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Enigma
06-06-06, 05:27 PM
..Was curious if anyone knew of her status. I found the picture linked below and it is dated from a year ago last month. Looks like things are moving along at good speed....

Anyone have any further info?

http://navysite.de/ssn/images/ssn711acc3.jpg
Oberon
06-07-06, 06:27 AM
Work has come on fast, hasn't it? Although I'm guessing that she won't be ready to launch again until the end of this year because there's parts from the USS Honolulu waiting to be transferred over when she's decommed and that isn't until October.
Linton
06-19-06, 04:41 PM
I was trawling through a listing on the seawaves website that listed San Francisco as being on the list to be decomissioned.I find this surprising considering the amount of money that has recently been spent on her.
Enigma
06-19-06, 09:41 PM
That would be a shame....but suprising? Granted, there was a time i was suprised by the Mil scrapping things they dumped tons of money into.

...until this.

http://tri.army.mil/LC/CS/csa/rah66003.jpg
Enigma
06-27-06, 09:13 PM
USS San Francisco Bow Donor is USS Honolulu

http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/thumbnails/thumb_050127-N-4658L-015.jpg
The Navy will transplant the nose of one submarine onto another for the first time beginning later this year at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
USS Honolulu, currently on its final deployment, will provide the bow for USS San Francisco, according to Pat Dolan, spokeswoman for Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C. Both are Los Angeles-class submarines.
The San Francisco arrived in Bremerton Sept. 9, 2005 to await permanent repairs. Its bow was smashed, one sailor died and nearly 100 were injured when the sub hit an undersea mountain near Guam in January 2005.
Scheduled to begin in November and be completed in September 2008, the bow replacement will be the first of its kind on an operational hull, Dolan said.
The work is expected to cost $79 million — less than the $170 million that would be required to refuel the Honolulu.
sonar732
06-28-06, 08:55 PM
You'd have to drag me on that deployment...imagine the sweat and wide eyes when they do drive and dive. :o
SUBMAN1
06-28-06, 10:38 PM
That would be a shame....but suprising? Granted, there was a time i was suprised by the Mil scrapping things they dumped tons of money into.

...until this.

http://tri.army.mil/LC/CS/csa/rah66003.jpg


I am not convinced this is gone.

Seawolf was scrapped before the first sub too, but we now have three. So are things really ever completly scrapped?

-S

PS. This is probably a case study in technology that will appear on every other Helo from here on out instead.