Posted on 01/21/2018 2:38:19 PM PST by Taipei
MONTREAL -- A newly commissioned Navy warship will be wintering in Montreal after its journey to Florida was interrupted by cold and ice.
A Navy spokeswoman says the USS Little Rock was commissioned in Buffalo on Dec. 16 and was expected to make its way to its home port in Mayport, Fla.
Instead, the 118-metre Freedom-variant vessel has been moored in Montreal since Christmas Eve due to unusually heavy ice conditions.
Lt. Cmdr. Courtney Hillson says the Navy has now decided to leave the ship in place until the winter weather improves.
While there's no departure date scheduled, she says the St. Lawrence Seaway is generally navigable by mid-March.
Hillson says the crew are doing well and will focus on training and readiness while they wait to travel to warmer waters.
Further strong evidence of human-caused global warning, no doubt.
Aarrrr! Mateys! Avast! We be weighing anchor, and we
be making fer Florida fer the winter, sez I to me trusty
crew.
But wait!!
We be havin’ to spend the winter locked in the ice in
Canada?! That’s surely a poor second!! Aarrr! Curses...
On the bright side… it won’t be involved in a collision.
Something tells me that this might turn out to be the core of the problem.
It is interesting. I’m wondering why it was in Montreal at Christmas.
...On the bright side… it won’t be involved in a collision...
Yet.
Except the ice may crush the aluminum hull.
.... You know Navy builder guys..... part of the military's mission is to adapt to unexpected circumstances.
This is especially true with the Ships in the Navy.
In March of 1942 the U.S.S. Washington was escorting convoys in the Arctic Ocean.
By October she was shooting up Japanese Ships in the sweltering heat of the South Pacific.
You need to think about these things!!
That’s not possible. All of the ice anywhere near the Arctic region was gone a couple of years ago - just ask the Profit Algore.
Montréal is a really fun city, even in the winter. It won’t be too bad.
Watch out for the Drunk Can-UK in the snowmobile.
I believe it was built in Wisconsin on Lake Michigan and tested there. It was on its way through the STL Seaway eventually to its Florida home base. Oops!
My guess is they just waited too long to get her to the seaway.
If you have Gordon Lightfoot’s e-mail, he might want to write a follow-up to his hit about the Edmund Fitzgerald. I can imagine verses involving the intrepid female commander and the crew’s adventures in Montreal.
Has Canada surrendered yet?
[USS Little Rock]
See? U.S.S. Little Rock, tied to Arkansas, tied to the Clintons - which is Hillary.
Therefore, President Trump caused this. A U.S.S. Little Rock shutdown.
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