re: #29 HoosierHoops

LOL
Hope today finds you well…
In an engine room one of the most feared and deadly things is a high pressured steam leak..It is deadly..and invisible..
Of course on a sub fire is really bad..And water..Taking on water on a boat is never a good thing..Scramming a reactor is never good..Once a reactor shuts down you are pretty much in big trouble for hours.. In DryDock it took us about 4 hours to refire the reactor.. I imagine in a war zone with a torpedo coming at you it would be much shorter period of time.. But you are still f*cked.
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I deeply regret that my great-grandfather wrote nothing down about his time on a sub in WWI.