Devilleader501 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 A Hospital ship struck the USS Arizona Memorial deck on Wednesday. No damage was done to the Arizona herself but the Dock was moved about 10 feet. Full story here. http://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-hospital-ship-mercy-strikes-uss-arizona-memorial/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yardbird78 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Ouch! That will be tough on someone's career. Glad to hear no one was hurt and that the Arizona herself wasn't damaged. I would hate to think of the ecological disaster if they had bumped into the ship and broke open one of those rusted fuel bunkers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew D. the Jolly Rogers guy Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Yep...times like this it becomes clear why the memorial does not actually touch the ship, as some have said. It only bridges it, its support reaching deep beneath the mud to bedrock. Just glad nobody was hurt! And fortunately it was "only" the boarding dock and ramp; the structure itself seems fine. As far as the ship, we've been told very clearly that its eventual "collapse is inevitable," we just don't know when. Some of the ship has deteriorated more rapidly than expected, while other areas it is quite the opposite. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ikar Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Looks like the Mercy will need a new Captain, he's toast. This is worse that when the Enterprise was grounded in its home port by the pilot guiding it in. He lost his command for that one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scott R Wilson Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 A Hospital ship struck the USS Arizona Memorial deck on Wednesday. No damage was done to the Arizona herself but the Dock was moved about 10 feet. Full story here. http://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-hospital-ship-mercy-strikes-uss-arizona-memorial/ The local news from Honolulu is saying there was no physical collision between the Mercy or tugs and the dock, but that the Mercy's prop wash shoved the dock. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MacStingy Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Wasn't Capt. Queeg by any chance? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yardbird78 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 The local news from Honolulu is saying there was no physical collision between the Mercy or tugs and the dock, but that the Mercy's prop wash shoved the dock. Still WAY too close if it did that much damage. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
echolmberg Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Wasn't Capt. Queeg by any chance? Never mess with a man's strawberries! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nightiemission Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Should never have been that close to start with. Also, the Mercy should not have been using her own power at the time.(Unless she has a really, really shallow draft and I don't think she does. Nimitz class carriers do not use their own propulsion to move with in the harbor. The tugs pick them up about half way in the channel. Either the harbor pilot, the tug skippers are probably in deep doo-doo, maybe all of them including the Mercy's skipper are. If not, they should be. No excuse for getting that close to Arizona. Cheers, Terry Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gonzalo Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Should never have been that close to start with. Also, the Mercy should not have been using her own power at the time.(Unless she has a really, really shallow draft and I don't think she does. Nimitz class carriers do not use their own propulsion to move with in the harbor. The tugs pick them up about half way in the channel. Either the harbor pilot, the tug skippers are probably in deep doo-doo, maybe all of them including the Mercy's skipper are. If not, they should be. No excuse for getting that close to Arizona. Cheers, Terry She wasn't under her own propulsion: "A statement by Navy Region Hawaii posted to Facebook later confirmed that the dock was struck while tug boats were assisting the USNS Mercy in Pearl Harbor". I got that from the article. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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