Hey! Your info got lost, so sorry about the lag. You can e-mail me at my work address for now. Mom has an e-mail that I can send pictures and stuff. Dad's address is Delman Macpherson, 2592 Palmetto Hall Blvd., Mount Pleasant, SC 29466-8070. Phone (843)856-4855
Hey Jim & Carl,
Just saw your item here and wanted to assure you there were two escalaters for sure. I used to work on them as far back as 62 with Patric Harrigan, and a few others. They were always broke down. The pilots used them a lot. I was in 'A' division working out of the elevator crew. I spent most of my time in the after steering room. Lots of stories from that old ship. I am a plankowner and left the ship in 1964 from Okinawa just before the deployment to the coast of vietnam.
Hey Bob, I was in the power shop till 64 near end of cruise. My station for sea and anchor and GQ, collsion all that stuff was starboard after steering. Do you remember when we had to replace one of the bearings in the motor down there. It was big job and we were at sea.
I don't remember ur name. Do u remember Rio and the Brazil carrier incident. Met the OOD on the bridge who i talked to on SP phone that sunday. He says he hated after steering drills, fraid wed mess up. I told him, never fear we knew what we were doing.
Wanted to let you know that the escalators are still there, I just got off the Hawk in 2000 and the forward one worked at sea and I do not think the aft one did anymore. But that was the way I got to the mess decks from my shop.
CTR1(SW) Jackson Plant
I worked in the A&O electrical shop in the early 80's, and the esclators were some of the equipment we maintained. As I recall they worked well going up but not going down. Too many people running down the escalator with gear on would cause the limit switches to trip...
I remember the escalators well. I don't recall any problems with them except for one time.....we had a power outage and I was stuck on it for over two hours!
