Re: [MV] USS Cole

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 09:30:02 PST


At 8:43 AM -0800 2/2/04, chance wolf wrote:
>
>Anyone know what the Navy is doing with the Cole? When it first happened, I
>figured it would just be the matter of repairing a hole and the deck stuff
>immediately behind, but jeez - from those photos it looked like the hull
>buckled a bit. Can't take *that* lot down to the local frame-straightener.

According to the Navy she was back in service as of 2002. Ingalls
(the concern that builds the Arliegh Burkes) performed the repairs.
The Cole was updated to more current Arliegh Burke Flight II specs
though the differences are minimal.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/news/news_stories/cole.html

See also http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/ for class information.

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