NAVY BLUE COUGAR: Port Royal Drydock Photos

Thursday, February 19, 2009

The USS Port Royal has entered drydock for repairs. You can see the sonar dome and the ship looks a bit banged up. Here is a link to a photo on Strategy Page of the USS Port Royal in drydock.

This photo gallery from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin has two pictures of the USS Port Royal in drydock after the grounding and one picture of it the last time she left drydock.

I think the link to the Star-Bulletin is acting kind of screwy. Here are some better photos from Navy.mil

Picture of the screws

View of the stern while in drydock

View of the bow

Port Royal on the rocks

Anonymous said...: How does one screw up a billion dollar warship like this? That ship has the ability to destroy almost anything within 100 miles of it's radius. How do you not maintain a constant visual of where you at present and where you're going?

Aside from GPS and all that other cool shit, can't you just look out the window and then shout ALL STOP!! ? Either that or just turn the damned wheel so you don't run into anything? You guys have a QM watch, a Maneuvering watch an OOD along with a command staff and God knows what else.

Steve, how does the Navy fuck up like this? Who was asleep at the switch?

The final investigation report should prove most interesting in days to come.

LT. Lassiter
USA; February 19, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Navy Blue Cougar said...: Well, I am sure they will find that there were several people that could have prevented this accident and that nobody spoke up forcefully enough to change the outcome.

It was a bad situation: after dark, close to shallow water, performing a small boat transfer. Bottom line is that the CO should have put a stop to the evolution and put the ship in a safe condition when things started going bad.; February 20, 2009 at 10:28 AM

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