WWII hand-powered lathe from Liberty Ship - photo

[Dr Stan]

Breaking news for all you civilians. That lathe is not on a sub, it's on the USS Missouri BB-63 a retired battleship berthed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Which served as the location for the formal surrender of Japan at the end of WWII. BTW, it would never fit on a sub, even one of the boomers.

I have used virtually the exact same lathe on the USS Coral Sea CVA-43 an aircraft carrier of the same vintage and a newer version on the USS Samuel Gompers AD-37 a repair ship.

A simple & quick Google search would have revealed the correct location of the lathe.

BTW, there is another one on the USS Alabama near New Orleans.