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Battleship Texas is out of the water for the first time in over 30 years.
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Modular Floating Drydocks Market Size, Top Companies, Trends, Growth Factors, and Forecast to 2027
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USS South Dakota (BB-57) in the floating drydock ABSD-3 at Guam.
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The Revenge-class battleship HMS Royal Sovereign in a floating drydock at Malta, c. 1933
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MT Nordic Lynx in a floating Drydock
International Ship Repair, Tampa, Florida
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via: Engineering Landmarks.com
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Battleship Texas, now a floating museum, in drydock for repairs, 2023. She is the last of the WWI dreadnoughts.
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Enterprise Season 3 Ep 19-finale
Episode 19
All that damage and hull breaches on at least 3 levels... and only 5 people are dead.
I feel like a lot of my opinions of this show are formed by my experience on a Navy ship. Almost every door can be sealed in case there's a hull breach. Redundant systems and personnel. And if your ship goes down in the ocean at least you might float a while before drowning but in SPACE? You'd think they'd be a lot more conservative about safety against hull breaches.
Oooh... now the number is 14 with 3 unaccounted for. Out of what, 84?
They said beam lol
This is a pretty understandable and even believable descent to the other side for Archer. T'Pol having secret troubles staying calm is interesting, too.
Really? Making T'Pol turn herself into a drug addict so she can push Trip's buttons? Why does she keep ending up getting the worst kind of plotlines?
I don't know why it didn't occur to me- I thought the training exercises were just so Malcolm could have beef with the Major... but turns out it's so they could justify still sending SENIOR BRIDGE OFFICERS INTO DIRECT COMBAT IN SMALL TEAMS INSTEAD OF THE MARINES THEY HAVE ON BOARD FOR EXACTLY THAT SITUATION.
Episode 20
Now we're up to 18 lost. How does the number keep going up? "For the 18" has a bit of a better ring to it than "For the 14" I guess.
They found two bodies in a damaged section... but somehow they didn't get blown out the holes with the atmosphere.
Why hasn't T'Pol washed her face? 😂
Fun Fact: The only time that I "had" to eat MREs was after a hurricane while my ship was in drydock. We didn't have shore power and I was on duty so they had some hot dogs on a grill and MREs for anyone who wanted them. We ate in our office by flashlight so it'd feel like camping. 😂 That said, I was - at the time - on a prepper/libertarian kick with my colleagues and we had some 'just in case' and tried them at least once. Surprisingly expensive from places like the Army/Navy Surplus Store, but not terrible. Plus the tech behind heating them was novel.
Goddammit Trip... at least take the flightsuit off before you get in bed. Gross. This isn't a cartoon where it's too much to design a second outfit and animate you under the covers so you leave your boots on in bed. We know you have your standard-issue blue underwear.
It is a nice touch that they automatically use Celsius when referencing temperature. They say things like 'his suit temperature is 44 degrees' without saying Celsius, but you know it can't be Fahrenheit.
And wasting resources by just letting the panel cover float away instead of saving it so they can be like 'look they're in zero g!'
"As Jane's Commanding Officer"- That is not correct. Commanding Officer is a specific title given to the highest ranking person of the base or vessel. Archer is the Commanding Officer. Just because Trip was her boss does not make him her CO.
Episode 21
I have to admit... it's growing on me. I found myself last night almost deciding to keep watching even though I was no longer working.
Women only make up 1/3 of the crew? Why? In the illuminated future, we're still only 1/3??
Part of me thinks that they shouldn't know who they marry or have kids with but the other part of me remembers that I wish I could go back in time and tell myself I'm queer and shouldn't marry the guy I did. /shrug
Of course they'll probably erase this 'past-future' with whatever's about to happen anyway.
The convo between T'Pol acknowledges that it's not 'destiny' but a product of environment. That because the Enterprise wasn't sent back in time, the choices made can be different... but there's obviously going to be a bias for most people, reaching out to the people they know they had kids with before.
Episode 22
Ah American, sorry I mean HUMAN Exceptionalism at its finest. The existence of Earth changes the trajectory of history across the whole universe! Across dimensions, even!
ha disposable MAKO. why would he have climbed up to such a precarious position to fire anyway, though?
Episode 23
For one moment, just one moment I thought maybe the major taking a shot to the heart in transport would caus-- oh shit they did actually kill a crewmember who has been in multiple episodes. They might have actually turned this ship around.
To be clear, I don't condone deaths for shock value. However, thematic deaths are another thing. Plot important deaths. You can't have a war with dark themes and never kill anyone. It doesn't make sense.
Hayes says use McKenzie with his dying breath... and then he picks 3 volunteers that are not named that.
The moment where Reed asks for volunteers and all the MAKOs step forward was a nice touch, though, even if the actors couldn't figure out how to stand :joy:
Episode 24
I think it would be nice if just once the sliding scale of ally to enemy wasn't always just who looks most or least like you. That the arboreal and primate species are most human-like while the aquatic, lizard, and insects are not. I kinda hope that the humanoid lizard people are kept as the enemy and the manatee and insect like less human people stay allies. At least the lizards are recognizably human shaped.
Here we go! Finale time.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the Great Man theory which Enterprise seems to consider correct. Great Man theory, as I understand it and use it here, basically says that some people are born to change things. That they are 'integral to history'- that the names we grow up learning like Newton or Washington or Einstein or even Hitler are Special in some way and that they are responsible for the leaps and bounds we take in discovery and such. That if you time traveled back and killed one of them, say Hitler, then it would change everything about the future. Stop the Holocaust and WW2.
They've repeatedly said that without Archer at the helm, the Federation would never exist. That the Guardians will succeed and wipe out everything. Whatever it is now to try to give him a safety belt when he's so damn set on throwing himself out the window of a moving starship.
I don't agree. I think that discovery is built on waves. That if Newton hadn't put pen to paper and 'discovered' the theory of gravity, someone else would have with negligible difference in time. _Especially_ when it comes to things like science because science is built on collaboration and you build off other people's work constantly.
Maybe Archer did do all these things, but had Archer not been selected for the NX-1, the other guy would've done it. And if not them, maybe the Vulcans. Sure the details might change, but this, I think, is what time travel media refers to as the resilience of the timeline. There might be disruptions, but it typically course corrects.
Gotta love Archer's dramatic... casual jog away from the explosions.
Hah. I kinda love the reveal of T'Pol's age. She's been so coy about it.
"Captain didn't make it." Yeah... I'm not gonna believe that until at least the middle of the next episode.
lmao time travel shenanigans. As soon as they said no word from the orbital stations, I assumed it wasn't a matter of where but when. Oh and look... Archer's alive. Surprise. But he was found by the Nazi's? Who have an alien officer? Sure. Turn their famous obsession with the occult towards aliens instead of supernatural.
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Aircraft cruiser Minsk in a floating drydock by Edward L. Cooper via ImaginaryWarships
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HMS Argus had a more successful career than Kuztensov has, and she was built from an ocean liner. I know it was their firstattempt, but how could the russkies get it so terribly wrong? That ship is cursed.
Argus was a great example of how to learn from the first try, meanwhile Kuznetsov cursed herself by being renamed four times, Riga, Leonid Brezhnev, Tbilisi, and finally Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza N.G. Kuznetsov, not to mention the ship was basically stolen from Ukraine as after the breakup of the Soviet Union she became part of the new Ukrainian Navy, and the Russians rather than striking a deal to keep her, just downright made her crew mutiny and defect to their side.
This because she was built in Ukraine (along her sister ship Varyag, now Liaoning) and was supposed to be based in the Black Sea Fleet, hence why when she was relocated to the Baltic Fleet in Murmansk, the port basically had no facilities to operate her, and up until very recently, didn't even have a drydock big enough to service her, relying on a floating drydock instead, the very same that sank 5 years ago.
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Captain Meriwether Lewis - June 2022
The Captain Meriwether Lewis was one of the huge, steamboat dustpan dredges which scooped silt out of the Missouri River and kept it navigable. It was built in 1931 and remained on active duty for four decades. It was eventually retired and floated into a drydock at Brownsville, Nebraska, where it remains as a museum.
The second image shows the Missouri River and the bridge at Brownsville. The third image is a front end view of the dredge. The “dustpan” can clearly be seen pulled up just below the front decks. While dredging, that large scoop, which resembled a dustpan used to pick up sweepings from a floor, was lowered to the river bottom where it scraped silt and debris up into the giant pumps which were then used to pump the mud and muck to places on the shore.
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USS West Virginia (BB-48) in floating drydock ABSD-1, off Aessi Island, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, on 13 Nov 1944. The ship was docked for upkeep and repair to propellers damaged when she touched ground off Leyte on 21 October.
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Battleship Texas in Drydock at Gulf Copper, Galveston, Texas, on September 25, 2022
Photographed by Bob Holler: link
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Modular Floating Drydocks Market Size, Top Companies, Trends, Growth Factors, and Forecast to 2027
Modular Floating Drydocks Market research report covers inclusive data on prevalent trends, drivers, growth opportunities, and restraints that can variation the market changing aspects of the global industry. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the market segmentation that contains products, applications, and geographical analysis. Global Modular Floating Drydocks market report delivers a close watch on leading participants with strategic analysis, micro and macro market trend and scenarios, pricing analysis, and a complete overview of the industry conditions during the forecast period.
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USS WEST VIRGINIA (BB-48) In the ABSD floating drydock at Espiritu Santo, November 1944.Nhhc Image
: Courtesy of Robert O. Baumrucker, 1978
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2024-04-12: River Denizens (Random Tables)
The Mississippi River has a few distinctive types of boats in this era that you may not be aware of: gambling boats and shantyboats.
Gambling Boats
Gambling boats tended to be larger crafts that could accommodate many people and functioned as casinos. Laws in the area allowed gambling and casinos so long as it wasn't on Mississippi soil, but attentive entrepreneurs took advantage of the phrasing to create a culture boat-based casinos. Many casino boats were old paddle steamers. Some traveled up and down the river, spending days or weeks in one place; others were effectively permanently moored to the riverbed and never moved.
Names for Riverboat Casinos (1d20)
Lucky Draw
King David
Mississippi Diamond
Jewel of the River
Moonlight
Mighty Mississippi
The Fish House
Black Bear's Den
Gold and Cotton
Dixie Belle
Delta Star
The Regal
River Chariot
Liberty Jack's
Magnolia Blossom
New Orleans Entertainer
Yellow Dog
El Paradiso
Chicago Pinnacle
Star of the South
Shantyboats
Shantyboats are houseboats, often amateur-made, that people use as permanent homes on the river. Although some people lived in shantyboats for the freedom it offered, most lived in them out of necessity. The Great Depression was the peak era for shantyboats, where thousands of people took to the rivers that fed into the Mississippi in search of better jobs.
Most shantyboats had an outboard motor that could navigate against the currents, but were incapable of doing anything but floating downstream. Like the gambling boats, some shantyboats stayed in a location for a short time, while others were moored in a single place for an extended period of time. Some shantyboats (either whole or in pieces) even became permanent houses on land.
If you need a quick description of a shantyboat, roll a complete set of 7 polyhedral dice and consult the tables below:
Number of Rooms (1d4)
Single room
Two rooms
Three rooms
Four rooms
General Appearance (1d6)
Amateur work that is probably not fit for long term human habitation
Shows obvious signs of patching with mismatched materials
Definitely in need of repair, but most issues are relatively minor
Weather-beaten, but still sturdy
Well-loved and well-maintained
Freshly-built or close to it
Notable Features (1d8)
Porches on both the bow and stern
Windows with shutters that work
A loft area
Quality furniture
High ceilings (for a boat, at least)
Sturdy door
Spacious interior
Relatively abundant storage space
Construction Style (d10)
Assembled from bare scrap lumber with a tin roof
Painted wood siding with asphalt shingles
Whitewashed wood with a rounded asphalt roof
Flat tin roof atop stacked logs
Corrugated tin siding with a matching tin roof
Unpainted lumber walls with a rounded tin roof
The level of quality on the joinery seems like it was mass-produced
Slightly pitched asphalt shingle roof with plywood siding
Plywood walls with a flat asphalt roof
Timber frame whose walls are partially clad in plywood and the remaining walls are covered by corrugated tin.
Where The Inhabitants Were Coming From (d00)
Ohio
Tennessee
Kentucky
Missouri
Illinois
Louisiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Mississippi, south of the Delta (like Natchez or Vicksburg)
Inhabitant Hook (1d12)
The inhabitants are trying to relocate the boat, but having trouble.
Property owners are trying to stop the boat inhabitants from squatting on their land.
A shantyboat is hiding a cache of liquor that is expected for delivery somewhere else along the river.
One of the inhabitants has fallen gravely ill.
A skiff that belongs to the inhabitants of the house has been lost or stolen.
Newly arrived to the area, the inhabitants are looking for work but are short on money.
Someone is pursuing the inhabitants of the shantyboat, forcing them to move often.
There's a huge creature in the river that would be worth a small fortune at the market, and the inhabitants want to catch it.
The shantyboat is drydocked for repairs on the hull, but needed materials are scarce.
Livestock or a pet owned by the inhabitants has gone missing.
Someone aboard the shantyboat has come into possession of a sudden windfall and is trying to figure out what to do with it.
The shantyboat has been recently burglarized and vandalized by someone.
Family Name of Inhabitants (1d20)
Howell
Johnson
Hayes
Sawyer
Roberts
McGinty
Burns
Porter
Walton
O'Neil
Griffin
Avery
Collins
Kent
Nichols
Long
Teach
Godwin
Mackey
Greenblatt
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Wooden Dry-Docks?
The USS Emory S. Land (AS-39), a submarine tender, has recently docked a couple of times for overhaul in Mare Island’s dry dock 2. She owed her presence in that dry dock to decisions made a century and a quarter ago. Then, like now, the US Navy was limited by the lack of shoreside infrastructure and specifically, dry docks.
In 1897 Rear Admiral Francis Bunce chaired a board investigating the lack of shore infrastructure. That board recommended a forty percent increase in the number of dry docks at naval shipyards which included a new dry dock 2 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard that was to accommodate the largest naval warship envisioned. To save money, the new Mare Island dry dock was to be constructed of timber rather than stone or concrete. Believe it or not timber dry docks were considered by some to be just as durable as a stone dock (Mare Island’s first floating drydock was constructed of wood and lasted nearly 40 years before it was completely worn out and scrapped). The dock was so long that it had to be angled in from the waterfront to fit without impacting existing facilities. Following debate, the new dry dock was authorized and funded by Congress, but the Navy Bureau of Yard and Docks was not happy with the proposed timber construction. Experience had taught them that timber graving docks deteriorated in 20-25 years and were subject to catastrophic flooding.
As a result, the Secretary of the Navy became engaged to obtain additional funds to allow the proposed timber dock at Mare Island to be changed to concrete. In late 1899 the Board of Trade of San Francisco and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions asking the California delegation, in Congress to aid the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of the Navy Bureau of Yard and Docks in their efforts to have the construction material changed. The effort was successful, and a concrete dry dock was constructed. The new dry dock was the largest dry dock at any naval shipyard at that time. The decision to use concrete was to prove wise as the new dry dock was to serve the Navy through two world wars, the Korean, Vietnam, and Cold Wars. The dry dock continues in use to this day by the private Mare Island Dry Dock LLC. It is hard to say what would have happened if the dry dock had been built of timber as originally proposed, but certainly the dock would not have been available during our Nation’s greatest hour of need during World War II.
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