KIDD's Left the Cradle: Up-Close Shipboard POV
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- On April 25, 2024, Fletcher-class destroyer and museum ship USS KIDD (DD-661) left her unique cradle mooring system for the first time since December 1982. River levels on the Mississippi River were just high enough to allow one to two feet of clearance between her 3/8-inch thick steel hull and sonar dome and the concrete cradle below her. If KIDD didn't exit the cradle on this date, she would risk waiting another year to depart Baton Rouge for a needed shipyard and drydock period.
The USS KIDD Veterans Museum is a non-funded state agency that receives no regular state or federal funding.
Support this drydocking effort:
www.usskidd.com/support-our-mission/membership/donate-to-uss-kidd/
Wonderful job, all! Beautiful ship.
Firs Texas,New Jersey and now Kidd. Good to see these museum ships get maintained. I’ve always loved the Fletcher Class Destroyers design. The US made so many of them in WWII.
Only four of us remain....
@@usskidd661 Yes,so many scrapped after the war,plus those sunk in combat.
Thank you for sharing this historic moment in The Kidd’s history! She’ll be in great hands in Houma and she’s going to come back to Baton Rouge looking better than ever! DD-661 is the best!
I realize the Cast of Supporters that made this moment in Kidd's History possible is Much Larger
But, I want to Thank Parks S & Tim N for their Love & Dedication that is Shepherding the Kidd through this Event
HUGE team effort, yes!!! Thoma-Sea Shipyard, McKinney Salvage, T&T Salvage, Budwine & Associates, Verret Shipyard, Historic Ships Preservation Consultants, and the staff and volunteers of USS KIDD. And that's just getting out of the cradle. The tow to Houma added in Crosby Towing.
Amazing footage, such amazing work guys!
Crazy to think, that april 25th was literally a now or never situation...
Awesome. Thanks for sharing…!
Awesome footage! So happy that the Kidd is getting some much needed TLC!!
"cut three feet from the rudder"ooouuuugggghhhh"- the pain _ yes I know it is necessary. I served on a Frigate when active duty- visited Kidd a few months after out - Man she seemed small compared to the 1960s Frigate.
🙂 The height cut was calculated. Like all Fletchers serving post-war, KIDD received an enlarged rudder over that used during WWII to compensate for steering deficiencies of the original design. The WWII rudders were not up to the output of the props. Hence, the reason that Iowa-class battleships could out-turn Fletcher destroyers. We'll be reverting the rudder back to the smaller WWII design. One more small detail step back to the 1945 configuration. 🙂
Slowly, gently, move her away from her cradle,
she's fragile now, old and sleeping,
don't wake her up.
She dreams, you know,
dreams of young men, true and strong,
young men who rode her rough and she loved it.
That was so long ago, sleep has taken away the edge,
time taken away the strength,
all her young men have gone now, there's just her.
Time to clean the rust, to paint the bottom, check for leaks,
time to move her one more time, maybe the last time,
maybe not, she's fragile now.
Oh! But wasn't she magnificent, back in the day,
fire and storm and blazing battle
with her young men making her the terror of the seas.
Wasn't she he stuff of legend, now become her own myth.
Once her boilers were hot and her guns hotter.
Once blood ran down her decks, as her young men died.
The stuff of legend, when the whole world was on fire,
when tomorrow was not promised,
when so many good ships and their young men, vanished beneath the sea.
Now, there's just her, dreaming, being the myth to those who never felt power of her guns,
those who listened to Grand Pa tell his tales and never really believed them.
Being a Sunday morning entertainment.
Move her slowly, she's fragile now, at the end of her story,
she earned her rest.
Let her sleep.
That was beautiful, Fred. You have a way with words.
Wish I could have watched it being towed off for work, but that pesky thing call work was in the way.
Those 20's look in pretty rough shape...
The results of budget cuts and staff reductions over the years, topped off by a pandemic with reduced visitation. But they're going to be getting restoration very soon. 🙂