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    The Rescue
    The Rescue
    The Rescue
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    The Rescue

    By D. E. Harrison

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    A new naval ship is under construction. It is one of many in this class. A small engine room change may help a leaking shaft, which is on every ship of this class. A light switch is out on the lathe as they turn the shafts, but well within specs. Quality control approves the shafts as they have high values but still within the limits.
    During sea trails the Valiant is requested to help in a commercial aircraft forced to ditch in the ocean. The Chief of the engine room and the lead engineer Jan Douglas tries to coax the speed of the Valiant above its rated value to attempt a rescue of the airplane passengers.

    Sea trials go very well after which Captain Strong become an Admiral and the Exec becomes the Captain of the Valiant. Jan goes back to work, and the Chief retires from the Navy.

    Several years later, Jan and the Chief are picked up by black hawk helos wherever they are to help again on the Valiant.
    College students and teachers are on a small atoll in the Pacific. They have a plane to get off but stay to study the unusual happens to the island. Then the island sinks a few feet and they lose their plane. They call for help but with no air strip they need be taken off by helos or ships.
    It is feared the island will explode and the closest ship is days away to pick them up. However, the seas are so rough that a ship dares not get to close. They fear the volcano will explode and send out huge waves that could swamp any size ships. The navy is steaming out of the area as fast as possible.
    The main fleet is two or three days from getting a helicopter into the area.

    Some how the Valiant with the best speed might be able to get close enough for a Marine landing craft to land and pick them up. But now the water maybe to hot and burn its engines out.
    They are able to get a phone calls transferred out from the Atoll, “Daddy, don’t try to come and get us. The island is almost covered with water and it near boiling in the lagoon.. It is sinking, fast. Love you.” Click.
    He hands the phone to an aid, “Is there something I can do Mr. President?”
    “No, that will be all.”

    Can Jan, the engine room designer; the engine room Chief,; the ex-Captain of the Valiant, now an Admiral pull another rabbit out of their hat?”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. E. Harrison
    Release dateMar 26, 2020
    ISBN9780463592113
    The Rescue
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    D. E. Harrison

    I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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      The Rescue - D. E. Harrison

      THE RESCUE

      By D. E. Harrison

      Copyright 2004 by D. E. Harrison

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 Shaft Sizing

      Chapter 2 Sea Trails

      Chapter 3 A New Captain

      Chapter 4 the Race to the Valiant

      Chapter 5 On the Atoll

      Chapter 6 On the Valiant

      Chapter 7 Getting Closer to the Atoll

      Chapter 8 Phone Batteries Are Going Dead

      Chapter 9 The Pickup

      Chapter 10 The Last Desperate Try

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      Chapter 1 Shaft Sizing

      In the shipyard design area of Evergreen Engineering , a new ship is being worked up. It is similar in tonnage to its sister ships with a few refinements in the population system. She has nothing major, a few more horses under the hood, but still within the final construction guidelines for this class of ship.

      The design supervisor John Blake is talking with his head engineer. Jan, these two shafts to the propellers, I see you have added thicker bolts to the seals. We will have to rebalance them if you do this, maybe the motor housing and even the power trains. I say we leave them as they are!

      Jan points at the plans, No, notice the final weight, it is the same as now. We need not reprogram the NC machines except to bore the extra sized holes. All ships of this class have a leak, while within spec.’s I see no need for it. These bolts should help solve the leak. The increase in weight is balanced by the larger holes, and the need for less flange in the shaft cutout. We can do this without any re-balancing needed. But I will check it again.

      Jan Douglas, JD to her friends is the only girl in her engineering graduation class on high pressure engines, specializing in naval gear. She can look a sailor standing 6 foot 1 in the eye. She is a reserve naval office holding rank of a full Lieutenant. Serving aboard a fighting Frigate for one tour of duty. Has the bite of a bulldog and a voice of an angle! Her hair is cut shorter than regulations requires. In the heat of a navel ship’s engine room, less is better. She seldom wears her uniform.

      John nods his approval. OK, I will send it up with a note about the bolts and seal.

      In the Naval review team is the future Captain Strong and his Chief petty officer Wrongway of the engine room,

      The Captain Strong asks. Chief what do you make of these bolt change. Does it really matter?

      "Commander, the seal has operated within spec. since they started. If we could get a drip-less seal for a slightly larger bolt, I say great. There is no need to change anything else. You can see the weight is covered by the extra hole size and the shaft hood being cut slightly bigger which allows more packing.

      What is more important is that they sized the bolt heads and nuts to be the same as all other ships. There is no need to carry any special tools. If it was not for that I would have said ‘no way;’ a very clever way to solve a problem."

      The Captain agrees. Chief, we go with it. Have the papers issued and let’s get ourselves another ship on the line.

      The review by the technical naval staff is quick. Very few changes are ever approved. Jan’s bolt change makes it on the strength of reducing the leakage of the shaft to the power train and the requirement for no different tools.

      The keel has been already been laid and the approval for the larger bolts makes it to the machine shop.

      The supervisor says to the machinist. Mac here are the change orders for the ship on 3-t14. The only change is the bore size on the shaft housing. I will order the bolts and spares now. The engines need no change. I don’t see why but they pay the bills.

      In another part of the yard, the overhead crane is bringing the rough blanks of steel to turn the drive shafts.

      The foreman says. Let’s get these shafts ready for the 3-t14. The engines and seals are already in the works.

      The pushing of the key number ‘9’ instead of the ‘7’ as the shafts are being turned is not noticed. The lights on ‘7’ and ‘9’ are out anyway. No one notices the shaft is going to be slightly over sized.

      In final inspection, it is checked by a laser.

      The inspector says to the shaft foreman. Jack look at this, the shafts are over-sized by ‘2’.

      The foreman asks,. Did you notice they oversized the bolts and the cut out on the seal opening?

      The inspector has the plans in his hands, Yes I did. So who cares about this ‘2’? It is still within the upper specs for the shaft and the extra-large bolts are more than enough to carry that. Write it up and pass it on.

      The ship is built and shoved out of dry dock; 3-t14 is to be out fitted and prepared for sea trials.

      The engines are tested under no load as each part of the propulsion system is run in static mode.

      In the Captain’s quarters, the Exec Archer is with Captain Strong.

      "Sir, I noticed in the spec.’s that the larger bolts were installed but the

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