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Future San Diego warship hits tug, starts to leak
unsure where to post this debacle/clusterf**k
The collision with the tug occurred while Hurricane Matthew was bearing down on the Mayport Naval Station near Jacksonville. The Montgomery had been ordered to ride out the Category-4 storm at sea alongside the guided-missile cruiser Anzio, according to a Navy statement. The crack in the trimaran hull ‐ described by the Navy as a "minor seawater intrusion" ‐ was temporarily patched by the crew. Further repairs are slated when the hurricane passes and the port reopens. The incident remains under investigation, according to Naval Surface Forces Pacific spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr. Rebecca Haggard. The Independence-class littoral combat ship was commissioned on Sept. 10 in Mobile, Alabama and was supposed to steam to its home port in San Diego. Three days later, however, it suffered a pair of mechanical problems. Seawater leaked in the hydraulic cooling system and, later in the day, the warship lost one of its gas turbine engine. The snafus triggered the loss of both port shafts and forced the high-speed ship to continue under its own power to Mayport for repairs before continuing to San Diego. On Sept. 5, the Naval Surface Forces ordered a stand down for every crew in the littoral combat fleet to "review procedures and standards for their engineering departments," according to a Navy statement. The maintenance pause followed recent mechanical problems discovered on the littoral combat ships Freedom and Coronado. The Freedom-class littoral combat ship Fort Worth is slated to return to San Diego Friday afternoon following extensive repairs to its propulsion system in Singapore. Posted by: Frank G 2016-10-07 |
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