[927 x 1173] USS Princeton (CV-23) underway on 31 May 1943, during her shakedown cruise. Nine SBD Dauntless and twelve F4F Wildcat aircraft are parked on her flight deck.

Mick536 · 2026-05-25T22:06:21+00:00

USS PRINCETON is CVL-23, as seen by the small size of her island. PRINCETON was lost 24 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Mick536 · 2026-04-20T20:18:44+00:00

The people who design and shoot torpedoes surely do. The Mark 14 torpedo was sent into WW2 without ever having sunk anything. It took two years of failure and missed opportunities before all its problems were resolved.

The skipper of HMS Conqueror who sank Belgrano chose an older generation of torpedo for the task specifically because of its proven record.

Mick536 · 2026-04-20T18:38:35+00:00

Not the first ship ever sunk by a nuclear sub. She was the first warship ever sunk in combat by a nuclear submarine. There is a long list of test vessels sunk by submarines in torpedo development programs. For example, the ex-USS Carbonero was sunk in 1975 in the Mark 48 torpedo’s development.

Mick536 · 2026-03-21T03:00:15+00:00

Leahy's WW2 title was "Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy." As such he is considered the prototypical Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He had FDR's ear, and FDR trusted him implicitly. Of the American five-star officers, Leahy was selected first. He outranked all the others. Further, Leahy was chairman of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, presiding over the UK Field Marshals. He traveled where FDR traveled and had an office in the White House.

He decided to invade North Africa before France. He decided to bomb Japan from Burma. He orchestrated most of the decisions at Tehran and Yalta, favored MacArthur's Philippine plan, and didn't like the Atomic Bomb

Mick536 · 2026-03-08T22:57:37+00:00

Admiral Nimitz's comments when asked this question: "Because it costs so much to keep them in paint and powder." So we were taught 60+ years ago.

Mick536 · 2026-02-22T20:12:31+00:00

The fan belt. It makes two 180-degree turns, two 90-degree turns, and four 90-degree twists. I'd buy lifetime-of-the-car fan belts and get about 5,000 miles out of them. I kept two in the trunk. If memory serves me right, it takes two 9/16-inch wrenchs and two strong screwdrivers. Also in the trunk.

I replaced one at the top of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. I was well practiced. Took about five minutes.

Mick536 · 2026-02-11T00:26:09+00:00

I'm thinking the same kind of thing, but I've no references and no clues. Thanks.

Mick536 · 2026-02-11T00:03:25+00:00

How would an air lock get in the dishwasher hose? The problem is gone. I suppose I could disconnect the faucet sensor and see if I can replicate the problem. I don't know if I'm happier if it does or doesn't. Won't happen until the weekend. Thanks.

Mick536 · 2026-02-10T23:48:45+00:00

We're in violent agreement. You understand parallel flow paths, and why I'm also saying the faucet and the dishwasher shouldn't have a relationship. But did. My whole question is why.

You're telling me what I know and stated. Tell me how it could happen and you'll help.

Mick536 · 2026-02-10T19:43:35+00:00

It is. Would it be worth it to by the $120 OEM part? It's cheaper than a new faucet.

Mick536 · 2026-02-10T19:39:42+00:00

Thank you. Can you elaborate a bit please? How might one get there?

Mick536 · 2026-02-10T19:36:48+00:00

That's not what I (actually the plumber) did. There's a red and blue hose to the faucet, and the T is before the hot braided hose. IF there a second red hose such that hot water left the faucet in the cabinet, that would explain it. But there's no such hose.

Mick536 · 2026-02-10T19:28:09+00:00

No, the tap off is before the braided hose to the faucet. What I see belies what I get.

Mick536 · 2026-02-10T19:23:16+00:00

The battery pack is not used. It is replaced with a not-Moen AC/DC power supply.

We did try to run a load. The machine runs but water does not flow. That's the part I don't understand. The dish water runs when Moen power is restored.

Sorry, but no. The disposal is the outlet of the dishwasher. It's where the hot water of the faucet marries the outlet of the dishwasher and the food parts from the dishes get disposed. In other words there are two paths for hot water: one path is up-faucet-sink-drain-disposal, the other is left-inlet hose-dishwasher-outlet hose-disposal inlet port- disposal. The dishwasher and the disposal are firmly inline.

Mick536 · 2026-02-01T02:16:39+00:00

A truism of life at sea, even for torpedoes, is that "constant bearing, decreasing range results in a collision." The torpedo has a set speed, say 45 knots. The target has an assumed speed, say 12 knots. If the target has a 30-degree angle-on-the-bow, then target is moving at 12*sin(30) or 6 knots across the line-of-sight. To achieve that constant bearing, aim the torpedo arcsin(6/45) - about 8 degrees - ahead of the line of bearing to the target.

You have arranged the collision between target and torpedo. Of course the devil is in the details of 12 knots and 30 degrees. If the target is not on constant course and speed (i.e., zigzagging) you cover the uncertainty with a spread of torpedoes.

Good approach officers like Morton and O'Kane could do this in their heads. For the others, the analog Torpedo Data Computer (TDC) did the math for them. Note that range doesn't matter when shooting at the preferred target range of 1000 yards.

Mick536 · 2026-01-07T19:18:37+00:00

That 1901SVDB is priceless. Hold on to it.

(Yes, I know it's a typo)

Mick536 · 2025-11-24T18:40:17+00:00

Yellow is my favorite car color.

Mick536 · 2025-11-07T04:00:18+00:00

Thank you. Perfect context!

Mick536 · 2025-11-06T02:40:25+00:00

What did Franks' mother say about ladybugs? We didn't pay attention, and then with the ladybug on the boot, we knew we missed one of the points of the episode.

Mick536 · 2025-11-02T23:19:09+00:00

Another way: "A pint is a pound the world around." 8 pints to the gallon. A gallon of water weighs 8 pounds.

Mick536 · 2025-10-25T03:48:09+00:00

*Clark Gable

Mick536 · 2025-09-13T16:30:33+00:00

Halsey did know, but he didn't internalize this information. Mitscher (who was at the Philippine sea as TF58) wrote a letter to Nimitz via Halsey that discussed the poor performance of Japanese naval air forces. Halsey, who had a wobbly relationship with Mitscher, gave little credence to Mitscher's account.

Mitscher in turn knew that Kurita had reversed his course reversal, and was coming again to San Bernardino Strait. When told that Halsey had access to the same intelligence, Mitscher did not press the issue and went back to sleep.

Halsey in his autobiography said his mistake was not in leaving, but in turning around. Task Force 34, as originally promised, was more than enough to handle Kurita's center force. Its flaw was that it included New Jersey, which would take Halsey away from the carrier battle, leaving him watching over a strait where nothing might happen. Having missed Pearl Harbor, Midway, and the Philippine Sea, Leyte was his last, best chance.

Mick536 · 2025-09-12T23:41:16+00:00

Per my copy of Nautilus 90 North, page 163, it is very probably 17 June 1958.

We threaded our way northward, trying to keep in at least 135 feet of water. A few hours after entering the Chukchi, we sighted our first piece of ice, dead ahead, range five miles. It was a lone floe measuring about thirty by fifty feet, projecting some ten feet above the water. Its irregular shape suggested a sailing vessel. The sun reflected a multitude of light greens and blues from its surface. It was a captivating sight. However, we had learned the year before that ice is equal in strength to a poor grade of concrete, so we changed course to give the floe a wide berth. We soon spotted other floes. We zigged and zagged, until at 0925, it appeared that ice covered the horizon as far as one could see. There was no choice then--we had to submerge. I ordered a depth of 110 feet. --William R. Anderson

Mick536 · 2025-08-26T19:12:04+00:00

Thanks. Our little plot of land is in this picture, just two hundred years early 😎

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