USCGC 5in Guns
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- In this special episode we're on board WHEC-37, also known as USCGC Taney and we're taking a closer look at her 5in guns and comparing them to New Jersey's.
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Hard to imagine these ships when they had full complement on board. Must have been personnel absolutely everywhere.
Enjoyed your video, it brought back some memories. After enlisting in the Coast Guard in the mid '70s, My 1st ship was the USCGC Duane, the sister of the Taney. I ended up going to gunners mates school, where they trained us on maintaining the 5"-38. Great piece of machinery. Only thing missing from your video was showing the inside of the turret.
I was on the Duane as sister ship of Taney. I sevred a little more than 5 years total aboard her. I was a Gunner Mate and at one time slept in the compartment on the port side on the other side of the bulkhead from the dredger hoist. I spent hours on the magazines you were in, doing everything from painting to ammo handling to cleaning old hydraulic fluid in the bilge that leaked out of the dredger hoist. The forward head was just forward and sort of wrapped around the upper handling room...it was always a fun time taking a shower or using the head in heavy weather, the showers were next compartment forward of the head. I was a GM1 in 1985 when we decommissioned the Duane, she is a n artificial reef in Florida now.
I was stationed on the CGC TANEY 1984-86. I was in the Gunnery section with GMC Mond, GM1 Oakley GM3 Harris. (I did 4 years in the Coast Guard, then 18 in the Army.) -Michael Brandies
That sounds backwards. I'd expect 18 and 4 🤣
while training in GITMO I watched a gunners mate on the USCGC McCullogh, using the director aiming the 5 inch gun , hit a target towed by a plane on the first shot. talking about getting respect from the squids..
Taney is such a gorgeous ship. My tour of her is one of my favorite memories from visiting Baltimore.
During the early years Taney was fitted with 4 enclosed 5"38 dual purpose guns for convoy escort duty in the North Atlantic. She looked more like a destroyer than a Coast Guard Cutter. Later in the war the four 5"38s were removed and an open 5" gun was installed on the fo'c'sle and then dual 40 mm guns as well as 20mm antiaircraft guns were installed all over the placed. After the war a single 5"38 dual purpose gun was installed forward and most of the antiaircraft guns were removed. I was an ET1 on CGC Bibb in 1978. She was a sister ship of the the Taney. During live fire exercises one of my jobs was to fix all of the old tube-type electronic that were jarred during recoil from the gun. While I first went aboard the Bibb I was surprised - many of the interior spaces, including the 1sr class PO berthing areas were pretty much the same as during WWII. Great fun. It was like going back in time. Lt.Cmdr Chuck Gullage, USCGR (Retired).
You're videos keep getting better. I really have enjoyed watching the growth of this channel and the content
Thanks again Ryan , cheers from Belfast Northern Ireland
07:49 ONLY a Coast Guard Cutter! Them are fighten words MISTER. LOL Thanks foe the vids on us coasties.
glad someone else herd that...
If you weren't 6 hours away, I'd love to see a video on the Massachusetts. Can't stop watching these videos.
We have hopes to get up there this winter
@@BattleshipNewJersey I am excited now.
Me neither. Love the content & I'm so glad to have discovered this channel. I'm a big warship / naval tech fan from over here in germany. Reminds me of my time in the german navy.
Oops... meant to send my comment to you, a Battleship Cove vid would be a dream!
@@BattleshipNewJersey don't forget to show a little love to the Joseph P. Kennedy while your up there. Beautifully preserved Gearing class destroyer. They've converted alot of her back to her 1945 condition
I have been wanting and waiting to get back to Battleship Cove...went there 4 times in my youth... and well...2020 happened, so a vid would be the next best thing!
I thought I recognized my home town accent...!
Great job. The wind was kind to you this time.
Best part of this video is the work west dude. He has a vest. For work. Only.
Were the 5" guns on NJ ever used in combat during Vietnam or 80's deployments?
Absolutely. They got plenty of use in her final 2 commissions
Missouri here: ruclips.net/video/2piJQYJdYCQ/видео.html
Missouri and New Jersey here. I believe it's the same sinkex89 exercise: ruclips.net/video/qVyYmQkARl8/видео.html
I have also see those single mounts on WW2 Fletcher class destroyers, the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. was the twin mount that is on the USS New Jersey. Did the Coast Guard ever use a twin mount on any of their ships?
The Wind class icebreakers were built with them
Can you please show how the ammunition (both 16 inch and 5 inch) is loaded from outside into the magazines of the battleship? Thank you very much!
Its just lowered down a hatch with a chain fall, theres not much to it
I always wondered if Gallium filled Anti-aircraft shells would have been doable given that most aircraft of that time had a ton of Aluminum in them during WW2 as while it may not work right away I think it would eventually compromise the structure of the plane
I don't know if that's even "legal". What happens if the plane gets home and then gets reassigned to transport a couple civilians or injured personnel and it just splits in half midflight.
@@nerfinator03 if during war time military planes get used by civilians their is something wrong. An making the plane unstabe an break up would be the point of ANTI-CRAFT shells unless your a idiot air craft controller that routes a civilian plane through a war zone (example the Civilian Plane shot down over Ukraine even though every one else had been told to stay clear) this should not be a concern for most although accidents do happen in war an I was speaking hypothetically of the WW2 period
some of training is to not break a hand or arm passing ammo. just on lsd 32 Spiegel Grove. it hurts
I want to dive the Grove, my buddy hasn’t been to it since it’s been righted
@@johnbeauvais3159 i was an os on it in 87. got the dive medal. saw Iowa shoot a bit in the med
Did those USCGC guns use optical sighting rather than radar directed fire control?
Single and double 5"/38 mounts have backup optical sights. At the beginning of the video, you can see protective doors to the left and right of the gun barrel.
I was the pointer on the 5"-38 aboard the 210 WMEC Dauntless. It was visual only in the early '80s. It'd hadn't been fired in a while first time I pulled the trigger. After the smoke cleared, all the rust then had been hiding around the forecastle was scattered everywhere from the concussion
@@fishheds weren’t the 210’s armed with 3”/50’s before the refits in the late 80’s/90’s replaced them with 25mm’s?
@@ericdeer5887 yes, I stand corrected. 40 years blurred the memory a bit. The mount was open, with the handwheels for the trainer and pointer.
@@fishheds probably built during WW2
Back when the Coast Guard actually had real firepower.
Back when they had to deal with U-boats, eh?
@@jimmiller5600 and shore bombardment.