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Motoring around Mobile Bay

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I took a short jaunt around the Alabama State Docks in upper Mobile Bay and saw some interesting visitors in town for a few months.

Of course, over at MARRS is the bound-for-reefing SS United States. The famous Cold War-era Gibbs & Cox luxury liner and troopship-in-waiting is in Mobile for materials mitigation before her planned reefing near the USS Oriskany off Okaloosa Island.

Meanwhile, over at Austal, the future USNS Point Loma (T-EPF-15) and USS Pierre (LCS-38) are fitting out, with the latter perhaps most remarkable as she is the final installment of her class.

Alabama Shipyard had a three pack of MSC-run assets in for overhaul including the John Lewis-class oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206), the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), and the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Medgar Evers (T-AKE-13).

All in all, it was a beautiful day.

Manhattan’s best

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This great overhead image, via Maxar/Overview, shows the Navy’s MSC-manned hospital ship USNS Comfort docked at Pier 90, two piers away from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York harbor.

The retired Essex-class carrier has been docked at Pier 86 on Manhattan’s west side for the past 36 years.

For reference, Intrepid is 873-feet long overall, while Comfort, although almost twice as heavy as the WWII carrier, is just a skosh longer, at 894-feet.