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Navy photos of Submarine USS San Francisco in Dry Dock (you won't believe the extent of damage!)
U.S. Navy ^
Posted on 01/27/2005 12:42:24 PM PST by Boot Hill
The amount of damage is simply staggering!
That this boat ever made it back to port is a tribute to its designers, builders, and especially to the crew and captain. How does America keep finding men like these?
High resolution version here
High resolution version here
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: grounding; guam; navy; ssn711; submarine; usssanfrancisco
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To: najida
181
posted on
01/27/2005 2:22:11 PM PST
by
RebelTex
(Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
Comment #182 Removed by Moderator
To: Boot Hill
I saw that. Looks like it hit and slid along the port side.
To: GOP_1900AD
Shouldn't this be classified? Why are photographers allowed to get so close? Lousy Op Sec, IMHOPosted from a .mil website.
184
posted on
01/27/2005 2:22:36 PM PST
by
WildTurkey
(When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
vs 2+ billion for a new one?
185
posted on
01/27/2005 2:23:02 PM PST
by
ken5050
To: Boot Hill
186
posted on
01/27/2005 2:23:34 PM PST
by
blam
(Old diesel sub sailor)
To: Eaker
"big broken machinery" ping
187
posted on
01/27/2005 2:23:35 PM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: GOP_1900AD
"Why are photographers allowed to get so close?" Because those are Navy photographs taken by Navy photographers, who had them cleared by the Navy for public release.
--Boot Hill
188
posted on
01/27/2005 2:23:58 PM PST
by
Boot Hill
(How do you verbalize a noun?)
To: Enterprise1788
I just read that the San Francisco was scheduled to be decommissioned in 2017. If this is ture, the Navy might try to repair the damage, since she'll be good for another 12 years or so. Although it might take some time to repair that kind of damage; it would involve essentially building a new nose section.
Does anyone know if it would be practical to take the nose section of a LA sub scheduled to be scrapped and fit it on to the San Francisco?
To: bigfootbob
I don't think so. This looks like a Trident class subIt is an SSN (attack sub) not an SSBN (Trident sub).
190
posted on
01/27/2005 2:24:26 PM PST
by
xrp
(Executing assigned posting duties flawlessly -- ZERO mistakes)
Comment #191 Removed by Moderator
To: terjegirl
192
posted on
01/27/2005 2:25:17 PM PST
by
Sundog
(Cheers.)
To: Long Cut
It was his resposibility to communicate to his superiors the fact that the area in which he was operating was uncharted, and therefore dangerous to move at flank speed in. You have his charts which list that area as UNCHARTED?
193
posted on
01/27/2005 2:28:57 PM PST
by
WildTurkey
(When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
To: Boot Hill
On 688's, the pressure hull IS the outer hull from aft of MBT 3A&B all the way to aft elliptical bulkhead at the shaft seals,
The (visible, extremely serious) buckling is confined to the MBT area - though THOSE frames may have pulled and distorted the pressure hull in that area.
Aft of those frames the rest of the hull "appears" to still be in concentric circles.
BUT - Check with a body shop operator about a severe crash to the left front bumper and engine mounts.... Even the doors on the right rear can get distorted and thrown out of alignment.
Here, the whole bow might be thrown to the right - away from the collision.
194
posted on
01/27/2005 2:29:04 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Enterprise1788
Figure THAT would be half the cost of building a new boat.
195
posted on
01/27/2005 2:30:01 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Doohickey; All
I've said once, and say it again---
Bravo Zulu to the guys for getting the old girl home.....
196
posted on
01/27/2005 2:32:23 PM PST
by
fastattacksailor
(Humiliate Islam: It's certainly asking for it!)
To: Bahbah
I have to think that the Captain and the crew of this vessel did an incredible job.
I have to think the Captain's career is over.
197
posted on
01/27/2005 2:33:05 PM PST
by
ml1954
To: miele man
No, No. It ran into a near-vertical "cliff" from an angle to the left side: not perpendicular into the cliff.
That's no "other boat" damage - Look at the rocks embedded in the bottom and front.
I understand the bottom depth rose from more than 6000 feet to 500 feet in less than 3 minutes travel time of the sub.
198
posted on
01/27/2005 2:34:31 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Thanks. I had made a couple of posts asking and looked for a diagram but couldn't find one.
199
posted on
01/27/2005 2:34:53 PM PST
by
WildTurkey
(When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
To: GovernmentShrinker
All of what you is uninhabited and outside the pressure hull, and much is outside even of the ballast tanks.
200
posted on
01/27/2005 2:35:45 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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