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@8:22 who can identify the type of vehicle frame? Tank? amphibious? I just realized this was a partially disassembled vehicle
What a great video to share today. Class E airspace uncontrolled and able to fly 400 agl. No drotams or TFRs for this area so follow along. The Suisun Bay has been home to a dwindling mothball fleet of ships. When I was a kid this bay was full of ready reserve ships. Over the years the fleet has dwindled to what 6 ships at the time of this drone video. The Cape Giradeau, Cape Bover, Cape Jacob, US Naval Ship Triumph, Cape Fear, Petersburg and the Green Mountain State. Follow along with me as I explore this ghost fleet of rust and bird nests. Using the mavic 2 pro we score some great views of the various ships that remain. I will link some information in the description for sources where I got my information.
I lived in Concord during the 1950s and 1960s. There was a mothball fleet of landing craft, troop ships, and submarines laid up along the strait part way up the Sacramento river. We used to pass them when we went to Sacramento before the freeway was built. They started scrapping them in the late 1960s and by the early 1970s they were all gone. I wish I had some pictures to show my children and my grandchildren. Thank you for this video even though these are later ships.
Wow that would be awesome to have seen I was born in 72 so I don’t think I would have remember seeing them but would have been neat for sure. Thanks for sharing your memories
The Petersburg was an off shore refuelling vessel. Those cylinders as you say are covered hoses and those landing craft are used to tow those hoses inshore to be connected to a shore tank farm The big buoy is for mooring offshore. She used to belong to the dinasoaroil company.The craft on deck is tied off alomgside so another warship can come alomgside to refuel.
The Cape Fear is a Jetty Deploying Vessel. It puts out those boxes which link together and to the shore to create a jetty that other ships can tie up to so it creates a long dock and has a track down the middle to make it easier for cargo to move up and down the dock. Once linked together the boxes are partially flooded for stability.
wow great information thanks for taking the time to share it!
Sorry but your description is not correct. The SS Cape Fear is a LASH type cargo ship. LASH stands for lighter aboard ship. Lighters are barges that are about 60'x 30'x 13' each. They are a modular way to ship a wide variety of cargo. The crane on the deck of the ship was designed to move the barges over the stern and lower into the water. Tug boats would them move the barge to a dock for loading and unloading.
Worked on the Cape Jacob right before it was decommissioned over in South Korea. Many hours of painting and chipping were done on that ship.
wow how awesome. Thanks for sharing. I bet its kind of weird to see it just sitting here.
Have a boat in the Martinez Marina and have gone around, fished around, spent the night anchored at these boats, and I love your drone footage. Thank you!
They don't dismantle ships in the water, they do that in a dock somewhere or after they've been run up un the shore. Those are still able to be working ships so there is always maintenance being done out there on the ships. Still valuable property.
All the junk ships are gone, these are still viable ships that still could be sold or brought back into service, that's why there are only six there... All the WW II and Vietnam Ships have been scraped, target practiced or scuttled for habitat on the sea bed out by the Farallones.
They still belong to the Pacific Fleet of the Navy but haven't been needed since there are newer ships in service. But if we have an engagement they will go to Mare Island and be serviced and refitted and put back in to active duty.
On the Triumph, there are 5 deployable craft next to each other and in front of them are very large spools of cable. The other round object could be a cable winder/de-tangler.
Awesome video brother! I just did my own two-part video on these retired ships...
Let me go see haha
Neat! Maybe you should do a video like this of Alameda Point, they have a good amount of these ships there, some even used to be there, they also have the USS Hornet CV-12
yes I have thought of this. would be fun for sure. thanks for watching i live about ten minutes from alameda too
@@InsightfulImagery I live 15 minutes from Alameda lol
orange round cylinders are life boats
Ty
The Cape Fear is a 75 LASH barge carrier.
I'm going to look up what a "lash" is. so many awesome things to learn about thanks for contributing
LASH stands for Lighter Aboard SHip. A lighter is a barge. The standard barge was 60'x30'x13'. These barges were used to transport a wide range of cargos. When I worker on the ship during Operation Desert Shield and Storm we carried 2,000 lb bombs, 155 mm howitzer shells, helicopters, and much more.
The Cape Fear was an original LASH design which I think only carried 63 barges. Other space was used for carrying 20' and 40' standard containers.
Back in the 80's there use to be a lot more ships out there.
I know right I remember the bay was full of them. How things change for sure it’s interesting
Great video sir, The DJI Air 2S now has a 1 inch sensor on a smaller airframe, I know you said you’d never buy another Drone just food for thought. 😁
thanks for watching and commenting. This was fun video for sure. I love both my drones but the p4pv2.0 4k 60fps with hdmi out to live tv is hands down the best thing going. I just wish they would make one that does it all! hahah take care sir
the designs of these ww2 vessels are magnificent.
cold grey intimidating lifeless design yes.
So glad they are removing the toxic ships polluting the bay 👏
@8:22 what type of vehicle frame is this? Tank? amphibious? I just realized this is a vehicle frame of some sort
What can’t someone just buy one of these ships and restore it to perfect working order?
Maybe you could there a couple that are ready reserve the others were scrapped let me know if you buy one hahah
@@InsightfulImagery hahahahaha for real though
Too expensive and steam engines and there cargo ships there only worth scrap value sadly
Most modern ships are larger, driven by diesels and have a crew that is less than held that of old ships. So new ships are much more efficient in moving cargo.