USS Bainbridge: Don’t Tread On Me

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

UPDATE: 9:00am PST
FBI is consulting with Navy on hostage situation. Lifeboat is out of fuel and dead in the water. Maersk Alabama has left to a Kenya port. Just the four pirates and Captain Phillips and a US Navy destroyer.

The Really: The answer to a boatload of Somali pirates 350 miles from shore is a United States Navy destroyer? Arggh matey.

Let’s hope they try something a little more subtle to release the captain being held in a boat next to the Alabama which was boarded off Somalia (and through the actions of the captain and the fearless crew were repelled). Maybe some MAVs or SEALS.

The Bainbridge is likely to give the pirates pause and that is mostly its purpose in all its United States naval destroyer glory.

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4 Responses to “USS Bainbridge: Don’t Tread On Me”

  1. Anonymous, on April 9th, 2009 at 4:30 AM Said:

    1st of all the bainbridge is NOT NUCLEAR!

  2. Ex-Navy Nuclear Officer, on April 9th, 2009 at 9:31 AM Said:

    The previous poster is correct. The current USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) is not nuclear powered. It seems you are confusing the current USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) with the previous USS Bainbridge (CGN 25), which was decommissioned in 1996. CGN 25 was nuclear powered, while DDG 96 has a gas turbine propulsion system.

  3. Writing Practice, on April 9th, 2009 at 9:35 AM Said:

    Thank you both for the correction. Beautiful ship though, no?

  4. Ex-Navy Nuclear Officer, on April 9th, 2009 at 10:17 AM Said:

    Beautiful? Hmmm. Not a bad looking ship I guess, but as a former sub-driver it looks pretty much like every other target to me:

    T-shirt

    :)

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