tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post2830226869652483774..comments2023-06-17T06:59:05.555-05:00Comments on Target: Babies in Open.<br> Fire For Effect.: Garbage Out, Garbage InComrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-65270968089563185792011-02-09T17:02:20.433-06:002011-02-09T17:02:20.433-06:00We had to poke holes in the trash bags so they wou...We had to poke holes in the trash bags so they would sink. they never sank, so there would be a long trail of trash bags behind usmerlallenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01023548198899856438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-33981539062123730502011-01-11T11:08:43.282-06:002011-01-11T11:08:43.282-06:00Non-plastics still went over the side when I retir...Non-plastics still went over the side when I retired 5 years ago but in heavy paper bags that eventually disintegrate. A MAA was on station at the fantail during dumping to make sure no plastics went over. Plastics were compacted and retained on board. Always fun when the compacter broke, which seemed to be often.<br /><br />I remember the garbage lighter scam happening to us somewhere in Westpac but can't recall exactly where now. Same kind of deal though, charge the ship an arm and a leg to pick up the trash and then just take it a few miles out in view of the ship and dump it.kaigunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08237555298114011167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-49671059927220955692011-01-07T19:09:53.264-06:002011-01-07T19:09:53.264-06:00PP, at least a few, maybe.PP, at least a few, maybe.Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-31344369252418127542011-01-07T17:17:52.139-06:002011-01-07T17:17:52.139-06:00This happened around midnight or so, stranding sev...<i>This happened around midnight or so, stranding several dozen sailors ashore.</i><br /><br />I assume they went back to the bar. AMIRITE?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-53305555145546313402011-01-05T11:41:41.013-06:002011-01-05T11:41:41.013-06:00I am not sure about now, but fifteen years ago we ...I am not sure about now, but fifteen years ago we were still dumping trash off the fantail. We were restricted from dumping plastics, however... only biodegradable materials were allowed to be dumped over.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10584765116897454546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-45161382453530321482011-01-05T10:35:16.685-06:002011-01-05T10:35:16.685-06:00Dear Miss Fit:
Re: trash on subs; if memory serve...Dear Miss Fit:<br /><br />Re: trash on subs; if memory serves aright, they went to sea with a bunch of flat die-cut can stock and a bunch of cast iron weight disks. <br /><br />When it came time to dispose of trash the galley slaves would build up one or more cans using a rolling gizmo ("insert tabs (a) into slots (b)"). If the trash was low in density a weight disk went in the bottom of the can and the can went into the trash compactor. The compactor used a hydraulic ram to compress the fluffy trash into a can-full of pressed trash.<br /><br />The Trash Disposal Unit (TDU) was a 10" ID cylinder penetrating the hull with a ball valve at the bottom and at the top a breech door very much like a torpedo tube breech door that got wet and shrank. Mechanical interlocks precluded (it says here) both ends opening at the same time. (Incidentally, once upon a time it was called the Garbage Disposal Unit (GDU) but somebody decided that Trash was more dignified than Garbage.)<br /><br />So they'd open the breech, drop in a few full cans, dog the breech down and open the hull valve, allowing the cans of trash to begin their descent into Davy Jones locket.<br /><br />If the TDU hull valve went Tango Uniform then all of the trash had to be stowed on-board. Happened a time or two, I'm told, to boomers just a day or two out of refit. Emptying the trash onto the pier at the end of the 75-day patrol supposedly took <i>days</i>.<br /><br />There was a theory that the <i>Scorpion</i> was lost as a result of a failure of the interlocks on the TDU. There were rumors that the material condition of the trash handling stuff was not so good (it ain't a pristine environment) and some speculated that, hey, it could'a broke. This theory has been deprecated in favor of a hot run of a Mk 37.<br /><br />Can't think about this stuff without remembering my old friend Pete Fredrickson. Pete was the World Expert on the TDU. He also owned a Herreshoff Meadowlark ketch and knew more dirty sea chanteys than I thought existed ("...said Barnacle Bill the Sailor."), which he self-accompanied on a ukulele.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />FrankFrank Van Hastehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10821687850881538546noreply@blogger.com