It's got the best officer country ever. But some of the enlisted berthing spaces had removable walls and you can imagine on nice cool nights going to sleep in a swinging hammock while the ship cruised thru the pitch dark nights. And the bakery was right next to some of those spaces, so you'd wake up to the smell of fresh baked bread.

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You stole my thunder on how difficult it would be to use a compass surrounded by that much magnetic metal! While it is possible to correct for magnetic deviation, I doubt it would be possible in there!

@@mahbriggs Impossible when surrounded all directions in steel, which would make the field in the middle almost constant due to the existing magnetisation of the steel as cast. Only way you would have a compass in there is with the later invention of fluxgate compasses, where you have a remote sensing head that detects magnitude and direction of the earth's magnetic field, and uses that with a set of saturable magnetic cores, to generate a 3 phase alternating current that drives the remote indicator, which can be mounted anywhere, and in any orientation. No electronic parts at all aside from capacitors and special steel alloys that are well controlled, and lots of fine copper windings. You compensate it at the mounting position, using a lot of small weak bar magnets, that are turned in sequence to correct for the magnetic field caused by nearby steel. Thus you will have an entire ship running at full steam, but doing position keeping, while a person on the wooden jetty sits there, and signals to the ship the exact magnetic heading they are on, and then the magnets get turned to compensate that major heading. Then move the ship 90 degrees, station keep again and repeat, till you have gone around the circle 4 times, then another turn to verify. For a big ship might take a day or two to do, so that is why you always had at least one spare ready calibrated magnetic heads around, just as a quick fix if the one failed. They rarely fail though, as there is nothing moving, other than an oil bath, that floats the sensor level and provides damping. Your emergency compass on the bridge will have it's compensation adjusted at the same time, but that is not going to be as accurate as the main one, simply because of all the steel around it, and the current flows in wiring near it. Good enough to keep a course if you have no electric power, to get you away from trouble to fix the problem, but not good enough to navigate across an ocean with, and hit a specific harbour, without aid.

envious.

Correct. It is a common mistake to have the words in the wrong order or to leave some out. Well done Trey.

@bigchungus2063- A minor but important point; Admiral Dewey wasn’t an Admiral. He actually held the rank of Commodore at the 1898 battle of Manila Bay. He was promoted to Admiral of the Navy in 1903. In 1899, the rank of Commodore was replaced with the O-7 level or Rear Admiral, but at the time of the battle, Dewey was still ranked Commodore. Again, just a minor point.

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@@ghost307 Aww, cut me some slack! It's along walk between the electric tiller and wheels in aft steering!

I found this a while back... Steam engines replaced sails on board ships, with sail paddles taking its place. They were steered via a rudder wheel. ... For this purpose, a walkaway was constructed on a raised platform, connecting the two paddles, serving as a literal 'bridge', earning the command centre its name.Jul 8, 2020

It is a casting, with a hundred years worth of paint on it. your modern castings look exactly the same, unless somebody took the time and cost to machine it, or spent the time and cost to smooth it off with body filler before painting it.

Well, for one, they were both armored cruisers, and are close contemporaries in time! Okay! Just a wee bit of snark. While I am somewhat familiar with the Olympia, I visited it about 40 years ago, and have read a lot about it since, I really don't know much about the Aurora other than what Drachinifel and Wikipedia have said about it! I envy your visit to St. Petersburg and the Aurora! If you ever get the chance to go to Philadelphia, it is well worth the effort! Constitution hall and the USS Olympia are well worth the visit!

Steam engines replaced sails on board ships, with sail paddles taking its place. They were steered via a rudder wheel. ... For this purpose, a walkaway was constructed on a raised platform, connecting the two paddles, serving as a literal 'bridge', earning the command centre its name.Jul 8, 2020

Alameda Bay, I've been on her, got the deluxe tour with a docent. Original condition below decks.

The mnemonic for that is: True Virgins Make Dull Companions And Wives.

Well, steam at least. If someone put it under control of a Raspberry Pi, THEN it would be steampunk.

You said “lean left and you’ll make a right turn, lean right and you’ll make a right turn”. So how do you turn left?

@@badbedbugz My bad, made an edit: "lean left and you'll make a right turn, lean right and you'll make a left turn"

I was also in the air wing. One aux con was just below the flight deck, above the fo'c'sle . You can see the round hatches, usually closed just below the flight deck. The other was in the bowels of the ship somewhere aft. I presume now that there was also something down near the engine rooms.

I was going to comment on that, i.e., a magnetic compass won't point to true North.