USS Cook FF1083 1A boiler light fires 5 20 89 

BT on FFG-6, CV-67 and LSD-38. Was my life for 20 years. I still make a living with boilers. Would do it all again. Steam still rules! Fair winds and following seas guys....

Served on the Kittyhawk as a BT. Really proud I made topwatch. Lead to a solid career after I got out. US Navy used to be the only and greatest place to learn boilers and steam. Didn’t realize how much I actually knew, til I hit out and started studying fir my license. Never went to A school. If I could do it all over again, YOU BET! I’d have my shell back ass right down in 2main machinery room onboard the Hawk!!!! Torch is on the box……..torch is still lit! 😎

I was on the Cook from 76-79. I was BT 2 . lit plenty of fires in 1A boiler.

Bringing back memories. That was my favorite part lighting fires in the boiler.

my dad (1930-2023) was a BT3 "boilerman" from jan 51 to jan 55 on USS Raby (DE-698), USS Walter B. Cobb (APD-106) and for about 6 weeks when getting ready to muster out, USS Mt Olympus (AGC-8). he loved his time in the Navy but had a good civilian job waiting for him to return to.

I was a boiler technician on the 1072 same class of ship,lite off many a morning.fire in the hole!😊

Observed many a light off as EOOW on USS CONNOLE (FF 1056), TALBOT (FFG 4 "P-fired"), and AMERICA (CV 66). Good times. Snipes rule!

brings back so many memories was a BT 2 on the USS Fanning FF1076 from 78 to 81

Thank you for the memories MMC; I was A/E Divo & CHENG on 1095 '87-'90... I can still smell the steam and feel the heat of the upper level.

B.T. on U.S.S. Meredith, DD-890, the last of the Gearing Class WW2 Destroyers. I can still remember how much I hated doing Firesides on those Babcock and Wilcox M-type boilers...

SM on DD 945. Never got to see fires lit but we'd help the engineers get ready for inspections. Gotta love them snipes!

FF-1067 Francis Hammond 78-80 Aux-1 Engineers; first on, last off.

Oh the good old days

BT on Francis Hammond DE 1067 1971-1973. Went on to complete 24 years active duty and 20 more as DOD Tech riding Aircraft Carriers.

Did this many times on USS KIRK FF 1087, 1978-1979

Yup. Remember that well. USS RATHBURNER DE 1057 BT3 SCHALLER ‘72/‘73 WEST PAC! No1 gunfire support platform in the 7th Fleet for ships in our class!

the life of us HOLE SNIPES.

Thanks for the memories!

In 1986 I got to be part of a group of civilians who rode on the uss cook from the rose festival in Portland oregon to Astoria. It was fun.

Lot of drama there. I don't recall it being that difficult. JFDI.

I served on FF1081 as a MM know this procedure well light em up boys

Back when they still had BTs

We never put on all that safety gear when I was in the Navy (75-79) and later the merchant marine just to light the boilers.

USS Blakely FF-1972 BT2 from 1982 to 1983 before she was transferred to the reserves

I was BT2 USS Ashtabula (AO-51) 77-80 lit plenty of boilers but we didn't have any PPE just in a T shirt.

this is super cool, thanks

22 years a hole snipe...went on gas turbine...they set sea and anchor...AND THEN, flipped a switch and started the engine...whisky, tango, foxtrot

Damn. BT...fire it up!

I was a MM aboard the Battleship New Jersey at this time .

A lot more complicated that starting an LM 2500 GTM on a DDG.

BT on DD948,DDG14,FF1080

Damn I love lite off

Nice

you can hear forced draft blowers screaming in the background

Uss Whipple FF-1062 Pearl Harbor 1989-1992!

Mmmmmm, the smell and the noise.

Snipes Rule Hole Snipes run the ship BT's no more now MM's

BTC (SW) I think that water level was a little high for light off as well as lighting the tourch for so long, I, maybe the camera man was the Saftey observer who was not in the viedo. FTG instructor as well!

BTOW USS RANGER CV-61 '81 to '86. You can almost smell the DFM

1200 pounds of steam pressure and 1000+degrees farenheight