USS Little Rock comes home
Because no one in the Navy is familiar with winter months and the effect those months have on the Saint Lawrence Seaway, USS Little Rock had to spend the season in Montreal when the Seaway, for some odd reason, froze over after the christening ceremony for the ship in Buffalo last December.
Mother Nature finally allowed the littoral combat ship through to return to Naval Station Mayport, Florida according to reports;
USS Little Rock is the 11th littoral combat ship (LCS) to be delivered to the Navy and the fifth of the Freedom variant to join the fleet. The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the vessel during a ceremony on September 25, 2017 at the Fincantieri’s Marinette Marine (FMM) shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, where the Freedom variant ships are built.
Little Rock’s departure from Montreal comes just a few days after the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway’s navigation season.
She is expected to arrive in Florida next month after making several port visits along the way.
Category: Navy
Climate change.
Yeah, I guess that Global Warming thing isn’t working as well as expected.
Was Algore slated to give the commissioning speech? That could account for the total lack of Global Warming.
Mother Nature gets a vote, too Jonn.
Navy Times
If the icebreakers can’t help, one is stuck until the spring thaw. Brrrrr…
So where the monkeyshit mudda-fuck is the global warming that Al Gore Junior and the eco-hippies promised us 20 to 30 years ago?
Al Gore Junior (P’tuii) needs to be submerged in the St. Lawrence Waterway until the heat from his blowhard rhetoric melts the polar ice cap.
I’m still waiting for my property in Arizona to become oceanfront. He said it would have happened by now.
“Day after day, more people come to L… A…
Don’t you tell anybody, the whole place’s slipping away
Where can we go, when there’s no San Francisco?
Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho”
Did you hear? He’s making a new movie claiming that he wasn’t actually wrong about all the crap he was wrong about in his first movie.
Like every cult. So the world didn’t end TODAY like I said, but I’m sure this time it’s going to end in October. Just keep believing. And giving me all your money.
When the Inca’s worried that their world was going to end via drought, flooding, high heat or unseasonable cold they used to sacrifice virgins to their Gods.
When are we going to start that ???
Moral of the story though, don’t be a virgin !!!
That’s completely opposite of standard horror movie survival rules!
I had to look this up. A littoral ship is one that stays close to shore. In this case, very close, as in parked at a pier. I was going to make a clitoral ship joke but I couldn’t come up with one.
Don’t anger the ladies. Things can get very ugly when they get mad.
That’s why I always sit near the exit.
Very wise.
Just ask the folks at You Tube.
“couldn’t come up with one”
What likes to be tied up in a warm berth?
Word at my job (Navy contractor) is that at the Pentagon, LCS means “Little Crappy Ships.”
LCS’s are death traps IMHO.
An aluminum hull on a ship that is designed for coastal work.
The same dick that approved the Osprey for COD duty and the F-35 had to have stamped the ok for this.
PS I wonder if the crew is fluent in French now.
Fluent? I’d wager they know really well how to order a beer.
That always seemed to be the universal constant of overseas service. You pick up enough of the local language to order beer.
“Puis-je avoir une bière?”
“Quelle sorte?”
“Un froid.”
I guess the crew just grinned and beered it as they sat at the local bar. Last French establishment I entered was in La Rochelle in 1964 and their was a red light above the door. Nuff said.
Beer is no big deal since it sounds the (pretty much) the same in both languages…but talking the local ladies out of their pants is a different deal altogether.
(I’ve been to Marseilles, Toulon, Cannes, and Nice)
Humma Humma Madamoisel
LCS = “Little Crappy Ship”
Well, at least it wasn’t built at Bath Iron Works. They are too busy trying to make invisible ships that are solar powered.
Two of these turkeys (LCS) were included in the recent “budget” even though the Navy did not request them. Coincidently, they are built in Wisconsin, home state of the Speaker of the House. Another pork barrel coincidence.
Yeah sure, spending the whole winter in Montreal. I’m so positive none of them realized that…..
At the same time, whenever one of these LCS ships comes up all I think of is “Clittoral”. (I know I’m not the only one)
LCS – Little Crappy Ship.
For the Navy-types, would this count as an at sea deployment?
It’ll at least all be OCONUS. Tax free money FTW. And they didn’t have to go to some shit hole country to get it.
I have no first-hand experience, but I understand that French-Canadian ladies can be very warm.
Tax free only occurred in a war zone like the Persian Gulf.
On my last cruise (1996 USS Enterprise) we were able to get Free Mail in a certain spot in the Adriatic Sea…but no tax free money.
Saddaam pulled some bullshit, so we had to head over into the Persian Gulf, where we went tax free but no free mail.
Weird.
International waters. I though you guys were just driving grey cruise ships and they opened the casinos once you got 12 miles out of port. 😉
Oh yeah, I forgot about that…
Anyone out there ever hear Montana Slim (Wilf Carter) sing “MY French Canadian Girl”?
here you go! Bonjour Mon Amie
https://youtu.be/Zww8a2F48pY
“She is expected to arrive in Florida next month after making several port visits along the way.”
Planning ahead for the near-daily engine breakdowns, are they?
Transmission kabooms.
Do they even teach double clutching in the Navy?
Roh-Dog;Just double clutch, pop down the road range splitter into low and it’s a go. At least that’s the way we did it on our 3 axle, 15 gear straight trucks when we drove them up to the Catskill mountains NY banks on our Federal Reserve Currency runs if I remember but it was a long time ago back in the early 70’S. Any of you gear jammers out there know if I explained that correctly? Turned in my class B CDL when I moved to Florida.
I hate double clutching. Had to attempt to learn it when I made Engineer, even though every engine in the fleet is automatic and my class-B license very clearly says “Automatic Transmissions Only.” Wouldn’t have been so bad if the shift patterns of the stakeside and the dump truck (neither of which I have operated since) would have made any sense, but apparently a logical “1low, 1high, 2low, 2high, etc.” was too much to ask.
I learned how to speed shift on a M35A1 Deuce and re-learned it when I got my Class A CDL, you reach the peak RPM for the gear, quickly shift to neutral and gun your engine to 1500 RPM, it slides right in!
“Double Clutching”? Why? Every truck that I drove, regardless of whether it was a 10 speed, a 13 speed, an 18 speed, a 4 X 4, or a 5 X 4, or a 6 X 4, didn’t need clutching between the gears. I used the clutch at stoplights and to leave. Once under way, I just matched the RPMs to the need and slid from one gear to the next, both up and down the sequence.
Good old Speed Shifting, BTDT!
Here’s a left hand drive B-61 Mack with a quad box.
Split shifting while double clutching.
My uncle drove one as a dump truck and
watching him go through the gears was a treat.
https://ruclip.com/video/4uhkygogd1A/1964-b61-mack-one-handed-quad-box-shifting-australia.html
USCGC Mackinaw is stationed at St Sault Marie, and keeps the great lakes open. So what really happened is nobody asked, from Sept till March, if they could get some help from the coasties. My bet, they were saving money on gas. More poor leadership on the lead r ship.
That little ship doesn’t look much bigger than an ocean-going tug, of which there are plenty, and probably sturdier, examples. So why not just use those tugboats for the same job and stop farming out expensive contracts for “ships” that look less sturdy than a 12-inch balsa wood sailboat?
I am sure Mayport anxiously awaits the arrival of Little Rock. It will add greatly to our critical need for our naval presence in and defense of the littorals of the SE United States.
I imagine it will also serve to protect our vital interests in The Bahamas. I think Royal Caribbean et al. would appreciate the protection.
Pirates you know…the Caribbean is full of them.
I dunno about all this on the Littoral Class.
To me they look like the old Corvette’s of the British in WWI & WWII.
The Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts of the Pacific War did a lot more than their share of the fighting and about once a month I listen to another tale of the bravery of many of those ships.
The “Tin Can’s” like the USS Laffey died very valorous deaths and to me with the world we have now, any combat warships are a lot more capable than us ground pounders would ever know.
The Smaller ships were an absolute Godsend to the Pacific Theatre of war and also did one hell of a job in the Atlantic escorting convoys and chasing the U-Boats away from the convoys.
Just my two cents and yes, I was a grunt.