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Originally Posted by daepp View Post
My daughter is an OOD of a sister ship to the two that were damaged.

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- Her DDG lost steering as well. - when two of their generators went south. She told me that the manual over-ride takes two men to turn a crank, and it takes 30 rotations of the manual crank to get 1 deg of rudder turn
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Can't they put one engine in reverse to get the ship to change course or does that take too long?
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