Comments on: Beaufort, NC http://qvmarine.com/great-loop/beaufort-nc/ a marine adventure Sat, 05 Sep 2015 12:22:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.36 By: Mike Schucker http://qvmarine.com/great-loop/beaufort-nc/#comment-29321 Fri, 08 May 2015 05:38:10 +0000 http://qvmarine.com/?p=30345#comment-29321 Also, most of today’s US navy IS the ships from the 70′s…Arleigh burke class destroyers, Ticonderoga class cruisers, Nimitz class carriers…all entered service in the late 60s/early 70s. The ships that made up the bulk of the navy in the 70s were mostly wwII ships that had undergone refitting and modernization.

]]> By: Mike Schucker http://qvmarine.com/great-loop/beaufort-nc/#comment-29317 Fri, 08 May 2015 05:26:36 +0000 http://qvmarine.com/?p=30345#comment-29317 USS Arlington (LPD-24) does not carry other ships, she carries marines…LPD (landing platform/dock) is the designation used for an amphibious warfare ship. Basically, she is a combination of a hovercraft dock (the well deck, where LCACs can park and load, then drive straight out onto the sea), a parking garage, a barracks, and a helicopter base, all rolled into one package…this is a picture of the interior configuration of San Antonio class ships like USS Arlington

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibious_transport_dock#/media/File:San_Antonio_class_rendering.jpg

While the navy did have floating drydocks, they had the designation ARD (auxiliary repair dock). All of them were built during WWII and none now remain in USN service…when the USS Cole was bombed the navy hired the MV Blue Marlin, a civilian ship, to carry her home. Here’s what that looks like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing#/media/File:MV_Blue_Marlin_carrying_USS_Cole.jpg

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