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Scene from Battleship movie - Old timers light it off.

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Eyes are rolling …

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[QUOTE=Steamer;191480]Eyes are rolling …[/QUOTE]

Exactly, the DWH movie sucks because the thrusters kept working after the generators stopped, “The Finest Hours” sucked because the lights stayed on in the fwd part after the ship broke in half, the Maersk Alabama movie sucked because the ship left port without a pilot.

The scene in “Battleship” is corny, sappy, romantic for a lost age, technical flawed etc ect.

Old-timer lighting off boiler: “You might want to cover your ears” - I love it.

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[QUOTE=Kennebec Captain;191482]Old-timer lighting off boiler: “You might want to cover your ears” - I love it.[/QUOTE]

I wonder what they were doing for the 12 to 18 hours between the lighting the torch and rock and rolling.

At least the graybeards probably won’t run without lube oil pressure, cross connect the SSTG to the reduction gear, or flush the captain’s head into the lube oil sump.

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[QUOTE=Steamer;191485]I wonder what they were doing for the 12 to 18 hours between the lighting the torch and rock and rolling.

At least the graybeards probably won’t run without lube oil pressure, cross connect the SSTG to the reduction gear, or flush the captain’s head into the lube oil sump.[/QUOTE]

Have you seen the movie? It’s about aliens invading the earth and being defeated by navy and ex-navy sailors using a mothballed battleship. It’s not a training film, the entire movie is completely, totally over-the-top wholly implausible.

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[QUOTE=Kennebec Captain;191486] It’s not a training film, the entire movie is completely, totally, wholly implausible.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I guess you are right, there is no way today’s Navy could defeat an alien invasion force. They can’t even keep an LCS running long enough to fight off a desert dwelling human.

Besides, everyone knows that aliens have sensor suites that would have detected that ship being powered up long before they got enough steam to make coffee.

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Let’s drop some lead on those mother…

Here is a training film intended to illustrate how using an anchor can shorten the turning radius.

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[QUOTE=Kennebec Captain;191488]Let’s drop some lead on those mother…

Here is a training film intended to illustrate how using an anchor can shorten the turning radius.[/QUOTE]

When the anchor bites I started laughing so hard I could hardly keep watching.

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If your a mariner and watch this movie for the first time it’s hard not to focus on all the things that seem wrong, the whole anchor thing for example. However I’ve watched this movie a couple time because I enjoy parts of it, the old-timers remind me of a lot of guys I’ve known and sailed with. Once you can see past the ridiculous scenes you can see the story, which is not that bad.

Beyond that, I’m with Ron

[video=youtube_share;afWLwPZZv2w]http://youtu.be/afWLwPZZv2w[/video]

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I’ve got to admit that once they started playing Thunderstruck and firing off those 16" guns, I was cheering. It was downright “ship porn”. The movie is patently absurd but it is nowhere near the absurdity that is the movie “Contraband”! Why can’t my job as captain involve strutting around in dress blues and directing Marky-mark to clean the carpets on the bridge? And why can’t I ram a dock at high speed and then just tell some lady in the dock to “deal with it”? Ahhhhh movies…

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I’ve got to admit that once they started playing Thunderstruck and firing off those 16" guns, I was cheering. It was downright “ship porn”. The movie is patently absurd but it is nowhere near the absurdity that is the movie “Contraband”! Why can’t my job as captain involve strutting around in dress blues and directing Marky-mark to clean the carpets on the bridge? And why can’t I ram a dock at high speed and then just tell some lady in the dock to “deal with it”? Ahhhhh movies…

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[QUOTE=DamnYankee;191536]I’ve got to admit that once they started playing Thunderstruck and firing off those 16" guns, I was cheering. It was downright “ship porn”. The movie is patently absurd but it is nowhere near the absurdity that is the movie “Contraband”! Why can’t my job as captain involve strutting around in dress blues and directing Marky-mark to clean the carpets on the bridge? And why can’t I ram a dock at high speed and then just tell some lady in the dock to “deal with it”? Ahhhhh movies…[/QUOTE]

And go through the Canal to move cargo and then back? Or my favorite, the expedited TWIC card. . . .