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    just saw in the news, the Port Royal has been grounded since Thursday on a reef just outside Honolulu.. that's going to end someone's carreer..

  • #2
    just had a look at that, you right some ones in trouble over that one.
    Naval Warfare Discussion is dying on WAB

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    • #3
      Here's a video clip of the grounded Port Royal, looking rather forlorn.

      http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-209453

      Apparently there were several guests aboard, including a rear admiral, when it happened.





      HONOLULU -- The Navy offloaded fuel, water and personnel from a grounded, $1 billion guided missile cruiser so tugboats and a salvage ship can try again early Sunday morning to free it from a rock and sand shoal.

      The USS Port Royal ran aground on Thursday evening, about a half-mile south of the Honolulu airport where it was visible from several vantage points on Oahu.

      No one was injured and no oil or other contaminants have leaked, said representatives of the Navy and Coast Guard, as well as state officials.
      Ship Grounding

      With the port of Honolulu in the foreground, the USS Port Royal, a Navy guided missile cruiser, sits grounded atop a reef about a half-mile south of the Honolulu airport's reef runway, Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 in Honolulu. Navy tugs tried early Friday to nudge the 9,600-ton warship away from the spot it hit but were unsuccessful.

      At a press conference, Rear Admiral Joseph Walsh, deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said the ship is structurally sound. But he added that a thick, underwater rubber encasement that surrounds sonar equipment at the bow has taken on seawater.

      A barge received fuel and fresh water from the Port Royal on Saturday, which Walsh said should make the grounded vessel approximately 200 tons lighter. The 9,600-ton warship will also be an additional 15 tons lighter because half the crew of 360 is on shore.

      Another reason for moving half the crew was that the ship's air conditioning was not functioning because the vent through which seawater is drawn to cool the system is blocked as the ship sits on the shoal, Walsh said.

      A lighter Port Royal, combined with a peak high tide and the pulling power of an oceangoing tug, some smaller harbor tugs and the salvage ship Salvor, should do the trick when a third effort is made to free the ship around 3:25 a.m. on Sunday, Walsh said.

      "The issue becomes one of how much weight is on the ship versus our ability to pull that weight off of the reef," Walsh said.

      Two previous efforts on Friday and Saturday mornings using harbor tugs that tried to pull the ship backward and away from the shoal were unsuccessful.

      The 15-year-old Port Royal had just ended a four-month routine maintenance visit to Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and was finishing the first day of sea trials when it ran aground at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday.

      "The ship was maneuvering to off-load some of the sailors and some of the contractors and shipyard personnel, and she was in her normal spot for doing those types of small-boat transfers," Walsh said.

      He added later that the shoal was known to the Navy. "Clearly, the ship is not where the ship should have been. The investigation will determine exactly why the ship got to the point where she was in shoal water," Walsh said.

      The Port Royal is sitting in about 22 feet of water, aground along the length of her port side on a bed of sand and rock of the type that was used to construct one of the nearby airport's runways, Walsh said.
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      • #4
        ouch! talk about career suicide.
        And just after a no doubt expensive refit too.
        For Gallifrey! For Victory! For the end of time itself!!

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        • #5
          And the Navy knewn about the shoal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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          • #6
            As far as career ending it depends on who the captain was and who he knows. The very same happened with Mo in the 50's and the captain was spared a career ending. Helps to know higher ups dont you know.;)

            Sad thought that she just finished her maintenance stay.Well...back to drydock.:(
            Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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            • #7
              Clearly, the ship is not where the ship should have been
              Well duh!

              Looove these pr types

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              • #8
                What if the admiral aboard ordered the captain to take that route which resulted in grounding?
                "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Dreadnought View Post
                  As far as career ending it depends on who the captain was and who he knows. The very same happened with Mo in the 50's and the captain was spared a career ending. Helps to know higher ups dont you know.;)

                  Sad thought that she just finished her maintenance stay.Well...back to drydock.:(

                  The Missouri didn't have to worry about CNN broadcasting pictures of them all over the world, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

                  I am fairly certain the Captain is toast.

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                  • #10
                    The Navigation officer may be in trouble also.

                    About 1981, a foreign navy picked up a FFG from Todd Seattle and promptly ran it into a sand bar while coming down the coast. As it was getting checked and having finishing up work done on it at LBNSY, the Captain and Navigation Officer were flying back to their country to have a discussion about their Naval future.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Johnny W View Post
                      The Missouri didn't have to worry about CNN broadcasting pictures of them all over the world, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

                      I am fairly certain the Captain is toast.
                      Agreed, But hopefully she will be removed quickly. Mo spent 15 days on Thimbal Shoals. Not just the Captain but Navigator as well.
                      Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Dreadnought View Post
                        Agreed, But hopefully she will be removed quickly. Mo spent 15 days on Thimbal Shoals. Not just the Captain but Navigator as well.
                        Wouldn't it not be who ever had officer of the watch? Or is the captain always to blame?

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by zraver View Post
                          Wouldn't it not be who ever had officer of the watch? Or is the captain always to blame?
                          Captain is always to blame, he's the one in command so whatever happens with his ship is his responsibility.
                          "If a man does his best, what else is there?"
                          -General George Patton Jr.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by zraver View Post
                            Wouldn't it not be who ever had officer of the watch? Or is the captain always to blame?
                            Originally posted by Michigan_Guy View Post
                            Captain is always to blame, he's the one in command so whatever happens with his ship is his responsibility.
                            Agreed, the buck stops at the Skipper.

                            Whenever I have been on the bridge of a US Navy ship heading through a restricted channel, the navigation work is extremely precise, including sailors on the bridge wings taking continuous bearings.

                            Plus, there are usually one or more security chase boats, usually Navy, that see to it that the channel is kept clear of traffic (there are sometimes idiots who think its funny to tack their little boats across the path of Navy warships), and incidentally may provide an extra visual cue. Its going to be interesting to see what they say caused this grounding.

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                            • #15
                              Update

                              She's free. And the CO has been temporarily relieved.

                              http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/13938/76/

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