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There was talk between brokers and scrap merchants, but only to determine a bottom line value of the ship for the purposes of the estate of the ship's owner. This was necessary for tax purposes.
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On a personal note, I see this only as a stay of execution. Nothing has been resolved!
Glory Days!
Does anyone know what ship, line, hailing port, etc?
This was a theme I worked on "back when," when it was generally accepted logistical doctrine that, after one lands the "boots" on foreign soil by aircraft, "beans and bullets" have to be transported by surface transport.
During the Korean War, the logistic ratio used to be that for every ton of airlift of troops, munitions, vehicles, whatever, 1000 tons of sealift had to be deployed, including the fuel for the flying machines at forward bases.
I do not believe that this ratio has changed appreciatively. Even if such landlocked areas as Afganistan, only the last stage of transport would be by air.
Now if someone had stopped worrying about the suitability of "modular cabins" in the concept of the SSUS as a candidate cruise ship, and one would find that the SSUS could revert to its original concept as a troop transport in a new role as a "Fast Deployment Logistic Ship," in which creature comforts and bottom lines were not as significant.
But then, I am no longer paid for my consulting.
[ 09-20-2002: Message edited by: Cambodge ]
This would probably be a large ro-ro.MSCA already has tons of very large ships for this role, many of them are ro-ro.6 WATSON-class, 6 BOB HOPE-class, 3 SHUGHART-class (conversion from Maersk ex-container/ro-ro cargoships), 2 GORDON-class (conversion too), 8 SL-7-class (not ro-ro), 2 HUAL TRADER-class (US MARRF), not to mention MSC-CF, MSC-CMPS, MARRF fleets, many other smaller ones or mix replenishment/cargo ships.On top of that, you can add many very large civilian ships chartered from Maersk, Evergreen, CGM, P&O Nedlloyd, or whatever...
...Now if someone had stopped worrying about the suitability of "modular cabins" in the concept of the SSUS as a candidate cruise ship, and one would find that the SSUS could revert to its original concept as a troop transport in a new role as a "Fast Deployment Logistic Ship," in which creature comforts and bottom lines were not as significant.
The only military role I could see for SS UNITED STATES would be perhaps troopship (but that's usually prefered to send dozens of Galaxys, 747s, 767s... as was done in 1990/91, many cargos and vehicles were transported with ro-ro) but probably better, hospital ship. For pure logistic or mix troop/logistic, the BIG U wouldn't be suitable at all because of her lake of cargo capacity and Would have to use a well fitted quay/terminal since she has no ro-ro or large cargo lift capacities. You're right mentioning, for a large and long operation, a very large part of the logistic has to be carried by sea but that's not that simple regarding a suitable usage of SS UNITED STATES.For a strict efficient military role, I'd say perhaps hospital ship (perhaps because 2 large MERCY-class ships already exist and the operation would have to be really terrible to necessitate a third large ship) , but military wise, forget everything else.
[ 09-21-2002: Message edited by: Vaccaro ]
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