Yup thats my ship!
I have crawled around the ship into many compartments that are closed to the public doing research on the fire control systems, specifically how the 16: main guns were designed and worked from the actual firing circuits, switchboards, power and the mechanical - analog computers or range keepers. Its amazing how the technology at that time was used to generate a predictive future firing solution with analog mechanical computers and vacuum tubes!!
In the ship there are vertical gyroscopes used for meany thing called Stable Verticals and Stable Elements which had a free spinning gyroscope with a AC electro-magnet mounted on top of it which two coils of wire mounted in a gimbal arrangement that moved with the ships pitch and roll, as these coils moved and cut the magnetic fields of the electromagnet a voltage/current, small...was induced and was sent to follow up circuits to be used to help keep the gyro stable. Tubes like 6A6 dual triodes were used in the amps and C6A's used as grid controlled rectifiers..and many others.
There are boxes labeled with the company, like Westinghouse and many tubes have just numbers on them....I will one day take an inventory down there and help preserve them in the ships archive. Even back then each tube carton has the actual government contract number on it!!
I have been able to look at the actual blueprints and circuit diagrams and schematics from when the ship was built starting back in 1938. Its like a time capsule!
Alex
Note: The guy who said he sent me 12AT7's replied to me that he was incorrect and he sent me 5693's!!! Ha! He made a mistake in his communications with me with a customer that actually bought 12AT7's!!
