Welcome Aboard!

A nostalgic journey of the US Navy Boiler Technicians who worked in the Oil Lab on board the USS John F. Kennedy CV-67.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Every Picture Tells a Story

June says, "Come on Hendricks, you've played with the Game Boy for 3 hours straight. It's time someone else gets a turn!"

2C Boiler


Most people thought there were only 8 boilers on the USS John F. Kennedy (2 in each main machinery space). Little did they know Big John's Oil Lab had it's own boiler: The 2C Boiler. It brewed somewhere around 1 million cups of coffee!

Monday, October 1, 2007

A Sounding Tube


While browsing around on Google's image finder, I typed in the words "sounding tube" and this was one of the first things that showed up. A little different from most sounding tubes I remember. Oh well. Rock On!