Posted on 04/22/2023 5:06:14 AM PDT by DFG
The latest incident to befall the U.S. Navy’s troubled Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was an embarrassingly public one, and one that left the brand-new USS Cleveland (LCS-31) damaged in the process of being launched, in front of around 3,000 people, including members of the media. The Navy has now issued a statement providing more details of the collision between the Cleveland — which is the last of the 16-strong Freedom class — and a tugboat involved during the warship’s recent christening.
"No personnel injuries occurred, but there was limited damage” to the Cleveland, the Navy said, of the April 14 incident. “The damaged area is well above the waterline and no flooding occurred.”
Different videos of the incident, at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard, in Marinette, Wisconsin, show the ceremonial bottle of sparkling wine being broken over the bow of the Cleveland by Robyn Modly, the wife of the former Under Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly.
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At least the LGBTQWXYZ sailors have safe spaces.
That’s the important thing.
Hopefully everyone was vaxxed and masked up.
Show me you are an idiot without saying you’re an idiot? Why the heck was the Tug there in the first place?
That appears to be a shipyard launching problem. Not a Navy problem this time.
There was a mistake on the lake?
I hope the ship was covered by some insurance policy (other than the US taxpayers wallets).
THAT WASN’T A COUNTDOWN!!!
“Why the heck was the Tug there in the first place?”
So ship don’t go away after launch.
So there were no Navy personnel overseeing and implementing this multi billion or trillion taxpayer dollar boat.
Well that’s great. Our inept navy cannot navigate any more Ben with all of the AI onboard. The East doesn’t have to worry about a repeat of defeat at midway.
I worked in a shipyard that launched Austal LCSs. We didn’t launch like this. We rolled the ship onto our drydock (or onto barge, then onto drydock), then sunk drydock, ship float. Nothing traumatic.
NO photos of the damage?
Looks like a few bent hull plates, if below water line, the ship will have to go into dry dock....not cheap.
The mistake would be Cleveland.
CC
If a ship can be damaged by a bump maybe they should use steel made in America rather than chinese steel.
Or aluminum, as they disastrously tried once.
CC
Unbounded stupidity.
So what’s really going on here?
The Cleveland isn’t yet a USN ship.
This wasn’t a Navy incident: It was an embarrassment for the private contractor running the yard and managing the launch.
Weird that the Millennials and Zeros didn’t have a bunch of those wiggling, “Air Dancer” figures to add a little “sensitivity” to the launch.
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