Tended In Hong Kong
Navy NewsStand has a good picture of USS Honolulu (SSN 718) and USS La Jolla (SSN 701) tied up alongside USS Frank Cable (AS 40) in Hong Kong. Here's the original:
...and here's a closer view of the two boats:
Having submarines go to Hong Kong is always a challenge; you have to anchor out, and submarines don't like having to provide their own power during port visits, so SubGru 7 always wants to find a surface ship who the sub (or subs, in this case) can hook up to. This time, they had a sub tender available, but if need be, subs can hook up to a cruiser or destroyer. The only problem with that is the skimmers who have duty always want a tour, and it's not very sporting to turn them down if they're the ones controlling the main electrical supply breaker.
posted by Bubblehead at 10:32 PM
4 Comments:
La Jolla is DDS
10/11/2006 9:04 AM
Coordinated Port Visit is fun for we skimmer pukes, too. When I was on Scott (DDG-995), we served as mother-ship to Batfish while anchored off the coast of Athens, sometime in early 1992. It turned out I had gone to Nuke School and Prototype with one of the officers. Small world.
Anyway, as a nuke, I had a good chuckle with the ELT when he came over to conduct the shield survey. The snipes on the gas turbine plant were mighty uncomfortable with that "clicking thing" (it was a 27) he was wielding.
Late the second night, a huge storm marched in off the Aegean and we had to cut them loose before we bashed each other to death.
10/11/2006 5:53 PM
So, the soon-to-be USS San Francisco's nose is in Hong Kong. Is this going to be one of her last cruises? I guess that is a good way to end it, seeing some good foriegn ports!
10/11/2006 7:51 PM
Hartford did a coordinated mooring with a frigate (USS Jarret, FFG 33) in Peru during our '05 deployment to Southcom. I felt sorry for their deck div, the fenders rubbed the paint down to bare metal.
FT2/ss
10/12/2006 4:36 PM
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