Only one propeller working

[DirtyACE]

Hi everyone,

I'm getting back to this game after almost 3 months of not playing it. I'm on my first patrol and everything is going well except that I just noticed that one of my propellers is not spinning. I'm on a VIIB sub. I checked the damage but there isn't any and I don't think it's mulfunctions because I did not turn them on in SH3Cmdr. I did submerge to periscope depth to take out a merchant but that was it. After surfacing again I noticed the problem. Any idea why this is happening?

[Capt. Shark Bait]

more than likely you're recharging batteries. one diesel was disconnected for just that purpose from the screw shaft

[DirtyACE]

Capt. Shark, you're absolutely right. I just noticed that they're both working again and my crew told me that the batteries are fully recharged.

Thanks for the help :up:

[Capt. Shark Bait]

no worries, sailor:ping:

[baggygreen]

You'll probably find your top speed will be reduced while charging, too.

To get around this, clock on the CE icon, then orders, then on the propellor options where you can change from charge to not and back again..

if that makes sense?:hmm:

[andylegate]

"Screws"

They're called screws. Not propellers. One is on ships and subs, the other on planes. Subs don't fly......

Unless your the sub from the Dolphin video! :rotfl:

[madmike81]

"Screws"

They're called screws. Not propellers. One is on ships and subs, the other on planes. Subs don't fly......

Unless your the sub from the Dolphin video! :rotfl:

Uhm...no we called them props in engineering for the 15 years i was in my friend...lol.

[andylegate]

You did? :o

Wait! I get it!

Ships have screws.
Boats have props.
Subs are refered to as "Boats", ah......!

See? Even a skimmer like me can learn still.

(but you bubbleheads are weird!... :rotfl: )

[Venatore]

more than likely you're recharging batteries. one diesel was disconnected for just that purpose from the screw shaft

I still wish this procedure was a manual function :shifty:

[andylegate]

it is. Isn't it? I mean you can click on the chief engineer and click on the "prop" icon and the batteries will stop charging and you'll pick up speed. At least I've done that before.

[Venatore]

Yes; but doesn't it start automatically when you surface the U-boat. :hmm:

[madmike81]

You did? :o

Wait! I get it!

Ships have screws.
Boats have props.
Subs are refered to as "Boats", ah......!

See? Even a skimmer like me can learn still.

(but you bubbleheads are weird!... :rotfl: )

haha...i was a DC1 man...no subs for me.

[Sailor Steve]

Bubbleheads, skimmers, boats, ships...

When John Stevens tried, and John Ericsson and Francis Pettit Smith separately succeeded in developing the device, they all obtained patents under the name Screw Propellor. The first warships to use the device, HMS Rattler and USS Princeton both used the double term. Quibling over what it should be called is kind of sill...no, wait, I do that all the time.:rotfl: Never mind!:oops:

http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/stevens/
http://www.pt5dome.com/JohnEricsson.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Rattler_(1843)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Land/Wooden_steam_warship

Also Isambard Brunel and the Great Eastern
http://www.applet-magic.com/brunel.htm

[andylegate]

Hey I'm cool with it. I just remember how up on the bridge the watch would call out how many turns the "screws" were making for X amount of knots.

But y'all can call them what you want.

Hey! Is that a rope laying on the floor? I'd better pick it up and hang it on this wall. Next I'll go through this metal door and ask where the bathroom is. But I don't want to get anyone out of their bed for that. Maybe I'll just go up these stairs and walk down this hallway to the cafeteria. There might be someone in the kitchen that I could ask. Is this the way to the back? No, it must be the way to the front, on the left side of the ship where the other ship is. We're on her right side. Ah, here we go it's a round, trap door that I can go down. Looks like one of the crew's sleeping rooms. Hey! They've got a bathroom! I'll just use one of their toilets.

:rotfl:
Any sailor worth a salt is rolling over right now!

'scuise me, I gotta hit the head and use the *******! :rotfl:

[U49]

Yes; but doesn't it start automatically when you surface the U-boat. :hmm:

I think you can prearrange the whished setting before you surface but I am not sure. I'll check it out anyway when my Ubootkrieg will start later in the evening again.
My whish would be to have individual settings for each engine for the 2-propeller boats.

Btw: The german engineers also prefer "propeller" and this is regardless of the size from Emma Maersk to U-1

[Capt. Shark Bait]

it's screw screw screw, oy. and in the immortal words of limey the lima bean, "screw you":p :D

[Sailor Steve]

Next I'll go through this metal door...
Got no problem with the rest of your humor, but when I was in they drilled us nonstop: "If it goes up through the overhead or down through the deck, it's a hatch. If it goes through a bulkhead, it's a door." Watertight door!

[andylegate]

Got no problem with the rest of your humor, but when I was in they drilled us nonstop: "If it goes up through the overhead or down through the deck, it's a hatch. If it goes through a bulkhead, it's a door." Watertight door!

Oops! I should have specified. It IS a metal door, and it's not water tight (care to remember that one? Each one had to be stenciled: NTD ) and that was what I was talking about.

The 3 ships I served on we always called them NTD's.

But yes, you are absolutely correct of course, hatches are up and down, WTD's are through the bulkheads.

Always loved replacing the gaskets on them when I was the DC PO......NOT! :shifty: took me months to figure out how to make the ends meet and not have a 1 inch gap! grrrrrrrrr!
Ack! Now you've gone and made me remember all those deck drains I used to have to clean out and fix! :rotfl:

[madmike81]

AAAHHH the joys of DCPO's...i used to loathe the days spent heading up that division...lol.

Cant say i miss it much.

[Hakahura]

It's a little off topic, but all this banter about screws and propellers reminds me off an old RAF gag.
It used to be printed on t-shirts and patches worn by C130 crews and groundcrews as a dig at the fast jet jockeys.

"4 Screws are better than 2 Blow Jobs"

[Jimbuna]

LMAO :rotfl:

[Sailor Steve]

But yes, you are absolutely correct of course, hatches are up and down, WTD's are through the bulkheads.
I'm glad you agree, because I'm having memory problems these days, and I wasn't 100% sure. I used to watch JAG all the time, and throw popcorn at the screen every time someone in an office, on shore, said "Close the hatch".:damn:

Ack! Now you've gone and made me remember all those deck drains I used to have to clean out and fix! :rotfl:
You're very welcome. And now I'll talk about my month as a mess cook. I was always complimented on my coffee, which is odd because I hate coffee and always made it by reading the rules!

[U49]

You're very welcome. And now I'll talk about my month as a mess cook. I was always complimented on my coffee, which is odd because I hate coffee and always made it by reading the rules!

Do I sense here a little critique against the "rules"? Eh? ;)

My last armed-service rule about coffee was given by setting up the to-be-achieved success: A good coffee in the morning must be like a hit with a fist in the face. :arrgh!:

[andylegate]

Then only rule I had about coffee was my cup in the First Class Mess. "Don't Touch!" I don't care HOW dirty it looks!

[Sailor Steve]

You're very welcome. And now I'll talk about my month as a mess cook. I was always complimented on my coffee, which is odd because I hate coffee and always made it by reading the rules!

Do I sense here a little critique against the "rules"? Eh? ;)
No, I just have no idea how coffee should taste. When they told me how good mine was, I thought it was funny, because there was no special "my" coffee, just what it said on the side of the machine.

[U49]

When they told me how good mine was, I thought it was funny, because there was no special "my" coffee, just what it said on the side of the machine.

citation: Always trust the machines, they know it better...
;)