Nuclear Submarine Runs Aground South of Guam

The Associated Press ^ | Jan 8, 2005 | The Associated Press

[Doohickey]

Can we talk about EB-taping nubs to MS-5 then having Maneuvering cycle it a few times?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ouch!

After I left the 702 to become an EDO, they (finally) deployed to the Indian Ocean. (My opinion? Because no other place would accept them yet ... (Grin))

Got halfway there.

Surfaced to try to clean the high power scope..... And dropped the head overboard.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Almost.

My brother was training officer at the prototype up there before the overhaul in the early 90's.

[PogySailor]

Yep, SSN 676. I joined the crew right before she started sea trials after overhaul at CNSY. My buddy was RM1(SS) Ward. I was the OPS/ET LPO.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yeah = But the Mk45 would blow a big hole in the ice.

[j_tull]

NC is/was cool.

[SmithL]

and did you learn that little ditty at the Whinnie and Moo?

I understand they have a new and improved model in Bremerton, but I have fond memories of the one in Vallejo.

[Doohickey]

That's who it was! We weren't really friends, but we'd sent third classes back and forth to swap general messages and NWP changes. Didn't mind helping out with pre-underways either.

[j_tull]

That was chanted at every Submarine Birthday Ball I ever attended, much to the dismay of the hosting flag officer. Nothing like a bunch of drunk chiefs in Dinner Dress Blue chanting, "We go up, and WE GO DOWN..."

[fastattacksailor]

"And dropped the head overboard. "

Floatability test---UNSAT!

[fastattacksailor]

absolute worst was pulling into Halifax harbor for a MediVac during a Winter Storm. 18 Hours on the Surface, each way.
BTDT. On the bridge, taking green water in January
________________________________________________________


Does THAT ever bring back some memories.

[GoldenOrchid]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

USS San Francisco (SSN-711)
Career
Awarded: 1 August 1975
Laid down: 26 May 1977
Launched: 27 October 1979
Commissioned: 24 April 1981
Fate: Active, in commission
Homeport: Guam
General Characteristics
Displacement: 5759 tons light, 6145 tons full, 386 tons dead
Length: 110.3 meters (362 feet)
Beam: 10 meters (33 feet)
Draft: 9.7 meters (32 feet)
Propulsion: one S6G reactor
Complement: 12 Officers, 115 Enlisted
Motto: Oro En Paz Fierro En Guerra
USS San Francisco (SSN-711), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for San Francisco, California. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 1 August 1975 and her keel was laid down on 26 May 1977. She was launched on 27 October 1979 sponsored by Mrs. Robert Y. Kaufman, and commissioned on 24 April 1981, with Commander J. Allen Marshall in command.

Following an initial shakedown cruise, San Francisco joined Submarine Force, US Pacific Fleet and moved to her homeport at Pearl Harbor. San Francisco completed deployments in 1982, 1985, and 1986 with the U.S. Seventh Fleet and various independent operations in the Pacific in 1986 and 1988 earning the Battle Efficiency "E" for Submarine Squadron Seven in 1985 and 1988.

San Francisco entered a Depot Modernization Period at Pearl Harbor from 1989 to 1990 and then went on to conduct deployments to the Western Pacific in 1992 and 1994. The submarine was awarded the 1994 Commander Submarine Squadron Seven "T" for excellence in tactical operations and a Meritorious Unit Commendation for the 1994 Western Pacific deployment.

In 18 December 2002 San Francisco arrived at her new homeport at Apra Harbor, Guam.

On 8 January 2005, San Francisco ran aground while submerged, injuring about 20 crewmen, one seriously, but not damaging the nuclear reactor. She was 560 kilometers (350 miles) south of Guam. She surfaced and is expected to arrive back in Guam on 10 January.

[SS Guy]

The Mk 45 was the absolute stupidest thing they ever put on a Boomer. If it didn't sink you, it would at least scramble SINS, thus preventing Missile Launch.

Don't know about Boomers, (you do know where "boomer" came from don't you?... From Fleet Ballistic Missile, aka; FBM, pronounced "FaBoom", shortened to "Boomer"), but we test fired one of the first MK45's in Dabob Bay near Bangor Subbase in 1966, (less war head), GD thing was quick. Normally you could hear a fish swim from the tube, this thing went "BRIP" and it was gone and the old man said "...holy S**t, it's reached the end of its run."

Looked like something out of Buck Rogers with all the fins!

SS && SSN Sailor

[j_tull]

UNSAT!

A word absent from my vocabulary since my 1995 retirement, will be used at least twice next week. AKA , "gee, I love that kind of talk."

[Robert A Cook PE]

Try 2-3 knots, perfectly trimmed boat, keeping only 8" of the periscope exposed in a calm sea - so you can't use "waves" as an excuse to dunk the CO during his first MK48 firing off the Virgin Islands.

Yeppers, you can "feel" two-three people walking around from front to back under those conditions.

[fastattacksailor]

I always love to use it as often as I can....

more so after a little 'attitude adjustment' at the local watering hole..


:-)

[jrewing]

The Chinese want to play Ivan's old games; it would not surprise me if they are involved (and a Chinese sub is PERMANENTLY grounded as a result). Please add me to your ping list. Thanks!

[fastattacksailor]

yeah---that when you hear the COW saying to the OOD and dive:


"OK, OK---who just MOVED!"

[SS Guy]

Can we talk about EB-taping nubs to MS-5 then having Maneuvering cycle it a few times?

God, I'm rolling all over the floor. I've seen NUBS wrapped in EB Green. Heard about one boat where they taped one guy the piping in the AMS, in the overhead.

Loving it!!

SS & SSN Sailor

[j_tull]

Do not concur. Not on a Trident.