Landing Helicopter Dock HMAS Adelaide sits alongside Nuku’alofa to deliver humanitarian stores and medical supplies as part of OP TONGA ASSIST 22. Australian Defence Department Photo
USNI News: Aussie Big Deck Adelaide Suffers Power Outage During Tonga Aid Operations
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Landing helicopter dock HMAS Adelaide (L01), currently engaged in humanitarian and disaster relief operations in Tonga, has suffered a power outrage, the Australian Department of Defence confirmed today.
The outage has not affected the ship’s ability to respond to any requirements in Tonga.
The statement from the Australian DOD followed Australian media reports on the outage. The DOD confirmed that the outage has not impacted food supplies, air conditioning is functioning aboard much of the ship, the sanitation and refrigeration systems are functioning and that the ship is not being towed.
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5 comments:
It is hard to tell how stupid ass the reporting is. The military will be vague, since they are the 'military' and it is a military secret. It is also a way for the military and/or politicians to avoid responsibility.
I was in a ship that was dead in the water. We were with in a an hour or three off the US coast be helicopter. Thy flew in experts to do what the chief engineer could have done. Not his fault. They put the commutator of the generator on the lathe and got rid of the pitting. The generators had a commutator and brush design. That is not used anymore.
The root cause was a the ship was part of the fleet sold by a family to a corporation that used it the newly acquired division as a tax write off. Maintenance was deferred and deferred and deferred. The same corporation raided the pension fund of railroad workers. in one of its subsidies and then the subsidy declared bankruptcy.
So they flew some experts out to the ship by helicopter ...
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Why is this power outage news? The small ship I sailed on had 2 generators. There were two generators to allow one to be maintenance while the other was running. Also there were two so there would be a back up. The Australian ship would have 4 maybe more generators.
So here is my question. Is this blown out of proportion or is this indicative of maintenance issues brought on by neglect of funding or leadership from politicians down to captain and chief engineer?
Are the Aussies cribbing of the Germans on how to run a military?
The sub program is an indication that it is not.
2 × Navantia MAN 16V32/40 diesel generators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Adelaide_(L01)
So a generator went down and the second took up the slack?
This is in the press why?
The only reason the public would need to know is if this was due to bad poor funding or poor maintenance. Then you would want politicians kick ass or you would want to kick the politicians ass.
http://www.peninsularity.com/2016/11/a-day-out-on-the-hmas-canberra/
http://shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2831096
V16 diesel engine powering the generators.
These are the kind of posts I hope to see here. Interesting stuff, thanks.
Adam
"By then, Lykes steamship had become a subsidiary of Lykes Corp., which in 1978 merged with LTV Corp. In 1983 Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. was purchased by Interocean Steamship Corp., a Florida corporation whose stockholders included descendants of the original seven Lykes brothers."
LTV bprpwed money from the pension fund and left about 50,000 workers without pensions the Pension Guarantee Corporation picked up the slack, but it was not like the original contract. LTV did skimp on maintenance. Inventoring the spare parts room should have been a 1 to 4 hour job. I forget. It tookus under 30 minutes.
"The company's pension fund was turned over to a federal pension insurance agency to which LTV was obligated to make contributions. When LTV requested permission to skip a $175 million payment to the fund, the U.S. government's Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) asked for and later received a claim on LTV Aerospace for collateral. LTV initiated a $500 million divestiture of most of the nonsteel assets it acquired from Republic. In early 1986 the Gulf States Steel and LTV Specialty Products divisions were sold.
LTV was unable to maintain liquidity and on July 17, 1986, applied for protection under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code. According to chairman Ray Hay, "We just could not generate cash flow." Under Chapter 11 LTV was temporarily relieved of its annual $319 million debt service and $350 million pension contributions. LTV began to consider either selling its energy division or closing additional steel plants."
https://www.company-histories.com/The-LTV-Corporation-Company-History.html
"WHO HAS TO KEEP A TROUBLED COMPANY'S PENSION PROMISES?"
OCT 1987
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/11/weekinreview/who-has-to-keep-a-troubled-company-s-pension-promises.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykes_Brothers_Steamship_Company
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