USN Destroyer Collides with Tanker

[LongBlade]

In the confines of the Straight of Hormuz, a Navy destroyer has collided with a big oil tanker.

Damage seems to be minor. Not much else in the way of details in this report:

The U.S. Navy said its guided missile destroyer collided with a Japanese-owned oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday morning.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/12/world/meast/bahrain-navy-collision/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

[Steelgrave]

I know someone who is not making Rear Admiral.......

[besilarius]

Nearly happens all the time.  Merchant ships can be so tiresome.
Once, 1977 I think, the Farragut was making a port visit to Split, Yugoslavia.  They have a  pretty straight channel between some islets leading into the harbor.
We were the first USN ship in for a long time, and weren't very confident in the charts.
Sticking like glue to the center of the channel worked until a little coastal steamer turned into our course and dropped the anchor!  Right in the middle of the shipping channel.
Everyone just about had a heart attack, and the naviguesser, Rich, recommended going to port to get around the anchoring ship, because the charts showed some deeper water.
Well, it worked, and we got around the maggot without scraping our sonar domes.
While everyone was considering how to get off the bridge to change our scivvy shorts, Captain Boorda remarked, "Well, at least we know the charts are accurate."
I think Commander Grunwald, the XO, would have thrown anyone else who said that over the side.

[Staggerwing]

Besilarius, it that the same Boorda who made it to CNO? I made a thoughtless comment about him in a different thread that I regret now. My sincere condolences.

[besilarius]

Yeah, best ship captain ever served with. 
My dad was on Yorktown during the war and he felt that Boorda reminded him a lot of Gerry Bogan or Fred Sherman, who both commanded carrier task forces.
As to the comment, don't worry.  No one could clean up Tail Hook unmolested.

[Staggerwing]

Thanks for understanding. :)

[GDS_Starfury]

No one could clean up Tail Hook unmolested.

I see what you did there.

[GDS_Starfury]

Damage seems to be minor. Not much else in the way of details in this report:

hardly minor:

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/312906.html

[LongBlade]

Damage seems to be minor. Not much else in the way of details in this report:

hardly minor:

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/312906.html

My mistake.

Getting t-boned by an oil tanker qualifies as a mistake.

[GDS_Starfury]

lets have a betting pool as to what this is going to cost.
my moneys on $120 million.

[mirth]

Damn. Somebody's out of a job.

[mirth]

lets have a betting pool as to what this is going to cost.
my moneys on $120 million.

I'm going with $50 mil.

[GDS_Starfury]

its a billion dollar ship.  thats a nasty hole.

[GDS_Starfury]

looking at those photos again Im wondering how long shes been out on deployment.
thats a whole lotta rust.  theres even rust on the radar array.

[mirth]

its a billion dollar ship.  thats a nasty hole.

Doesn't look all that deep though and I'm not sure there was damage to any critical systems. Based on the pics, I'm not sure the damage equals 10% of the overall cost of the ship. My initial thought was $40-$50 mil. I'm not an expert by any means.