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I guess since nobody could answer my last question, I have to ask another.
When the USS Roberts (FFG 58) hit an Iranian free floating mine (of Korean manufacture copying an American design) it blasted through the Auxiliary Machinery Room and broke the hull nearly in two. The break was so severe, it could not run it's main turbines for the propeller to back out of the minefield.
Other ships offered to come in and tow Roberts out of the field but the Captain waived them off. After all, it wasn't until AFTER he realized he was in a mine field and was trying to back out through his own wake that a free floater drifted in and blew his hull open.
The reinforcement shipalt we added to the Roberts helped save the ship from breaking into two pieces. That reinforcement consisted of doubler plates along the top of the sheer strake, along the top of the bilge strake and on both sides of the flat keel.
But the Roberts backed herself out all by her lonesome.
How?
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