Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "USS Monitor - From Angry Raft to National Treasure" video.

  1. Are there any known instances (in the period covered by this channel) of a turbine-powered warship suffering a turbine-rotor burst (i.e., the rotor disk itself coming apart, as opposed to merely shedding blades) for whatever reason (such as metal fatigue, manufacturing defects, battle damage, improper reassembly of the turbine following overhaul, something coming loose within the boiler or engine machinery and being ingested into the turbine, etc.) and were any warships actually lost primarily or solely due to such an occurrence? This would certainly seem at first glance to be a fairly-catastrophic failure mode, given that such a high-energy event occurring deep within the ship would almost certainly wreck (and possibly cause secondary disintegrations in other rotors of) the involved turbine (and quite possibly others in the same or adjacent engine rooms, depending on the trajectories of liberated rotor debris), kill everyone in the involved engine room(s) (if not from shrapnel, then from the liberation of vast quantities of high-pressure superheated steam), and tear out the bottom of the ship below the failed turbine.
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