Posted on 11/06/2006 8:57:44 AM PST by SmoothTalker
"NEW YORK - The legendary aircraft carrier USS Intrepid got stuck in the deep Hudson River mud Monday as powerful tugboats fought to pull it free to tow the floating museum downriver for a $60 million overhaul."
" After 24 years at the same pier on Manhattan’s West Side, the Intrepid began inching backward out of its berth, but the tugs moved it only a few feet before its giant propellers jammed in the thick accumulation of mud. The decommissioned war ship no longer has engines of its own."
"The Intrepid, launched in 1943, is one of four Essex-class carriers still afloat six decades after spearheading the naval defeat of Japan in the Pacific. It survived five kamikaze suicide attacks and lost 270 crewmen in battle.
Doomed to the scrap heap, it was purchased in 1981 by real estate developer Zachary Fisher, who realized his dream of turning the ship into the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum a year later.
It became one of New York’s major tourist attractions, drawing some 700,000 visitors a year. It also supports a Fallen Heroes Fund that has provided $14 million to aid families of service members killed and wounded in the line of duty and built a $35 million advanced training facility for disabled veterans."
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Court Martialed. Command lost. Desk jockey. Career over.
And rightly so, in my opinion.
Thanks...I was doing my thing from memory...
That grounding came up from time to time during piloting briefs when I was stationed in NorVa. The only difference between your story and the one that was briefed to us was that the ship was ordered to run the degaussing range. When the buoy that marks the left edge of the range was spotted by the OOD, both the Nav and Ops-O advised the skipper to take the buoy to port, instead of starboard like he should have.
It was actually the XO and the Quartermaster that tried in vain to keep the ship from running aground. There wouldn't have been a Coxswain on the bridge - they drive the ship's motor whale boats and the Captain's barge.
Those right wing nuts can be stubborn!
I remember when the Enterprise got stuck in the mud coming into Alameda. There was a great picture in the SF Chronicle the next day of almost the entire crew standing on the port side of the flight deck, to list the ship and get it off the bottom.
It was a really cool picture, but I have never seen it again.
Yes...I was a brownshoe, and don't know much about those guys, except what I saw on the liberty launches!
The only time I ever went up to the bridge is when we had our planes fly on at the beginning of a cruise, and someone had jammed a whole bunch of paper manuals into an electronics compartment to get them on the ship. Me and a buddy had no idea, opened up the compartment and all the manuals fell out, broke open, and were sucked up into the rotor of an idling Sea King. It literally rained pages...hundreds of them, all over the flight deck...
We were frog marched up to meet the Air Boss in person, and he was pretty pissed. When we explained it to him, he was pretty good about it, we never heard anything more. But that was the only time I ever went up there...:)
I defer to you!
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said "our freedom and our values are stuck in the mud"
Many times (USS Texas ex-BB-35 for example) one of the priorities in prepping the ship for permanent display is filling the bilges and bottom tanks with concrete to seal the tanks, fill voids, prevent corrosion, and prevent leaks (or oil or water going places) if somebody twists a valve or a collision/hull plate breaks.
Texas is now re-floated, uses very large sliding rings around vertical pilings to hold her in place, but allow her to float.
Did the captain continue being the captain?
Uh, Democrats are in charge of the move. They don't think logical ;-)
I think nearly all Navy ships had nicknames, and some maybe not too complimentary. My cousin's APD USS Kilty, an ex-WW1 4 stacker, was the "Filthy K". USS Bonhomme Richard was "Bonnie Dick". I think USS Franklin was "Big Ben". I wish someone would start a thread about ship's nicknames.
They should leave the Intrepid where it is....just tow Manhattan about 1000 miles dues east into the middle of the Atlantic..
Just tell Hillary to get off!
I was visiting the Cowpens in Charleston, SC, and they had the nickname listed as "The Mighty Moo".
Can you imagine the amount of Barnacles on this puppy!
Hehe, when I was on the USS JFK, the crew referred to her as "The Big John"...and It wasn/t the complimentary kind, either...:)
I'll start one tonight at home...:)
Should be interesting!
Great! I'll try to think of a few more.
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