Posted on 01/29/2013 10:06:54 PM PST by GATOR NAVY
Unfair though it may be, that raises the question: Affirmative action skipper?
I would say yes.
#19 answers that question. It is a pity that the question even rates asking.
This must be very near where the sub captain ran his nuke-laden submersible into an uncharted (of course) undersea mountain at 1000 feet down and 40 knts.
By the way, that beautiful little ship is floating. Send out the committee boat from any yacht club on the Chesapeake and tow the damn thing off the reef. Fiberglass can take it, and if it can't, some temporary plywood and a quickie epoxy job should make her like new after a trip to any decent yard.
If the Filipinos have some sort of objection, TS. Couple rounds from the old Krag should send them scampering. Environment problem is it? One deep breath in any Philippine city can shrivel the lungs of an American in about 30 seconds.
Is this the thanks we get for teaching'em baseball? The bastards!
The impact shredded her bow, keel, screws, and rudders, causing extensive flooding and the dumping of some 40,000 gallons of fuel. Pulled off the rocks by a Chilean tug, she was towed up to a nearby naval base, where US salvage experts examined her and determined that she was too badly damage to repair. Stripped of all salvageable material, she was towed out to sea and sunk during a training exercise a few months later.
La Moure County grounding was due to the the nav team plotting GPS fixes that were in WGS-84 datum on a paper chart that used a local datum so positions were off. Lots of lessons learned messages from that one.
Seven destroyers were lost, two were damaged, and twenty-three sailors died in the fiasco.
“The U.S. Navy also revealed Jan. 18 that the digital navigational chart in use by the Guardian misplaced the correct location of the reef by about eight nautical miles,” the Military Times reported.
8 miles?
close enough for government work... jeesh.. should have used Google Earth or something
if only obama hadn’t stopped the waters from rising, this would never have happened.
teeman
Heh heh. You’re not kidding about not being able to fix stupid.
My point was, at least an Army vehicle is cheaper than a whole ship. Not cheap, but cheaper than a ship... :)
should have used Google Earth or something
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During WWII (1942)the Germans were raising havoc on the East Coast, using lights from the shore (they refused to shut down and darken the coast line) to sink tankers and such that were going up the East Coast.. They stood out like targets in a shooting gallery.
Anyway, one of the Subs involved got into NY Harbor, and the skipper says they used the lights and an Esso road map to navigate.
“Operation Drumbeat” (Gannon).
A lot of interesting stories from WW2!!
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