If you had told me this pic was from the USS Alabama that I toured a few years back, I wouldn’t have disagreed with you, even down to the color of the floor.
A lot of these ammunition bays were deep within the hull of the ship. I’m assuming to protect them from all the other chaos that would be going on around them. Makes you realize just how dangerous a sub with one well aimed torpedo could be.
Another remarkable thing I saw was that the Alabama had a massive ice cream freezer on it. Was to improve morale on those long voyages. Anything like that on the North Carolina?
![[OC] Projectile ring for ammunition inside the 16 inch main gun of the USS North Carolina](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b54e0d3c-047a-4cd3-b73f-aaaff9c09feb.jpeg){kind=link}
If you had told me this pic was from the USS Alabama that I toured a few years back, I wouldn’t have disagreed with you, even down to the color of the floor.
A lot of these ammunition bays were deep within the hull of the ship. I’m assuming to protect them from all the other chaos that would be going on around them. Makes you realize just how dangerous a sub with one well aimed torpedo could be.
Another remarkable thing I saw was that the Alabama had a massive ice cream freezer on it. Was to improve morale on those long voyages. Anything like that on the North Carolina?
I didn’t see the behind the scenes freezer locations. A good chunk of the ship was off limits for restoration.
There was a soda shop and ice cream parlor. I don’t remember about the ice cream, but the soda was an extra the sailors had to pay for out of pocket.