Gene Bernhardt Tour 1 USS Missouri plankholder as Boiler Tech

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(Then BT2 and BT1) Gene Bernhardt, a re-commissioning crew member (plank owner) of the battleship USS MISSOURI (BB63), 1985-1988, when it was brought out of mothballs to make an around-the-world tour, shares boiler room (B Division) operation memories with other USS MISSOURI visitors at Pearl Harbor.
B Division operated, preserved and maintained Missouri's eight 600 psi M-type boiler. Boiler steam maintained the ship's four main engines, plus the eight ship's service turbine generators which provided electricity. The BTs provided steam heat for hot water and cooking. B division also maintained main and emergency feed pipes, forced draft blowers, storage and transfer systems, fire and flushing pumps, low pressure air compressors, , and all associated machinery. Additionally, B Division treated and tested thousands of gallons of boiler feed-water, drinking water, and enormous quantities of boiler fuel. Missouri's Boiler Technicians were indispensable to the daily operation of "Mighty Mo." Everything was manual on the MISSOURI, unlike today's engineering spaces.
Temperatures in MISSOURI's engineering spaces were well in excess of 100 degrees Fahrenheit during the 102 continuous days of operation at sea from 1987-1988 alone.

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@anthonyklein2944 4 года назад

I admire his patience, he was there, he operated the boilers, yet he patiently let the young tour guide/docent explain things, even if she wasn't always all that accurate.

@barrykery1175 3 года назад

Brings back memories. I was on a destroyer in 68, forward boiler room. Middle East cruise, 126 degrees in there. We also stood watch 4 on and 4 off. They changed it one time to 6 on and 6 off. You still did not get much sleep since the guy in the hole had to eat and those off watch relieved them. Barry

@shellytoman 3 года назад

6 &6 sucked. It was punishing.

@stoneycreeksailor6495 3 года назад

You can tell that he is a hole snipe by how comfortable he is on the boiler front.

@jamespollock2500 3 года назад

Thank you for the Video, When they are talking about steam leaks, I was an instructor at BECC Great Lakes 2004-2008 I had a student graduated went to sea as MR3 they were during Boiler safeties when a tube ruptured most ran he and one other stayed to shut it down both walked out of went to medical and had lung damage put on O2, induced coma and later passed.

@rudolphpopeck7884 5 лет назад

If your not a Hole Snipe, your just along for the ride.. BT2 Popeck, USS Nashville LPD -13, 1976-1980.

@stevencovington4715 4 года назад

If the Snipes don't groove, that ship don't move. MM1 (SW) 76-96

@timothygensler9671 Год назад

Hey Gene This is Tim I was there with you in number 2 fire room in longbeach

@stephenlancedennee513 4 года назад

Machinist Mates (MM's) rather than Engineman (EN) operate Main Engines. The EN operated the back-up diesel generators in the engine rooms. Electrician Mates (EM) operated the switchboards in the engine rooms. Just to clarify.

@admiral06472 3 года назад

Just to clarify: BTs I knew hated to be called Boiler Tech. The official web page for the Naval History and Heritage Command lists the rate BT as Boilerman. Also "no visible smoke" condition was so critical on aircraft carriers that a fireman was posted 24/7 underway on the 07 level of the island to monitor the smoke stacks. This watch was in constant sound powered phone contact with the fire and engine rooms. Also 600lb steam leaks are "dry" steam therefore those small leaks would be invisible. You would likely hear a high pitched whistle.

@timothygensler9671 Год назад

We were called boiler technicians

@richardashworth2371 4 года назад

I was a Boiler Tech on the Uss Tarawa Lha-1 from 79 to 82

@timothygensler9671 Год назад

Hey Gene this is Tim. I was with you on the Missouri before they went overseas. I was a number to fire room with you. You’re my boss. I was a third class petty officer. I’d like to get a hold of you and see how things went for you. I love this video with you in it. It was nice to see you. Hope everything is well with you.

@wil4596 4 года назад

i just found out recently that Gene was Killed in Hawaii, i have known him since 1985, very sad he was a Good man, and a Friend. Fair winds and Following Sea's Shipmate. Bill

@MrBurgerphone1014 4 года назад

Damn RIP

@Sterlingjob 3 года назад

Immortalised on RU-vid

@caryDesigns 3 года назад

Wow thats sad. I was there too at that time and worked with Gene

@QuantumPyrite_88.9 6 лет назад

Being a Plank Owner is quite an honor . Congrats to Gene Bernhardt from an old Army guy . Cool video and thanks .

@tbamagic Год назад

How I remember the times aboard Cal Maritime Academy's Golden Bear 1...a WW2 AKA turbo-electric steamship. Boiler watch! Cleaning burners, tending water levels...all in tropical heat. Ahh, those were the days! Big fun in big storms..like on her last cruise in 1970!

@davidentrot5644 Год назад

I was on the Claud V Rickets DDG 5. 72-76. Guided missile destroyer. Two boiler rooms. It had 4-1200 lb super heated boilers. Two per fire room. When underway it ran automatically not manually.

@carlwilliams8354 3 года назад

Cool dude with lots of experience

@bobabooey8367 4 года назад

3:00 ther are 2 kinds of fresh watyer on the ship 1: potable :showering drinking galley dishes....2: boiler water:oxygen free and chemically treated protect boiler components

@wolfkremen 3 года назад

this man should be a museum curator instead of others that just mumble and and regurgitate wikipedia info.

@rdmccun 5 лет назад

This guy!.... this guy is awesome!

@kevspss 6 лет назад

The water will make you sick because of the phosphates that are in it. We used to clean our clothes with it. BTFN K Springer No.2 fireroom USS Iowa BB - 61

@Sterlingjob 3 года назад

Concentrated phosphates??

@kevspss 3 года назад

Sterlingjob I don’t know how old you are but the water smells like it has the old Tide laundry soap in it.

@Sterlingjob 3 года назад

Kevin Springer 45 but from the U.K.!!

@garyh4458 3 года назад

I worked in a nuclear powered ship's engine room. Seems like the boiler ships are actually MORE complicated to operate.

@caryDesigns 5 лет назад

Hey that was my boss !!! Hey Gene !

@caryDesigns 5 лет назад

Hardest worker of all heat got heat stroke from working so long in hot temps, and had to work outside of engineering. For him was sad and for the ship.

@lineshaftrestorations7903 3 года назад

Boiler water also has chemicals to prevent corrosion and foaming. Not good for coffee or tea.

@caryDesigns 3 года назад

@@lineshaftrestorations7903 hmmm... tthat reminds me of a story that happened on there

@ayensdreamer541 5 лет назад

hole snipes rule

@scottdoubleyou563 4 года назад

I think what the lady was asking was what happens to the salt and the other impurities that were removed during the evaporation process?

@battleshipnewjerseysailor4738 3 года назад

During the evap process, the salt is in a solution called brine and it just gets pumped overboard

@hankscorpio6111 3 года назад

I was a USN BT and I've been working on boilers my whole work life now. But seeing the fireside of that boiler I have a question. I understand that the burner barrels are pressurized f.o. and you had to change the sprayer plates to change the min/max firing rate. The one thing I'm unsure of though is why do they have pig tails on the fuel oil line before the burners? I've never worked on that type of boiler "we had steam atomization" and the boilers I work on now just have solenoids allowing the f.o. into the boiler. I've never noticed the pigtails before in pictures and now I'm wondering.. I'll throw a guess though.. does it alleviate "I want to say water hammer" but fuel oil hammering when you start/stop a f.o pump keeping the flames steady? That's a pure guess..

@steamdaysstoker 3 года назад

Just a guess, the fuel lines looking like they are metal, the pigtails could be for expansion and contraction. All the Marine steam boilers I have worked on had flexible rubber coated hoses not unlike high pressure hydraulic hoses.

@hankscorpio6111 3 года назад

@@steamdaysstoker That's as good of guess as any. I used to operate a Nebraska boiler that had steel braded lines that allowed movement because the fuel oil burner had to be moved in when f/o was fired and back out when you were ready to go back to natural gas. The burner on the ship isn't t hat of course but I guess it could be for expansion and contraction..

@steamdaysstoker 3 года назад

@@hankscorpio6111 Hi Hank, I had a look at a photo of boiler of a WW II Australian Corvette, it has steel pipes to the burners. I also had a look at one of my Navy Engineering Manuals an yes the outer cover of the FFO hose is of braided steel on the Babcox & Wilcox boilers. What magnificent steam producers they were.

@williamhoward8319 5 лет назад

489 degrees before superheated to 800 degrees on a babcox and wilcox m type

@rob1248996 4 года назад

Sounds like you have a little experience with ship boilers.

@kevspss 3 года назад

With Foster & Wheeler economizer

@williamhoward8319 5 лет назад

closed loop system same as my boat

@bobellis2026 20 часов назад

Did that many times 2 destroyers and a heavy cruiser

@johnfilz827 3 года назад

I was a BT on the USS Meredith dd890 did a Westpac in 69 talk about hot

@Sterlingjob 3 года назад

What are the yellow pipes denote? Fuel ??

@battleshipnewjerseysailor4738 3 года назад

Yes, there is a color code for most piping on US Navy ships: Green is sea water, Red is fire fighting, Purple is JP-5 and Yellow is for both fuel and lube oil

@Sterlingjob 3 года назад

@@battleshipnewjerseysailor4738 👍

@timholmes4331 5 лет назад

Shower hours !

@stevehale7309 3 года назад

The evaporators pulled sea water in through the sea chest, the water would then go through the evaporator several times called passes, the ship I was on had 4 stage evaporators, meaning 4 passes before the distilled water was discharged to the main piping and then to the onboard fresh water tanks. The boilers got the largest amount of water on the ship, the crew got the rest. If the evaporators were not operating as designed or the seawater condition wouldn't be adequate, such as a heavily polluted anchorage, we would go on water hours where limited water for the crew was enforced. And the statement by the docent about the water being distilled and not drinkable, that is false. It was all we had for drinking, showering, laundry and cooking.

@rjenkins66bj 3 года назад

I bet he has hand on a vent.

@colinsteam 3 года назад

Internal boiler clean every 600 hours, are you sure? Never had that trouble in the Royal Navy, go a whole commission 2 to 3 years no boiler cleans.

@hankscorpio6111 3 года назад

U.S. Navy ships had it done that frequently not because it needed it but because it was a P.M. The ship I was on was over 30 years old and I can tell you 1st hand tearing out the steam drum internals for inspection that the boilers after all that time were in beautiful shape! We didn't have any scale in them and all the surfaces of the internals were magnetite black.

@SmokeShadow49311 2 года назад

Water so clean it'll make you sick if you drink it? I'm calling BS on that! Citation needed

@zach9620 5 лет назад

Plankowner not holder.

@rob1248996 4 года назад

Thank You. From a Plankowner on USS L.Y. Spear AS36

@alvachapman4492 2 года назад

BT'S Can do

@bobabooey8367 4 года назад

4 forced draft blowers

@michaelvallin55 4 года назад

There’s something seriously weird about this. Maybe he hijacked the tour?

@hankscorpio6111 3 года назад

How is a tour guide going to know more than the guy who spent 1,000's of hours staring at that boiler front. "literally". The burnerman had to watch the fires while online so that if they flamed out he was there to turn the fuel off preventing a boiler explosion. I was also a Navy BT and have dealt with them. He wasn't exaggerating the hours we worked either. The ship I was on was a bit more automated though. The fuel air ratio's were pneumatically maintained.

@caryDesigns 3 года назад

@@hankscorpio6111 right, that guy was my boss there on the Mo, we served in 85 to 89. He had to be pulled out one time from heat exhaustion, he worked very hard. He hasnt changed a bit minus the white hair.

@hankscorpio6111 3 года назад

@@caryDesigns I'm sure you did too brother! There weren't too many BT's that didn't work hard "or at least pull their own weight at the minimum". It was a hot dirty stinky "fuel oil" hazardous job that I think we all took a whole lot of pride in. "Hazardous meaning all the many ways a boiler can explode, fuel oil/ oil catching on fire, chemicals we used to treat the boilers, asbestos/fiberglass.. and on and on" lol.

@lovellrodriguez8567 Год назад

That female tour guide has no clue as to a working on line boiler room i would rather hear it from a boiler man then some one that researches the daily operations of the boiler room.just with that hands on the hips sez.everything

@wil4596 4 года назад

i just found out recently that Gene was Killed in Hawaii, i have known him since 1985, very sad he was a Good man, and a Friend. Fair winds and Following Sea's Shipmate. Bill

@bobabooey8367 4 года назад

howwas he killed in hawaii?