mighty servant
Semi-submersible, heavy-lifting ship MV Mighty Servant has been in Port Townsend Bay for several days. I know that she delivered the Navy floating dry dock Resolute to Seattle recently, but what she was doing up here, I have no idea.There's a munitions depot on Indian Island just across the bay from our beachfront here in Kala Point. We see all kinds of interesting rust buckets over there, unloading what will likely guarantee that we won't suffer radiation poisoning should the fecal matter accelerate into the oscillating device - we all figure we'll just be vaporized by whatever substances are stored over there. But a ship like that out in the water, well, that's quite something to see. (I'm talking about the orange thingie, not the guided missile frigate USS Samual B. Roberts that's taking a ride. The frigate was damaged by a mine in the Persian Gulf in 1988. The photo is of the MV Mighty Servant II, and she brought the frigate from the Persian Gulf to Newport, RI for repairs. The frigate is approximately 375 feet long. And it's piggy-backing on the Mighty Servant. It boggles the mind.)
A lot of the time my curiosity escapes me when my attention wanders, but I had to find out something about this immense, flat, orange ship. It took a while, from the beach last night, to discern the name on the bow of the ship, with our birding glasses. And then it took a few moments of power googling to find out what I wanted to know. And I thought you might want to know about it, too. Cool, eh?
posted by bhd @ 2:30 PM
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That is cool.
I'd love to see that.
And I think instant vaporisation might be the way to go.
Cool, yes. I didn't know such a thing existed.
Oh, those things are immense! My submarine, fast attack, Los Angeles class was put on a floating dry dock when our rudder needed work, back when I was in the Navy. The sub looked like a toy in a bathtub!
Can you imagine the human ingenuity needed to design and manufacture something like that! Even to conceive of it is mind boggling.
A couple weeks ago they had the Cape Mohican (http://www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ships.asp?ship=capemohican) up there, and the way it was positioned we had to go between it and the ammo station, I was pretty careful to keep the appropriate distances from everyone, but that was a *BIG* boat
• Length: 873 feet
• Beam: 105 feet
• Draft: 39 feet
It's deeper than our boat is long!
I saw that monster along with the even larger USNS Watkins for a couple days transferring something a few miles offshore north of my house in Sequim. I couldn't see what it was, but they were asking passing ships to leave no wake due to the delicacy of the transfer. Mighty Servant was hidden from view behind Watkins.
This is what the MS1 & the WATKINS were doing...
http://www.northwestnavigator.com/index.php/navigator/kitsap/navy_and_dutch_vessels_team_up_for_concept_exercise/
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