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Reply With QuoteCheck out pictures of the stern of USS CowpensOriginally Posted by Gus00
Recently I ran across the wikipedia page covering the 2009 grounding of USS Port Royal near Oahu. In the photos I noticed that her underside is painted a very vibrant shade of blue rather than the more common red on most USN ships. Why is Port Royal different, and are there other's?
BTW: From what I read on a couple of different sites, sounds like it was a complete cluster on the bridge that day.
Speaking of ships with unique features. I remember long ago seeing photos of USS John Hancock showing that instead of the usual block letters, the name on the stern was done as his signature. I always liked that little bit of personality.
Check out pictures of the stern of USS Cowpens
wow, those are big screws
http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/cg...dock6_2010.jpg
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Apparently a new kind, grade and color of paint for the USN and not just one.
USS Missouri when drydocked in 2009 was given a different color then what she normally had.
Perhaps now they are tailoring them per ship application. Or it could also just be the very same paint being used and a different pigment color added.
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Great picture - they certainly are big screws! I've seen those ships accelerate - they work very well. I watched San Jancino back out of her berth in New Jersey in 1991, her bow lifted out of the water before she had traveled her own length, she turned on a dime and and went forward with her bow still sticking out proudly. It sounded like a jet taking off. I doubt she was going very fast in the short distance it took to do this - but it sure seemed like she was a speed boat.
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Checking with a friend of mine who is a licensed hull and paint specialist (he wrote the painting manual for the Navy some years ago), the top-coat of the latest anti-fouling paints are made by a different formula and the old red bottoms are being replaced with blue.
On the Missouri, however, a different formula was used as the ship will be in a static mode the rest of her life whereas active ships still plying the waves are now using the blue top-coat.
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Aren't those screws the variable pitch type?
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Wow I never knew they had that feature. Impressive.
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