Improvisation

[garymalmgren]

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[AntarcticPilot]

There was a US submarine in the Pacific that improvised sails to return to base after running out of diesel! Unfortunately I can't recall its name.

 

[Poignard]

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Marvellous!

At that time MN officers still had to have served time in sailing ships and would have known what to do.

 

[Bouba]

Where they bed sheets…tarpaulin covers….?

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Marvellous!

At that time MN officers still had to have served time in sailing ships and would have known what to do.

I keep trying to persuade my friend who is a ship's officer to learn to sail, so she could qualify for being a Master under sail! But she's on cruise liners.

 

[Wansworth]

Where they bed sheets…tarpaulin covers….?

Can you set studding sails on your launch?

 

[Alex_Blackwood]

Where they bed sheets…tarpaulin covers….?

Hatch covers it says in the blurb probably Tarp.

 

[nigel1]

There was a US submarine in the Pacific that improvised sails to return to base after running out of diesel! Unfortunately I can't recall its name.

It was the R-14
R-14 Under Way, Under Sail

 

[AntarcticPilot]

It was the R-14
R-14 Under Way, Under Sail

Thanks! There's a photo of her under sail in the Wikipedia article: USS R-14 - Wikipedia

I don't think the rig would have allowed her to go to windward - but the shape of a submarine wouldn't resist heeling forces very well as they're basically a cylinder!

 

[veshengro]

Looks like they have used her Derricks as sail booms, but the square sails are interesting, I wonder about the yards..Perhaps they unshipped some Derricks and used them as yards too? Just a guess as the Fore Yard looks to be as thick as her Top Mast The Derricks would already have places to secure Lifts and Braces in the Head Block and Heel fittings so perhaps that was the solution. The sails would not have presented a problem as even when I first went to sea in 1960 we were still battening down with two, sometimes three tarps to a Hatch. At least she already had Masts, they would struggle with a Jury rig in the ships of today.

 

[Poignard]

Even if today's crews knew what was required, there wouldn't have the gear and materials to do it.

 

[Bouba]

Can you set studding sails on your launch?

I have a rather large mast for a motor boat...which also serves as a derrick for launching the tender....but the mast is only fitted to the roof....it doesn’t go down into the hull. So attaching a bed sheet would probably cause all sorts of problems...starting with losing the mast, followed by my roof

 

[Bouba]

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Do you think the sails were set purely for the camera....or did she sail out of port ?

 

[Poignard]

I have a rather large mast for a motor boat...which also serves as a derrick for launching the tender....but the mast is only fitted to the roof....it doesn’t go down into the hull. So attaching a bed sheet would probably cause all sorts of problems...starting with losing the mast, followed by my roof

And you have bed sheets?

You motor boat drivers live such sybaritic lives!

 

[Bouba]

And you have bed sheets?

You motor boat drivers live such sybaritic lives!

I don’t mean to brag....but I have an electric blanket

 

[Poignard]

I don’t mean to brag....but I have an electric blanket

Ponce!

 

[RunAgroundHard]

From the Wikipedia link R14 materials for sailing.

… A foresail was made of eight hammocks hung from a top boom made of pipe bunk frames lashed firmly together, all tied to the vertical kingpost of the torpedo loading craneforward of the submarine's superstructure. Seeing that this gave R-14 a speed of about 1 knot(1.2 mph; 1.9 km/h), as well as rudder control, a mainsail was made of six blankets, hung from the sturdy radio mast (the top sail in the photograph). This added 0.5 knots (0.6 mph; 0.9 km/h) to the speed. A mizzen was then made of eight blankets hung from another top boom made of bunk frames, all tied to the vertically placed boom of the torpedo loading crane.[3] This sail added another 0.5 knots (0.6 mph; 0.9 km/h). …

 

[RunAgroundHard]

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Interesting history, wind hybrid mode of transport, where the hybrid eventually won. Some would call that ship a Noddy boat.

 

[Bouba]

The best transport system has been devised by Tesla (the man not the car)....he built a tall tower to project electricity into the ether....an electric drive ship (without battery storage) could tap into this out to sea and propel itself

 

[Poignard]

The best transport system has been devised by Tesla (the man not the car)....he built a tall tower to project electricity into the ether....an electric drive ship (without battery storage) could tap into this out to sea and propel itself

You mean a sort of maritime equivalent of the trolley bus?