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Victory Ship Telegraph. Attached, I think, is a shot of the engine order telegraph on the SS Lane Victory. (stolen from their Facebook page). Victory ships were built later in WWII than most of the Liberty ships.
The engine room, with its cross-compound steam turbine with double reduction gears, was a maze of valves, piping, and various units that had to be opened, cleaned, tested, and reassembled. The Naval Armed Guard began to locate the ordnance required to bring the ship to her full wartime armament.
- An engine order telegraph or E.O.T., often also chadburn, is a communications device used on a ship (or submarine) for the pilot on the bridge to order engineers in the engine room to power the vessel at a certain desired speed.
Jul 15, 1999 · Named after Isaac Lane, a former slave who became a Methodist bishop and founder of a Tennessee college, the SS Lane Victory (which also served in Korea and Vietnam) was rescued from a...
ENGINE ROOM. The engine room is the heart of a ship. It is where the power is generated to drive the ship, and is also where power is provided for the ship's generators. The generators provide electricity for the ship's lights and the D.C. motors which operate the fire and bilge pumps and many other vital ship's motors.
May 23, 2019 · USA TODAY. The S.S. Lane Victory is docked in the Port of Los Angeles and is just one of three remaining Victory ships in the world. The Lane Victory is fighting a losing battle of rust and...
S.S. Lane Victory began her first wartime journey on June 27, 1945, in the closing stages of World War II. She delivered munitions, loaded in Port Hueneme, California to Admiralty Island in the Pacific. She went on to serve with distinction in both the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
