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Starbucks coffee – $1.75; Cost of not having a cup while on duty – a Nuclear catastrophe! Two U.S. Navy vessels collide in Strait of Hormuz

March 20, 2009 at 7:13 pm

Source: Los Angeles Times;  Photo Via : U.S. Navy handout / EPA)

USS New Orleans and USS Hartford collide in Strait of Hormuz

 Pics: Photos released by the U.S. Navy show the New Orleans, left, participating in a training exercise in the Pacific Ocean November 2008 and the Hartford moored off the U.S. Naval Academy in Chesapeake Bay March 1999.
The nuclear-powered submarine Hartford and the amphibious transport dock New Orleans were heading into the Persian Gulf at the time. Fifteen sailors are slightly injured.

A nuclear-powered Navy submarine collided with another U.S. warship in the narrow Strait of Hormuz early today in what officials are calling the first incident of its kind in the Persian Gulf.
At least 15 sailors aboard the Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered submarine Hartford were slightly injured when it collided with the amphibious transport dock New Orleans, the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet announced.  The Navy said the Hartford’s nuclear propulsion plant was undamaged. But the collision ruptured the New Orleans’ fuel tank and caused the spillage of 25,000 gallons of diesel fuel.
Defense officials in Washington said there appeared to be serious damage to the upper part of the sub, called the sail. Initial assessments indicated it could be repaired. The extent of damage to the other vessel was less clear.

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The U.S. Navy Has a Top-Secret Vessel It Wants to Put on Display

February 25, 2009 at 3:23 pm

(Source: Wall Street Journal)

Sea Shadow and Its Satellite-Proof Barge Need a Home; Plotting in Providence

Anybody want some top-secret seagoing vessels? The Navy has a pair it doesn’t need anymore. It has been trying to give them away since 2006, and they’re headed for the scrap yard if somebody doesn’t speak up soon.

Navy Seeks Home for Secret Vessel

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One is called Sea Shadow. It’s big, black and looks like a cross between a Stealth fighter and a Batmobile. It was made to escape detection on the open sea. The other is known as the Hughes (as in Howard Hughes) Mining Barge. It looks like a floating field house, with an arching roof and a door that is 76 feet wide and 72 feet high. Sea Shadow berths inside the barge, which keeps it safely hidden from spy satellites.

“I’m fascinated by the possibilities,” Frank Lennon said one morning recently. Mr. Lennon runs — or ran — a maritime museum here in Providence. He was standing in a sleet storm on a wharf below a power plant, surveying the 297-foot muck-encrusted hulk of a Soviet submarine that he owns. His only exhibit, it was open to the public until April 2007, when a northeaster hit Providence and the sub sank.

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