Lighting Off a Boiler
Object NamePhotograph
Historic Owner
Albert J. Kreitzer
Association
USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11)
DateSeptember 1967
PeriodVietnam War; Cold War
Mediumphotographic paper, ink
ClassificationsCommunication Artifacts
Credit LineCollection of the Intrepid Museum. Gift of Albert J. Kreitzer. P2023.67.06
Object numberP2023.67.06
DescriptionPhotograph, Black and white; Personal horizontal image of two crew members lighting off a boiler on the lower level of one of the fire rooms (boiler rooms) on USS Intrepid. One other sailor is partially visible in the upper left hand corner of the background. All of the men have light skin and are wearing U.S. Navy dungaree working uniforms with rolled-up shirtsleeves. The sailor in the background is wearing a watch. The sailor on the right in the foreground is bending over, holding a lighting-off stick in his right hand and a cigarette in his left. He is fair-haired, the back of his shirt stained and soaked in sweat, and the letter “H” is visible on the seat of his pants. The man on the left in the foreground is dark-haired. Partially obscured insignia indicates that he is a petty officer. He is crouching and holding the middle of the lighting-off stick with his left hand. Both crew members are looking at the flaming wick on the end of the stick, which is near the closed lighting-off hole on the boiler front. More of the boiler front is visible on the left of the image, including four oil burners, two of which have atomizers inserted. A peep glass halfway up the boiler front is also visible near the center of the image, as well as various cables and pipes leading to the pressure gauges (not visible). There is a white border on the image with “Sep 67” printed in black ink. Back has “6” handwritten in blue ink and a repeating watermark which reads “A Kodak Paper.”
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