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Originally Posted by 70SATMan
We had a knot meter in my system space on the E and usually they'd turn off the signals during high speed drills. Let's just say I once saw us exceed the "official" top speed when they had forgotten to turn them off.
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I heard that from a Machinist Mate that served on a nuke carrier, USS Carl Vinson maybe. The official word was greater than 30 knots. They can do turns on those props that work out to a fair bit more than 30.
Sea water pouring in through the bulkhead would be a heck of a wakeup. Liable to be dead about the time you figured out what was happening.