It's Amazing What You Can Sometime See...

[Knot Fast]

Zumwalt looks like the Merrimack

Is it just me, or does the Zumwalk look a little like the Merrimack?
[Merrimack, aka CSS Virginia, is background to the USS Monitor]

You'd think for a few billion $ the shipbuilder could have designed from scratch, rather than pullout some old drawing. Also, the Merrimack was not a winner...

 

[Knot Fast]

Yesterday, at the mouth of the St Johns, we passed the very badass USS Indianapolis (LCS-17), a Freedom-class littoral combat ship = 40 kts of automated destruction.

The armed patrol boat next to it was there to make sure we maintained the required separation distance. It worked.

 

[OldDan1943]

He works on a sub, he's already there!

I have sailed on board subs and a destroyer. Life and the food is much better on a sub.

 

[psneeld]

Funny...The Zumwalt class are only going to be 3 ships out of the 32 proposed and some littoral combat ships are already being mothballed.....seems like both class ships have not met expectations.

On a podcast today they were discussing how President Eisenhower predicted and warned against becoming addicted to the military industrial complex ...... in striving to always be prepared, the arms race forces us to build expensive things that become useless before they do their jobs.

 

[OldDan1943]

Funny...The Zumwalt class are only going to be 3 ships out of the 32 proposed and some littoral combat ships are already being mothballed.....seems like both class ships have not met expectations.

Other than I suspect they are both poorly designed and unreliable, some ships are mission designed and then, the mission goes away.
I guess 'they' are now considering them 'test platforms'

 

[menzies]

I have sailed on board subs and a destroyer. Life and the food is much better on a sub.

The shared coffins for bunks ain't that good though!

 

[OldDan1943]

The shared coffins for bunks ain't that good though!

We never shared bunks. They have a privacy curtain one one side. I found it rather comfy. Destroyer bunk, not so much, no privacy, no bunk light.

 

[menzies]

We never shared bunks. They have a privacy curtain one one side. I found it rather comfy. Destroyer bunk, not so much, no privacy, no bunk light.

The crew and artificers (non coms)?

 

[OldDan1943]

The crew and artificers (non coms)?

Everyone had their own bunk. Chief quarters, enlisted and the missile folks bunked in the missile compartment.

 

[RT Firefly]

Greetings,
Mr. ps. DDE was 110% correct and his warnings came true IMO. Thanks for mentioning that.

 

[AlanT]

The Hunt for Red October

In December 2017 I was helping my son deliver his new to him Cal 29'. We sailed south from Anacortes, then spent the night at Blake Island before the last short leg to his home port of Port Townsend.

We were approaching the channel off Manchester point when we were confronted with a submarine coming out. My son tried every course change he could manage but we still seemed to be heading towards it (it was turning in the channel). I stayed away from the helm thinking it was a good learning experience. Eventually one of the escort gun tenders zoomed over and explained in very direct terms what they wanted us to do. We headed off at a tangent and took some good pictures, and they carried on. But that was not the end of the story. 20 minutes later we were well into the channel and the darn submarine came up behind us. This time we were in a channel with shallows on one side, we had little option but to edge to the side of the navigable channel while the sub glided silently by. Later I read that this was the last short voyage of the Los Angeles class nuclear sub "Dallas" which became famous as the chase sub in the book and movie Hunt for Red October. Here is a link to the Navy Times story of the event. I have several good pictures but everytime I try to upload them they are upside down. I would appreciate help and if I can get them the right way up I'll post all three.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/12/08/navy-sub-in-hunt-for-red-october-retires/

https://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=108777&stc=1&d=1602342106

 

[OldDan1943]

Looking at picture with confusion.
Submerging or surfacing?

 

[Bigsfish]

Back in the late 1960 my buddy and I were fishing out of Key West in my 20’ open fisherman. We were in the area called the tail end about 30 miles west of KW. Catching groupers when all of a sudden a big noise as a black (dark grey) sub surfaced about two hundred feet away. My buddy got his .38 special and I got the boat on a plane to get away. I don’t think they newvwe were there and I’m not sure if it was ours or Russian. Took years off my life.

 

[AlanT]

Looking at picture with confusion.
Submerging or surfacing?

Any idea on how to fix a photo that is the right way up on my computer, but when uploaded to the site becomes inverted?

 

[OldDan1943]

Back in the late 1960 my buddy and I were fishing out of Key West in my 20’ open fisherman. We were in the area called the tail end about 30 miles west of KW. Catching groupers when all of a sudden a big noise as a black (dark grey) sub surfaced about two hundred feet away. My buddy got his .38 special and I got the boat on a plane to get away. I don’t think they newvwe were there and I’m not sure if it was ours or Russian. Took years off my life.

Your boat might have scared the sub's watch section too.
Was going to check your fishing license.