Coronado (AGF 11) - Naval Cruise Book

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BTFN Jeffery Trimble, BTFN Jon Ross, BT3 Michael Hammers, BTFN Francis Reynolds, BT2 Rodrigo Cortez, BTFN Billy Grogan, BT2 Enrique Remigio, BT3 Rick Ramirez, BT3 Robert Mackall, FN Kenneth Thomas, BT2 Donnie Hunnicutt, BTFN Timothy Poole, BT2 James Micek, BT3 Arthur Webb, BTl Darrell Wolfe BTFN Reynolds is ready to play! BTFN Ross, BT3 Hammers, BT2 Remigio, BT3 Mackall and BTFN Trimble feeling at home in the firebox! B-DIVISION To drive any conventional steam powered ship, you need one important ingredient — superheated steam. There is only one place to get this ingredient — from the Boiler Technicians of B-Division. The BTs have their fingers on the pulse of the CORONADO. They have a hand on the mechanical heart of the ship, the two 600 PSI boilers. Here ' s what they do; the boilers take feedwater and convert it to steam, roughly 700 degrees hot, which is used to propel the ship, drive four electrical generators and produce heat for the ship ' s evaporators. Without steam for the generators there would be no electricity for radar, computers or typewriters. Without steam for the evaporators there would be no fresh water. Without the BTs there would be no steam. The BTs are also responsible for the transfer of fuel, on board and to other ships. The BTs work under the harshest conditions on board — in the Pit, where the average temperature is close to 100 degrees and the average work day is long and hard. The BTs: they like it hot! BT2 Remigio checking things out.

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1 MAIN MACHINERY ROOM MMl Barnett keeps alert! MMl(SW) Michael Newbury, MM3 David Schenk, MM3 Bruce Puterbaugh, FA Richard Garrison, FA Scott Latva, FA Mathew White, FN Jose Ojeda, MM3 Dale Clemons, FA Ismael Perez, MM2 Reuben Carney, MM3 Richard Sutton, MM2 Thomas Breneman, MM2 Frank West, FN Michael Schomburg, MM2 John Hanaway, MMFN Robert Paiva M-DIVISION M MM2 Carney is Gage Calibration! Si Propulsion is the name of the game in M-Division, and thats what they do best! Using steam from the boilers, the Machinist Mates turn two steam turbines at a maximum rate of 6,000 RPMs generating a capacity of 12,000 shaft horsepower. The revs are sent to our transmission, the ships reduction gear, to turn the two screws, each propeller being 12 ' 2 feet in diameter, five bladed and weighing 15,400 pounds each. Coordinating all engineering evolutions and monitoring status of various systems is Main Control. There, the MMs take order from the Bridge and provide the power necessary to move the ship at any speed from 1 knot to more than 20 nautical miles per hour. The MMs also operate the ship ' s evaporators, providing fresh water for anything from cooking and drinking, to showers and cleaning. Additionally, they service the four steam turbine generators giving us electricity, and the two steam and four motor driven fire pumps . . . our guarantee that any potential fire is met with force! Each division gives the ship life, but M-division gives the Coronado muscle! MM2 West and MM2 Hanaway hard at work. 62

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2 MAIN MACHINERY ROOM i jrl - - 1 ■ . r MM3 Collins caught in action. MMFN Robert Griffith, FA Charles McCauley, MM2 Edward Daniels, MM3 Ricky White, MM3 James Goard, MMFN James Bain, MMFA Martin Toth, MMFN James Hunter, FN James Williams, MM2 John Tossey, MM2 Kenneth Dennis, MM3 Todd Werley, MMl(SW) Faitamai Leomiti, FN Charles Moorehead MM2 Dennis, MMFN Moorehead, and MM2 Daniels are ready for anything! MM2 Turkovich and MM3 Werley repair an air motor. 64