Posted on 02/02/2017 9:22:01 AM PST by RitchieAprile
As the Navy continues to tally up the damage to a U.S. cruiser that ran aground Tuesday in Tokyo Bay, early damage reports indicate USS Antietam (CG-54) will likely undergo an extensive dry dock period to repair the ship, USNI News understands.
The Navy and Japanese authorities are also still searching for signs of the 1,100 gallons of hydraulic oil that leaked after the ship grounded, a U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman told USNI News on Wednesday evening.
Antietam was moved pier side to the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Japan by tugs following the grounding and now divers are cataloging the damage to the ship with some early results.
“The ship has two reversible controllable pitch propellers and right now the estimates that have been provided so far indicate the propellers are heavily damaged to a point where they are not functional,” a Navy official told USNI News on Wednesday.
Divers have also discovered at least one of the two propeller hubs was damaged in the grounding. Controllable pitch propellers are highly complex hydraulic systems that allow a ship’s commander to position the propeller blades to change the speed and direction of a ship without changing the rotation of the ship’s shafts.
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The Captain needed that oil for his hair.
Well, one less Captain in the service...................
Career ending event.
If it was some guy named Joe with two kids and a wife..........It's Ft. Levenworth for him.
Antietam carries AEGIS.
USS Port Royal in 2009 off Hawaii. The Zumwalt, completely unable to complete its mission... while transiting Panama Canal, had to be put under tow to Pearl. Some f’n punk kid decides he wants some time off and starts a fire in a dry dock and the SSN Miami (LA class sub) is kaput. Basic seamanship, training and security are all in question. We need a real kick-a@@ SecNav at the minimum and one tough top dog in the Pentagon Navy seat. This cannot continue. Keep monitoring USNaval Institute for the commentary on this— they know what is/has been going on.
And here in this instant as well ...
A multi-mission, hundreds-million dollar ship and missile system knocked out of action for months of expensive repairs ...
And the writer (the “Navy”) is more worried about a few gallons of hydraulic oil that was lost after the collision!
‘more worried, is a stretch. the author did say ‘also worried’.
oil spills by USN in Japan waters is a very big deal as
we are based in Japan on their sufferance.
And don’t forget “green” diesel that is f-ing up marine diesels... another enviro navy project. Nothing like a career REMF “leader” to suck up and ruin the point of the spear in our fighting forces on the front line, now with the chinee— who are NOT concerned about ...the “environment”. Sheesh, and thanks.
The oil may not have leaked out but walked out.
At a time when we need every ship functional and lethal..... damn.
An anchor management issue. (Not mine. I saw it in the comments of an online version of the story. )
Aegis is the integrated radar and combat information system. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that well underwater, upon a sandbar.
Seems like they should have a better system set up to warn them if their anchor is dragging. Hydraulic fluid is fairly lightweight stuff that would probably evaporate - or it might even be a water-based fluid.
Well, good luck to them ever finding it now!
Are they continuing the search, or are they expecting it to turn up by itself, eventually?
Maybe they should place an ad in the shopping news, "Have You Seen Me?", with a picture of the oil.
Seriously: Who writes these crazy headlines?!
Regards,
Hydraulic fluid is commonly biodegradable these days.
If the ship was at anchor, then would it not be at anchor where the harbor authorities told it to anchor? And wouldn't the captain assume that the harbor authorities knew what they were doing when the told him to park there? So why would the captain be at fault?
Well, good luck to them ever finding it now!
A lot of the hydraulic oil we use at our plant is heavier than water so that oil may be on the ocean floor.
The stuff we use is also considered a carcinogen.
>USS Antietam (CG-54) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy.
Antietam was laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi on 15 November 1984, launched on 14 February 1986, and commissioned on 6 June 1987 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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