Oh, yeah, we live in a port, don't we?

By adamg on Sun, 07/12/2015 - 9:58pm

In addition to the tall ships and the Queen Mary 2, Boston Harbor also saw the USNS LCPL Roy M. Wheat (T-AK 3016) coming into port today for some drydock work.

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Interesting

By BostonDog on Sun, 07/12/2015 - 11:00pm.

I had no idea the government owned large cargo ships. Perhaps it's not that surprising.

How do you think we get all our military equipment overseas?

By Jeff F on Mon, 07/13/2015 - 12:24am.

Btw, these suckers can move! When I was serving on a Navy frigate, we once matched course with one of these during a training excercise and its top speed was nearly as fast as ours (>30 knots sustained).

Military Sealift Command (MSC)

By plt3012 on Mon, 07/13/2015 - 7:18am.

There is an entire fleet of cargo, support and auxiliary vessels. The MSC has many responsibilities. The crew for these vessels are a mix of military and civilians.

USS El Paso

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 07/13/2015 - 9:51am.

http://navysite.de/lka/lka117.htm

Somebody has to haul all the stuff!

I work at the Design Center

By fox_orian on Mon, 07/13/2015 - 10:20am.

I work at the Design Center so I see ships come and go quite a few times per year. (The average stay is about 4-8 weeks in drydock for a new paint job, repaving the helicopter pads, and other internal repair work.) The Boston Ship Repair crew seems to specialize in US Naval cargo ships, (either shipped contained goods or vehicle carriers) as it's usually what comes and goes.

We had a Canadian natural gas tanker last year to check on its hull after a minor accident while docking a few months earlier, just to make sure it was still holding.

Thanks for your heroic service, Lance Corporal Wheat

By Neil on Mon, 07/13/2015 - 3:17am.

They don't name a Navy ship after just anyone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_M._Wheat