They finally got the
Port Royal off the
shoal it had been on. By "finally," we mean
last Monday, but let it not be said that we don't follow up on the little to which we pay attention.
The cruiser was structurally sound, but an eight-inch thick rubber sonar dome was cracked. Blade tips on the vessel's two propellers were sheared off.
Comedy Gold, as they say. Like getting into a fender-bender while driving home from the 10,000-mile tune-up at the dealer's.
The vessel had just finished its first day of sea trials after wrapping up a four-month routine maintenance stay at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.
The
Port Royal (Foreground. Or is it "foresea?" "Foreocean?") when she was operational, alongside
U. S. S. Lake Erie.
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