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Posted: 08 Oct 2020 at 11:34am |
Converting
San Francisco into a moored training ship required NNSY to separate the
boat into three pieces, the removal of and recycling the center
section, and then adding three new sections. The new hull sections
arrived from Electric Boat via barge, which NNSY then craned into the
dock and attached to the San Francisco. “We’ve been in dock for 34
months, so it’s been a lot of effort to get to this day, but it’s
exciting to be undocking with more than 90 percent production work
complete,” said Project Superintendent Charles Brock. “We applied a lot
of lessons learned from the La Jolla in areas such as Engineering
Safeguard Features piping installation, component outfitting and tank
restoration.”
“Over the next year, San Francisco will undergo preparations for the final test program, grooming of the forward electrical systems and spaces for turnover to the ship,” said Brock. San Francisco is expected to be complete its conversion to a full-fledged moored training ship in late summer of 2021. San
Francisco and La Jolla replace former submarines originally
commissioned in 1964 and that have been in use as training platforms for
the past three decades. The San Francisco and La Jolla replace the Dan. Webster and the Sam Raborn. |
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