Talk:Sea Shadow (IX-529)/Archive 1

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I don't know if the poor sea-faring capabilities is true.


 * Not according to the Navy article on the ship. Jinian 14:06, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Confederates
Looks like the Confederates had it right when the built the CSS Virginia. User:Valento


 * Not really. They didn't have radar back then. The purpose of the Confederate design was more to deflect incoming artillery. Amatulic 17:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC) Amatulic, the whole idea of Valento was: Long Live Confederates.

I worked on this project
In the early 1980s I worked on the design of this ship. It was known to be very stable in the water AND virtually invisible.

It was great fun - there were many restaurants in the area that were off-limits to us. The engineering work was spread out over several northern California locations.

I was so surprised to see its picture released in the mid 90's 12.215.86.179 08:24, 8 February 2007 (UTC)Linda E

Interesting article available at      [] William L. Schlotterer (talk) 07:05, 24 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The article you gave shows that the crew is 10 and the article says 4. Can anybody resolve this issue? Jeremy's messagesto you 21:31, 28 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Checking NavSource I see a compliment of http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/46/46529.htm. Haze Gray & Underway lists the compliment at 12 with another mission crew of 12. Then there is this US Navy article from 2003 that seems to confirm the Haze Gray entry. To quote from the article "At only a bit over 160-feet-long, Sea Shadow doesn't have much room for a large crew. In fact, with only 12 bunks aboard, the maximum she's ever taken to sea at once is 24. With only one small microwave oven, a refrigerator and table, creature comforts plainly aren't what the ship is about." It does look like the crew was larger than four. - anonymous 8/7/2014 4:22 PM EST — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.138.24 (talk) 20:24, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Tracking
I was in the Navy from 92-96 based out of Long Beach, CA. Before NAVSTA Long Beach closed in 94, our ship was doing training ops outside Catalina Isl. and one of our assignments was to track this vessel.

My recollection was that this was in late '94 and the Perry Class frigate I was assigned to spent a number of hours tracking the Shadow via our SPS-55 radar. A number of contractors were onboard in CIC and the bridge during this operation and I had the pleasure of being one of the OS's who got to actively track this platform and report my tracking info to the contractors as well as the CIC personnel.

The low RCS of this platform made it incredibly difficult to track outside of 14000 yds (7nm), even with visual assistance/cueing from bridge stationed lookouts.

Quite an experience! Glad to see it's not a hush hush project any longer. Gmjay74 (talk) 22:56, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Done not look to stable in the water, I expect it bobs like a cork in rough seas. It also looking like it will have massive return at a 45degree look down angle from a plane or missile intercepting. Acoustically the bottom may act as a drum and the sea surface and under size may act as an amplifier. I supose it looks coool. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.17.5.1 (talk) 12:33, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Popular Science
I recently have been looking at the Popsci archives for some interesting information about aircraft carriers. I found this: (page 57). Jeremy'schangesmessages 21:22, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Sea shepard
You guys think this is a sea shepard worthy ship, due to the lost of the M/V Ady Gil —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wesjuh (talk • contribs) 14:54, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * As in the Whale Wars Sea Shepherd? I really doubt the US Navy would let Sea Shadow go into such hands. It belongs in a museum, for maritime enthusiasts all over the world to come and see. Spartan198 (talk) 23:17, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Sea Shepherd was actually considering getting this ship after I told them that it was on auction this week. But The ship has to be scrapped, so the idea was too. If you think about it, it's not really a good ship for the cause. Too small and slow. Bioniclepluslotr (talk) 19:34, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Scrap?
Why does this ship have to be scrapped? And why are they selling it if the buyer needs to send it to recycling? Does the buyer get to keep the parts? Bioniclepluslotr (talk) 19:34, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Basically the idea is that you get to keep the money from recycling the materials in the ship and hope that it is more than you paid for the boat because the Navy doesn't want to pay for scrapping it. The reason you can't keep it is pretty obvious; for the same reason that even if you're insanely rich, they won't sell you an aircraft carrier. (At least I don't think they would.) It's fairly advanced military technology, and once you buy it, you could sell it to someone else or do something illegal and/or dangerous with it. Atypicaloracle (talk) 22:14, 30 November 2012 (UTC)