Battleship terminal BB61

On 6/30/2013 8:13 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote: Actually, I think developed a system which was designed to prevent surreptitious boarding of ships, which was on cruisers and destroyers. I don't know about the battleships, as it was at the time that they were going away. The BB's had larger crews due to the inefficiency of the design and the needs of the modern navy. For just a gun platform they are obviously unequal, but as a platform for modern weapons they weren't so good. However to keep personnel that had no business off the ship, and to account for man overboards, there was and may still be a system to detect that and sound an alarm. A friend looked into licensing it for use on large private yachts, such as Job's and Allen types, but was turned down due to military concerns. It was a typical screwup, in that they developed it for private vessels, but once it was on a "Military" ship, couldn't go to the private market. If you recall a multi-millionaire named McMillan that died falling off his yacht, my friend actually tried to sell it to him, and he would possibly have been saved, since he fell overboard and was not missed for hours by the crew of his yacht. He had a lot of such large private yachts with power systems he had sold (3 phase shore any voltage or phase sequence to onboard 3phase @ whatever the ship needed)., and could have sold a lot of the personnel systems. Jim