Re: Whalebacks
Posted: December 22, 2023, 6:07 am
Thanks again...... appreciate your insight !
Jared wrote: ↑December 20, 2023, 10:01 pmYes they would let the anchor slide down the hull, they had a sacrificial rope on some of them in some early photographs wrapped around the fluke closest to the spar deck.E J B wrote: ↑December 20, 2023, 12:10 pm Appreciate that Jared.
I thought maybe they used the same winches for docking--but didn't seem right. So when they released the anchors-- just let them slide down the hull ??
You ever dive a whaleback ??
Yes, I have dove the Colgate, Clifton, and the one in Whitefish Bay.
In my experience, they hold up better than the normal hulls. The Clifton had 4000 tons of aggregate move forward plus her forward momentum and only the front 40 feet of hull is destroyed. Colgate is completely intact but upside down in much shallower water and has held up fine for the last 107 years on the bottom. The Mather was dynamited and salvaged and still holds her shape. The Wilson has been hit with many anchors, dynamited, and wire dragged and still has the second most amount of interior structure of the living spaces behind the Clifton.E J B wrote: ↑December 21, 2023, 7:16 pm Appreciate the information Jared......
Here's a goofy question for you---with several variables involved of course..... How did the whalebacks fair as they went under and hit the bottom compared to a conventionally shaped hull ?? More or less hull fractures etc, etc..... does that make sense ??
Yes they would let the anchor slide down the hull, they had a sacrificial rope on some of them in some early photographs wrapped around the fluke closest to the spar deck.E J B wrote: ↑December 20, 2023, 12:10 pm Appreciate that Jared.
I thought maybe they used the same winches for docking--but didn't seem right. So when they released the anchors-- just let them slide down the hull ??
You ever dive a whaleback ??