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!