Posted on 11/26/2017 3:55:20 PM PST by artichokegrower
The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) has been loaded aboard the heavy lift transport vessel Transshelf and begin her journey to Pascagoula, Mississippi for further repairs.
Fitzgerald departed Fleet Activities (FLEACT) Yokosuka under tow on November 24 begin the heavy lift process in deep water.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
Never knew that kind of transport of damaged vessels was possible.
Remember the USS Cole?
North Korea starts lobbing balistic missiles around the pacific. At the same time, the navy’s only platform capable of knocking down ballistic missiles start crashing into everything around them and are taken off line. Bad timing I’d say.
Amazing!
ping
There are some amazing pictures somewhere of the loading of the USS Cole for repairs...It’s amazing how much smaller these ships appear when they are loaded to be taken back to the U.S.
http://www.hazegray.org/features/cole/repair.htm
And I thought tugboats were amazing...
Same type of ship used to bring the USS Cole home after the terror attack in Yemen.
merely a coincidence, pep
Wouldn’t suprise me if these guys are #notmypresident types.
We live in very different nation from when I was in.
We should keep it like that.
I remember the USS Cole but didn’t know she was transported that way either. I thought it meant dumping the ballast and limping to the nearest port to patch up and limp to a better refitting location. Awesome lift vessel in the picture, in my opinion.
That we (the US) nor the USNavy don’t own, operate, nor have access to in enough numbers from “friendly” nations in case of war.
By the way, the only US Navy ship now afloat to have sunk an enemy vessel in combat is the USS Constitution.
I know that. But timing for everyone in PACFLT to simultaneously forget basic seamanship couldn’t be worse. Thank heavens we have Trump as Commander in Chief rather than Obama, who Kim might have tried to test.
An unfair statement. I only am familiar with the basics of one of the incidents which appeared to indicate the fault lay in the failure to follow fundamentals of ship steering. And then in the reported finding that there was a systemic training problem in PACFLT that lay at the heart of these incidents. I do not mean to besmirch the officers and crews of all these ships as being incompetent.
I hope they keep an eye on the weather...that rig doesn’t look like it could take much weather.
Can that combined beast transit the Panama Canal? Or do they unload the destroyer, let it go through the canal, and then resume on a different heavy lift transit vessel on the Gulf side for the final leg to Pascagoula?
Dude, what ??
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