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Newly commissioned USS Little Rock stuck in Montreal, Canada for the winter
CTV News ^ | January 21, 2018 | Canadian Press

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.


TOPICS: Canada; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; maritime; navy; usnavy
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To: Taipei

or, amusing.

Al Gore! Al Gore! Wanted in frozen tundra isle one for clean up! Al Gore!


21 posted on 01/21/2018 3:13:36 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: Taipei

Naval folk — what do the sailors do? Are they given leave? Or just hang around on board?


22 posted on 01/21/2018 3:13:55 PM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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To: Taipei

Montreal’s not a bad place to hang out for a few months.


23 posted on 01/21/2018 3:15:56 PM PST by sphinx
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To: Colinsky
When the Marquis de Montcalm was sent to assume command over Quebec in the Seven Years War, his ship was stuck by pack ice in the St. Lawrence three days ride downriver from Quebec.

That was May, 1756.

24 posted on 01/21/2018 3:16:47 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: SamuraiScot
Something tells me that this might turn out to be the core of the problem.

Why?

25 posted on 01/21/2018 3:16:59 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: T-Bird45
I can imagine verses involving the intrepid female commander and the crew’s adventures in Montreal.

The commanding officer is Commander Todd Peters. May just be me but that sounds like a guys name.

26 posted on 01/21/2018 3:20:52 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Taipei

It’s kind of surprising actually. If anyone in the navy had bothered to check lake freighter schedules or lake temperature records they would have seen that the chance for heavy ice is high in December


27 posted on 01/21/2018 3:20:53 PM PST by PGR88
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To: ifinnegan
I’m wondering why it was in Montreal at Christmas.

Because some genius decided to commission it at Buffalo in mid-December.

The Navy wasn't aware that the St. Lawrence River freezes in the winter? Uh-oh.


28 posted on 01/21/2018 3:23:06 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative; jjotto; pierrem15

Thanks all.

Now I get it.


29 posted on 01/21/2018 3:28:48 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Taipei

Need to fire the planning experts that drank the AGW Kool-Aid and used that mindset in scheduling winter ship movements. Bet they instead blame Trump.


30 posted on 01/21/2018 3:31:04 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Gotta hand it to that Secretary of Defense: He and his people are doing a heckuva job!


31 posted on 01/21/2018 3:33:38 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Why are we outsourcing warship construction?
Everything the military uses down to the buttons on their uniforms should be made in the USA.


32 posted on 01/21/2018 3:34:38 PM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: SamuraiScot

LOL! I was thinking the same thing.


33 posted on 01/21/2018 3:36:11 PM PST by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: DoodleDawg

The so called commander was a woman, that’s why.


34 posted on 01/21/2018 3:36:33 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Built in Wisconsin.


35 posted on 01/21/2018 3:36:43 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Why are we outsourcing warship construction?
Everything the military uses down to the buttons on their uniforms should be made in the USA.

Oh my it was built in the USA... my bad.


36 posted on 01/21/2018 3:37:38 PM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: SamuraiScot

Really? A Navy spokesperson caused the ship to get stuck in Montreal?


37 posted on 01/21/2018 3:40:57 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: SamuraiScot
"Lt. Cmdr. Courtney Hillson . . . Something tells me that this might turn out to be the core of the problem."

Because of a female Public Affairs Officer?

The USS Little Rock's leadership triad (CO, XO, CMC) are all men, not that they made the schedule or the weather. This falls on COMNAVSURFLANT, who failed to anticipate the closure of the St. Lawrence.

38 posted on 01/21/2018 3:42:54 PM PST by ETCM
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To: Safetgiver
The so called commander was a woman, that’s why.

The so-called commander is Commander Todd Peters. Last time I checked that's a guy's name.

39 posted on 01/21/2018 3:42:57 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Reno89519

What doesn’t make sense is, it was officially delivered to the Navy last Sept. 25th, which would have given it at least a clear month to get out of the St. Lawrence River before the ice ... they couldn’t have squeezed in the commissioning then?


40 posted on 01/21/2018 3:45:44 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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