Carriers of the Great Lakes

[morfiend]

That's what I thought, but after looking at some underway pics, I'm not sure. I looked around and couldn't find any documentation where they converted it to screw during the refit.
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That sure looks like wake coming off the wheel.

  RPM,

   If you look at the 4th or 5th pic you can see the wake from the screws.  It was likely converted from paddle wheeler long before it got converted to a flattop. If my Dad was still around I would ask him,he sailed the lakes for years and if anyone would know it would be him!  He was chief engineer for the last 20 years he sailed and I'm ashamed I don't know more about them than I do.


   

[MiloMorai]

The Wolverine is a side wheeler morf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pkjcsLE-yF8

So was the Sable.

[Oldman731]

What is amazing to is the turn around. They took over the second ship in May of 1942 and commissioned it in Nov of 1942? Holy cow! Today, that would take three years a Billion dollars up front with a few hundre million in cost overruns.

Today, WWII would be over before they got authorization to form the project exploratory committee.

- oldman

[morfiend]

The Wolverine is a side wheeler morf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pkjcsLE-yF8

So was the Sable.

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  WOW!!   I would have thought they were all but gone by then but I'm not the expert!


     

[Masherbrum]

  WOW!!   I would have thought they were all but gone by then but I'm not the expert!


     

There is a detailed model of the Wolverine at the Kalamazoo AirZoo.   It used to be this, prior to the conversion:

[Drano]

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitcheegoomee.....

[kotrenin]

We had a similar discussion a few years ago.

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,219971.msg2645886.html#msg2645886

There is a model of the USS Wolverine at the Great Lakes Naval Base museum.  And a Wildcat they pulled up in the 90's is sitting at the Valiant Air Command warbird museum in Titusville, FL. http://www.vacwarbirds.org/

[Ack-Ack]

Must have sucked shoveling coal for those ships.

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