Life is awfully exciting when you are the Navy's newest littoral combat ship.
Already under repairs for a pair of mechanical failures, the Navy's newest littoral combat ship cracked its aluminum hull against a tugboat while under tow Tuesday off the coast of Florida, forcing its crew to make emergency repairs.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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"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?
[World Post] LOS ANGELES - The California university researcher killed in Ethiopia protests was a brilliant scientist with an infectious smile who was studying the effects of climate change at the time of her death, the colleague who was traveling with her said on Thursday.
Sharon Gray, a 31-year-old postdoctoral scientist at the University of California, Davis, was riding through Addis Ababa with her co-researcher Siobahn Brady when their car was attacked by demonstrators hurling rocks.
Brady was not hurt in the incident and was returning to the United States, according to the university. The U.S. State Department was assisting in bringing Gray’s body home.
"She had an infectious smile and giggle, a calm and patient nature and she was truly committed to helping people through her studies of plant biology. I and her colleagues and friends in my lab will miss her intensely," Brady said in a written statement.
"These last hours of her life and the past day have been incredibly difficult and we ask for your respect for the privacy of my lab group, our project members and her colleagues while we mourn," she said.
The two women were the lead researchers on study to understand the response of plants to climate change with the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and were in Addis Ababa for a "kick off meeting," Brady said, calling Gray a future leader in her field.
On her Twitter page Sharon Gray described herself as an "outdoor adventurer, traveler, foodie" as well as a postdoctoral fellow. A memorial page posted by the university was filled with photos of her in fields of crops, rock-climbing and hiking, surrounded by friends.
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Are there no plants in safer parts of the world that are affected by "climate change"?
Seems rather far afield to me. If an impact is so localized it would seem problematic that climate change has anything to do with it......unless you're talking about the climate of hatred amongst warring tribes.
[TRIBUNE.PK] A Moslem man has been tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in Manchester for stabbing his care worker wife to death because she ’looked after men’.
Imran Khan, 38, who displayed ’medieval’ attitudes towards women sent his spouse a series of text messages claiming she was contravening Islam. "If you go to men’s houses and lie to me I get angry. If you play games I get angry," read one of the texts. He later stabbed her to death with a kitchen knife during a furious row at their home which they shared with their three children.
As police arrived at the scene, Khan told the officer, "Never get an arranged marriage bro." Amid investigation, police also found a text message sent to Nasreen reading, "I have told you 10 times there are three people whose prayers will not be accepted by Allah ‐ a fleeing slave until he returns to his master, a woman whose husband is angry with her, until he is pleased with her, and a drunkard until he becomes conscious. If you don’t listen to me I get angry."
In the time leading up to the murder, the court was told that he had warned his wife. "It’s not halal for you to work with men," Khan had reportedly told Nasreen.
He admitted to murder at Manchester Crown Court where he was sentenced to life imprisonment and with a minimum requirement to serve 20 years.
The judge rejected the notion that the murder was a result of a culture clash as he said both Khan’s parents and sister were supportive of his wife’s choice of job. "Nasreen worked hard to support her family and was good at that job but by contrast you are a selfish and controlling man, did little to support your family and your wife, instead you sought to determine how she should live her life, expressing your disapproval of her choice of work," the judge said in court.
"You did not want Nasreen to have contact with other men, even though they were her clients, and her duties involved no more than administering medication and warming their food," he added.
"It appears your disapproval was born out of some outdated, almost medieval notion of how a wife should behave. You ordered her to stop ‐ and she wouldn’t," the judge went on to remark. The judge also spoke about Khan’s jealousy of his wife’s independence and the resentment he felt towards her.
Nasreen had taken up a job with Homecare Services in December 2015 where she looked after vulnerable men and women telling relatives she wanted to "gain experience and independence, and help support her family".
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RoP replay number 12,872,997.666.
Hey, let's bring more of these folks here, right Hill?
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Are any Western nations at this time challenging Russia or Russian allies (Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua) in a similar way or is this kind of activity unilateral?
[TRIBUNE.PK] ISLAMABAD: As part of pro-women legislation, the Parliament unanimously passed on Thursday the anti-honour and anti-rape bills.
Under the new law, relatives of the victim would only be able to pardon the killer of capital punishment, but they would still face a mandatory life sentence of twelve-and-a-half years.
In the anti-rape bill, a provision to conduct DNA tests on both the alleged victim and perpetrator has been added for the first time.
Rape of minors, as well as the mentally and physically ill, would become punishable by death.
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[TRIBUNE.PK] Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres is poised to become the next secretary general of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... following a decisive vote by the Security Council on Wednesday. Guterres, who led the UN’s refugee agency for a decade, won backing in the straw poll from 13 of the 15 council members while none of the five veto-holding powers blocked his candidacy.
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Guterres, who led the UN’s refugee agency for a decade
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Olde Communist, according to Claudia Rosett: president of the Socialist International (1999-2005). No wonder both Russia's ambassador to the UN and our own Samantha Powers voiced pleasure with the choice.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[TRIBUNE.PK] ISLAMABAD: As part of pro-women legislation, the Parliament unanimously passed on Thursday the anti-honour and anti-rape bills.
