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Originally Posted by Engine Serang
When I joined Texaco in 1970 they had 5 T2's; Melbourne, Rome, Saigon, Wellington and Bombay. They had either GE or Westinghouse electrics and all were jumboized in Japan in 1967 increasing dwt from 17000 to 23000 tons.
I never managed to sail on them but every engineer I met who did would only speak well of them. Very unusual as we are generally a whinging bunch.
The Sun defines Pole-Slip as Boris's bit on the side loosing her footing in the flat.
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I got to visit T2 off Trinidad on the way back to Texaco Spain (London? Anyway Lecky was Ted Alford who didn't mind me turning up below). Never got to sail on one. A regret experience wise. As was missing Morar.
An unfortunate Denholm E/O got one rotating rectifier anode-about-cathode resulting in the AC rotor being first, only partially operational (reactive current much imbalanced) and then burning out. It was not the rocka-a-billy of pole slip that halted the test but the smoke.