Red October

[CaptTom]

What about non-fiction? Lots of good TV series about various wars and warships, NOVA shows about the ocean, etc.

 

[Poach]

Patton--Bridge on the River Quai-Zulu-Midway
Not in that order necessarily, and not on unless the admiral is out of town. She hates re-runs (or come to think of it even pre-runs) of war pics.

 

[HiDHo]

Ski in NC, ever work on a reciprocating steam engine ? All the old Navy destroyers had one in each engine room for pumping bilges. We could even rig them up to run off compressed air when the boilers where idle.
Then there's the movie " Sand Pebbles " that was a Skinner Uni-Flow reciprocating engine, never worked on or operated one of those but had to know them from the manuals for promotion exams.
Correction, I just googled up info on the steam engine and found out it was made by Vickers and the engine room scenes where shot in California. The USS San Pablo actual was powered by a Diesel engine for the movie.

 

[hmason]

Spare my soul but have you seen "Wind." I love that movie too.

 

[Irish Rambler]

Take a look at English film 'The Longest Day'. If you follow my posts last year on 'Voyagers and boaters on the Go' you can see photo's of the actual sites. There are a few more in this years post called 'Windmills and Wine' and still more to come.

 

[Wayfarer]

Dave! You're a Dude!

The Dude abides.

 

[High Wire]

There are some war movies when I find one flipping through the channels that are must stop and watch. Water related ones besides RO:
The Enemy Below
Tora, Tora, Tora
Midway
The Caine Mutiny
Das Boot
Sand Pebbles

 

[RT Firefly]

Greetings,
If discussing war movies with the number of pilots on TF, boats aside, I'm surprised no-one has mentioned "The Battle of Britain". The production crew "hired" the Spanish air force which was still flying vintage WWll German aircraft. Filming was done from a B-25.

 

[sbu22]

How could I have left off the Sand Pebbles? "mensteemstawal" Warms the cockles of my former machinist mate heart.

 

[HiDHo]

MMFn to MMCM 22 years DD's, FF, DLG, CG.

 

[Ski in NC]

Ski in NC, ever work on a reciprocating steam engine ? All the old Navy destroyers had one in each engine room for pumping bilges. We could even rig them up to run off compressed air when the boilers where idle.
Then there's the movie " Sand Pebbles " that was a Skinner Uni-Flow reciprocating engine, never worked on or operated one of those but had to know them from the manuals for promotion exams.
Correction, I just googled up info on the steam engine and found out it was made by Vickers and the engine room scenes where shot in California. The USS San Pablo actual was powered by a Diesel engine for the movie.

No, never worked with recips. Steam turbines, yes, but those just sit there and "whirr". Kind of boring to a gearhead. SSN/SSBN and commercial nuke.

Some of last iterations of the recip were interesting. Corliss valves for one. I need to look up the Skinner. And watch "Sand Pebbles" again.

 

[sbu22]

The Amador Sawmill and Mining Association (Amador County, CA) has a number of restored and operational steam engines (including a 1904 Corliss) that they operate in conjunction with an antique but functional sawmill. Quite a show for an old MM who started life as a BT.

 

[kody]

I stumbled on an interesting one while searching for John Wayne movies.

Sea Chase.

Wayne plays a German steamer capt in the early days of WW2. Not his trademark role.

Add to that great movie, John Wayne's Island in the Sky and The High and the Mighty. Both are great movies!

 

[alormaria]

My father's favorite, "The best years of our lives".

 

[High Wire]

My father's favorite, "The best years of our lives".

I'll put that one tie with Grapes of Wrath as the saddest movie of all time.