For those of you who scratchbuid ships, or for someone needing plans.

I was looking through the old, (And I do mean Old), Navy boxes, I ran accross a couple of items that might be of use to the Model Shipwrights Dept.

I have a full set, or "Booklet of General Plans" for the USS Jonas Ingram (DD 938), or the Forrest Sherman Class Destroyer. It had been wet at one time and has bled alittle, but is in good enough shape to use. It is in 1/16 Scale.

So if anyone can tell me what a spider is in the sail of a fast attack submarine, I will send you these plans.

But I will prob have to end up just giving them away. :-)

Good Luck,
Bob


:-) Besides being Dead :-)

Wet?


~Gunny

:-) OK Gunny So far your it.

Thats not the exact answer I was looking for, so if no one else gets it, they are all yours.

Bob

I couldn’t beat gunnys. so I tried looking up the real one.

I think I’ve found it but have no need for the planes so I won’t post it here.
I hope you you don’t mind me PMing you to see if I really found the right one.

Is it the bearings in the periscope?

Kenny

Redneck said it was OK for me to post his response;

redneck wrote:

I think the spider in the subs sail stands for Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction. and is probably used to find stuff.
(rednecks answer edited by me)
Very original but also wrong.

Kenny, Sorry wrong also.

This being Thursday for a small hint I'll just say that it has to deal with all the masts in the sail. I'll wait untill Friday night to give any more hints, Sunday I'll announce the answer.

So far Gunny is ahead by the fact that he answered first, Kenny runner up for trying and a thank you to redneck for his answer.


Don't give up,
Bob

I think I'm on the right track thanks to the hint, but I'm going to bow out of the running gracefully. What do I know about submarines, truthfully, I can't even tell you port from starboard. 3/4 of the stuff I read here I've got to look up to figure out what I just read.

Kenny

Hmmm, could it be an UNDERWATER VIEWING MODULE?

~Gunny

I suspect that it's the framework through which the periscopes and other tubular items pass. On capital ships, the mast spider was the multi-legged support on which the tops sat.

Al Ross

:-) I'm pretty sure all the screen doors have been removed Gunny :-)

Thanks for trying Kenny.

Al, - Polo. Getting closer. I suppose we could do this by process of elimination.

Since this is the water area- "Never give up the ship"
Bob

Ok.

Al was close about the masts. It does have something to do with them but not for support.

Next one will give it away for sure.
Bob

I guess every one gave up. Well Gunny gets the plans.

A Spider is a contraption that passes through the hull allowing connectivity of up to 8 cables for masts etc.. in the Sail. Since it passes through the all important pressure hull it took God's Nephew Homer's signature for permission and final approval.

Thanks to everyone for trying ,
Congrats Gunny,
Bob