Posted on 04/22/2023 5:06:14 AM PDT by DFG
The latest incident to befall the U.S. Navy’s troubled Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was an embarrassingly public one, and one that left the brand-new USS Cleveland (LCS-31) damaged in the process of being launched, in front of around 3,000 people, including members of the media. The Navy has now issued a statement providing more details of the collision between the Cleveland — which is the last of the 16-strong Freedom class — and a tugboat involved during the warship’s recent christening.
"No personnel injuries occurred, but there was limited damage” to the Cleveland, the Navy said, of the April 14 incident. “The damaged area is well above the waterline and no flooding occurred.”
Different videos of the incident, at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard, in Marinette, Wisconsin, show the ceremonial bottle of sparkling wine being broken over the bow of the Cleveland by Robyn Modly, the wife of the former Under Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly.
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Who contracts with the shipyard? The Navy.
Who has oversight over its contractors? The Navy.
Who inspects and certifies its contractors? The Navy.
Who enforces myriad quality control and safety regulations at its contractors? The Navy.
You’re right. The Navy had nothing to do with it.
Our Navy is at an all-time low, we are a couple hundred ships below where we should be, the Chinese are launching ships at a crazy rate, and now we can’t even LAUNCH a small ship?
>Chinese steel is US steel scrap watered down with lots of rebar....
Cheesy is the adjective often used to describe chinese bolts.
Excellent video of the incident.
I also wonder why this is called a Navy incident since the Navy hasn’t received the ship yet.
Thanks for the link, great video. The narrator kinda soaps it up a bit at the end, but overall, very good.
It appears that whatever line the tug was pulling on was caught or snagged. Even after the Cleveland starts moving the tug doesn’t move nearly as much as it needed. I think once the Cleveland hit the tug the line broke.
Freakin’ wymyn drivers!
Ouch.
CC
Uh,
The ship is a semiplaning steel monohull with an aluminum superstructure
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom-class_littoral_combat_ship
I use to work at Ingalls shipbuilding who builds small Carriers and destroyers. Ingalls would be paying for and fixing the damage. None of what you noted would matter in the least.
The Navy had not ben given the keys yet, so to speak. This was a shipyard problem.
"We can hardly be held responsible if we're given faulty cable!"
Of course the shipyard will pay. But it will get recovered downstream in higher prices to the government.
My point is that all military contractors operate with strict government supervision and oversight. I don’t know if they get into operational details or point out inherently unsafe conditions, but there is a lot of military supervision. That’s based on my experience working with the DOE and on R&D contracts for the military labs.
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