The USS Fort Worth, a Navy littoral combat ship, has suffered extensive gear damagewhile docked at a port in Singapore. The Navy is blaming the incident on a crew error.
According to reports, the crew failed to use sufficient lube oil, leading to excessively high temperatures on the gears. Debris also found its way into the lubrication system, which also contributed to failure, Defense News reports. The crew did not follow standard operating procedures.
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6 comments:
well that's what happens when you want to degrade you military force by undermanned and putting people in charge of equipment when they are not qualified just because they are quotes run ships
"Debris also found its way into the lubrication system, which also contributed to failure"
Debris doesn't just find its way into a system, it has to be put there intentionally. In other words sabotage. Once again the full story not being told. This administration has been the least transparent and most at trying to cover up things by not telling the truth.
If you don't lubricate, debris will be created by metal parts rubbing against one another.
Check the oil, boys.
10:07 You are correct, however a lube oil system for a naval engine or reduction gear has sump level indicators, low level alarms, remote and local temperature gauges, remote and local pressure gauges, as well as local flow indicators. They also have filters and strainers as well as oil purifiers. For a system to get the type of damage the article indicates there would have to be multiple failures of multiple alarm systems and indicators. According to emergency operating procedures the first steps after a lube oil system alarm goes off is to stop the engine and shaft. However intentional sabotage by introducing foreign matter into the system would cause this type of damage. There are other possibilities also such as gross negligence. I just believe we aren't being told the whole story here.
what we have here is a ship that was built and the crew was given manufacture spec. to follow, to begin with was it main engine bearings was it reduction gears for the shaft what were they doing at the time you just don't change oil levels on a whim were they told to reduce the amount did the have an oil leak they could not find oil levels are checked hourly and logged there is more to this then whats being told how can you operate over a year no problems now you don't just run low oil lvl in the main engine sounds to me the watch supervisor and officer of the watch as well as the person taking hourly reading not doing there job OR LIKE ALOT THAT HAPPENS BLAME THE CREW NOT THE COMMAND
Trannies in charge, they couldn't find a man to do it.
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