Navy Ships

For you Navy types... There are two Navy ships that have been docked for a while at the shipyard in Everett, close to where the WA State ferries are being overhauled. They are not at the Navy base. You can see one and part of the other here: http://www.heraldnet.com/webcam/viewer3.cfm

They look to me like older destroyers. Is this what they are? I wonder why are they here.

Raul

[Seapuppy]

yeah raul..they are spruance class destroyers of the later flights...I couldn't see very well without crashing into someone when I drove by..but one looks like it still has the old box launchers....I got to work on one when I was at inglass for a few months..helped install the RASS system...(Helo recovery at sea system...neat to see it operate)..cool destroyers....they are actually being overhauled by 2 companies....one is my old co..ingalls...the other I think is Everett or bremmerton...not sure....
:argh :argh arrrr

..cool destroyers....they are actually being overhauled by 2 companies....one is my old co..ingalls...the other I think is Everett or bremmerton...not sure....
:argh :argh arrrr

You're pretty close Steve. They're not being overhauled though... they're the Oldendorf, Fife and David R. Ray. They're being stripped of their VLS (Vertical Launch Systems) hardware... and will be sunk in short order. The Oldendorf is supposed to head out first to be used in Urgent Fury 2005.

She'll be out in a bang of glory just after Memorial Day. Supposedly Lincoln is to get a few runs on her.

The Rodney M. Davis, Schoup, Momsley and another or two are still working out of here though. Most are Desron 21 assets. Lincoln takes the Shoup along as part of Desron 3. We had Bunker Hill, Shiloh, Mobil Bay, Paul Hamilton, Fletcher, Crommelin, Reuben James, Camden, Ranier and two subs... Honolulu & Cheyenne on my last cruise (2002).

Must be rough to watch a boat you rode get a big target painted on the side of it... :) ... neah

[Seapuppy]

mike...so they are going into the target program??.....they were parked at bremmerton for quite awhile and I had read that they were going to the foriegn sales program....I thought singapore was getting them or taiwan.....
so if they are going to be targets...they are in the strip out mode....too bad..the hulls are still good and it doesn't take alot to refurbish them....just about 150 mil........
man...too bad they are being sunk......I've been on the spruance class....neat boats........but the Arleigh Burkes are really awesome...... :argh arrr

I rode the Milius into Hobart a few cruises back. Was only supposed to be aboard the afternoon, but the Lincoln steamed out to meet a helo medivac and I ended up having to go into port 2 days earlier than all my buddies. :(

They are neat.. but too small. Damned fast though.

I was talking to a JO1 just two days ago at the clinic there in Everett (son broke his arm) and he was telling me the whole story. I guess they're towing the first one out for the Lincoln FRS-CQ to play with and then the other two will likely be sub fodder. :)

[Go Aweigh2452]

hey, lets invite the former attorney general for a ride on an old Arleigh Burke? Oldendorf sounds like a nice one for her highness?

I rather invite her as the "former governor" ...

[3788sam]

Hers a little more info from the POE

http://www.portofeverett.com/press/2005_05_24NavyShips.shtml

Looks like we'd better book her a seat on the David R Ray. She's the next headed out it looks like. Unless the one they took out already is already in position for the wrath of the Lincoln air wing :)

[MartySchwartz]

Whe I was in Submarines we operated against the Fife (a Frigate by the way, at least she was in 1979) during a two-day exercise. She shot torpedos at us and we shot them at her. It was the first time she used her LAMPS helo and, I have got to say, she got us just about as many times as we got her. At the end of the exercise we only had one more kill against her than she had against us, quite sobering. She was a good ship. \

Marty..........................

... against the Fife (a Frigate by the way, at least she was in 1979)

She's always been a Destroyer (DD-991). Must've been someone else. She was commissioned May 31 1980, didn't likely hit the fleet until early the next year at best.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/991.htm

You sub guys... :shock:

[Seapuppy]

yep...fife is a destroyer..........spruance class....I think the early fife was an oliver hazard perry class of frigate......she was decom'd I think around 1976.......or so....then the fife was iterated in a spruance class....either way...the spruance class was a great class of boats..but not very stealthy......... :argh arr

[MartySchwartz]

Yea, I really hate it when the brain takes a vacation and doesn't invite me along. I was thinking of the Hart, not the Fife. I sit corrected!

Marty...........................

P.S. They really do all look alike through the periscope............ :shock:

P.S. They really do all look alike through the periscope............ :shock:

I've seen video of my boat through a periscope... sobering to think someone's watching you with a trigger :(

[MartySchwartz]

Hey SS, no worries. The bullets those things shoot would punch right through a fiberglass boat without exploding. They wouldn't even notice enough impact to detonate...................... :shock:

Marty..............

The "boat" I was talking about about was the USS Abraham Lincoln. :D

We had a periscope picture in our mess. Keeps ya thinkin' :)

[MartySchwartz]

Oh, I knew that.... :D One time we actually had a montage of the U.S.S. Nimitz on the bulkhead in the Crew's Mess. The montage was made up of 5 (or 6) 8"x10" pictures taped together to make a complete picture of the target ..er.. ship from stem to stern. They kept telling us we were now where near them but there was about 70-80 degrees between the bearing to the bow and the bearing to the stern. Screen? What screen? Of course that was before the LAMPS helos were deployed, that changed the whole equation. After that we had to work harder to get that close. Certainly made life more interesting.

Marty.......................

That's why we normally travelled with 2 or 3 "shadows" in our wake. I've looked out on more than one occasion and seen a periscope trailing in our plane guard position.

No doubt a sub could get us... we always slept well knowing that our subs would get their long before they got us :)