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Originally Posted by maximusslade
Sailors eating and sleeping in comfort? Have you ever spent the night on a warship? I tell you the only thing the Navy has to do is give you 3 squares and a rack to sleep in. Granted you SWO daddies may have a bit more space to work with, but I doubt they are too much more comfortable than a submarine rack. Hell, I know guys on carriers that have to sleep RIGHT UNDER THE FLIGHT DECK. That is all I am going to say about that.
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Yeah, I've managed to tour a few ships in my day, even slept aboard....
WWII sailors slept in racks sometimes 5 high... and those were the lucky ones enough to get a rack. The others had to string their hammocks on hooks. If you ever get to see an Iowa class BB, go to the mess decks and look for the hooks in the overhead. I don't recommend those conditions to keep sailors alert or happy.
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Originally Posted by maximusslade
It would make for long shafts, but there you go.....
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Due to the size of barbetts and the location you put them in, I don't see any "straight shots" you could put the shafts in unless you put them very far aft and then that would require very long main steam piping to the main engines.
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Originally Posted by maximusslade
Tanks... tanks are everywhere, stuck in nooks and crannies in engine rooms and everywhere else on ships. Reserve Feed Tanks for the steam generators would be in the engine rooms of course, and the size of the tanks would depend on space available and the water making capability of your plant, and etc. "Contaminated water holding tanks" as you call them would be inside the reactor compartments where they should be. I like to call them Discharge Storage Tanks. But I can tell you that submarines at least do not discharge all that much contaminated water out of a running plant. And yes, at sea, you can discharge your contaminated water overboard alllllll you want so long as you are outside of 12 miles.
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To my knowledge, the CHT tanks on "modern" BBs are very far outboard, outside the armor belt. They're not near engineering.