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SaltiDawg
Rickover Joined: 03 Jan 2016 Location: Rockville, MD Status: Offline Points: 2865 |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2017 at 7:45pm |
Did some more homework, and I can not find a single reference to SPGB anywhere. However, on my first Nuke, the CO insisted that EOOWs had to qualify fully at all subordinate watch stations. When I had my EOOW Final Board I was not left with a bunch of oolies to look up.
Lt. Bell asked me to name the three aft-facing "panels" in Maneuvering. I gave the stock answer, he signed me off, and told me to check on the nameplates. I did. Had Capt. White later asked me that question I would have answered to include SPGB. (He asked me no questions, but rather told me he was proud of me and gave me a talk on responsibility.) I'm quite sure he gave me the same talk when I qualified OOD and also in Submarines. Edited by SaltiDawg - 24 Jul 2017 at 9:41am |
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SaltiDawg
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No confusion - I may well be mistaken, however.
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Dantini
Rickover Joined: 15 Jan 2016 Location: Washington Status: Offline Points: 568 |
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No problem Dr. Stan,. My memory is fading fast too.
Saltidawg; the panels are the EPCP - Electric Plant Control Panel. RPCP - Reactor Plant Control Panel, and the SPCP- Steam Plant Control Panel. You may be confusing the SPCP with SGWLCP (Squiggle) the Steam Generator Water Level Control Panel which was located in AMR #2 upper level.
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SaltiDawg
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I also failed the location part. !@#$%&
All of us have referred to the SPGP, RPCP, and EPCP. Actually it was the SPGB, was it not? |
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Dr. Stan
Rickover Joined: 04 Jan 2016 Location: Sevierville, TN Status: Offline Points: 7455 |
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Well, Dan, I have not seen or even thought much about an RPCP in 49 years so my memory has faded somewhat. Further, I was sitting at the RPCP at S1W when I heard the news about the Thresher, so when I qualified on the Edison toward the end of 1963 the procedures may have been changed. However, the MS switches would likely not have been relocated; so, apparently, I have just forgotten about them. However, I do remember some switches like the MCP, MCV and, in particular, the In-Hold-Out switch. So, even though my memory is like Swiss cheese (i.e., full of holes) some traces do remain. But, sadly, I failed your MS switch test. |
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.~Abe Lincoln
SS-393, SSBN-610(B), SSBN-624(G), SSN-591 USSVI Life Member; Holland Club; Plank Owner, Smoky Mtn. Base |
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Sewer Pipe Snipe
BBS Supporter Joined: 04 Jan 2016 Location: Albany, GA Status: Offline Points: 5723 |
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You mean I was right and only thought I was wrong? This getting old just isn't that much fun. Forgetting stuff from 45 years ago shows my mind is slipping.
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Walt,
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Dantini
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Dr. Stan let me test your memory: As an RO on the 610 when you had a scram, didn't you first shift the MCPs from fast to slow (if they were running in fast) and then shut MS 1 & 2? Who else besides the RO would have shut those valves? That was before Thresher went down. After that, MS 1 & 2 were not shut as a matter of fact depending upon the cause of the scram, and a possible rapid restart of the Reactor was commenced with an emergency high power startup rate allowed.
Sewer pipe - that would be the 637 not the 627 class
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Dr. Stan
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Qualified as RO on 610 in 1963 but I can't recall any Main Steam valve switches or indicator lights on the RPCP. There were switches/lights for MC valves, etc., but MS valves I don't recall. Doesn't mean they weren't there but . . .?
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.~Abe Lincoln
SS-393, SSBN-610(B), SSBN-624(G), SSN-591 USSVI Life Member; Holland Club; Plank Owner, Smoky Mtn. Base |
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Sewer Pipe Snipe
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Funny those valves had some big ass springs on them, that made opening them a task indeed. Like I said 627 class.
Edited by Sewer Pipe Snipe - 22 Jul 2017 at 4:09am |
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Walt,
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SaltiDawg
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Reading the Thresher report and analysis threads, seems little doubt that MS-1&2 had a AUTO position at the time of Thresher'ss loss, likely to prevent a cold water acident. At some point post-Thresher NR disabled or removed the AUTO function so as to allow a quicker recovery followin a Scram.
I can not find definitively whether was in Open or Auto at the time of her loss. I did not get to my first S5W boat until 3 years after Thresher. Again, thanks for help. My bad about SPCP. |
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