Posted on 01/27/2005 2:27:48 PM PST by Thebaddog
Apra Harbor, Guam (Jan. 27, 2005) - The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS San Francisco (SSN 711) in dry dock to assess damage sustained after running aground approximately 350 miles south of Guam Jan. 8, 2005. The Navy former dry dock known as “Big Blue” is capable of docking ships that weigh up to 40,000 Long Tons. The Navy certified Big Blue for the one-time docking of San Francisco. San Francisco is the second fast-attack submarine to be attached to the forward-deployed Submarine Squadron Fifteen, home ported on board Naval Base Guam. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Mark Allen Leonesio (RELEASED)
That looks brutal....There goes a billion or two
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1330034/posts
Navy photos of Submarine USS San Francisco in Dry Dock (you won't believe the extent of damage!)
Banged-up Sub PING!
With damage like that i'm shocked it was able to make it back to port. Thank God this wasn't our own Kursk disaster.
WOW!
I wonder if they got the "Extended Warranty" when they bought it?
Is it just me, or do they have that thing balanced on the skinniest little blocks they could put under it?
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Banged-up sub, PING!
Wow.
I am proud of those sailors, both officer and enlisted, who in crisis managed to save this boat, and her remaining crew.
This will be a textbook subject requiring more than one volume.
As the lost sailor continues on patrol, this ship will always remember his name in the proud tradition of the Silent Service.
Wow.
I was thinking that the Captian did a pretty darn good job of saving the ship to get relieved of command. But I never served.
I'm not familiar with Navy regs either but that picture speaks for the Captains (Commander's) competence.
He ran into a cliff , not as the headline says ran aground. As a former reactor operator on the Enterprise,we went to the first six months of (Nuke) school together. Surface and Sub sailors.What a (crazy ) great bunch of men these guys were then. Now they are more geared to this type of duty. Then quite a few transfered from diesel boats to nukes.There training is unbelievable.
Wow, Looks more like "hit an underwater ridge" instead of "running aground".
I'll admit, I thought of just some minor scrape on the bottom as if it ran up on a beach or something.
Amazed nobody got killed.
One sailor did die.
Ooh, should have scrolled down...you said it first.
Hadn't seen that. Thanks
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