Talk:Conning tower

Photos for the article
Some free photos for the article may be at images.google.com. Suntag (talk) 00:32, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Useless photo
That photo of the Suffren is useless. Which part is supposedly the conning tower ?Eregli bob (talk) 12:01, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Space ships
I presume this is what Captain Picard (Star Trek: Next Generation)is referring to when he tells Date/Riker "You have the con". Do real space vessels have a conning tower? 86.144.25.248 (talk) 17:57, 30 August 2012 (UTC)


 * conn as the article explain refers to the control of the ship movement, the tower is named after this task, it does not mean that the task can only be undertaken in a conning tower. startrek ship has bridges that double as CIC, how armoured they are is debatable, the enterprise-E is shown to have forcefield around the bridge, however it clearly isn't armoured like a conning tower which are like 1 to 2 feet thick. enterprise-D does have a battle bridge but that function more as CIC, conning tower are really design because ship used to be sail visually and so u need somewhere exposed to pilot the ship, with electrooptical system, the conn can be place in a more protected area in the ship that doesn't need to be build like a bomb shelter. 101.127.42.241 (talk) 11:42, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

South Dakota at Guadalcanal
Regarding the statement that Captain Gatch fought the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal from the bridge of South Dakota, rather than the conning tower--I can find no reference to this effect in Musicant, either on page 118 or elsewhere. South Dakota's action report implies, although it does not clearly state, that the CO was in the conning tower. He praises the protection afforded by the conning tower but states that "Poor visibility made station keeping the most pressing and engrossing concern of the commanding officer at conn.” It is hard to envisage him making such a statement if he had been on the open bridge. Keacla1 (talk) 04:17, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

etymology
It was interesting to read the origin of the term. I thought the term applied strictly to subs, and I'd supposed that it came from "recon" and "reconnaisance"...I pictured the sub coming close enough to the surface that someone could pop out of the top and look around! PurpleChez (talk) 20:36, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Photograph
Perhaps an explanation to go with the photo pointing out exactly which part of the ship is the conning tower? (I see the same thing was mentioned regarding an earlier photo as well). Is the conning tower the thingy at the very top of the girder mast? I didn't realize they put them so high up. In any case, I know a fair amount about ships, yet I admit I'm not 100% positive when I look at that picture if that is indeed the conning tower, or if I'm looking at the wrong thing entirely. And it seems as though the point of a photo is to illustrate something to someone who doesn't know. If someone already knows what a conning tower looks like, they wouldn't be reading about it on Wikipedia, would they?.45Colt 19:25, 16 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Old comment, but I added a note highlighting the conning tower to the image of USS Michigan over on Commons. 72.212.35.184 (talk) 21:50, 11 September 2022 (UTC)