RE: Fleet Replenishment tenders

At 4:52 PM +0100 11/24/03, Büky Ákos wrote:
>First of all ? Thanks for all the enlightening inputs!
>
>I?ve checked out the www.fas.org - under the US Navy, actually several
>types were listed: some to ammunition, some to fuel, and there was
>even type for repairing ships.
>If time permits I?ll try to check it out more throughly.

Also check out http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/

There's a large number of logistics ships that 
the USN has on standby for the requirement to go 
over shores or work in un-improved ports. 
Further, ships for transporting vehicle cargo 
normally in peace time are contracted as standby 
for additional transport capacity.

Container Ships that can unload themselves and 
another ship berthed right next to them.

Flo-Flos or Float on Float off ships that can 
transport lighters, harbor tugs and other craft 
from one strategic location to another (how do 
you get the extra interface craft that you can 
need for a military port to the new system?)

Lift-On Lift-Off ships for carry similar light 
harbor transport and smaller vessels

Ro-Ro ships, Roll-On Roll-OffVehicel dock ships 
capable of transporting large numbers of 
vehicles. Pull up to some kind of quay and roll 
them off. Or move them to lighters that the ship 
can carry and launch with it's built in cranes

LASH Barge ships capable of carrying large cargo 
type barges to other ports unloading them there 
to allow them to be towed in to shore. The 
pre-loaded cargo barges can be off-loaded by the 
ship rather quickly and hustled to shallow 
un-loading points by harbor tugs brought by the 
above ships.

Crane Ships that have large long boom cranes 
capable of unloading other vessels and handling 
other heavy lifting tasks that shore cranes would 
normally handle.

Many of the above types combine Fuel, Containers 
and un-crated vehicle loads as combinations of 
equipment with helicopter landing pads as an 
additional method of moving supplies off ship. 
All are characterized by being able to unload 
themselves with little additional shore services 
that many more basic civilian ships require. This 
of course does not include the Gator Carriers and 
other Military Logistics ships we already talk 
about.

Then there are all the general cargo, container 
and bulk fuel ships that can be handled by the 
equipment.

One day, I'd love to run a scenario where you 
have to move all these kinds of vessels in and 
run an operation to land troops. A table nearby 
would have the landing areas run in DirtSide 
scenarios and another table would show the map of 
the system with rules for handling where task 
forces and pickets moved around.

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  Ryan Gill		 rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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