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Pedro

Posted 2021-05-07 1:29 PM (#100577)

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Subject: UK Carrier Group Sails

This Carrier Group sailed a few days ago from Portsmouth on its 26,000-mile deployment to the Far East and the South China Sea. It includes a USMC F-35 air group plus a Dutch and a U.S. surface warship in its formation. Let us hope this will prove to be a bone to be chewed by the Chinese when contemplating any attack on Taiwan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7J5PGSoOpo

Pedro

Edited by Pedro 2021-05-07 1:45 PM

Ric

Posted 2021-05-07 5:10 PM (#100578 - in reply to #100577)

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Subject: RE: UK Carrier Group Sails

Thanks Pedro

Holland Club

Posted 2021-05-07 5:16 PM (#100579 - in reply to #100577)

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Subject: RE: UK Carrier Group Sails

Gotta be a bunch of liberty ports on this run.

Back in 1953, we deployed from Norfolk, VA and headed for Yokohama with troops and planes from the USMC 2nd Division including air wing. We stopped in Panama, San Diego and that was it on the way over. On the return, stopped in San Francisco and Panama. They said it was a 80,000 mile trip. Top speed for my ship was 15.5 knots and less for the convoy.

Gil

Posted 2021-05-08 11:22 AM (#100582 - in reply to #100577)

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Subject: RE: UK Carrier Group Sails

Ron, that would have been a great cruise, I missed my boat going through the Panama Canal and visiting South America by a few months. I thought of doing the Canal thing by cruise and plane, but never scheduled it. I only went to Yokohama by train when the Kitty Hawk and its entourage turned Yokosuka into a nightmare.

Ric

Posted 2021-05-08 3:24 PM (#100586 - in reply to #100582)

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Subject: RE: UK Carrier Group Sails

I have been through the Canal but we were fresh from Commissioning and under order to report to Pearl Harbor. The only stop we had in that whole transit was two days in Fort Lauderdale to replace our after Messenger Buoy popped loose while we were submerged. We surfaced and called for a tug to retrieve the buoy. We followed it to Ft Lauderdale to get it reinstalled. We were shuttled trough the canal in short order to make our ETA date in Pearl. No stopping.

Gil

Posted 2021-05-09 10:42 AM (#100590 - in reply to #100577)

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Subject: RE: UK Carrier Group Sails

Ric,

Do you remember the lengths of the forward and aft buoy cable. I remember George and I chipping and wire brushing around ours when I realized once we were a few thousand yards outside Pearl Harbor we'd almost always be below crush depth - I thought about things like that when I got assigned to a boat. I figured the east or west coast that wasn't always the case.

Ric

Posted 2021-05-09 11:30 AM (#100591 - in reply to #100590)

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Subject: RE: UK Carrier Group Sails

The wire was always longer to account for current drift I think ours was around 1000 feet.

Gil

Posted 2021-05-10 10:50 AM (#100599 - in reply to #100577)

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Subject: RE: UK Carrier Group Sails

Thanks, ours were different lengths, I think by far the longest was suppose to be around 660 feet.

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