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.
or, amusing.
Al Gore! Al Gore! Wanted in frozen tundra isle one for clean up! Al Gore!
Naval folk — what do the sailors do? Are they given leave? Or just hang around on board?
Montreal’s not a bad place to hang out for a few months.
That was May, 1756.
Why?
The commanding officer is Commander Todd Peters. May just be me but that sounds like a guys name.
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
Thanks all.
Now I get it.
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.
Gotta hand it to that Secretary of Defense: He and his people are doing a heckuva job!
Why are we outsourcing warship construction?
Everything the military uses down to the buttons on their uniforms should be made in the USA.
LOL! I was thinking the same thing.
The so called commander was a woman, that’s why.
Built in Wisconsin.
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.
Really? A Navy spokesperson caused the ship to get stuck in Montreal?
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.
The so-called commander is Commander Todd Peters. Last time I checked that's a guy's name.
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?
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