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03-31-2010, 08:18 PM
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This should be a cool ride.
A customer of mine felt she owed me a favor and decided this would be a cool way to make it up. She is going to put my wife, son and I up in a hotel down in San Diego for two nights and got us on board the USS New Orleans for a day cruise out of San Diego harbor. I have walked aboard several large Navy ships but never been on one with crew and under way. I think my eleven year old son will have alot of fun.
![](http://www.new-orleans.navy.mil/Site%20Images/main_lowres.jpg)
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03-31-2010, 08:45 PM
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I, Vettezuki
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That's cool! I was in the Sea Cadets for a little while (think Boy Scouts for the Navy) and got to go out for a weekend on the USS Peleliu, an LHA, when I was about 13. It was a lot of fun. On the LHA, they had 50 Caliber machine guns on deck (at least one) and fired it up while out to shoot up some boxes. Pure porn for a young boy. ![Thumbs Up](images/smilies/thumbsup.gif)
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03-31-2010, 09:55 PM
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Very cool.
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04-01-2010, 12:25 PM
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Here is a picture that better shows the size of the ship.
![](http://a4.powerset.com/assets/orig/250px/LPD18USSNewOrleansPassingNewOrleans.jpg)
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04-01-2010, 12:36 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Vettezuki
That's cool! I was in the Sea Cadets for a little while (think Boy Scouts for the Navy) and got to go out for a weekend on the USS Peleliu, an LHA, when I was about 13. It was a lot of fun. On the LHA, they had 50 Caliber machine guns on deck (at least one) and fired it up while out to shoot up some boxes. Pure porn for a young boy. ![Thumbs Up](images/smilies/thumbsup.gif)
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BIG guns are very cool to older boy's also. I think this is a missile ship. " hey what does this big red button do?"
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04-01-2010, 12:49 PM
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Stats. I think 40,000 horsepower should get the job done.
Ship Characteristics
Length: 684 feet (208.5 meters)
Beam: 105 feet (31.9 meters)
Displacement: 24,900 long ship tons
Speed: In excess of 22 knots (24.2 mph)
Aircraft: Four CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or two MV-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously. The ship's hangar can store 1-2 aircraft.
Armament: Two 30mm Close-in-Guns, for surface threat defense; two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers for air defense
Landing Craft: Two LCACs (air cushion) or one LCU (conventional)
EFVs: 14 Marine Corps Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles
Power plant: Four Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 40,000 Hp
Crew: 361 (28 officers, 333 enlisted)
Troops: 720 (66 officers, 654 enlisted); surge to 800
LPD 17 Class: San Antonio (LPD 17), New Orleans (LPD 18), Mesa Verde (LPD 19), Green Bay (LPD 20), New York (LPD 21), San Diego (LPD 22), Anchorage (LPD-23), Arlington (LPD-24), Somerset (LPD-25)
Motto: “Victory from the Sea”
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04-01-2010, 01:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Throttle Crazy
Stats. I think 40,000 horsepower should get the job done.
Ship Characteristics
Length: 684 feet (208.5 meters)
Beam: 105 feet (31.9 meters)
Displacement: 24,900 long ship tons
Speed: In excess of 22 knots (24.2 mph)
Aircraft: Four CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or two MV-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft may be launched or recovered simultaneously. The ship's hangar can store 1-2 aircraft.
Armament: Two 30mm Close-in-Guns, for surface threat defense; two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers for air defense
Landing Craft: Two LCACs (air cushion) or one LCU (conventional)
EFVs: 14 Marine Corps Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles
Power plant: Four Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, two shafts, 40,000 Hp
Crew: 361 (28 officers, 333 enlisted)
Troops: 720 (66 officers, 654 enlisted); surge to 800
LPD 17 Class: San Antonio (LPD 17), New Orleans (LPD 18), Mesa Verde (LPD 19), Green Bay (LPD 20), New York (LPD 21), San Diego (LPD 22), Anchorage (LPD-23), Arlington (LPD-24), Somerset (LPD-25)
Motto: “Victory from the Sea”
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I'll take two please.
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04-01-2010, 01:27 PM
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Awesome. My grandparents took us on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln when I was a kid and it was incredible. It would have been really cool to take a cruise around the harbor though.
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04-02-2010, 07:24 PM
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I did enough cruises. 2 WestPac on CV-63
Bob
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04-02-2010, 08:52 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SeanPlunk
Awesome. My grandparents took us on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln when I was a kid ......
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Hey kid, you're still a kid. Enjoy it while you can.....trust your uncle on this one. ![Smack](images/smilies/smack.gif)
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