Not known as these two drawings which survived:
Given the range of Polaris and Regulus, they were really theater weapons. At least with any accuracy. 500miles/800km range for accuracy.
Regulus was stopped because it took way too long for the submarine to set up and launch, all while on the surface in full view of all patrol aircraft and ships.
More Essex-class. The Alaska-class had the same engines, boilers, etc.
Hmm. A sailing ship of all wooden construction and composite missiles…that show up on radar?
Unfit? Unsafe is more like it. You can't even get parts for many of the systems onboard. Much of the electrical system isn't just obsolete, it borders on unsafe to use. Things like motors and pumps require new foundations for mounting them because their current ones are so rotted and tweaked out of plumb there's no other choice. Just the amount of corrosion is an issue.
Hard disagree here. Same age, yes. But that's about where the similarities end. The WWII era destroyers were slapped together as quickly and cheaply as possible. The hulls were built from a thinner steel, and they were also built much more lightly than any battleship or aircraft carrier. At the time they were built, the battleships were known as "gold platers" because no corners were cut in their construction.
Missouri still has the dent in the deck edge she got from a kamikaze in 1945, it was probably identified as "too expensive to fix"
Both are factors.
To be fair, given the state of the Russian Navy, I'm putting my money on Victory...
AND her watertight doors between compartments were all open, thus allowing the flooding to quickly spread through the ship.
Crucially, that was in 1943, when the ship was less than a year old. It's not controversial that ships deteriorate with time.
New ships, sure. Old ones, not so much. All you need is one non-watertight stuffing tube between two compartments for progressive flooding. Old ships have ones now disused. Watertight hatches may not be due to shifting of the ship's structure over time, and not maintaining the rubber seal correctly. Corrosion may have weakened a bulkhead to the point it cracks instead of holds.AND her watertight doors between compartments were all open, thus allowing the flooding to quickly spread through the ship.
Here is a slightly older USN destroyer USS Murphy DD-603 after an at-sea collision with an oil tanker:
The forward third of the ship sank in 265 feet (81 m) of water, taking 36 officers and men with it. The aft two-thirds was kept afloat and was towed into New York Navy Yard for seven months of repairs, which included the replacement of the entire bow.
Here she is before the "oops":
The Mexican Gearing-class destroyers stayed around until 2002 and 2014.
And let's remember what actually happened on Iowa: wornout and unsafe systems that weren't repaired due to cost and priorities, poor training and inexperience among the officers in particular, endless maintenance problems, old and dangerous ammunition, and, finally, the explosion in the gun house. The glamour of big guns blinded too many to the shortcomings of these old ships.
Explosion in the gun house caused by old and dangerous ammunition, at that.
The explosion was due to incompetent naval officers and civilian technical "experts" rebagging the powder using inappropriate materials (the original bags were silk the new ones polyester and prone to static) and adding a 'tare' pouch on each in a manner that allowed the powder in the tare pouch to be compressed sufficiently to ignite it.
Again: dangerous ammunition.
Well, it didn't help that the turret crew were mostly only barely qualified to handle the munitions to begin with.
Welcome to the Navy. The first time you do something, it's with live booms. No pressure.
The guy wasn't even gay, and the surviving crewman involved in that had initially been considered a hero in helping evacuate the magazines. Worse, several crew were in the turret that didn't even belong there. They had been sent there because they didn't make their assigned GQ station. The one that was a real Oh $$!+ case was the adopted son of an admiral...
See also the blame game for the Bonhomme Richard fire, where they tried to pin it on a guy who failed out of SEAL school and was supposedly bitter about it. Admittedly, most "BUDS duds" have a terrible attitude.
And the second round of the investigation is finally looking at the guy that was originally suspected... but who had been crossed off the list because he had finished his enlistment shortly after the fire and was now a civilian.
About time, though I still think it was likely an accidental fire that ended up destroying the ship due to shipyard incompetence. Watertight doors blocked from being closed, shipboard fire main basically nonfunctional with no firefighting equipment staged to replace it...
I was afraid that was part of it. My sub made a port visit to San Diego one patrol, we tied up at Point Loma across the pier from USS Coronado. While we were there, the Coronado ran a fire drill. It took them 20 minutes to get the fire out. It was in a wastebasket.
or of historical importance and should be left.
Would have required cutting into the belt armor. It was left at the end of WW2 when there was no intention to use Mo as a museum ship. It was left in the 1960s reactivation. It was left in the 1980s reactivation.
I think Everhart…who did blueprints of the Star Trek Enterprise…was one of the casualties?The guy wasn't even gay, and the surviving crewman involved in that had initially been considered a hero in helping evacuate the magazines. Worse, several crew were in the turret that didn't even belong there.
An excellent read on this:
Well, it should be... possible... but...
Mark 42 would have been a lot easier.
No it was not me. I did seen some drawings of the New Jersey BBV conversions with such modern guns including the 8" guns, but I only put 5" Mark 16 single ones as described:
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