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[USS] Port Royal returns for $20M in repairs (Ticonderoga class are cracking up)
Star Advertiser ^ | Dec 25, 2010 | By William Cole

Posted on 12/25/2010 5:21:57 AM PST by Islander7

The Navy cruiser USS Port Royal is back in Pearl Harbor shipyard for more than $20 million in repairs — on top of the $40 million spent to fix damage from a 2009 grounding and an $18 million refurbishment immediately before the warship ran aground.

The latest yard period, which began in September and is expected to end in late February, is to address cracks discovered in the aluminum alloy superstructures on all 22 of the Navy's Ticonderoga-class cruisers, officials said. The ships were commissioned between 1986 and 1994.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hawaii; military; navy; ticonderoga
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To: Islander7
You think the Navy would have learned from the DLGs/CGs in the 70's. On the Leahy (DLG-16), we had to frantically shore up a V-shaped stuperstructure crack at the main deck level in a sea state 6 storm. The superstructure was literally being torn from the main deck by heavy seas and we took on enough water fully submerge our fantail. Even the Chief Boats didn't think we were going to make it.

I remember thinking how embarassing it would be to die sinking in the Med off Mallorca.
21 posted on 12/25/2010 10:14:00 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Cheetahcat
Aluminum is used in termite.


22 posted on 12/25/2010 10:59:14 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
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To: Oztrich Boy
Aluminum is used in termite.

Thermite ,Spell check LOL pulled the "H"

23 posted on 12/25/2010 11:09:42 AM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: meatloaf
"The ship rolled like you wouldn’t believe in storms"

I rode the Benjamin Stoddert (another Adams class, DDG-22) through a typhoon and I thought she did VERY VERY well. Cut through 30ft wave like they were barely there. And yes, it was a rough ride...we were order to use our belts to strap ourselves into our racks to prevent injury. We saw blue water out the portals on the mess deck.

That said, nobody was eating or sleeping anyway. Even the saltiest of sailors were sick.

My assessment is based on the fact I was accustomed to flat-bottom amphibs at the time. Ever see 2,000 Marines sea-sick at the same time? It's a mess like you would not believe.

24 posted on 12/25/2010 12:38:44 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Mariner

The Adams class wasn’t too bad, been through 30 ft seas on the ... Bennie Stoddert myself. Any destroyer sized ship is going to rock and roll... a lot!! A good OOD sure helps a lot. As long as she keeps the stacks pointing up in the end it’s all good. Sure did spend a lot of time talking to God sometimes though.
Jack


25 posted on 12/25/2010 1:57:09 PM PST by btcusn
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To: btcusn

The good ol Bennie Sweat:)


26 posted on 12/25/2010 2:34:13 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: STD

Considering they’ve started retiring and scrapping Ticonderoga cruisers, I don’t think we’re going to see a refund.


27 posted on 12/25/2010 3:44:59 PM PST by neutronsgalore (ROPERS DELENDA EST!!!)
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To: Mariner

“Ever see 2,000 Marines sea-sick at the same time? “ That’s certainly a vivid image. I’ve had the same experience except I saw blue water from the bridge to starboard and nothing but shy to port. That was not in a storm. The conn got crossways to the seas. A gunner’s mate noticed the inclinomter coming back to 45 degrees on that roll. When the ship heeled over on her side I was wondering if she was coming back up. She didn’t seem to be in a hurry.

In rough weather we often had waves breaking over the signal bridge.


28 posted on 12/25/2010 4:23:31 PM PST by meatloaf
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To: Islander7

Well, the coed crew will have plenty of time to have fun in the port, so there is an upside after all.


29 posted on 12/25/2010 4:34:55 PM PST by MSF BU (YR'S Please Support our troops: JOIN THEM!)
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To: Thrownatbirth

Could you have done that now with the petite crew members that I have seen on so many of these naval vessels?


30 posted on 12/25/2010 4:37:08 PM PST by MSF BU (YR'S Please Support our troops: JOIN THEM!)
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To: Cheetahcat

I have seen a lot of termites but I never would have suspected them of using aluminum.


31 posted on 12/26/2010 10:03:22 AM PST by RipSawyer
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To: RipSawyer

“I have seen a lot of termites but I never would have suspected them of using aluminum.”

Enough IT WAS A TYPO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


32 posted on 12/26/2010 11:38:00 AM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Mariner

I was accustomed to flat-bottom amphibs at the time. Ever see 2,000 Marines sea-sick at the same time? It’s a mess like you would not believe.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Did an APA(45) from 57-60.
We carried about 1800 Marines, with many (and some crew members) exercising their right to an empty stomach. Course didn’t take much of a storm, usually rough seas did the job. Used to make it a ‘habit’ of serving ‘greasy’ food when troops embarked.

Then an LST(1157) 60-62.
Both ‘exciting’, fun rides in a typhoon...the LST would rock & roll in a strong breakwater.

On the T (1157) vividly remember the bow would come up out of the water then ‘slap’ back down and start a ‘header’. About that time the stern would be out of the water with the screws squealing, this would go on for a long while. Don’t really remember strapping into racks but would wear a seat belt while sitting a circuit...

Fun times, actually enjoyed it very much....


33 posted on 12/26/2010 12:41:21 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) When you are right, nobody remembers, but when you are wrong, nobody forgets.)
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To: org.whodat

“Ran aground” is proper naval parlance.


34 posted on 12/26/2010 12:53:26 PM PST by Jacquerie (We are not subjects, we are citizens. Congressman Mike Pence)
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To: neutronsgalore

Why are we fixing the broken ones anyway?


35 posted on 12/26/2010 4:35:54 PM PST by STD (Obama is a cold-hearted, cold-blooded Marxist on a rush mission to take down America.)
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To: Cheetahcat

Here we go again. The 911 nutjobs will get all over this post


36 posted on 12/26/2010 4:40:30 PM PST by STD (Obama is a cold-hearted, cold-blooded Marxist on a rush mission to take down America.)
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To: Cheetahcat
Thermite ,Spell check LOL pulled the "H"

Thas OK, I tout youz wuz from Brooklyn.

37 posted on 12/26/2010 4:46:50 PM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: xrmusn; Mariner; Doohickey; CPOSharky; CholeraJoe; SunkenCiv

On the USS Skinny Titty (Schenectady) LST-1185 for a little while back in the mid-790’s. Saw the same thing my dad talked about during rides on the earlier LST classes during the Korean War.

Fun seeing the whole ship bend up and down when you’re inside the cargo deck during heavy seas. Front goes up, middle goes down, stern goes up; middle goes up, bow goes down, stern goes down ..... Twists as she rocks too..

Got royally seasick lifting ether-filled 3-inch WWII era AA shells up high in the ready reserve ammo room off Catalina Island for gunnery practice in 1975 on the LST-1185. 4 hours rocking back and forth in the dark while breathing ether, gun fumes, and vomit? (Yeah - They were still using WWII-packed gun shells in 75. And the shell casings were really filled with gas. )

Can’t see that on a sub - only indication below when the sub rocks is the oscillating up and down levels of the two steam generators as she rolls at periscope depth.


38 posted on 12/26/2010 4:49:19 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: STD

“Here we go again. The 911 nutjobs will get all over this post”

LMAO inside job.


39 posted on 12/26/2010 4:59:21 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: exit82

“Thas OK, I tout youz wuz from Brooklyn.”

LOL I should have said more.


40 posted on 12/26/2010 5:06:09 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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