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Rescue and Salvage Ships - ARS(377 total words in this text)(2570 Reads)  Rescue and salvage ships render assistance to disabled ships, provide towing, salvage, diving, firefighting and heavy lift capabilities. Features The mission of the rescue and salvage ships is four-fold: to debeach stranded vessels, heavy lift capability from ocean depths, towing of other vessels, and manned diving operations. For rescue missions, these ships are equipped with fire monitors forward and amidships which can deliver either firefighting foam or sea water. The salvage holds of these ships are outfitted with portable equipment to provide assistance to other vessels in dewatering, patching, supply of electrical power and other essential service required to return a disabled ship to an operating condition. Background The U.S. Navy has responsibility for salvaging U.S. government-owned ships and, when it is in the best interests of the United States, privately-owned vessels as well. The rugged construction of these steel-hulled ships, combined with speed and endurance, make these rescue and salvage ships well-suited for rescue/salvage operations of Navy and commercial shipping throughout the world. The versatility of this class of ship adds immeasurably to the capabilities of the U.S. Navy with regard to rendering assistance to those in peril on the high seas. General Characteristics, Safeguard class Primary Function: Firefighting, combat salvage, rescue towing, diving. Builder: Peterson Builders. Date Deployed: August 16, 1985. Propulsion: Four Caterpiller 399 Diesels, two shafts, 4,200 horsepower. Length: 255 feet (77.7 meters). Beam: 51 feet (15.5 meters). Displacement: 3,282 tons (3,334.67 metric tons) full load. Draft: 16 feet 9 inches (5.11 meters). Speed: 14 knots (16.1 miles, 25.8 km, per hour). Range: 8,000 miles (12,872 km) at 8 knots (14.8 km/hr.; 9.2 mph). Depth: Diving Depth: 190 feet (57.9 meters), using air. Crew: 6 officers, 94 enlisted. Load: Salvage capability: 7.5-ton capacity boom forward; 40-ton capacity boom aft Heavy lift: Capable of a hauling force of 150 tons. Armament: Two .50 caliber machine guns; two Mk-38 25mm guns. Ships: USS Safeguard (ARS 50), Pearl Harbor, HI USS Grasp (ARS 51), Little Creek, VA USS Salvor (ARS 52), Pearl Harbor, HI USS Grapple (ARS 53), Little Creek, VA |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
