Ping a Ling, the USS Ling may be recycled.
Posted on 12/23/2016 6:26:56 PM PST by Coleus
The USS Ling has been berthed in the Hackensack River for more than 40 years – and it might be stuck there.
The 312-foot, 2,500-ton World War II-era submarine is the featured exhibit of the New Jersey Naval Museum, which occupies a trailer on land that was once the headquarters of the North Jersey Media Group, which was sold to Gannett in July and publishes The Record. The Ling has been anchored off the riverbank behind the newspaper’s former headquarters for decades.
Now, however, museum officials are grappling with the logistical and financially daunting challenge of moving the submarine, which by all accounts is mired in muck and is moored in a section of the river too shallow for the sub to navigate.
“I don’t know what it would take to get her out of the mud or if that would even be possible,” said Hugh Carola, program director at Hackensack Riverkeeper, an environmental group.
Earlier this year, the museum’s lease was terminated by Stephen Borg, former publisher of The Record. Borg, whose grandfather negotiated the 1974 deal to lease land to the museum for $1 a year. The city Planning Board voted in May to subdivide the nearly 20-acre site into four lots for redevelopment, which could include a hotel and 700 residences.
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Ping a Ling, the USS Ling may be recycled.
I see the problem, “...an environmental group.”
>“I don’t know what it would take to get her out of the mud or if that would even be possible,” said Hugh Carola, program director at Hackensack Riverkeeper, an environmental group.
Figgers. Try using physics instead of leftist waste.
Focus your energy on the Joules, not your lack of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ3bJN1zLKw
The scrap steel must be worth something.
Might be?
It was stuck back in the 80’s when I last visited her.
Plus the bridges north and south of her are, er, inoperable and cannot be opened last I knew.
Where have I heard this before?
“My machine she’s a dud,
I’m stuck in the mud,
Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey....”
Length: 311’6”
Beam: 27’3”
Draft: 15’3”
Sounds like it might end up as scrap. They probably should offer to donate it to any museum that would re-locate it for display. But the best bet might be to cut off the conning tower and ancillary items for display elsewhere, and scrap the hull.
All that these idiots need to do is use high pressure water hoses to blast away the mud. We could put a man on the moon 52 years at and these a55-clowns can’t fee a boat from mud.
Let’s break down the problem...
1)What value does the submarine have? Would some other museum want it or should it just be scrapped?
2) Assuming that no other museum wants it, how to scrap it? Would you a) scrap in place, b) break into transportable pieces, c) move it whole.
3) c) With bridges north & south of site inoperable, it cannot be moved via water. Could you lift it, put wheels under it and drag to scrappers yard? Probably too expensive
3) a or b) would have to put a temporary coffer dam to provide dry land around the sub and bring in equipment to break it down. If you had the saws to cut into segments and big crane to place pieces onto barge (option b) that’s probably how to barge it to a scrap yard. Otherwise you are breaking down to disposable, truck-haulible parts (option a) Probably it will be based on accessibility to scrap yard - better by water or by truck.
I can see them spending millions of dollars to move the thing. Then sink it and stick it in the ocean mud to make an artificial reef.
And the new development will make a recreation of the sub, park it in the river, and turn the area into the “Deep Sea Amusement Park”.
Now wait a tic, I thought all the pointy-headed environmentalists said that climate change was raising the sea level?
The drawbridges north and south of the ling no longer drawbridge.
One is welded shut if memory serves.
1) Don’t forget the cost of asbestos abatement
2) Per Wikipedia, the state has to open the bridge within 4 hours of being notified. How they do that is their problem, but cutting torches might not be fast enough.
Hope they can save it, it looks like an original Balao without Guppy conversions.
The Pacific Battleship Center managed to wrangle the Iowa out of Suisun Bay and tow her down to San Pedro, Ca. Granted, the Iowa wasn’t aground but it was a major undertaking and is now a heck of a floating museum.
I also grew up two doors down from the man who piloted the Ling up the Hackensack.
Yes, might as well scrap it, but it is very inconvenient to scrap it where it is, much better to take it to a yard. But, can’t move it? We have a problem.
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