Fletcher-class question

Fletchers have two boilers in each of the fore and aft firerooms.    I quickly checked my references including Raven's Fletcher,  Ross' Anatomy of the Ship - The Sullivans, and the Floating Drydock'sFletcher  Plan Book.  None have drawings of the stack showing the baffle arrangements.   Photos at NAVSOURCE are also inconclusive but help lead to some assumptions.

From the photos & drawings contained what I think I see is the transverse baffle runs the length of the stack from the top of the superstructure level.    The fore & aft baffles run  much shallower,  not to the level of the grills on the sides of the stacks.   The grills are part of the air supply system for the boilers.    Drawings in Ross show trunk spaces on either side of the stack uptakes for this purpose.

Thanks Ed !

The model is going to be displayed in my wife's classroom (she's a history teacher) so I want to be reasonably accurate when I start work on the stacks.....just in case one of her students happens to look down the stack and goes, "That's not the right internal configuration..."  Never underestimate high-school kids!

Thanks again!!

Vic

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Thanks Ed !

The model is going to be displayed in my wife's classroom (she's a history teacher) so I want to be reasonably accurate when I start work on the stacks.....just in case one of her students happens to look down the stack and goes, "That's not the right internal configuration..."  Never underestimate high-school kids!

Thanks again!!

Vic

Will it be possible to be "reasonably accurate" with the Lindberg kit? Will you be better off to start off with the 1:144 scale Revell Fletcher which is not that much smaller? Yes, I believe that you can make the Lindberg kit very accurate if money and time are no objection. I have seen many wonderful results using the Lindberg kit. But the Revell approach may be cheaper because it needs a lot less after market parts to be "reasonably accurate".

I contacted an old shipmate that served in the USS INGERSOLL,DD652 with me(he was a Chief MM) and he tells me they were 6ft from the bottom.Hope this helps

Thanks for that Radar!!  I appreciate it !  

Vic  

I would definitely agree with ED GRUNE .the same ,though slightly different system was used also on GEARINGS.The main thing to remember is this.On some of these ships,both the FLETCHERS and GEARINGS had footrungs inside the top third of the aft edge of the stack.The reason---When on "cold iron"(this is when the forward or aft fireroom is not producing steam,i.e. cold ",the stackscould be checked for built up debris from the exhaust that had gone through them.There would also be some build up of soot and particulates from "blowing the tubes" A procedure in which hot steam is sprayed on the fireside of the watertubes to dislodge soot build up from the oil burning process. I hope this helps you understand the processes that involve the stacks.         tankerbuilder

Thanks tank!  That's good information.  Most helpful!

Vic