I've recently read about how when a ship is retired and turned into a museum or hotel or whatever, they remove the engines. Even if you won't be routinely moving the ship what is the point of removing the engines? If you ever do decide to move the ship the only way you can do it is to tow it.
2006-11-16 01:33:15 · 7 answers · asked by DialM4Speed 6 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
Huh? Actually removing the engines from most ships would rather hard. There is no acess panels or anything. Generally you would be scraping rather than preserving.
In any case, The ship is no longer in service, has a crew, or is certified. So What do you need engines working for? 99% of the time it is going to be docked.
2006-11-16 01:57:37 · answer #1 · answered by lana_sands 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many reasons. Lightering the ship for draft restrictions, maintenance, selling the parts, converting the machinery space for other uses, cleanlyness. A museum will generally leave the engines intact especially if it is an older ship or tug with triple expansion steam recip. engines, or a walking beam engine. Otherwise, If it doesn't need to get underway why maintain an engine? And there is nothing wrong with towing. Much of coastal trade is done by tugboats nowadays, especially in the petroleum industry.
2006-11-16 10:20:06 · answer #2 · answered by nytugcapt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In most cases the engines are left in. Unless the ship had been in mothballs. In mothballs a ship is parted out to other ships thus intrepid lost her engines to keep her sister ships going. They are now probably sitting in the USS LEXINGTON which is also a museum in Texas. If you were to visit other museum ships you would find they all have there engines. Intrepid is just the odd man out. Though in most museum ships you can't visit the engine room because of asbestos insulation on all those steam lines and boilers. It is usually too costly to remove so they just don't lat the public down there. A notable exception is USS NORTH CAROLINA.
2006-11-16 15:20:27 · answer #3 · answered by brian L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They remove the engine for the same reason the boat was retired... either they are old or historic..and sometimes when they leave the motors in the stress of the motor weight on the hull over a LONG period of time will cause damage to the hull
2006-11-16 22:32:48 · answer #4 · answered by Mike L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They usually remove the prop, and rudder, they can easily be put back on to move the ship
2006-11-16 16:11:01 · answer #5 · answered by motors2005_tk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They take engines out of retired military ships so some crazy ******* don't try to hijack them. It's a safety precaution.
2006-11-16 09:47:23 · answer #6 · answered by Low Key 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sell the motors for cash and make lots of room ,it also removes the oily mess
2006-11-17 08:38:57 · answer #7 · answered by Bushit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋