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Snorkels on USN subs built in the early '60's?

I thought the last non-nuclear powered subs were retired before 1970 but now it appears that the USN was still operating some many years later?

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On Sat, 5/7/16, xxxxxx@comcast.net <xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Battle damage
 To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Saturday, May 7, 2016, 1:31 PM

 Hello
 shadow,

 During my time in the USN I had the
 fun experience of
 tracing wiring
 on submarines, four of which I served as
 a member of the crew, all of them
 built in the early 1960s
 after at
 least a decade or three in service. There were
 a lot of dead end cables had to be
 sorted through to find
 the cable
 you where looking. Then there are the cables
 that ran along the snorkel exhaust
 manifold that melted
 the cable
 blocking the cable run and having to route
  a whole new cable that in theory
 was changed is the
 boat's
 wiring guide. We had to use a different cable since
 the original was no longer made.

 Tom R

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 Subject: [TML] Battle damage

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 Just remembered a
 real world construction "oops" that could make
 things interesting for the PCs.

 They've take
 some damage from a fight aboard their new-to-them ship.
 The engineer goes to repair a spot where some
 shots hit a major cable
 run. He stares at
 what he finds and gets on the comm.

 "Cap? I think I just found out why
 we got such as good deal on this
 ship..."

 "I don't like the sound of that
 at all. What's up?"

 "I'm gonna need everyone who can
 run a circuit tracer to help on this
 job.
 Y'know how the wires are supposed to be color coded and

 labelled?"

 The captain gets a sinking feeling.
 "What's wrong?"

 "I removed the wall panel. Needed to
 do that to patch the holes
 anyway. And
 I'm staring at a mess of wires. Oh, they're bundled

 nicely, where they haven't been mangled
 by the shots that hit the
 panel. and they
 are all the same shade of red with not a label in
 sight..."

 "All hands, this is  the Captain.
 anybody that can run a circuit
 tracer
 report to the Engineer in ...."

 Like I said, real
 world incident. Only they found out during the
 acceptance trials for a new US Navy ship.

 Opened a panel and
 saw a sea of red. With modern automated
 construction setups you've got wire laying
 giozmos. Faster than
 having people snake
 all the cables around. and the contractor had
 gotten a deal of red wire.

 Worse, somehow the
 requirement for color-coding either wasn't in the
 contract or wasn't in the one the
 subcontractor had with the builder.

 There was a long, drawn out fight over
 who exactly was going to pay
 to re-wire the
 entire ship.

 This may be merely annoying to the PCs if
 it was hijackers. If its
 battle damage or
 there are pirates bearing down on them it's
 practically a disaster.

 You'll have to
 have a minimum of 3, more likely 4 people working on
 the damaged run. Because you'll need to
 send a signal down each and
 every broken
 wire  and have somebody find where it's coming out.
 Then
 you label the broken end of that wire.
 When you start going thru the
 same thing
 with the wires on the other side of the break, you can
 start joining them up as you mind the
 "matching" wire.

 This can take *hours*. And only so many
 people can be working at the
 site of the
 break.

 --
 Leonard Erickson (aka
 shadow)
 shadow at shadowgard dot com

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