The story of the Sullivan brothers, who chose to serve together although military policy was to separate siblings, was so widely known during and after the War that a movie was made about them. It’s cruelly ironic that the Navy’s tribute to them may also sink.
That’s a serious list to starboard. A third of the stern deck is below the water line.
I’ve actually been on the boat, it’s a great little naval museum. My wife did NOT like being a a WW2 era submarine, it’s very claustrophobic.
Hopefully they can save that piece of history.
I have to ask why they’re messing around? The USS Texas (BB-35) at one point was taking on 1500 gallons a minute, and they were pumping it right back out and keeping her afloat while they performed repairs.
USS The Sullivans can’t be taking on that much water that fast; why don’t they just pump it out while they figure it out? Buffalo’s a real port- equipment availability surely can’t be the issue.
Maybe because there’s another USS The Sullivans (DD-537). She launched in 1995, so it’s getting a little long in the tooth. Maybe it’ll become a museum ship that’ll replace the current one
This current one is the USS The Sullivans (DD-537). She launched in 1943.
The CG said they were pumping water out at 13,000 gallons per minute, so they aren’t messing around.
Here’s a direct link to to CG Buffalo.
How do you not notice that?
“Hey Frank, does The Sullivans look a little low in the water today to you?”
FWIW I saw a comment to that tweet that said the commenter heard that the pumps are gaining on the leakage and water load is going down.
So long as the front didn’t fall off, there’s still hope…
Most of these ships are built so the front doesn’t fall off at all.
I read that the Sullivans is moored in the river near the lake, and the water is five feet deep.
Yes and part of it was sitting on the bottom.
Meh, the front end can fall off and the ship can still go.
Update: as of this evening they’ve stopped pumping because the ship is now leaking oil.
So what happened in this case?
I have it on good authority that a wave hit the ship. Apparently it’s exceedingly rare.
But the front isn’t supposed to fall off.
Well, the front fell off in this case by all means, but it’s very unusual.
The Battleship New Jersey YouTube channel, released a video with Ryan Szimanski, the curator of the New Jersey and a special guest, Drachinifel.
Drach is the naval history YouTuber so it was an interesting discussion.
It’s only 16 minutes long and I found it very worthwhile. They didn’t speculate much, but gave a lot of background information.
Ryan says he knows the people at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval Maritime Park quite well and seemed confident they would handle things as best as could be expected.
Because it’s a destroyer, the hull is quite thin and this is a known danger. This is a video by Ryan on Top 10 Most Threatened American Museum Ships, from a year ago and The Sullivans is included.
They didn’t speculate much, but gave a lot of background information.
I’m always surprised you don’t see more movies filmed on museum ships. They’re already living props and would be pretty cheap to rent out, just pay to clean up and repaint the ship to make it look better on camera.
I think siblings still get seperated in the military. In 1974-5, when I was stationed at the Presidio of Monterey, there were twin girls, Navy. This was a military language school, and they got put in different languages so they, in all likelihood, would not be stationed at the same post.