Aggie wrote:
what are the objects that one can see on the open deck that is just behind the bridge, and what are those objects on the protruding
deck platform that comes off the rear of the island?
I'm not 100% sure sure you mean by "behind the bridge, but I think the
1944 Booklet of General Plans could be helpful as it doesn't look like a lot changed.
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Working our way aft on the Navigation bridge, we have a
Target Transmitting Designator (Maybe not the same mark number, link just included for those that didn't know there was such a thing), Pelorus, and then a telescope. Around the director base there is an inclined ladder port and aft and I'm not sure of the pyrotechnics locker in 1944 is there as launched. It does look like the Radio Direction Finder loop is there above the very edge of the structure below. There is a sailor standing in front of a box and I'm wondering if that's the pyrotechnics locker and it was just moved forward or if it's the narrow rectangle shown in the plans. Aft of that in your photo is something that I'm guessing is a compass even though it's not labelled - note the circle in the plans around it. The Navy liked to have non-magnetic structures around the compass (The structure around Battleship Nevada's was brass, leading to noticeable melting during the Pearl Harbor attack, as mentioned in her
damage report). and I'm wondering if the circles around that point designate something of note such as that.
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