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To: Light Speed
Was glad when I learned of the Chile sale...

In 1995 I decommissioned USS San Bernardino (LST-1189) and she was turned over to Chile, renamed Valdevia(?). They ran her hard agound a year or two later. I think she was repaired but I remember reading at the time the damage was pretty significant. They had to use explosives to break her from the rocks.

39 posted on 07/09/2004 8:42:40 AM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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To: GATOR NAVY
In 1995 I decommissioned USS San Bernardino (LST-1189) and she was turned over to Chile, renamed Valdevia(?). They ran her hard agound a year or two later. I think she was repaired but I remember reading at the time the damage was pretty significant. They had to use explosives to break her from the rocks.

Here's another LST which ran aground in Chile and was pulled off the rocks by your ship..

http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/161194.htm

# LST-1179 Newport Tank Landing Ship: Laid down, 22 May 1970, at National Steel and Shipbuilding Corp, San Diego, CA.
# Launched, 13 February 1971
# Commissioned USS La Moure County (LST-1194), 18 December 1971 at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Long Beach CA
# Status changed to Active Reserve Force, 30 September 1995 # Damaged beyond economical repair, 12 September 2000 due to grounding at Caleta Cifuncho Bay, Chile;
# Decommissioned and Struck from the Naval Register, 17 November 2000 at Talcahuano, Chile
# Final Disposition, stripped of all usable material, sunk as a target during UNITAS 2001, at location: 032° 49' 08.0" North, 074° 17' 09.0" West, at a depth of 1841 fathoms

"LST Valdivia (ex-San Bernardino [LST 1189], a sister ship transferred to Chile several years ago). In the darkness and fog, La Moure County drove ashore on small rocky island just off the coast. Valdivia pulled her off the rocks "

61 posted on 07/09/2004 9:58:53 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: GATOR NAVY
June 20, 1992 Straits of Malacca USS INGERSOLL collided with oil tanker M/V MATSUMI MARU NR.7 after the destroyer's crew misread the oil tanker's running lights.


While returning from her Arabian Gulf deployment KINKAID collided with M/V KOTA PETANI in the Strait of Malacca. Fires broke out aboard both ships with the KOTA PETANI sustaining major damage as a result. The collision caused $15 million damage to KINKAID.


Been in any close calls yourself Gator?

74 posted on 07/09/2004 10:43:57 AM PDT by Light Speed
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