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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: Boot Hill
He drove me and my wife crazy while growing up. Hated school and refused to do ANY work. We didn't know until the last moment if he would graduate from High School. But in college he turned around and got his degree in half the time it took me.
At one point they had me at a meeting with the asst. principal, regional counselor, psychologist, school counselor, social worker all telling me that we needed to take him to counseling. I told them he had an overdeveloped Will and refused to do so.
To: retcpo
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:17:02 PM PST
by
Quilla
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To: petitfour
Thank God they made it back alive! Thank God they didn't hit an undersea mount.
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:17:13 PM PST
by
WildTurkey
(When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Severa
I just realized I have had my mouth open as in OH! for the few minutes I have been looking at the pictures and reading this..What a remarkable boat and crew.
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:18:21 PM PST
by
MEG33
(GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
To: inkling
"The San Francisco was my old boat when I was in the Navy. Sad to see her in this horrible shape." Well since you're a former member of the crew, I can understand that emotion, but I see it as gorgeous, in the sense that any boat that survive that much damage and still allow her Captain and crew return her to port, is truly a thing of beauty.
(Don't know if I said that right.)
--Boot Hill
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:18:32 PM PST
by
Boot Hill
(How do you verbalize a noun?)
To: Boot Hill; Defender2; Blue Scourge; armyman; Arrowhead1952; darkwing104; txradioguy; Long Cut; ...
To: Fudd
If they are scheduled to do a major retrofit, it might be that the reactor is due to be replaced anyway. The area of subs I worked in was under the sail. It is kind of amazing how they can cut a huge hole in the pressure hull to move equipment in and out and then weld the piece back like nothing happened.
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:18:57 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
To: Viking2002
Looks like the buckling was topside, port of the walkway, just aft of the damage. I'm not a submariner (though I did spend a couple of years in the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps), but I don't think that bulge was part of the sonar dome. But did you stay in a Holiday Inn?
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:19:32 PM PST
by
WildTurkey
(When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
To: Boot Hill
Close enough, Boot. Form follows function.
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:19:32 PM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(Couldn't you have stopped shooting at us and watched your baby grow instead?)
To: xrp
Any sub experts out there? I wonder if the sub would be considered a total loss.If she was due for a new reactor core, that ain't gonna happen now.
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:19:53 PM PST
by
Poohbah
(God must love fools. He makes so many of them...)
To: Boot Hill
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:20:22 PM PST
by
Don Simmons
(Annoy a liberal: Work hard; Prosper; Be Happy.)
To: WildTurkey
In the first image, you can see the hull bulging behind the damage area--it's distorting the hull line.
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:20:54 PM PST
by
Poohbah
(God must love fools. He makes so many of them...)
To: Tennessee_Bob
"At least it'll look better than he does when it's done"
If they go for the full MJ treatment it'll get a nice coat of white paint thrown in for free.
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:20:59 PM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(It can't be said enough: Ted Kennedy left a woman to die while saving himself)
To: Boot Hill
mien GOTT! that captain doesn't deserve to have his career ended; he deserves a medal for saving his boat and her crew.
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:21:25 PM PST
by
smonk
To: Centurion2000
What exactly is the trap for ? Covering classified stuff ? From my Alaskan experience it is clear that where there is junk there must be a blue tarp over it.
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:21:36 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
To: MEG33
Look at the high Res photo and then use the Magnification feature...could be some rocks in the mess....
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:21:39 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: Boot Hill
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:22:39 PM PST
by
GarySpFc
(Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
To: cavtrooper21; All
"Those are big rocks stuck in the sonar space and lower left ballast tank." Click on the link under the photos for the high res version, it's like viewing the damage through a microscope (>20 mega pixels). I don't think those are rocks.
--Boot Hill
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:23:32 PM PST
by
Boot Hill
(How do you verbalize a noun?)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Amazing..I think of all those anzious hours and the endless wait..little did I imagine this much damage. God bless the crew.
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posted on
01/27/2005 1:23:37 PM PST
by
MEG33
(GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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