Hats off to the all the Black Gang guys! I got to work in the boiler room of the Forrest Sherman (DD-931) for two weeks on a Middie summer training cruise. Some good guys down there. That was decades ago but I still remember that the watch supervisor was a First Class PO Finlayson (?).
Holy $hit, the temperature in some areas of the boiler room was 140 + if I remember correctly and even got to spend some time cleaning firesides (I believe that's what the term was). I looked like I had rolled around in someones fire pit afterwards.
