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USS Midway hit again?
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How to Avoid Huge Ships Paperback – March 1, 1993
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Great White
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Yes, the Midway was decomisioned when she left Yokosuka and spent a number of years in the inactive fleet at Bremerton. Then moved to San Diego as a museum ship. The USS Independence replaced the Midway in Yokosuka and in the later 90,s the Kitty Hawk replaced the Indy. Kitty Hawk is still moored at Bremerton awaiting disposal.
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It's a refreshing change when random boats hit US Navy ships, rather than the other way around.
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Jackdaw
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That boat day-charters out of Harbor Sailboats out of Shelter Island.
https://harborsailboats.com/sailboat-rentals/
They probably need to add a section on Aircraft Carrier identification in the skipper resume check.
https://harborsailboats.com/sailboat-rentals/
They probably need to add a section on Aircraft Carrier identification in the skipper resume check.
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Jackdaw
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Ah. Missed that. Well then to actually add some value I'll stay that I've chartered from Harbor recently and their seem to be a pretty good operation. The boat was in solid shape, and the skipper's briefing by the dock master was solid. Bet the Midway not is a no-fly zone now.
I must have been confused. I remember when the Independence was at Yokosuka, I was at the nearby Camp Zama Army post. I was actually on board the Indy just before a deployment. I might have heard that the Kitty Hawk was in town in '92, when she was in the area. I was gone from Japan by the time she was based there.
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Although you do have a point, Army ships are rarely involved in collisions...........
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Credit Card Skipper: ‘ Not my fault. It didn’t show up on the plotter ‘
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Lex Teredo
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LOL. The Army has arguably as many ships as the Navy does, and a lot more small vessels, called "boats," which are not actually nukluar* powered, nukular* weaponed, or even submersible, unless the crew screws up and leaves out the drain plugs at the ramp.
Oddly enough, a lot of the Army's ships are built for ramming things, mostly pushing bridge parts floating docks, driving pilings, moving dirt or for banging up onto shore to offload gear. The Army also has more boats than pretty much anybody other than the South Georgia largemouth bass fishing fleet. Lotta paradoxes within DoD...
The Navy wants us to save the Army's Navy...
*If Nukular is good enough a word for a lot of the sub guys I've known and for the nukular cannon cockers, and for some of the civilian powerplant guys, it's good enough for me.
mookiesurfs
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The pointy things on the bow are bridle catchers, or at least they were for the 200 or so cats and traps I did on the Midway. Bridles were wire harnesses used to attach older style aircraft like A-4s and F-4s to the catapult. The stern featured a 4 degree glideslope.
When I was on her in the late '80s, the patch of honor was one for being on board for her infamous 26 degree roll in a typhoon. Especially notable since the Naval Architects had calculated her LPOS as 24 degrees.
We called her the USS Underway because she deployed so often.
