# Ship Named After Sullivan Brothers is Sinking **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ship-named-after-sullivan-brothers-is-sinking/962851 "2022-04-15T02:43:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ship-named-after-sullivan-brothers-is-sinking/962851/21 "2022-04-17T17:32:00Z")
“Sinking”? I ain’t no Navy Ocean Fightin’ Guy, but I look at that picture and think, _That ship done sunk already!_ ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ship-named-after-sullivan-brothers-is-sinking/962851/22 "2022-04-18T13:15:39Z")
Not according [to the news](https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-04-17/repairs-to-the-uss-the-sullivans-could-be-costly-and-take-time-5715512.html). > [@](#): > > It’s unlikely the USS The Sullivans will sink from the breach in her hull, but it will take at least a week to make preliminary fixes. > [@](#): > > Officials who provided an update Saturday on the World War II-era destroyer said the ship is stable but not completely out of danger from sinking. > > “Is it possible? Yes. Not if we can help it,” said Paul Marzello, president and CEO of the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park. [quote] ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ship-named-after-sullivan-brothers-is-sinking/962851/23 "2022-04-18T13:56:47Z")
Part of it isn’t sunk. _It counts!_ **Not sunk!** ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ship-named-after-sullivan-brothers-is-sinking/962851/24 "2022-04-18T15:51:40Z")
So, what caused this? Rust? Sabotage? Ship-eating monsters from the seventeenth dimension? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ship-named-after-sullivan-brothers-is-sinking/962851/25 "2022-04-18T17:55:19Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > _It counts!_ **Not sunk!** If you ask me, and trust me, nobody did, if the boat is sitting on the bottom, and half of it is swingin’ in the breeze, that’s just a lack of water. I say **SUNK!** ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ship-named-after-sullivan-brothers-is-sinking/962851/26 "2022-04-18T18:01:41Z")
By that standard, I’m sunk, too. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ship-named-after-sullivan-brothers-is-sinking/962851/27 "2022-04-18T20:34:20Z")
But “mostly sunk” means “partly afloat.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ship-named-after-sullivan-brothers-is-sinking/962851/28 "2022-04-19T01:07:26Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > If you ask me, and trust me, nobody did, if the boat is sitting on the bottom, and half of it is swingin’ in the breeze, that’s just a lack of water. I say **SUNK!** You may very well be correct, she is in shallow water. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ship-named-after-sullivan-brothers-is-sinking/962851.md?page=1)