Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "Western Approaches Command - The Return of the Map!" video.

@LD-wm7jm There is a WWII vintage LST on display in Muskegon, Michigan, which I toured a couple years ago. There is some genius engineering in there, ranging from ballast tanks to kedging anchors. They had an Army training video running that laid out the entire process of preparing the ship for beaching. Fascinating.
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@fooman2108 iirc, CV-6 was not sunk at Bikini. That was Saratoga. The Navy hung on to CV-6 for years as a group in New York was trying to raise money to turn her into a museum. The group couldn't pull the money together and the Navy finally tired of waiting. She went to the breakers in 58.
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This question would have been better on the hull design thread, but most of the eyes are on this thread now, so: does "area ruling" apply to ship hulls the same as it does to aircraft? On aircraft, drag can be reduced by holding the cross section closer to constant. Convair did this with the F-102, F-106 and B-58: the diameter of the fuselage narrows over the wings, so that the total cross section of fuselage plus wings, is closer to the cross section of the fuselage alone where it is not adjacent to the wings. If that rule applies to ships, then an external torpedo bulge could be used where the hull narrows fore and aft, where there is no internal space for a TDS, but then fairing the bulge into the hull midships, where the hull is wide enough to accommodate an internal TDS, and thus not increasing drag as a full length bulge would. The "save the Caracciolo" project continues. Learning fascinating things.
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@LD-wm7jm I was actually aiming for my personal impressions of the workings of an LST. If you get to look through one anywhere, especially if you get to see the film I saw on the one here, check it out.
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