The Chart Room...

[Michael Gallagher]

...but not the one most of us knew and loved!

[Twynkle]

...but not the one most of us knew and loved!

Nevertheless...it's still one of the most interesting places on the ship that most of us knew and loved
all the way from bow to stern! 
By the way, is this immediately behind the wheelhouse?
Thank you so much - having spied lots of wonderful new posts, it feels like Christmas, presents waiting to be unwrapped!
Wish we could say thank you more adequately. 

[Michael Gallagher]

Rosie - glad you're enjoying them. More to come. And yes this was immediately behind the Bridge.

[Twynkle]

Rosie - glad you're enjoying them....

Definitely, Yes!!
The best treat in ages

That big white-board on the far wall - I wonder if it's the Watch Rota?
It's got 4 columns, possibly with names, and big writing
(so people can see from a distance?)
Rosie.

[Michael Gallagher]

Rosie - I've just enlarged the original and the writing looks like it had something to do with Musters and lifeboats etc.

[Bob C.]

This is very similar to the chartroom on the USS NIMITZ (CVN 68)

[skilly56]

Hi Bob,

I just watched a very interesting 1 hour doco on Sky last night, called Big, Bigger, Biggest. It showed a lot of day-to-day life on the Nimitz. All very interesting - I like the bit about only bunkering once every 20 years. Bunkering can sometimes be a pain.

The only carrier I have ever been on was HMS Ark Royal, about 1970, when she visited NZ (I was RNZNVR, so we managed to get into everything except the magazines). What got me was that every aircraft launch cost the British taxpayer another ESFSTWR sling, whereas the US built it's aircraft with nose gear links and a breakaway bar - no cost at all!

6,000 POB's and no PAX (I bet there were a few at times).

Cheers,
Skilly

[Bob C.]

Skilly,
    While we bunkered once every 20 years, we were going along side oil tankers about once a week to take on jet fuel and other stores.  The scale of everything onboard from equipment to operations is huge and the title of the show you watched NIMITZ on is very appropriate!

[skilly56]

And why is it called the Chart Room - because there are drawers and drawers of the bloomin' things - so many they often don't even shut properly!.

And when the Navigator has worn them out (by doing all his chart corrections on them), he sometimes gets very generous and gives a few to the engine room so they can make new joints for the pumps. 

Skilly

[Jem]

Hi Bob,

I just watched a very interesting 1 hour doco on Sky last night, called Big, Bigger, Biggest. It showed a lot of day-to-day life on the Nimitz. All very interesting - I like the bit about only bunkering once every 20 years. Bunkering can sometimes be a pain.

The only carrier I have ever been on was HMS Ark Royal, about 1970, when she visited NZ (I was RNZNVR, so we managed to get into everything except the magazines). What got me was that every aircraft launch cost the British taxpayer another ESFSTWR sling, whereas the US built it's aircraft with nose gear links and a breakaway bar - no cost at all!

6,000 POB's and no PAX (I bet there were a few at times).

Cheers,
Skilly

Skilly, I look forward to the new Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers. It was Britain that used armoured decks in WW2 unlike the American carriers with wooden decks and I think the launch steam catapult was invented by the British as well?

[skilly56]

Hi Jem,

I have my fingers crossed - I did read somewhere that the new UK 'guvmint' might chop them (TSR2 and the Duncan Sandys White Paper all over again??). I only hope they do get completed - they would be a good moral booster for the country, the navy, and good work for the shipyards involved. I see numerous large sections have already been completed and are being shipped for assembly (in the daily Maritime Press Clippings).

Cheers
Skilly

[cunardqueen]

This might show in detail where the location was
Will post this also under the other sections concerned

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[Paul White]

Definitely, Yes!!
The best treat in ages

That big white-board on the far wall - I wonder if it's the Watch Rota?
It's got 4 columns, possibly with names, and big writing
(so people can see from a distance?)
Rosie.

If I remember correctly that board contained the status of all the ship's ballast tanks. I can't remember exactly how many there were, but I think it was around 40. Maybe somebody has a plan.

[RmsAquitania]

My father was an engineering officer in the RN He took us round the old Eagle and Ark Royal, his last ship was the Hermes

[Lynda Bradford]

This might show in detail where the location was
Will post this also under the other sections concerned

Thanks Myles it is good to see the chart showing the location.  Looking forward to your posts showing other sections