I remember when she was undergoing repairs in Drydock #4 at PSNS, Bremerton Wa.
They cut off the damaged section of the bow and grafted on the bow from the USS Honolulu which was already slated for decommissioning. Quite a lot of man-hours, craftsmanship and Cubic Dollars went into that grafting job!
#2 USS San Francisco in 2005. It hit a seamount near Guam. Five years to repair it. #7 That is going to be an expensive repair. Gullwings are rare and expensive. Al_in_Ottawa
# 1 My brain on Monday mornings # 3 Water is a killer in situations like that # 6 Definitely a clusterfuck # 8 Shorts and flip-flops, poor choices #10 Fuuccckkkk JD
#5: General Motors contracted with the USPS to design and build those LLVs (long life vehicles) and the dealerships were forced to have their shops work on them in perpetuity. My local dealer hated to see them come in.
Actually, I was Chief of the Watch during that incident, and we did not blow forward, I emergency blew both forward and aft groups using the EMBT blow system - and it is a good thing I did because the valves and piping for the forward port group was sheared, and 2 forward port tanks were completely OOC with the 3rd one having a damaged valve.
Since the entire forward group was either destroyed or leaking air we ran the LPB pushing air into those tanks for almost 38 hours on the way in, and A-gang was casting voodoo spells on the blower to keep it happy, since it was not supposed to be run nearly that long - and we could only go around 7-8 knots because otherwise the ship would try dive from the weight forward giving us a down angle, even though we pumped all the variable ballast from forward to aft that we could, and filled the bilge in shaft alley to try to get some semblance of trim.
#5 is a USPS Long Life Vehicle. They were last made in the late 80's. That POS has been delivering mail for at least 35 years, most likely longer. Can't kill them, like garage refrigerators, they are immortal.
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10, baseball cards??
ReplyDeleteNot baseball, Konami
DeleteThey look like Video Cassette Record boxes
DeleteSomebody's lifetime collection of music
DeleteJD
MTG cards.
Delete10. Not sure if that's really how you play "Magic: The Gathering."
ReplyDelete(Nerds and dads of nerds will get this)
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#7 - you want to be the insurance carrier for either driver?
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ReplyDelete#3: That was just down the street from me on Sept. 28, 2024 after Hurricane Helene took a dump on western NC.
#6: What happens is real when you really don't have a reel.
#10: Some old fart was moving into a senior home when he dropped his tape cassettes. I hope Barry Manilow’s Copacabana survived.
I figure #2 is one of them Maine submarines. Just throw a blue taarp ova it! That'll do.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall it hit an underwater mountain.
DeleteIt's the USS San Francisco (SSN 711).
DeleteI was out in Guam working on her.
I remember when she was undergoing repairs in Drydock #4 at PSNS, Bremerton Wa.
DeleteThey cut off the damaged section of the bow and grafted on the bow from the USS Honolulu which was already slated for decommissioning. Quite a lot of man-hours, craftsmanship and Cubic Dollars went into that grafting job!
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/story-uss-san-franciscos-underwater-collision-2005-196931
-Ed in Wa-
Ed in Wa:
DeleteToo bad they didn’t rename the rebuilt boat USS San Fralulu or USS Honfrancisco. She could have been the US Navy’s version of HMS Zubian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Zubian
#6 Looks familiar.
ReplyDelete#3 Beautiful, beautiful Venice. A nice break from all the chaos and destruction in the other pics.
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#4 . . . what is that?
ReplyDeletesheets of glass
DeleteWasn’t #2 an incident involving a whale or an undocumented seamount ? Vaguely remember this
ReplyDelete#2 USS San Francisco in 2005. It hit a seamount near Guam. Five years to repair it.
Delete#7 That is going to be an expensive repair. Gullwings are rare and expensive.
Al_in_Ottawa
#1: Microsoft, you suck. Always have, always will.
ReplyDelete#3 - Looks like Biltmore Village in Asheville after Helena.
ReplyDelete# 1 My brain on Monday mornings
ReplyDelete# 3 Water is a killer in situations like that
# 6 Definitely a clusterfuck
# 8 Shorts and flip-flops, poor choices
#10 Fuuccckkkk
JD
#7 That will be burned in my brain all day. Damn!
ReplyDelete#5: General Motors contracted with the USPS to design and build those LLVs (long life vehicles) and the dealerships were forced to have their shops work on them in perpetuity. My local dealer hated to see them come in.
ReplyDelete#6 who here as not been there?
ReplyDelete#7 Hey look at the bright side, they both were Mercedes. The same shop can repair them!
ReplyDelete#2 " Blow forward ballast tanks! "
ReplyDeleteWHOOPS! Good thing all of the other tanks and their Emergency Blow systems worked!
Delete-Ed in Wa-
Actually, I was Chief of the Watch during that incident, and we did not blow forward, I emergency blew both forward and aft groups using the EMBT blow system - and it is a good thing I did because the valves and piping for the forward port group was sheared, and 2 forward port tanks were completely OOC with the 3rd one having a damaged valve.
DeleteSince the entire forward group was either destroyed or leaking air we ran the LPB pushing air into those tanks for almost 38 hours on the way in, and A-gang was casting voodoo spells on the blower to keep it happy, since it was not supposed to be run nearly that long - and we could only go around 7-8 knots because otherwise the ship would try dive from the weight forward giving us a down angle, even though we pumped all the variable ballast from forward to aft that we could, and filled the bilge in shaft alley to try to get some semblance of trim.
That was a very close thing.
#5 is a USPS Long Life Vehicle. They were last made in the late 80's. That POS has been delivering mail for at least 35 years, most likely longer. Can't kill them, like garage refrigerators, they are immortal.
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