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(5,722 posts) Mon Jan 22, 2018, 01:26 AM Jan 2018

A U.S. Navy ship is trapped in Montreal until spring due to icy waters

Source: CBC

A newly commissioned Navy warship will be wintering in Montreal after its journey to Florida was interrupted by cold and ice.

A Navy spokeswoman says the USS Little Rock was commissioned in Buffalo on Dec. 16 and was expected to make its way to its home port in Mayport, Fla.

Instead, the 118-metre Freedom-variant vessel has been moored in Montreal's Old Port area since Christmas Eve due to unusually heavy ice conditions.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/montreal/navy-ship-montreal-stuck-1.4497416

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A U.S. Navy ship is trapped in Montreal until spring due to icy waters (Original Post) OnlinePoker Jan 2018 OP

Navy sure having a rough year or so with all their ship problems. MLAA Jan 2018 #1

My thought. Hope climate surprises, Hortensis Jan 2018 #8

No surprise GP6971 Jan 2018 #2

And now it's "littorally" stuck! appal_jack Jan 2018 #11

+1 Historic NY Jan 2018 #14

Here's a pic: longship Jan 2018 #3

We are expected believe the FUCKING NAVY DOESN"T KNOW that the St. Lawrence freezes in winter? TreasonousBastard Jan 2018 #4

It froze earlier then expected. Kaleva Jan 2018 #5

A lot of navigable waters froze much earlier this year... nt EarthFirst Jan 2018 #9

Sand Pebbles keithbvadu2 Jan 2018 #6

Who would name a ship "Little Rock"? JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2018 #7

Mother Nature rules once again-as she usually does riversedge Jan 2018 #10

Why Buffalo? getagrip_already Jan 2018 #12

The Navy has been building ships in the Great Lakes for decades hack89 Jan 2018 #15

At least they can work on their French......... Historic NY Jan 2018 #13

There are a lot of worst places to get stuck in the ice than Montreal. Good planning on someone's FSogol Jan 2018 #16

MLAA

(17,298 posts)

1. Navy sure having a rough year or so with all their ship problems.

Reply to OnlinePoker (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 01:27 AM

Jan 2018

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

8. My thought. Hope climate surprises,

Reply to MLAA (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 06:41 AM

Jan 2018

plus whatever else, are an exculpatory explanation for her commander's decisions.

Weirdly enough, I'm reminded me of a factory that had to stop production for a few weeks because a stray cat got in and had kittens deep inside a huge machine. But things that can't reasonably be foreseen do happen. Hope the commander has a better excuse than kittens, though.

GP6971

(31,165 posts)

2. No surprise

Reply to OnlinePoker (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 01:29 AM

Jan 2018

it's a littoral combat ship...a shallow draft vessel.

appal_jack

(3,813 posts)

11. And now it's "littorally" stuck!

Reply to GP6971 (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 10:22 AM

Jan 2018

Ba-dum-bum-pssssssh!

Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waiter...

-app

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)

14. +1

Reply to appal_jack (Reply #11)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:09 AM

Jan 2018

longship

(40,416 posts)

3. Here's a pic:

Reply to OnlinePoker (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 02:03 AM

Jan 2018

It's not very big, small draft.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

4. We are expected believe the FUCKING NAVY DOESN"T KNOW that the St. Lawrence freezes in winter?

Reply to OnlinePoker (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 02:26 AM

Jan 2018

When I was in the marine insurance business, we used to have an interoffice pool for the date it would be officially closed to navigation.

To spend more on this nonsense we have to shut the gummint down?

Kaleva

(36,307 posts)

5. It froze earlier then expected.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 05:13 AM

Jan 2018

It's not that big of a deal.

EarthFirst

(2,900 posts)

9. A lot of navigable waters froze much earlier this year... nt

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 07:24 AM

Jan 2018

keithbvadu2

(36,823 posts)

6. Sand Pebbles

Reply to OnlinePoker (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 05:19 AM

Jan 2018

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,350 posts)

7. Who would name a ship "Little Rock"?

Reply to OnlinePoker (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 06:33 AM

Jan 2018

A ship, unlike a little rock, is supposed to stay afloat.

It's just a funny name for a boat.

Sort of like naming a nuclear attack submarine "Corpus Christi" or "body of Christ".

riversedge

(70,242 posts)

10. Mother Nature rules once again-as she usually does

Reply to OnlinePoker (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 09:00 AM

Jan 2018

getagrip_already

(14,764 posts)

12. Why Buffalo?

Reply to OnlinePoker (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:06 AM

Jan 2018

Is there a shipyard there that built it?

Nevermind; I found it. The ship was built at Fincantieri Marinette Marine Shipyard in WI. Paul Ryan pork project no doubt.

Who in there right mind would build warships in a yard that is ice locked for months at a time and which requires a long transit down rivers exposing it to land based attack?

And no, I'm not accusing Paul Ryan as being in his right mind.

hack89

(39,171 posts)

15. The Navy has been building ships in the Great Lakes for decades

Reply to getagrip_already (Reply #12)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:16 AM

Jan 2018

there is a very long and storied history of ship building in the Great Lakes. The Fincantieri Marinette Marine Shipyard has building ships and small craft for the Navy and Coast Guard since WWII.

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)

13. At least they can work on their French.........

Reply to OnlinePoker (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:09 AM

Jan 2018

and eat poutine.

FSogol

(45,488 posts)

16. There are a lot of worst places to get stuck in the ice than Montreal. Good planning on someone's