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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- | |
| Future San Diego warship hits tug, starts to leak | |
| 2016-10-07 | |
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 |
| #21 Thanks for the vid besoeker! Fun times in Saskatoon! Guess the pilot is saving for wheelfloats....... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2016-10-07 22:49 |
| #20 "newc, I think the current count is that 6 of 7 are down for repairs, eight years into the program. Which is fine unless we have to, like, go to war or something." But is that not half of our LCS Fleet? A 50% Deadline Report? |
| Posted by: newc 2016-10-07 21:52 |
| #19 Jeffersonian gunboat redux, not then, not now. If you want numbers of cheap and go fast the Elco 80 subbing Harpoons for torpedoes, minimally crewed, 11-12 and ready to go go in six months, assuming we can find some Packard engine blocks, would be better. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-07 19:54 |
| #18 rephrasing: "Fire on the Water, Smoke in the sky, war on the cheap will sink you by and by." |
| Posted by: Jeasing Creque5352 2016-10-07 18:58 |
| #17 If JB Weld sticks to aluminum, I don't see what's the problem. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-10-07 17:49 |
| #16 And only if the "technology demonstrator" was how to not fucking do it. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-10-07 17:41 |
| #15 I would buy that Skid. After all, my aluminum "boat" canoe wouldn't start leaking after banging into another boat. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-10-07 17:40 |
| #14 Now y'all remember, these were 're-certified' as technology demonstration platforms, not real boats. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-10-07 16:30 |
| #13 Lament of "investors" (a summary): "O Lord, put asunder our bummery! To her crew, sad adieus, But we're happy to lose What we've sunk in this curséd Montgomery." |
| Posted by: Angaiger Spinert5177 2016-10-07 15:24 |
| #12 newc, I think the current count is that 6 of 7 are down for repairs, eight years into the program. Which is fine unless we have to, like, go to war or something. |
| Posted by: Matt 2016-10-07 14:36 |
| #11 So how many LCS are down now? 5? |
| Posted by: newc 2016-10-07 13:49 |
| #10 cdrsalamander.blogspot.com has been all over this for years. Today he describes the performance of a Fletcher-class (USS Heerman) at the battle off Samar, including gun duels with Japanese heavy cruisers and BB's. Meanwhile, at Mayport, a tugboat gets to paint the silhouette of an LCS on its deck housing. |
| Posted by: Matt 2016-10-07 13:46 |
| #9 They promised me flying cars, lunar colonies, and a cost/combat effective LCS by now! And fusion power, come to think of it... |
| Posted by: magpie 2016-10-07 12:25 |
| #8 Either the tug is the most armored thing evah, or the hull of the littoral ship is fragile as fuck. I'm going with AP's train of thought. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-10-07 10:47 |
| #7 Just a little VID for AP. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-07 09:43 |
| #6 Building expensive Purple Heart boxes. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2016-10-07 08:49 |
| #5 Time to invest in aluminum foil companies. They are going to sell a lot of patching material. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-10-07 08:28 |
| #4 aluminum hull Those burned brightly in the Falklands. Which what I recall, was a real world test of the littoral environment they speak of. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-07 07:54 |
| #3 ...and cosmopolitian |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-10-07 07:06 |
| #2 But the crew is gender and sexual orientation balanced? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-07 05:01 |
| #1 Coke cans with a two stroke engine. |
| Posted by: newc 2016-10-07 00:53 |