Subject: SMML VOL 2774 Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:36:30 +1100 The Ship Modelling Mailing List (SMML) is proudly sponsored by SANDLE http//sandlehobbies.com For infomation on how to Post to SMML and Unsubscribe from SMML http//smmlonline.com/aboutsmml/rules.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS INDEX 1 degaussing / towed cable 2 USS Abraham Lincoln A welcome port 3 Re Trailing cable 4 Re degaussing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRADERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS & NOTICEBOARD INDEX 1 Navy books for sale ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODELLERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From "D.A. den Bakker" Subject degaussing / towed cable I have had several answers, some of them direct, to my question about the cable behind the Willem Ruys / Achille Lauro. No, it was definitely not the log, because I saw that used on numerous occasions as well, so I know the difference! The suggestion that it was something of an earthing for radio rings a bell. The material seemed suitable for that as well flexible like copper, ca 1/2 cm thick, and definitely not a 'turned' (?) steel cable. Thanks for your reactions, Diderick den Bakker, Holland ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) From JRKutina@webtv.net (John Kutina) Subject USS Abraham Lincoln A welcome port http//seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer2/index.asp?ploc=b&refer=http//seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/214573_navyed.html Regards, John Kutina ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) From Fkbrown90@aol.com Subject Re Trailing cable Iain Wyllie The device you describe is known as a Taffrail Log, used mainly on sailing ships. I doubt if many powered vessels used them, although a salty old skipper might have used one as a back-up, or for Old Times Sake. The mounting bracket was attached to the aftmost Poop Deck railing. It worked a little like the odometer of an automobile, indicating the accumulated number of turns in a given period of time. The towed Log was a bronze cylinder having mildly helical fins which caused the Log to rotate on its longitudinal axis as it was towed through the water. This rotation was passed along the towing line until it ultimately caused a shaft in the on-board instrument to register on a dial. A Mate would read the dial and note the elapsed time, and then calculate the vessels speed through the water. The Taffrail Log replaced the "chip" which when thrown over the Taffrail would cause the reasonably stationary chip to in turn cause the chip line to pay out as the ship moved along, and a Mate would count the number of knots tied in the line as they passed a reference point in an observed amount of time and extrapolate that value into a vessel speed. The math was minimal. The calibration unit was Knots, universally understood to be nautical miles per hour. Some hand held RPM devices worked this way also. The pointy end was held tightly against the center drill hole in a rotating shaft and the number of turns indicated on a dial in a specified amount of time became the base for calculating the RPM. Franklyn aka Poop Deck Pappy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From MPMenache@aol.com Subject Re degaussing Hello, Anyone doing the 1/600 scale Queen Mary for wartime service can find the degaussing cable in the photo-etch set for the liner from White Ensign Models. Good modeling! michael ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRADERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS & NOTICEBOARD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) From Steve Jantscher Subject Navy books for sale I am starting to clear out some of my research library. I have two sets of books available for sale. I prefer not using ebay, however you can check my feedback under my ebay name, zaptherio. Will ship world-wide. The first is the three volume set of soft cover Model Art books, Drawings of Imperial Japanese Naval Vessels. Text in all volumes is Japanese, with overhead and plane-view line drawings of just about every vessel the Japanese Navy had in WWII drawn to 1/700th scale. Most every drawing has the name of the vessel in English, and where appropriate, the year of the scheme shown. Many of the ship entries are also highlighted with a B&W photo. The larger ships are drawn on fold-outs. Vol. 1 covers BBs and DDs, patrol ships and submarine chasers, 108 pp. Vol. II covers light and heavy cruisers, auxiliary and armed merchant cruisers, mine and cable layers, gunboats and captured vessels, 94pp. Vol III wraps up the naval vessels with CVs, seaplane carriers and tenders, submarines and their depot ships 148pp. These hard to find books are in mint condition. Cost, $50 plus actual cost of shipping. The second set of books is the two volume Japanese text, soft cover series by Delta publishing, Super Carriers. Number 1 is 196pp, and has a photograph and text entry on just about every carrier class ever made. There is a fold-out showing the relative overall size differences of the aircraft carriers throughout history. There is also a 16 page color and B&W photo spread at the beginning of the book showing modern carrier ops, from different nations. Book No. 2 again starts out with a 16 page all color section of US Navy carrier operations. This book is almost all photos (with very little text, in Japanese) and deals exclusively with US Navy carrier ops, with an emphasis on flight deck and in flight shots of aircraft and aircraft carriers. There is a color drawing fold-out spread of the USS Nimitz and her Airwing 9 aircraft. Finally the book ends with six pages of detailed three view drawings of modern US Navy jets, 130 pp. Also in Mint Condition. Cost $25, plus the actual cost of shipping. Thanks for looking, more is on the way... Steve Jantscher Prior Lake, Minnesota, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the SMML site for the List Rules, Reviews, Articles, Backissues, Member's models & Reference Pictures at http//smmlonline.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Volume