Posted on 02/07/2009 11:34:34 AM PST by Zakeet
Navy officials say an attempt to pull free a 9,600-ton warship that ran aground off the coast of Honolulu has been unsuccessful.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet says Navy tugboats and salvage ship USS Salvor tried to tow the USS Port Royal early Saturday but the guided missile cruiser remained stuck.
The Navy says it plans to try again after extracting fuel and water from the $1 billion vessel.
The 9,600-ton ship, while carrying guests that included a rear admiral, ran aground Thursday night on a sandy, rocky bottom. The cause of the grounding, as well the extent of the damage to the ship, remains under investigation.
An initial effort by Navy tugs early Friday to free the guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal also was unsuccessful.
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That captains career just went to Davy Jones locker.....
*Career Limiting Move
The solution is simple....alls we gotta do is wait for the global warming that will melt the ice caps within six months....that will cause the sea to rise a mile or more and that ole ship will float right off’n that sandbar......case closed.....
The minute Obama takes the helm, things go to hell in a handbasket.
No big loss. The Navy will shortly be mothballing a lot of ships to cut the budget by 10%.
So, leave it there and turn it into a theme park or floating hotel.
Looks to me at least a SPY-1 AEGIS cruiser...hate to loose this bad boy...it needs upgrading to the new SPY 3 system.
Bye, Bye, Captain!
"Greetings, Captain, and welcome to your new retirement opportunity."
The way the current administration works, he'll probably be promoted to Secretary of the Navy--if he can prove he's a tax cheat, that is.
USS PORT ROYAL (CG 73)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Port_Royal_(CG-73)
On 5 February, 2009, at 9 p.m. the USS Port Royal ran aground approximately a half-mile south of the Honolulu International airport’s Reef Runway. No one was injured in the incident. The extent of damage to the ship and the cause of the grounding, which occurred about a mile and a half from the entrance to Pearl Harbor, are under investigation.
Yeah, there’s not much of a tidal variation in the islands.
Navy warship runs aground off reef runway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2180145/posts
Navy warship runs aground near Honolulu airport
From a different source story at Fox:
The ship, which is based at Pearl Harbor and has a crew of 320, got stuck as it was transferring shore-based officials, including a rear admiral, to a smaller boat to take them to shore.
I don't drive my best either, when "the boss" is joggling my elbow, or asking of she can steer. ;-)
BTW, I would hope they were being transferred to something MUCH smaller than a cruiser, for a trip to the wharf! Say, maybe, an admiral's barge?
This was the start of a sea trials run, fresh out of dry dock.
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