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To: Doohickey

It wasn't the Stump, it was the Samuel B. Roberts. The mine broke the keel and the crew literally held the ship together with steel cables.

The Stump was a Spruance-class destroyer, just decommissioned last year.


54 posted on 04/15/2005 5:05:39 AM PDT by fredhead ("It is a good thing war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." General Robert E. Lee)
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To: fredhead; Doohickey

Didn't look real hard, but apparently both Stump and Comte de Grasse (Spruance-Tico sized destroyer hulls) had engine fires/explosions.

Internal explosions, not external (bomb/missile) hit: they lost one engineroom/shaft until it could get isolated.

Roberts, Stark were combat losses.


67 posted on 04/15/2005 5:23:12 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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