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Chris O is not a salt but he got most of the details I had found in there. I had read about their length modifications and thought that was in keeping with what they are. It's not unusual to cut open a boat, and then weld it back together again.
They do that with airliners as well.
During 50 years some modifications are inevitable, and it was pretty apparent that they ought to be a bit shorter in length if they were going to go out on the open sea. The sea Around Crimea is not bad, but it's more open than a river.
When I look at the shape of the vessels I saw the shortened version photos. If they were to weld on an upper deck about 12 feet above the one it has to enclose in all of that in, then that boat could have been seaworthy in the Bering Sea or North Atlantic.
That applied years ago. When a hull has aged and lost it's temper after 50 some odd years of flexing in a seaway, it's time to beach it for scrap.
So what I think We're seeing here is nothing which is directly related to the war, it's a normal wear and tear situation which indicates that Russia needs about 40 small work boats and a few larger ships to replace the worn out ones they have to haul petroleum around coastwise for their own use.
We're making ship in America again, Russian surly needs to keep up.
Here's more on the new made in America tankers:
Ohio Product Tanker
Ohio product tanker is the first of four new Jones Act product tankers built by Aker Philadelphia Shipyard (APSI), a…
www.ship-technology.com
