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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #25 on: October 07, 2011, 04:30:25 PM »
According to the CG Historian's official website the Smilax was commissioned in 1944, the Eagle on May 15th, 1946. 
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #26 on: October 07, 2011, 05:29:12 PM »
Quote from: dm1333 on October 07, 2011, 04:30:25 PM
According to the CG Historian's official website the Smilax was commissioned in 1944, the Eagle on May 15th, 1946. 

Acushnet was commissioned as USS Shackle by the Navy in February 1944, decommissioned from the Navy and commissioned into the Coast Guard as USCGC Acushnet in August of 1946.  Smilax should have had the title of oldest commission (November of 1944) all along if they're going by CG commission date, with Eagle (May of 1946) second and Acushnet third.  If they're counting original commission date regardless of service, then Eagle's got them all beat by several years with its 1936 commissioning as SSS Horst Wessel, then Acushnet/Shackle, then Smilax.

Timeline:
USCGC Eagle first Commissioned (as SSS Horst Wessel):  September 1936
USCGC Acushnet first Commissioned (as USS Shackle): February 1944
USCGC Smilax Commissioned: November 1944
USCGC Eagle recommissioned: May 1946
USCGC Acushnet recommissioned: August 1946

The only way it makes sense to put Acushnet first and Smilax second is if you're going by total US service, regardless of branch or name.
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #27 on: October 07, 2011, 05:44:07 PM »
Well, I don't have an answer for you!  Ask me a question about motor lifeboats or other small boats.   =D
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #28 on: October 09, 2011, 05:20:07 AM »
Quote from: dm1333 on October 07, 2011, 05:44:07 PM
Well, I don't have an answer for you!  Ask me a question about motor lifeboats or other small boats.   =D

Okay, if the German Navy commissions a really big motor lifeboat with sails in 1936, and the USCG takes it and recommissions it in 1946, how old is the lifeboat in 2011?   =D
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #29 on: October 09, 2011, 07:54:01 AM »
OMG, are we buying the damn boat or not?
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #30 on: October 09, 2011, 08:28:52 AM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on October 09, 2011, 07:54:01 AM
OMG, are we buying the damn boat or not?

Going through withdrawals already?  ;)
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #31 on: October 09, 2011, 09:02:28 AM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on October 09, 2011, 07:54:01 AM
OMG, are we buying the damn boat or not?

I ain't seen your half of the money yet....
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #32 on: October 09, 2011, 10:58:01 AM »
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Okay, if the German Navy commissions a really big motor lifeboat with sails in 1936, and the USCG takes it and recommissions it in 1946, how old is the lifeboat in 2011?

How about an old ship built in the 18th century that's all original - except for new deck, new ribs, new keel, new planking, and new rigging  ???

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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #33 on: October 09, 2011, 09:29:33 PM »
Quote from: adively on October 09, 2011, 08:28:52 AM
Going through withdrawals already?  ;)

Yes.

Quote from: seeker_two on October 09, 2011, 09:02:28 AM
I ain't seen your half of the money yet....

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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #34 on: October 09, 2011, 10:48:43 PM »
No... the logistical tail on this is just too long. We need something much more efficient.

I think the best way to go is find something newer, in diesel-electric, then we fly under the radar with the DOE, and get birdman and physics working on retrofitting it with a little miniature Thorium pile and some sort of non-traditional starter neutron source, and we run some smoky little truck diesels up the funnel when we're near port.  :angel:

There's no way we're going to break even the first few years, even if we got lucky and were issued a letter or marque right away without even proving ourselves first.

Although... taking a contract from the Japanese to go after the Sea Shepherd might be fun...  =D
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #35 on: October 10, 2011, 07:30:35 PM »
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There's no way we're going to break even the first few years, even if we got lucky and were issued a letter or marque right away without even proving ourselves first.

Never say never!  We sail close to where the Somalis are holding some of these ships, launch a small boat with a prize crew, take a ship back and ask for half of what the Somalis wanted in ransom.  Voila!  (just don't pay 10 mil for the Acushnet like the guy is asking for.  Especially since he just bought it for $600,000.  Sheesh!)

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Okay, if the German Navy commissions a really big motor lifeboat with sails in 1936, and the USCG takes it and recommissions it in 1946, how old is the lifeboat in 2011? 


Middle aged, by Coast Guard standards! 
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #36 on: October 10, 2011, 07:35:45 PM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on October 09, 2011, 10:48:43 PM


Although... taking a contract from the Japanese to go after the Sea Shepherd might be fun...  =D

Like.  Plus eleventy.
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Re: USS APS??
« Reply #37 on: October 10, 2011, 08:38:51 PM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on October 09, 2011, 10:48:43 PM
Although... taking a contract from the Japanese to go after the Sea Shepherd might be fun...  =D

I wonder if there's any way to convince some Somali pirates that there's a LOT on money and gold bullion on the Sea Shepherd ...
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