The ship had undergone the resurfacing less than a month ago.
So they were trying to resurface the flight deck at the height of the rainy season? It wouldn't surprise me if that was a big factor in the failure.
Posted on 08/23/2014 4:07:48 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
The ship had undergone the resurfacing less than a month ago.
So they were trying to resurface the flight deck at the height of the rainy season? It wouldn't surprise me if that was a big factor in the failure.
I had a friend who served on The Bonhomme Richard in the early 1960s. He went on to become a maritime attorney after his service was done. May John RIP.
I agree, but also find it kind of messed up that a $3 million mistake seems like chump-change these days
In Obama’s America, it’s normal to perform delicate work in bad weather. Wanna put up an eyesore windmill? Do it during tornado season.
Obamas fault!
That would have been USS Bonhomme Richard (CV-31), an Essex class carrier commissioned in WWII. This is USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6), a WASP class amphibious assault ship. Both named of course after John Paul Jones’ ship.
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Your friend was on the Bon Homme Richard CV-31 Essex Class full size aircraft carrier, commissioned in 1944.
This one is the LD-6 amphibious assault ship, commissioned in 1998.
A somewhat different Bonhomme Richard in the 60s, full WWII-era CV.
Different ship-—that Ben Franklin was a submarine and a boomer at that. The current Ben is a non-nuke assault ship.
Sorry for the confusion. The name of the ship just brought back many memories.
See 11
Definitely his fault we had NO deployed carriers in the pacific when the Chinese buzzed the P8.
Vinson now getting on station.
Bush in Indian
Nothing in Atlantic
The ‘new navy’
There’s one in between-—a boomer-—nuke sub. Bon Homme Richard is the French nick name for Ben Franklin. I expect there will always be a Bon Homme Richard in the US Navy so it’s necessary to keep track.
No confusion friend. By the date of 1969 in your post, I knew what you meant.
Just wanted to clarify for the younger Freepers that there has been more one Bon Homme Richard.
I do not know what you are complaining about. Two times in the past six years, the American people had a choice to make. Both times a majority of voters said ,via their votes, this was what they wanted. I said that I did not want to go in tis direction both times, to no avail. This is what, as evidenced by their votes, the majority wants. Let them enjoy it.
One 0bama vacation costs more
John Paul Jones sailed on the original, no?
There was some voter fraud in the first election, also criminal acts in the primaries.
The second election had so much documented and witnessed voter fraud that to claim that the majority of voters wanted 0bastard is just not factual.
And of course saddling us with Romneypuke the second time, and McIsane the first, was another method to tamp down the opposition to 0bastard. Added to that the fact that McInsane stopped trying to win in July for some reason. He gave up at that point for some reason.
This incident as told so far is disgusting beyond explanation. How much of this Sumitomo contract money came back to the dimokrats? Shaving the specs is the only explanation for this clusterflock. We’ve been putting this non-skid stuff on decks for nearly half a century. Nothing new about it and nothing complicated. Somebody watered down the mix. And maybe didn’t prep the steel deck as req’d. There have to be sign-offs.
And how the bleep did these jerkopfs from Sumitomo get the job anyway? The ship is a non-nuke so maybe the source stuff gets looked at a little less closely but back in the early 70’s I blackballed these guys from trying to supply steel pipe for Nuke sub work. They pedalled some pipe to our federal supply system without specs/certs/anything and it simply didn’t meet fedspecs let alone nuke specs. My supply guys got absolutely clear instructions to not send me any foreign sourced steel pipe especially Sumitomo. This is walk-the-plank kind of stuff and I’ll be listening to hear who gets fed to the sharks.
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