Re: [OT] Navy releases photos of U.S.S. San Francisco

From: Pat Flannery (flanner_at_daktel.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:18:20 -0600

Reed Snellenberger wrote:

>
>
> Question for anyone who knows... there is what looks like a "hump"
> right where the lubber lines are located... is that normal? I've
> never seen a picture of a sub from this angle -- usually it's from
> below (if under construction) or this area's covered by the bow wave
> when they're underway. I imagine that the bulge here could act sort
> of like a regular ship's breakwater when traveling on the surface...
> if the bulge wasn't there before the collision, then I'm even more
> amazed they made it to the surface.

I thought it was a bulge also; I think what it is is that the walkway
that is on top of the hull narrows at that point, and the "bulge' is an
optical illusion caused by that narrowing.

>
>
> Anyone think they'll salvage her, or is this going to be an ex-submarine?

She's one of the older ones (diving planes on sail instead of bow, no
cruise missile vertical launch tubes) so she could probably be
decommissioned without losing too much capability. I imagine it depends
on whether they think the damage is limited to the bow sonar area, or if
the impact damaged the pressure hull itself- and the cost of repairing
the damage. We've got the new Virginia class subs coming along, so she
might be considered not worth repairing, especially given the fact of
the dwindling Russian submarine fleet that the Los Angeles class was
designed to counter.

Pat

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