Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "Oceanliner Designs" channel.

  1. To send further chills down your spine, the author had a novel of a war between the US and Japan, which was ended when the US employed "Sun Bombs" on the Japanese
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  2. Actually, The Iowa class battlewagons and Midway class carriers had 212,000 shp plants, so she was the most powerful ship afloat for three years until the Forrestal class with 280,00 shp came into service
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  3. Got to see her leave New York in 1964 as I crossed from New Jersey in a ferryboat enroute to the Battery to see Operation Sail - which everyone thought was to be the last time so many sailing ships would be in the same place at the same time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sail My Uncle Art deployed to Europe aboard the Queen Elizabeth in 1944. She was carrying about 15,000 troops - equal to an entire US Army division. She was so deeply laden that her keel was just above the bottom and there was special concern that she might hit one of the tunnels linking New Jersey to New York. On her voyages back to the US after the war, the troops were told not to crowd the port side to see the Staue of Liberty as she would heel so much she might ground. Oh, the America only got in about a year's civilian service before the USN drafted her as AP-23 the USS West Point. Also Gibbs had seen the Morro Castle disaster and was determined to make his superliner the most fire-proof ship afloat. The only wooden objects allowed were the chopping block in the galley and the grand piano in the First Class ballroom. He had asked Steinway to produce an aluminum piano and they reluctantly agreed they could produce one, but it was so expensive that the United States Line balked at the cost. "The ballroom's grand piano was originally designed to be aluminum, but was made from mahogany and accepted only after a demonstration in which gasoline was poured upon the wood and ignited, without the wood itself ever catching fire." Last, I have seen it said that she won the Blue Riband while operating at 75 percent power with two of her eight boilers off line and in reserve.
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