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  • Stuffing box (redirect from Stern gland)
    parts of machine elements. A stuffing box of a sailing boat will have a stern tube that is slightly bigger than the prop shaft. It will also have packing...
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    change to propeller propulsion. An effective stern tube and associated bearings were required. The stern tube contains the propeller shaft where it passes...
    47 KB (5,774 words) - 08:21, 8 June 2024
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    a total of 14 torpedoes. The only exception was U-83, which lacked a stern tube and carried only 12 torpedoes. Type VIIBs included many of the most famous...
    29 KB (3,029 words) - 15:36, 5 June 2024
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    Boots 'Stern'". New York Daily News. Retrieved April 9, 2010. Luerssen 2009, p. 148. Petrozzello, Donna (November 15, 2001). "Inner Tube: Stern going off...
    116 KB (12,116 words) - 05:46, 19 May 2024
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    good. The stern torpedo tube had also to be mounted externally as the rudder obstructed the exit of an internal tube. As a consequence, this tube could not...
    53 KB (7,140 words) - 17:00, 5 June 2024
  • remaining torpedo tube. Trigger uses an air hose to breathe inside the flooded compartment. He closes the air valve to the stern tube, but finds a second...
    25 KB (2,820 words) - 23:51, 21 May 2024
  • stern chaser See chase gun. stern tube 1.  The tube under the hull bearing the tailshaft for propulsion (usually at the stern). 2.  A torpedo tube mounted...
    251 KB (31,543 words) - 14:18, 8 June 2024
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    reduction gear coupling and the location of stern tube being such that the normal wear down of the stern tube will not induce significant movement of the...
    9 KB (1,341 words) - 00:42, 2 April 2024
  • similarity between these jokes and the Tube Bar calls as "creative synchronicity." Co-developer Sam Simon told The Howard Stern Show in 2007 that the jokes are...
    17 KB (1,312 words) - 10:41, 1 March 2024
  • Crosshead cylinder oils Crosshead Crankcase oils Trunk piston engine oils Stern tube lubricants A further phenomenon that has undergone investigation in relation...
    33 KB (4,041 words) - 04:52, 3 March 2024
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    water-lubricated shaft bearings for ships and hydro-electric power plants and in the stern-tube bearings of ship propeller shafts until the 1960s saw the introduction...
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    remaining full one at the escort; she then swung about and fired one stern tube at the latter. Two torpedoes exploded at 02:46, and the cargo ship sank...
    38 KB (5,329 words) - 12:40, 7 February 2024
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    no stern tubes. Modern submarine bows are usually occupied by a large sonar array, necessitating midships tubes angled outward, while stern tubes have...
    101 KB (12,144 words) - 12:02, 6 June 2024
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    three-torpedo salvo from her stern torpedo tubes and scored one hit that sank Kainan Maru. Later that morning, Baya fired another stern tube salvo at a convoy of...
    20 KB (2,485 words) - 08:29, 25 April 2024
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    southern tip of Africa) the ship's propeller shaft sheared within the stern tube, a location impossible to repair at sea, disabling the ship. Reaching...
    9 KB (1,089 words) - 19:31, 24 November 2023
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    Beetlejuice (entertainer) (category All articles with dead YouTube links)
    2021. Retrieved 26 October 2021 – via YouTube. "Wednesday, March 18, 2015 | Howard on Air Rundown | HowardStern.com". www.howardstern.com. Archived from...
    19 KB (1,669 words) - 19:18, 8 June 2024
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    She had five 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, two in the bow, one either side amidships, and one in the stern; a total of 10 torpedoes were carried. E-class...
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  • Thumbnail for Howard Stern television shows
    Howard Stern is an American radio personality who is best known for his radio show The Howard Stern Show. Stern (along with his followers) describes himself...
    20 KB (2,220 words) - 04:09, 4 December 2023
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    Neon lighting (redirect from Neon tube)
    Schulte (1956) US Keith Sonnier (1941) US Rudi Stern (1936) US Tim White-Sobieski (1961) Poland Crackle tube – Type of plasma lamp Plasma globe – Decorative...
    33 KB (3,820 words) - 20:02, 8 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grayback-class submarine
    Torpedo armament was the same as the Tangs, with six bow and two stern tubes. The stern tubes were for "swim-out" weapons only, such as the Mark 37 ASW homing...
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