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 Posted on: Feb 22, 2010 - 5:51pm
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Hi CJ. Yes there were 4. Two located just forward of the engine room each was 800 gallons, and two aft of the engine room each holding 700 gallons for a total of 3000 gallons. Jerry
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Posted on: Feb 22, 2010 - 6:50pm
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| That is an interesting drawing of the day room and officers quarters. I believe that most of you are aware that the day room was converted to sleeping quarters with four bunks. With the addition of more and more guns, there were more enlisted men than bunks. The officers quarters also became a bit more crowded when a third officer was added to some of the boats. |
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Posted on: Feb 22, 2010 - 7:35pm
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Cool stories guys, and thanks for sharing all the images. Nice work Dick, the drawing really shows the arrangement well. I don't think I'd like a berth in the day room surrounded by all that high octane gas.
It looks like the meters "F" marks show around 1260 / 870 official capacity but like Bob says there was headspace for a bit more.
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Posted on: Feb 22, 2010 - 10:48pm
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Below is a drawing that illustrates Jerry description of the fuel tanks and location. The tanks shown are typical for the late war Higgins, specially Portland's PT-658. They are self-sealing, suspended within an aluminum frame structure. This drawing is a modified version of a drawing from the PT-658 book I made for the "Save the PT Boat, Inc." Jerry and our friends the Portland group use it for fund raising.
Dick . . . .
The image below shows the heavy weight glossy 26 page book in full color, which is a very condensed story of PT 658 with before, during and after photos of the restoration project and includes about 12 pages of my drawings including the cut-away of the PT-658. If interested in donating to receive a copy contact Jerry Gilmartin, I'm sure he would be more then happy to accommodate your interest.
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Posted on: Feb 23, 2010 - 3:27pm
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Really nice drawings Dick, wish I could draw like that!.................
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Posted on: Feb 23, 2010 - 5:45pm
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You guys are great (gals to), and make this board so interesting. Keep up the good work. Can you imagine playing cards between those two tank at the same time sitting on top of one (Elco) Wow!
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C Marin Faure
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Posted on: Feb 24, 2010 - 10:26pm
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Thank you all very much for the information. It is exactly what I needed for the writing project I am currently working on.
The cutaway drawings of the 103-type boat are very interesting. Are there any more of them showing other sections of the boat? When I crawled around for several hours inside the Fall River Elco a number of years ago at the start of this project I took a number of photos of the interior but the camera I had with me did not have a wide-angle lens so I didn't get many good shots of the overall appearance of each compartment. Plus of course it's a much different boat in many respects than the 103-series, particularly in the engine compartment. The 3D cutaway drawings would be very helpful if they exist for the whole boat.
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Posted on: Feb 25, 2010 - 5:43am
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In the Ron 10 boats, I can say for sure we had three tanks, one beneath the decking in the dayroom. They were roughly 1000 gallons each, but the actual figures had the center tank as the smallest, a few hundred gallons less (although we used actual capacity stats for the refueling process, I forget the numbers). Altho there were large panels that could be used for repain or steam cleaning, there were baffle plates inside to prevent massive weight shift during maneuvers so one couldn't actually crawl inside. Our tanks were replaced with selfsealing tanks at the time we got the new engines but not all boats were so retrofitted.
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Posted on: Feb 26, 2010 - 5:56pm
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The Motor Torpedo Boat Engineer's Handbook shows the following:
ELCO center 1300 gal
ELCO stbd 850 gal
ELCO port 850 gal
Higgins fwd 800 gal
Higgins aft 700 gal
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