[Land-speed] Non-LSR Air Starter

Ed Purinton ecpurinton at wildblue.net
Mon Jan 7 12:09:51 MST 2008


John,

     Hooligan Navy [Hotel-56] '64-'68, on the 311' good cutter Barataria 
W381 [ex-WW11 Navy seaplane tender] in B-2 eng room, CG Squadron 3 
Operation Market Time '67.  Portland ME to Alameda CA by way of the 
South China Sea, trip of a lifetime. 

     Good power, they really ran nice on JP-4, a lot less carbon build 
up in the exhaust ports to clean out.  Some of the WW11 subs had the 
same power, set up like the Wind Class ice breakers, diesel-electric.  
Didn't work out as well for locomotive use later, too many speed changes 
was hard on the vertical driveshaft between the 2 cranks.

                                 Ed


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