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| Pics of drydocked USS San Francisco | |
| 2005-01-28 | |
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| Posted by:Doc8404 |
| #7 Dorf, I noticed that as well. It appears the outer hull buckled in that area and the pressure hull did not. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-01-28 7:44:01 PM |
| #6 Interesting bulge in the hull aft of the damaged area? |
| Posted by: Dorf 2005-01-28 5:41:19 PM |
| #5 What drugs is he on? The shutter doors are still there. The upper one survived better than the surrounding outer hull. The lower did not fare as well but is still there. They both still have paint on them. If the port ballast tanks collapsed all the way to the pressure hull, then the port torpedo tubes would be trashed back to the pressure hull. The shutter doors would not be intact if that were the case. |
| Posted by: Zpaz 2005-01-28 3:33:43 PM |
| #4 Comments from bubblehead at The Stupid Shall Be Punished finally got a chance to look at the hi-res picture at the Navy website, and it looks to me as though while the shutter doors are destroyed (especially #2, the top one on the port side) the muzzle door itself, and the rest of the tube, were a few feet aft of the destroyed area. The port ballast tanks collapsed all the way back to what I'm pretty sure is the pressure hull. I just did a quick calculation, and if we assume the ship did have a delta V of about 30mph (as stated in various places), for a 7,600 ton ship, that works out to about 621 megajoules of energy... that's about 300 lbs of TNT. Jeez, am I a geek... |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-01-28 1:25:20 PM |
| #3 Damn. Them things are double-hulled, right? |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-01-28 11:01:26 AM |
| #2 The crew did a great job of getting it home, too. |
| Posted by: nada 2005-01-28 10:52:23 AM |
| #1 Wow. Amazing they didn't lose the boat. They sure do build them good at Newport News. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-01-28 9:19:48 AM |