Steamship boilers

Ralph_4

Todd Combustion supplied oil burners for around 80% of the conventional fleet, you might want to try their web site or contact them or contact B&W.

Unknown

Looking for antique burner parts

I went to visit the ship that I served on during Jimmy Carter's Iran Hostage crisis, just to give you a timeframe. We had nothing to do with Iran, we were in the Caribbean.

She is in Baltimore, which is GORGEOUS, by the way, and is a museum. Paul Cora is the curator, and he personally took five of us through the ship, and opened every padlock on the ship for us. I went with my wife, Ken and Jaye Secor, and Frank Wilsey.

The restoration is coming along beautifully, but is ongoing. As Paul said, "We don't have a deck force." Volunteers are painting her, now.

The interior is faithful to early 1980s, when there was only one 5" gun (were 4 5"/3" guns).

ANYWAYS,

She has two 3100 HP Babcock/Wilcox boilers, and Paul would like to find three of these oil burners (pictured in Paul's hand).

Any contact persons or info about locating three or four of these beauties from 1937 would be great.

You can e-mail me at nmurdough at slantfin dot com, or call me 800 873 4346. I'd like to help find these.

Noel

Christian Egli

Steamships, steam everywhere

Lucky you getting a behind the scene tour. I visited that ship while at Wetstock Baltimore. Fascinating.

I'll keep your problem in mind, just in case.

Steamhead (in transit)

It was great seeing you all again

hope you'll be back soon!

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ed wallace

ships boiler

get in touch with the Quincy ship yard museum in Quincy ma. the have the retired destoyer the USS Salem maybe they can help you phone 617-479-7900

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Unknown

Thanks, Ed

I'll call them.

Noel

Bruce M.

USS Taney Information

Noel, here is a link to information about the Taney that you may find interesting. Contact the Coast Guard historian and ask for copies of the ship's boiler specifications so that the make of burner can be determined. The coast guard may have spares in their supply system that they can donate to a 501C non-profit organization.

http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/Taney_WPG37_Photos.html

Ken_8

I suspect,

Noel wrote most of those specs. (;-o)

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Unknown

not really

I sailed on her in 1979-1980, but not in the boiler room.

Thanks for the info.

Noel

Unknown

Meet Paul Cora, from the picture.

This is in the current issue of WW II History magazine, and Paul wrote the Ordnance article. Here's the links, and the beginning of the piece.

http://wwiihistorymagazine.com/current-issue.html

Noel

July 2005

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Taney compiled an impressive record during war and peace.
By Paul B. Cora

Built in the mid-1930s as one of the famed Treasury class of large U.S. Coast Guard cutters, USCGC Taney had a distinguished career spanning five decades of continuous service. Taney’s remarkable history includes a significant combat record during World War II which placed the ship in harm’s way from the beginning of the Pacific War in 1941 through Japan’s surrender in 1945, with stints of convoy escort duty in the Atlantic along the way. Now preserved as a museum in Baltimore, Md., visitors to the historic vessel can gain a poignant appreciation for the actions and efforts of Coast Guardsmen in World War II while exploring one of the ships they took into battle.

When commissioned, the seven Treasury Class cutters were the largest and most capable ships in U.S. Coast Guard service, a distinction which Taney and her sister ships retained until the 1960s. They were built in the midst of the Great Depression at three U.S. Navy shipyards and benefited from exemplary workmanship, which partly accounted for their lengthy active careers. At 327 feet long with a beam of 41 feet and originally displacing 2,000 tons, they were steam-turbine driven, single-rudder, twin-screw vessels with stout hulls made from half-inch thick riveted steel plates.

Designed for peacetime missions of law enforcement, search and rescue, and maritime patrol, the Treasury Class cutters had a top speed of 20 knots and original armament consisting of two 5-inch deck guns and two 3-pounder saluting guns. As would be proved time and again, especially during World War II, the amazing adaptability of their basic design gave the “327s” an unsurpassed ability to meet changing roles and daunting challenges.

Taney’s keel was laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on May 1, 1935. Built alongside three of her sister ships, Campbell, Duane, and Ingham, the new cutter was christened Roger B. Taney on June 3, 1936 (the name was shortened to simply Taney in 1940), for the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court at the time of the famous Civil War era Dred Scott Decision. After commissioning that October, the ship transited the Panama Canal and arrived at her first duty station, Honolulu, Hawaii, the following January. Taney was destined to be known as “The Queen of the Pacific.” Most of her operational career would be in that ocean. In the years immediately before the outbreak of World War II, the cutter carried out search and rescue duties, chased opium smugglers off Hawaii, and supported American interests in the Line Islands along the Equator.

By 1940, the possibility of war sparked U.S. Navy interest in the Treasury Class cutters, and as a result, Taney and her sister ships received substantial armament upgrades, giving them antiaircraft and anti-submarine capabilities. During two successive refits in 1940 and 1941, Taney received a battery of .50-caliber antiaircraft guns, additional .50-caliber machine gun mounts, sonar equipment, stern depth charge racks, and depth charge throwing Y-guns. In July 1941, the 327s were transferred from the Treasury Department to the Navy in expectation of war, though they retained their Coast Guard crews. While Taney’s sister ships joined U.S. Navy units in North Atlantic patrols, “The Queen of the Pacific,” now resplendent in a coat of Navy gray paint and officially known as the USS Taney CG, began operations out of Honolulu as a unit of Destroyer Division 80, Inshore Patrol Force. If war broke out, the cutter’s primary duty would be anti-submarine patrol off the mouth of Pearl Harbor.

The morning of December 7, 1941, found Taney tied up at her home berth of Pier 6 near Honolulu’s Aloha Tower. The first inklings of what was in store came shortly before 7 am when operators on watch in the cutter’s radio room copied an unusual message from another unit of Destroyer Division 80: the USS Ward reporting that it had attacked and sunk an enemy submarine in the approaches to Pearl Harbor. Sensing from the message a dramatic turn of events, the officer of the deck (OOD) on duty that morning immediately recalled all officers from shore and had the crew stow the ship’s deck awnings, remove gun covers, and bring up ammunition from the magazine.

After clearing the ship for action, the Coast Guardsmen waited to see what, if anything, would happen next. Suddenly, around 8 am, the sky to the northwest came alive with antiaircraft bursts as Navy ships commenced a frantic defense of Pearl Harbor some eight miles away. Commander Louis B. Olson, USCG, Taney’s captain, gave the order to sound general quarters and then called for steam in preparation for getting underway. Though some of the ship’s officers had not yet made it back aboard, Olson later reported that the ship’s “anti-aircraft battery as well as all other guns were ready to fire with their full crew and three officers at their stations within four minutes.”

As the battle raged, the sky over the fleet anchorage turned black from .......

http://wwiihistorymagazine.com/2005/july/col-ordnance.html

Ken D.

Steamship

I wonder if the US Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Cove NY (Long Island) could be of any assistance, or possibly the US Naval Academy.

Scott Denny

Historic note

Here's something I found on the Taney.
"At Pearl Harbor, the USCGC TANEY engaged Japanese aircraft and is the only surviving warship from the attack still afloat."

Ranger

Curtis Bay

Mabie try the yardbirds right there at Curtis Bay?I think she was next to us in the yard in the fall of '82.Unfortunately thay scrap (or parts are taken home for sovenir's,I got some 8v-71 pisions that made cool shop ash trays although I really wanted Fairbank's) anything thay can walk outta there with.Or try fredsplace.org (where all us ol'Coastie's hang out on the web) and post something on the Taney site(Reunion hall).Mabie some ol'retired Master Chief has somethin' cruzin' around his basement?I dig them ol' 311' and 327's.(My dad served on the Absecon).

Unknown

Ranger

She spent this winter at the yard in Curtis Bay. Notice how pretty her hull is? She's in GREAT shape!

Paul has scrubbed the area for these parts, I'm just trying to widen the search with him.

These are all great leads, I'm going to follow up on them.

Noel

Jim_47

Maritime Schools

guys, There is a wethead here on the wall that is attending New York Maritime Academy. 2nd Class Cadet Matthew Foote.
His Email is Footeman11@aol.com and I will give him a ring to see if he is lurking about and can be of some assistance as well.

Jim_47

Steamship boilers

To all of you out there, you may remember me from NAOHSM back in 2001. I won the Dave Nielson Scholarship. Since then, I've taken my training from NEFI and various local classes and seminars to New York Maritime College. Seeing boilers on a much larger scale has helped me understand the powers of steam. I've spent 120 days at sea, exploring the Alantic and Europe. Steam ships are becoming outdated by Diesel (in the merchant marine field) but in naval areas they keep the steam but are switching to nuclear power. As to the question of where to find those specific burners, I believe trying to see ship yards, dry docks, military surplus places would be where to look. Those burners do show the age of the ship, the ones on my ship are much bigger but of the same style.

JERRY G

I SERVED ON A FLETCHER CLASS DESTROYER IN THE '60s.THEY WERE OUTFITTED WITH THE BABCOCK-WILCOX BOILERS AND THE OIL BURNERS YOU ARE SHOWING.THEY WERE USED WITH BUNKER "C" OR #6 OIL.IF YOU FIND THAT ANY OF THESE ARE LEFT IN MOTHBALL YOU MAY BE ABLE TO FIND WHEN THEY WILL SCRAP THEM AND CAN BID ON THE PARTS.

Unknown

Thanks

More leads.

Thanks again, Noel

tim smith

old steam boiler burner

Maybe try Bremerton naval ship yard in Washington, they have quite a few old mothballed ships there and still do quite a bit of work on them? never know.