The Expeditionary Sea Base ship, USNS Miguel Keith, successfully completed its acceptance trials off the California coast, the U.S. Navy announced: [image] Expeditionary sea base USNS Miguel Keith completes acceptance trials The Expeditionary Sea Base ship USNS Miguel Keith successfully …

That is how the Ferncarrier/American Comorent and abt a dozen other HLVs were converted, only that they started with existing tankers, not just design drawings. Since they don’t need all that ballast capacity to just dip one side a little, what is the rest of the below deck space used for, if anyth…

[image] ombugge: what is the rest of the below deck space used for, if anything?? You don’t have the need to know. :slightly_smiling_face:

This is a marvelous war ship. It can carry 3 LCACs on the main deck below the upper, open deck and cargo/helicopters on the upper, open deck… To load the LCACs you have to submerge the ship, so the main deck is below water. For this plenty ballast is needed. To load/off load anything on the upper,…

Your statement indicates you have not read the links or information posted above, or you are confused about the two types of ships we are discussing. The black hulled ships are the the ESD, they submerge just enough to allow the LCAC to berth and load cargo and fuel. The whole idea of the MLP/ESD…

[image] OK, the grey hull ship with a white 5 on the bow is an ESD owned by MSC that does not submerge!?!? It has only a big flight deck for helicopters to land on aft of a secret deck house up front. Brilliant. The specific mission of the ship is secret for national security reasons.

There are no windows in the forward house where the military live and work. Don’t they need windows? And no extra LSA for the military is seen. Aha, when the ship sinks they evacuate by helicopters! Fantastic!

[image] Heiwa: There are no windows in the forward house where the military live and work. Don’t they need windows? Black Ops in more ways than one…

OK, the USNS Miguel Keith is basically a tanker designed with extra high fore castle and poop, so it can submerge (and float on the fore castle and poop) to carry heavy cargo on the main deck. Old stuff. But USN doesn’t need such capabilities. Instead a fixed, extra deck is installed on the main dec…

[image] Heiwa: OK, the USNS Miguel Keith is basically a tanker designed with extra high fore castle and poop, so it can submerge (and float on the fore castle and poop) to carry heavy cargo on the main deck. Old stuff. No. The Miguel Keith does not submerge. [image] Heiwa: a fixed, extr…

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DeckApe October 21, 2019, 9:12am 33

The forward house is where the military live. The civilians live in the aft house. What happens in the forward house stays in the forward house.

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