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The warship sustained damage below the waterline.
1 posted on 06/26/2019 7:45:54 AM PDT by Starboard
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Umm, perhaps a revisit of the training program is in order?


2 posted on 06/26/2019 7:47:50 AM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt - dad's wisdom)
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It’s not her fault. The freighter cut her off.


3 posted on 06/26/2019 7:48:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Captain’s career was short.............


4 posted on 06/26/2019 7:48:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28702/navys-newest-littoral-combat-ship-damaged-after-smacking-into-a-moored-ship-in-canada

Video of the collision.


5 posted on 06/26/2019 7:48:48 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
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Do oops count?


6 posted on 06/26/2019 7:49:14 AM PDT by W. (NRA life member! Cost me 500 bones, but oh, well!)
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WTF ovah !


7 posted on 06/26/2019 7:49:21 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're tru)
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Trying my damnedest to not be cynical BUT since the article doesn’t mention the CO by name etc would imagine that it is NOT a straight, white male......

Just saying....had it been a SWM, the picture would have been shown etc etc etc

Terrible what all this PC is doing to ‘us’ once fairminded people.....


8 posted on 06/26/2019 7:55:18 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is cast as the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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The warship sustained damage below the waterline.

Where did you read that the warship sustained damage below the waterline?

Neither the story you linked to nor the story at The War Zone says that.

9 posted on 06/26/2019 7:55:34 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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“The warship sustained damage below the waterline.”

The 378-foot-long Billings sustained damage ABOVE the waterline.


10 posted on 06/26/2019 7:55:35 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution - Judge Jeanie Pirro)
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I visited the USS Milwaukee during Fleet Week in Staten Island about a month ago. This class of ships is highly maneuverable. The engines are capable of rotating 360 degrees to allow the whip to translate sideways.

There is no way this ship was incapable of avoiding this collision because of the design.


12 posted on 06/26/2019 7:56:04 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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The other ship was MOORED.

(Wow)


13 posted on 06/26/2019 7:56:20 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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Well, that’s the end of someone’s naval career.
Of course, an LCS isn’t going to be missed.
I guess they all need more time in ship handling simulators.


14 posted on 06/26/2019 7:57:58 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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another CO’s career down the toilet. Probably the XO’s, OOD, JOOD’s careers also.


15 posted on 06/26/2019 7:58:06 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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Reminds me of that old joke where messages are sent back and forth :

It’s at night, dark and helmsman notifies Captain and on board Admiral that a ship is heading straight for them on a collision course.

Ship: we’re on a collision course, suggest you vear to port.

Return message : agree we’re on a collision course, suggest you vear to port.

Ship: this is Admiral______ suggest you vear to port.

Return message : this is yeoman _____suggest you vear to port.

Ship: I’m on a battleship so I suggest you vear to port.

Return message: I’m on a light house so I suggest you vear to port.


16 posted on 06/26/2019 8:00:37 AM PDT by VicVanleeuwenhoek
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Article says it was under assistance of tugs.


19 posted on 06/26/2019 8:05:14 AM PDT by fruser1
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Perhaps this book should be required reading for all US Navy captains.


23 posted on 06/26/2019 8:09:35 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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sustained damage after hitting another vessel in Montreal, Canada yesterday. The warship had been on its way to future homeport in Mayport, Florida

I'm confused. On it's way from where? Montreal doesn't seem to me to be in between a lot of places and Mayport, Florida, maritimely speaking.

ML/NJ

24 posted on 06/26/2019 8:11:18 AM PDT by ml/nj
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Link to article showing Captain and CO.

https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/uss-billings-crew-members-pay-visit-to-ship-s-namesake/article_f443d1f7-ff57-5ff3-9dbc-f83c9f2ee06c.html


25 posted on 06/26/2019 8:13:49 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind blows too much)
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The Billings was getting underway with the assistance of tugs.

Could be the tugs were at fault.

30 posted on 06/26/2019 8:17:18 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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If the ship was being controlled by a harbor pilot and there were tug boats involved then the situation is more complicated.


32 posted on 06/26/2019 8:19:12 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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