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Navy will dismantle minesweeper ship on coral reef
« on: January 30, 2013, 02:32:43 PM »
http://freebeacon.com/swept-away/

A $277 million dollar ship.  Scrapped.



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The Navy will disassemble it piece by piece in order to avoid damaging the reef rather than tow the multi-million dollar ship off of the reef and perform necessary repairs.

Navy says it's beyond repair.  I wonder if some ecoweenie in the Obama administration is driving that talking point. 

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Re: Navy will dismantle minesweeper ship on coral reef
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2013, 02:46:05 PM »
Real smart move.  Maybe the Navy can get a Cash for Clunkers deal on a new one.
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Re: Navy will dismantle minesweeper ship on coral reef
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2013, 03:20:36 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on January 30, 2013, 02:32:43 PM
http://freebeacon.com/swept-away/

A $277 million dollar ship.  Scrapped.



Navy says it's beyond repair.  I wonder if some ecoweenie in the Obama administration is driving that talking point. 



I doubt eco-weenie is driving it, working on the reef, last thing they want to do. I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that the wood hull has been shredded by wave action while stuck to the reef. Not exactly watertight and compartmentalized as most warships due to its mission being made a bit easier by not setting off magnetic influence mines and such.
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Re: Navy will dismantle minesweeper ship on coral reef
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2013, 03:34:52 PM »
I thought all ships were steel hulled now? Like, since the industrial revolution?
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Re: Navy will dismantle minesweeper ship on coral reef
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2013, 03:38:23 PM »
Quote from: Jocassee on January 30, 2013, 03:34:52 PM
I thought all ships were steel hulled now? Like, since the industrial revolution?

Not contemporary minesweepers.  Wood or plastic hulls to avoid setting off mines that are activated by an electromagnetic field, such as that produced by a steel hull.
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Re: Navy will dismantle minesweeper ship on coral reef
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2013, 03:38:44 PM »
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I thought all ships were steel hulled now? Like, since the industrial revolution?

Minesweepers are the exception to that rule.  

Wood and fiberglass-hulled minesweepers have no magnetic signature to trip a mine's proximity detonator.  
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Re: Navy will dismantle minesweeper ship on coral reef
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2013, 04:02:19 PM »
^what they said.

Sweeping magnetic mines in a steel hulled boat is a generally bad idea. As to how compartmentalized they can be when made of wood I have no idea, but stuck on a reef like that and then add in wave action and I'm guessing it might not make much difference. Even with a steel hull it might have been toast.
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Re: Navy will dismantle minesweeper ship on coral reef
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2013, 06:09:45 PM »
Quote from: lupinus on January 30, 2013, 04:02:19 PM
Sweeping magnetic mines in a steel hulled boat is a generally bad idea.

Seems like it would be a really effective way to do it, actually.  Finding more than one might be tricky.
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Re: Navy will dismantle minesweeper ship on coral reef
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2013, 09:09:15 PM »
Any ship can be a minesweeper......Once.   ;)
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Re: Navy will dismantle minesweeper ship on coral reef
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2013, 10:04:50 PM »
I read earlier that they were brining in 2 barges w/ cranes and were going to lift it off and put it on another barge and haul it away.
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Re: Navy will dismantle minesweeper ship on coral reef
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2013, 05:45:23 PM »
a fund to transport it somewhere safe(on dry land of course) to build a museum? ???
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Re: Navy will dismantle minesweeper ship on coral reef
« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2013, 11:27:57 PM »
Quote from: Azrael256 on January 30, 2013, 06:09:45 PM
Seems like it would be a really effective way to do it, actually.  Finding more than one might be tricky.

See USS Inchon, mine countermeasures command ship. They found one!
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