I didn’t realize a ship deteriorates so quickly. I know saltwater is highly corrosive, but man the sea is a mean b!tch.
So, how long will this be in dock getting cleaned up and painted?
I was shocked too. I was thinking that could not happen so fast with modern day materials.
The ship was commissioned 25 years ago. All that rust probably was impacted by lack of maintenance during the Clinton and Obama misadministrations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stout
I was over in Hawaii working on a steel deck in 1984 and I had brand new tools that I unpacked on the job right by the sea. Within an hour my tools were covered in rust. I sprayed them with WD40 after that.
1975 or 1976 USS George K. Mackenzie DD836 (Big Mac)
North Arabian Sea we were in a big storm ... a “Sand Storm” at Sea and it really did Sand Blast us, we were brown! Once we got back in the South China Sea in protected waters and out of the wind we had it pretty much painted back to the original Haze Gray (via orange and yellow primer) in about a week or so, before pulling into Subic Bay (My favorite Home away from Home)
I really miss my youthful self or maybe just youth itself, doesn’t seem like it was that long ago, but it was.