have the ability to make any subject interesting .
@elijahwerner6130
Жыл бұрын
I worked a little while for a plumbing company and was always fascinated by the equipment found in old buildings. Really enjoy videos like this!
@CaptainJerry-
Жыл бұрын
Hi, I enjoy your educational program. I am retired from the sea service (15 years US Navy, 15 years US Merchant marine). The New Jersey is special to me. I grew up in Alameda, CA. In 1968 My Mom took me to the recently re-commissioned BB-62, I was six years old. In 1981 I worked on the Big "J" while at Long Beach, CA NS. In 1983 My little frigate and the Black Dragon steamed from the Pacific to Lebanon aftyer the barracks explosion. We ended up going west around the globe back to Long Beach.
@thomasshoe92
Жыл бұрын
Hell yeah!
@billmoran3812
Жыл бұрын
Many ships use salt water for flushing urinals. I’d be surprised if the Kidd or New Jersey originally used fresh water for flushing urinals.
@dick8193
Жыл бұрын
I was a pipefitter on an Essex class carrier in the mid 1960s. All sanitary plumbing was salt water flushing. The salt water eventually clogged the piping and we flushed it out by connecting it to the firemain.
@georgethomas9505
Жыл бұрын
Before flushing a toilet, you were upright, pants on, door open, then flush with your foot and run.
@mhadley1452
Жыл бұрын
I was a volunteer on the USS Hornet museum from 1998 to around 2004 and I worked on restoring several of the heads on the ship. A lot of times we had to hand make gaskets and other parts to rebuild the original hardware. We salvaged as much as we could from other areas of the ship not open to the public as well as getting some parts from places like the mothball fleet in Suisun Bay. I moved away from the Bay Area and my friend that I worked with on the ship passed away shortly after, but we worked to restored maybe 4 or 5 heads in my time there. This video brings back a lot of memories! I miss working on a museum ship.
@GABABQ2756
Жыл бұрын
We had monitors during water hours when hauling marines. 5 minute showers, get wet, water off, soap down with hair wash, water on, rinse off. Hollywood showers when in port hooked up to water supply.
@Electronzap
Жыл бұрын
Good info. Life is definitely a lot different when you have to conserve water for whatever reason.
@red2001ss
Жыл бұрын
When I first reported on board USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71, they still had the hand held want showers with the button on the side that was always missing. It would hurt your thumb or finger to push it. The solution was to bring a penny with you, or steal your own button off one that had one and keep it to bring with you next time. They eventually put in real showers.
@364pgr
Жыл бұрын
The urinals and toilets are salt water flush. Speaking from a former HT who wished they were fresh water flush. Those who were HT's as well would probably agree.
@johnknapp952
Жыл бұрын
I'm trying to remember if the water lines were marked as Salt Water in some way.
@364pgr
Жыл бұрын
@johnknapp952 I believe it was SW flush. Long time ago.
@GABABQ2756
Жыл бұрын
Flushometers take a beating from salt water. Urine and salt water calcify the piping. Duty HT to engineering head.
@364pgr
Жыл бұрын
@garybaudino2756 So true, and the p traps plumbing leaving the urinal, always clogging due to the SW. I remember it well.
@andrewmortimer3317
Жыл бұрын
I can’t believe I watched a tour of a bathroom and was interested the whole way through 😂
@glennrishton5679
Жыл бұрын
This is the second tour of the head that Ryan has done. The first was an enlisted space, not nearly so cozy.
@rustysquid
Жыл бұрын
I was aboard the USS Sphinx, ARL-24. Our urinals and commodes used salt water intakes and when out at sea, they flushed directly into the ocean. They could be switched to holding tanks when we were in port. Ahh, the intriguing fragrance of salt water and yellow water. UGH!
@stevennelson9504
Жыл бұрын
As I remember the commodes and urinals on Navy ship used salt water. No need to waste fresh water to wash away the waste when you have an unlimited supply of sea water. One interesting feature on the Wainwright CG-28, was a urinal on the weather deck in a small nook near the signal bridge. When I first saw it struck me as strange, but when at sea there is no one to sea you.
@Tuck-Shop
Жыл бұрын
Random sh*t like this is why I love this channel.
@georgethomas9505
Жыл бұрын
Method of use for the urinals, especially in heavy seas, depended if they were mounted fore/aft or port/starboard.
@leftyo9589
Жыл бұрын
springback valves on the sink arent because of the holding tanks. them get pumped overboard , they are there to conserve fresh water. the sinks arent so bad, the shower valves can make it challenging to get clean.
@byronking9573
Жыл бұрын
Back on aircraft carrier USS Constellation (ex-CV-64), we had salt water flush toilets. Water was pumped up straight out of the ocean or harbor, with just a bit of filtration for big solids, and whatever smells came along. When toilets would clog up -- happened rather often -- the repair party's first "tool" was a firehose nozzle. They'd enter the head, suited up in rubber and lugging a firehose behind them, connected to the fire mains at high pressure. Then stick the nozzle right down into the clogged toilet, and let it rip. Usually worked to blow out whatever was down there, into the waste piping. Often as not, there was quite a mess all over the heads (overheads, bulkheads and deck), cleanup of which was the responsibility of whatever group "owned" that space. Ah, the good old days.
@Ylyrra
Жыл бұрын
Most British pub and nightclub venues have similar taps, saves on water costs and reduces the risks of people flooding the sink by clogging the drain and leaving the tap running.
@SkylersRants
Жыл бұрын
I can’t imagine that no one finds these features so unique. And twelve gallons per flush?!? It’s a good thing you’re not a plumber!! :). LOL
@mm3mm3
Жыл бұрын
Yay! Buffalo, NY!
@jimprice1959
Жыл бұрын
I remember the ferry boats on San Francisco had continuous running sea water flushing urinals and toilets that was dumped overboard. I believe WWII Navy ships had the same with troughs used and boards to sit on.
@CAPNMAC82
Жыл бұрын
Water casualty can have many effects. Like the Ship's Baker; who is often last to get fully-rationed water. As bread is wanted at least every other day.
@brutaladd
Жыл бұрын
Something I didn’t think about before watching battleship New Jersey museum and memorum, that the ships systems pass though the birthing spaces, like an armored trunk just kidding out of the wall or an ordnance elevator passing through the middle of the floor.
@timjohnun4297
Жыл бұрын
I was on an Aussie frigate in the Persian gulf, we had omnipures onboard, with 0ne of the vents high up on the radar tower. One day a few of the officers were up on the flag deck and one of them said "Hey, it's spitting with rain". We hadn't seen rain in months, so they all come over to check it out and, you guessed it, it wasn't rain, someone had dumped detergent into the omnipure and it foamed up and was "Raining" from the shitfarm vent 🤣
@J-1410
Жыл бұрын
What is an "Omnipure"?
@Biker_Gremling
Жыл бұрын
If the sea is particularly rough, judging by how close those urinals are I'm guessing that things got very intimate frecuently 😂
@holysirsalad
Жыл бұрын
That would be quite the scene with "visiting dignitaries"! Nothing says diplomacy quite like crossed streams... or someone else's piss all over your leg
@johnwalsh4271
Жыл бұрын
My old DD used salt water for urinals and commodes. The water was drawn off of the fire main loop with reducers to keep the pressure from turning the fixtures into geysers.
@williammclemore5815
Жыл бұрын
The aft head on the Texas is interesting in that to do a #2 you sit across two boards with, I believe sea water, flowing underneath you.
@levijudd3480
Жыл бұрын
Great video Ryan!!!! Loved being able to meet you in person!
@arloallen-dipasquale7481
Жыл бұрын
I was just on the Little Rock a few weeks ago and used that head. Never thought I'd see it in one of Ryan's videos!
@robertf3479
Жыл бұрын
Both ships I served in had hand held, button operated shower nozzles rather than allowing open the spigot for shower water, shut off and soap up then turn on to rinse and turn off again. Push the button for water, directed to where you need it then release. A real pain in the butt to use.
@dick8193
Жыл бұрын
Pretty fancy compared to what I was used to on an Essex class carrier in the mid 60s. I worked in the pipe shop and "saw" it all.
@MoparNewport
Жыл бұрын
1.2 gallons per flush, on average. Youre off by a decimal. This sort of vid to me is fascinating - im a building engineer atop of automotive tech, my job is fixing public access buildings. Seeing how this type of infrastructure works on ships is surprisingly similar to what i see in schools, as an example - auto (timed) flushers for elementary schools vs manual/photo eye flushers for high schools.
@danielcoburn8635
Жыл бұрын
I been thinking lately; I have heard during Vietnam, some ships would get the fresh water supply sabotaged with machine oil by onboard sailors so the ship couldn't go to "Yankee Station". I would like to learn more about this and if the NJ had to guard it's water supply?
@matthewedwards5146
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to Buffalo. Stop by the Swannie House on the Buffalo River if you get a chance. That is the bar where the lift bridge operators were hanging out when they forgot to raise the bridge for the SS Tewksbury.
@bobsmythe9106
Жыл бұрын
As far as features on other ships a stand out to me is the galley table size and lip on the gato class subs. The amount of space given to each person was so minimal.
@CooperJohnson01
Жыл бұрын
Most random start to a video, I’m dead thank you for making my morning
@stevedoe1630
Жыл бұрын
Old school naval showers… one valve for salt water, one water for steam to heat the SW via direct contact. And yes, if there is SW disruption during a shower, only steam *_is_* coming out. 😱
@majackson14
Жыл бұрын
The old (royal navy) ships I served on. No holding tanks, waste went straight overboard. Spring loaded taps . Urinals and bogs spring loaded salt water flushed from the fireman.🤟
@alberthofmann420
Жыл бұрын
First class audio on this one.
@No_Name_Lucas
Жыл бұрын
When it comes to the Forward Male Officers head, the other commodes do have the same sort of push to flush as the urinals. Those are original as well and have a very high flushing capacity. The one he showed was a newer updated one. Still very cool nonetheless!
@oceanmariner
Жыл бұрын
Ships that don't have holding tanks for grey water also have spring loaded valves to save fresh water. Thru 1971 while in the USN, none of the ships I was on or knew of had holding tanks for grey or black water, it all went overboard. I doubt the heads or urinals are from WWII. WWII ships I was on had what looked like aluminum heads and urinals that may not have been original. One Fletcher class destroyer I was on that was taken out of mothballs to sell to Turkey in 1967 was never modernized. In the enlisted heads, the urinal was a long trough as were the toilets with just wood, 2 piece seats over the trough without dividers. I never saw porcelain fixtures on ships that hadn't been heavily modernized or built after WWII.
@charlesjohnson4933
Жыл бұрын
Ryan - I would be interested in the galley equipment and how food preparation has changed.
@No_Name_Lucas
Жыл бұрын
Most of the galley equipment on the USS Little Rock is unchanged from its time in service. Almost everything is how it was, apart from the refrigerators and freezers we still use.
@ravenbarsrepairs5594
Жыл бұрын
Honestly, the likely to fail and need modernization parts are the more behind the scenes bits especial when connected to shore water.
@brianc3481
Жыл бұрын
I kind of want to see how you guys have done the modernization and also I am curious if there is a navy ship plumbing code or service protocals. It would be cool to see how they handle vent stacks and pressurizing the water etc. Maybe tools or methods of how they put it all together. I am curious as well with the holding tanks and how all of this was designed to be used in adverse conditions.
@onkelfabs6408
Жыл бұрын
Really Ryan?! 12 Gallons per flush? Here we use 12 liters per flush.
@bobroberts2371
Жыл бұрын
More like 1.2 G per flush.
@jehoiakimelidoronila5450
Жыл бұрын
For a ship that size, the plumbing is very conservative when it comes to water
@mrdan2898
Жыл бұрын
I forgot how much I HATE spring closed faucets!
@garybachelder8306
Жыл бұрын
When ya gotta go, you gotta go. And if you don't go when you gotta go, when you go to go you'll find you've already gone.
@bear_82
Жыл бұрын
given the topic, I laughed at the first ad, just as the video began, for Kohler . . .
@filanfyretracker
Жыл бұрын
springback valves are common at camp ground bath houses too. One thing I wonder what goes into modernizing a ship like NJ for how it is now? That is does it still have to pump out or is it somehow hard tied into the Camden sewer system.
@edwardrhoades6957
Жыл бұрын
I think what Ryan's referring to as modern is the 1982 recommission.
@garywayne6083
Жыл бұрын
Its pretty obvious why the Destroyer Kennedy has a urinal outside on one of the upper decks lol
@dennisyardn1ten238
Жыл бұрын
Saw it last week when also seeing USS Massachusetts. Figured someone had topside duty for long periods and directed the installation.
@KILLKING110
Жыл бұрын
it would be interesting to see museum ships put in modern plumbing that's purposely designed to look old so the ship can keep the old look without sinking the ship
@jasonwarner1850
Жыл бұрын
Submarine bathrooms are the best. 😂
@diytwoincollege7079
4 ай бұрын
The head looks larger than I thought it would be. I was expecting a closet
@Train115
Жыл бұрын
USS Massachusetts' public bathrooms are modernized, I wonder what they looked like in WWII. I also wonder what USS Salem's look like
@stephenbritton9297
Жыл бұрын
few things are nastier than taking a shower in heavy seas and the soapy waste water from the guy in the next shower is sloshing over into yours...
@Greenketch1
Жыл бұрын
You can't quite show it on your video, But, The drains are often significantly different. If a ship is underway there is often rocking and rolling going on. Any pipe the is running crosswise the vessel is subject to little geysers as the water rushes back and forth depending on which direction is downhill. There were several methods that were attempted but all had problems and sometimes a geyser in the appliance your using is "not quite so good." This usually ended with certain heads being secured until further notice.
@KennyRedSocks
Жыл бұрын
Oh no, Ryan, you just shoved your hand into your pocket after working the urinal handle.
@dankono4729
Жыл бұрын
Would these heads be secured during heavy storms to keep the sewage from flooding the decks? That is what we used to have to do on the tugboat I crewed on... you went over the side... care
@sergeykluchnikov4408
Жыл бұрын
Returning knobs on a sink sounds like a good idea, but how do you mix water? It will take both your hands to turn them both simultaneously and when you drop them, water just stops. It would make more sense to premix it with another hidden valve permanently and use only one knob for turning it on.
@SeanBZA
Жыл бұрын
Normally the hot water comes via a temperature control valve, so it is a choice of cold water or 40C water, not the near boiling water from the hot section of the condenser, that is circulated through a loop of insulated pipe, for both heat and hot water. Same for the showers, getting the hot water from that same regulated valve. Likely converted for a museum to have all water be fresh water, and run into a holding tank, with the tank then also having a float switch and a mulching pump to lift the effluent up high enough to flow out a flexible pipe to the municipal sewer system. You can bet they all have warning signs in each toilet, plus a bin, saying not to flush anything other than toilet paper and poop down, and not to flush any wipes or sanitary products at all. Those pumps are a pain to repair when they have been clogged with the remains of sanitary pads or wipes. Also there will be a second float switch, connected to a shut off valve for the main water flow, just in case there is a leak or the pump jams, so as to keep the tank from flooding the ship. That will also trigger an alarm hopefully.
@kennethflusche7900
Жыл бұрын
When shaving step one is put the stopper in the sink (or a sock) fill sink with water.
@welltell.
Жыл бұрын
Yea i got one thing, where does all of the trash go to on a battleship? Like you got kitchens and i know from experience they produce a lot of waste. Where does that all go to? Does the crew throw it over board or is it compacted into small blocks and stored somewhere? Or do they burn it?
@BattleshipNewJersey
Жыл бұрын
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@welltell.
Жыл бұрын
Okay I guess that video answered all my questions. Lol
@hondaman4423
Жыл бұрын
I didnt know there was waste water holding tanks. Especially gray water waste.
@RobertWilliams-mk8pl
Жыл бұрын
Do they keep a lower level of water in the toilets for rough seas?🙃
@roderickcampbell2105
Жыл бұрын
Well, you can hang a towel and still grab on to the handle. I bet the towel would not be very dry though.
@tonyricketts5569
Жыл бұрын
Go visit the Alabama. The facilities were rather primitive when I visited.
@MrJamesBanana
Жыл бұрын
Regarding the old plumbing, would it be possible to reline the old pipes? I know it is done a lot in Europe on old cast iron pipes, don't know if it is ever done in the US. The process is basically to cut the pipes in strategic locations and blow in a sleeve impregnated with epoxy resin. Once it has hardened, you basically have a new plastic pipe inside of the old pipe. To get a good result, it should be done before they are completely broken, you cant reline a pipe where there are big cracks etc.
@SeanBZA
Жыл бұрын
Easier to simply cut the old pipe out, then replace with plastic. After all, on a ship you can generally get to all of the pipes, not like they are buried with a 400 year old building over them, like in Europe. However the most common thing is to replace old ceramic pipes with a HDPE one, using a hydraulic head that cracks the old pipe, ceramic or cast iron, and pulls a new line into place in the cavity, and then you drill down to connect the outfalls to it. The lining method is normally reserved for larger pipes, or where you cannot put the machinery in, as you have to flow the lining in, then fill with water, and heat it to set the thermoplastic liner to be rigid. Expensive to do, unlike the hydraulic cracker.
@MrJamesBanana
Жыл бұрын
@@SeanBZA Yeah, I understand it would be easier to just replace pipes on a ship, but it is a museum piece after all. Relining would keep the appearance of an old component, while keeping it working like a new one.
@SeanBZA
Жыл бұрын
@@MrJamesBanana Plastic and a coat of paint looks remarkably the same though. Plus does not involve welding, which is an issue with the tons of very flammable paint used there.
@TheRealGraylocke
Жыл бұрын
So, not a Navy vet, but... wouldn't the urinals and commodes use salt water instead of fresh water to flush?
@chuck1352
Жыл бұрын
i think they used salt water for flushing toilets and urinals back in my day after vietnan
@dryroasted5599
Жыл бұрын
3:25 Probably unintentional. Warm water causes minerals to precipitate out and deposit on the inside of pipes. Don't know if that applies to shipboard fresh water piping.
@jagwrenchstudios1065
5 ай бұрын
Who inspects the plumbing on the Iowa class battleship all the plumbing and drainage pipes
@caminojohn3240
Жыл бұрын
Wonder how much grey water from the sink and shower would be recycled thru to the urinal / toilet? I don't they would do that since you have finite space on the ship.
@SeanBZA
Жыл бұрын
None, salt water flush for the heads and urinals, all going to the holding tank, and then discharged when outside port. Shower and sink to the tanks with no recycling. Museum all now fresh water instead, and then holding tank pumped to city sewer system.
@caminojohn3240
Жыл бұрын
@@SeanBZA Thanks. I thought salt water would quickly corroded metal pipes. Seems to me that would be a maintenance headache not unless the flush some descaler thru the system.
@SeanBZA
Жыл бұрын
@@caminojohn3240 Cast steel and thick steel pipes, so corrosion is not too much of an issue. Plus all that pipe would be replaced as a matter of course during any yard work, as part of any maintenance activity, put there into the plan for drydocking. Remember only an issue on museum ships where they do not have the big spigot of money to do these sort of things. No descalers needed, just a regular flow so you do not have stagnating water. After all sea water is not like ground water in that it can still dissolve a lot more, and the only deposit it leaves is soluble salt, not limestone.
@lsdzheeusi
Жыл бұрын
We know that Ryan is 1 Curator high, can we talk about why the sinks, urinals, and commodes are so low?
@DrHenry1987
Жыл бұрын
Who made the call for how meals were to be served in rough seas (for officers and seamen)? Would you hand the President a sandwich versus a fancy plate?
@buzzfreedom5290
Жыл бұрын
How about the pendant shower heads? I see the officer's head has the Hollywood showers!
@billperley9157
Жыл бұрын
Officers may have had Hollywood showers, but on Independence, temp & press fluctuated so often and so violently, I was sfraid too use anything but straight cold. That meant some pretty brief showers.
@kennethwise7108
Жыл бұрын
Our shower heads had buttons on the shower head for saving water
@stargazer7644
Жыл бұрын
What if every faucet on the ship is leaking like crazy?
@shelleyking8450
Жыл бұрын
The Little Rock is docked next to The Sullivans. How is the destroyer doing?
@No_Name_Lucas
Жыл бұрын
The destroyer is alright. The superstructure is mostly open. However almost all spaces below the quarterdeck are still under repair and maintenance. Overall, it’s still floating.
@zxggwrt
Жыл бұрын
The hot water side is clogged with minerals. From age.
@asn413
Жыл бұрын
ah heads... the original IP address.
@happykillmore349
Жыл бұрын
Lmao, no toilet uses 12 gallons... Ours uses 1.1...
@micahrogers4928
Жыл бұрын
Hello all
@deserteagle4151
Жыл бұрын
Waste disposal. Holding tanks only? Or overbord?
@364pgr
Жыл бұрын
Did the ship have CHT holding tanks towards the end of her career?
@BattleshipNewJersey
Жыл бұрын
Yes
@bobroberts2371
Жыл бұрын
512 " .. .flush - o -meter " Some future historian is going to spend months researching where this term came from. . .
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