Armchair Dragoons Forums

News:

  • Connections Online 2024 will be held 15-20 April, 2024 ~~ More Info here
  • Buckeye Game Fest will be held May 2-5, 2024, with The War Room opening on 29 April ~~ More Info here

News

Connections Online 2024 will be held 15-20 April, 2024 ~~ More Info here

Author Topic: Ships!  (Read 374521 times)

ojsdad

  • Patreon Supporters
  • Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 2698
Reply #1260 on: July 13, 2020, 09:42:11 AM

Here at ACD, we all pee the same color.


Steelie

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1036
Reply #1261 on: July 13, 2020, 11:35:32 AM
What a disaster!   :(

Somewhere, somehow, I woke up in the wrong timeline. I'm pretty sure this isn't even my dimension.


trailrunner

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1063
Reply #1262 on: July 13, 2020, 12:07:40 PM
I read somewhere else that the ship will be almost a total loss. 

I’ve spent half my life’s earning on wargames, women, and drink. The rest I wasted.


BanzaiCat

  • Patreon Supporters
  • Lance Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 6561
  • Puns Puns Puns Puns
Reply #1263 on: July 13, 2020, 12:54:36 PM
Quote
Navy officials said the fire started in the lower parts of the ship where embarked Marines keep vehicles and equipment.

“There was a report of an internal explosion” in a lower stowage area, Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck, commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3, told reporters during a Sunday evening press conference just outside the base. “We don’t quite understand yet the source of … the seed of the fire,” he added.

Wow. I hope nobody got hurt. I can't find any info other than a skeleton crew was on board.

And didn't they just spend about a quarter of a billion on her for upgrades and such?  :o

============================================

Solosaurus Podcast: https://solosaurus.libsyn.com/
(includes Solosaurus Plays)


mirth

  • Cardboard Mohel
  • Lance Sergeant
  • ****
  • Posts: 7291
    • Armchair Dragoons
Reply #1264 on: July 13, 2020, 02:13:24 PM

Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.


bob48

  • Smeghead.
  • Warrant Officer
  • Lead Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 11715
Reply #1265 on: July 13, 2020, 02:15:16 PM
It looks from that shot to be very top heavy - just an optical illusion I guess due to the angle.

“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'


mirth

  • Cardboard Mohel
  • Lance Sergeant
  • ****
  • Posts: 7291
    • Armchair Dragoons
Reply #1266 on: July 13, 2020, 02:18:16 PM
She was top-heavy. They reworked the keel and hull to compensate for it.

Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.


bob48

  • Smeghead.
  • Warrant Officer
  • Lead Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 11715
Reply #1267 on: July 13, 2020, 02:21:56 PM
 :bigthumb:

“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'


bbmike

  • Warrant Officer
  • Lance Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 7444
    • My Own Worst Enemy
Reply #1268 on: July 13, 2020, 02:23:26 PM
Was this a battleship that was converted to a carrier?

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

My Own Worst Enemy


bbmike

  • Warrant Officer
  • Lance Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 7444
    • My Own Worst Enemy
Reply #1269 on: July 13, 2020, 02:24:30 PM
Ah, Wikipedia says no.

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

My Own Worst Enemy


bob48

  • Smeghead.
  • Warrant Officer
  • Lead Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 11715
Reply #1270 on: July 13, 2020, 02:25:43 PM
You ninja'd me, Mike :-)

“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'


mirth

  • Cardboard Mohel
  • Lance Sergeant
  • ****
  • Posts: 7291
    • Armchair Dragoons
Reply #1271 on: July 14, 2020, 10:35:21 AM

Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.


BanzaiCat

  • Patreon Supporters
  • Lance Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 6561
  • Puns Puns Puns Puns
Reply #1272 on: July 14, 2020, 06:35:11 PM

============================================

Solosaurus Podcast: https://solosaurus.libsyn.com/
(includes Solosaurus Plays)


Sir Slash

  • Lance Sergeant
  • ****
  • Posts: 5404
  • Head of the Honorable Order of Knights Hotwings
Reply #1273 on: July 14, 2020, 11:52:58 PM
I believe I would also say, 'NO' to that.  :notme:

Any Day is a Good Day That Doesn't Involve Too Much Work or Too Little Gaming


besilarius

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1559
Reply #1274 on: July 15, 2020, 01:56:12 PM
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34832/veteran-sailor-on-why-navy-ships-can-be-most-vulnerable-in-port-and-how-to-change-that

Good recap on the Bon Homme Richard fire with description of how a stand down in the yard can be so dangerous.

When Farragut was in the Philadelphia yard in the winter of 1974, the base had a newsletter.  It listed all the calls for fires.  There were hardly any days without a welding fire somewhere.
The Yardbirds were totally unconcerned.  Many were ending their careers after starting during WWII.  Fires were just a normal thing to them.

During WWII, there was an Essex class carrier named Bon Homme Richard.
The crew were proud to sail on "the biggest Dick in the Pacific."
« Last Edit: July 15, 2020, 02:05:54 PM by besilarius »

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.