"Not handed " propellers
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 9:41 am
I have purchased another book about my "favourite" DDs which were Flushdeckers /Town Class in HMN.
It is Town Class Destroyers .A Crirtical Assessment by J.Henshaw.
The latter part of the title actually was a warning that the Towns will be criticized - one may say they fully deserve for.
Anyway, one of the information passed to a reader is that the Towns/fluschdeckers had no handed propellers with additional remarks that due to this they would "turn more easily one way and would be more difficult the other way "
I have had my memory, eyes and shelfs open for the a/m DDs and have never heard this I must say rather fake news.
Checked quickly navsource plus my books and whenever flushdeckers are shown in drydock stern forward to photgrapher they ALL have "handed" propellers. I can prove in some 15 photos that the DDs had sure handed propellers.
I have found also many other photos of ships even from before WW1 era and have found they had handed propellers.
Are my doubts correct?
Regards,
gd
It is Town Class Destroyers .A Crirtical Assessment by J.Henshaw.
The latter part of the title actually was a warning that the Towns will be criticized - one may say they fully deserve for.
Anyway, one of the information passed to a reader is that the Towns/fluschdeckers had no handed propellers with additional remarks that due to this they would "turn more easily one way and would be more difficult the other way "
I have had my memory, eyes and shelfs open for the a/m DDs and have never heard this I must say rather fake news.
Checked quickly navsource plus my books and whenever flushdeckers are shown in drydock stern forward to photgrapher they ALL have "handed" propellers. I can prove in some 15 photos that the DDs had sure handed propellers.
I have found also many other photos of ships even from before WW1 era and have found they had handed propellers.
Are my doubts correct?
Regards,
gd