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03-08-2009, 03:58 PM
SAN DIEGO — The repair bill for the guided-missile cruiser Port Royal, which ran aground last month on a coral reef just outside Pearl Harbor, could run as high as $40 million, U.S. Pacific Fleet officials said Friday.
The Navy is more than halfway through its damage assessment after the Feb. 5 incident, which damaged the ship’s propeller blades, sonar dome and underwater hull, said fleet spokesman Mark Matsunaga in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Repair estimates range from $25 million to $40 million, fleet officials said in the release.
“Actual costs will depend on what the damage assessment reveals as well as public shipyard and private shipyard labor and material costs,” officials said.
The repair tab is expected to include repair or replacement of the ship’s sonar dome and transducers, refurbishment of two propulsion shafts and new paint on the underwater hull, they said. Both shafts will have to be removed, rotated and fully inspected, they added.
Officials said that the ship’s critical systems, including the AEGIS radar system, ballistic missile defense capability, vertical launch cell hatches, surface search radar, antennae, gas turbine engines and anchors, “were not damaged.”
Officials don’t know how long the repair work will take on the cruiser, which went into a Pearl Harbor dry dock Feb. 18.
“We still need to do a final structural analysis of the sonar dome, determine the number of transducers that require replacement and complete the assessment of the propulsion train to establish if there is any misalignment,” Capt. Rick Tate, who is assigned to the Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s Industrial Management Department at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, said in the release.
Article: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/03/navy_portroyalfixes_030609/
The Navy is more than halfway through its damage assessment after the Feb. 5 incident, which damaged the ship’s propeller blades, sonar dome and underwater hull, said fleet spokesman Mark Matsunaga in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Repair estimates range from $25 million to $40 million, fleet officials said in the release.
“Actual costs will depend on what the damage assessment reveals as well as public shipyard and private shipyard labor and material costs,” officials said.
The repair tab is expected to include repair or replacement of the ship’s sonar dome and transducers, refurbishment of two propulsion shafts and new paint on the underwater hull, they said. Both shafts will have to be removed, rotated and fully inspected, they added.
Officials said that the ship’s critical systems, including the AEGIS radar system, ballistic missile defense capability, vertical launch cell hatches, surface search radar, antennae, gas turbine engines and anchors, “were not damaged.”
Officials don’t know how long the repair work will take on the cruiser, which went into a Pearl Harbor dry dock Feb. 18.
“We still need to do a final structural analysis of the sonar dome, determine the number of transducers that require replacement and complete the assessment of the propulsion train to establish if there is any misalignment,” Capt. Rick Tate, who is assigned to the Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s Industrial Management Department at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, said in the release.
Article: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/03/navy_portroyalfixes_030609/