Originally posted by Dreadnought
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The Eliason doors would have required enlarging the bottom of the trunk extensively, relocate piping and (worst of all) relocate reach rod handwheels to the main injection scoops. Also, those doors only allow one man at a time to enter because of blockage of the ladderway.
So I designed a larger quick acting door cut down from a standard size door that would fit without enlarging the trunk and allow all personnel into the trunk leaving the last man to merely close the door.
My design was adopted by NAVSEA but then the BB's were ordered out of service.
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