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Subject: China Points A RO/RO At Taiwan
SYSOP    6/25/2015 5:21:05 AM
 
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Tamerlane    Want to hear Taiko drums in Nanking, again?   6/25/2015 10:25:03 AM
Want the real fighters in Asia to S-can their Peace Constitution?  Keep it up bay-bee.
 
 
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HR    Surely they jest...   6/25/2015 5:57:25 PM
An RO/RO ship for an amphibious assault? You need ships with "connectors" that can splash in. Invading Taiwan with even best equipment would be a terrifically bloody affair for the invader let alone trying to do it with something like this. If that is the way the Chinese are thinking I hope they do not stop.
 
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keffler25       6/25/2015 8:01:16 PM
ROTFLMAO. The Atlantic Conveyor and her sister, Atlantic Causeway, ring a bell? One was sunk, but the other STUFT ship did over the beach rather well.
 
It's the stupid troll, people, so you have to pardon my laughter.   
 
 
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Yimmy       6/26/2015 12:27:24 PM
I don't know if the STUFT shipping did any 'over the beach'.  I think they transferred at sea into landing craft and the LPDs.
 
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keffler25       6/26/2015 1:22:42 PM
The Sir Galahad, Sir Lancelot and the Sir Tristan used lighters, landing craft, helicopters and such for transfers even though they were designed somewhat like bow ramped LSTs.  That was how they worked over the beach, until they were bombed. Conveyor filled in much the same way.  

 
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JFKY    With all due respect, NO   6/26/2015 2:59:43 PM
I don't believe Causeway or Conveyor were intended for a beach head role....their mission was bulk transport, not tactical sea lift.   They were not going into the Amphibious Area.
 
Nor, as you (Keffler) insist was Conveyor going to be used as an air depot vessel....
 
I can think of only one STUFT ships did "over the beach head"...most were not combat vessels,  in the sense that they were used as assault ships or transports.  The STUFT vessels formed the Fleet Train for the Task Force & served as bulk xsfer vessels.  The closest you could come to STUFT in the combat role was the SS Canberra.
 
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JFKY    The LSL's...   6/26/2015 3:02:24 PM
were NOT STUFT vessels, btw....I don't think you claim them as such, but it's one possible interpretation of your posting....they were "military"/RFA vessels, and Yes, they DID over the beach head work, but they were not STUFT....they were government-owned & operated, akin to the US Maritime Sea Lift Command, they were not civilian vessels "taken up" by the RN.
 
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Yimmy       6/26/2015 8:56:30 PM
They were STUFT I think, from Cunard.  At least, Atlantic Conveyor was.  They didn't do 'over the beach' unless you cound helicopters, LST's and Fearless etc.  They required industrial ports I imagine.
 
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keffler25       6/26/2015 9:14:14 PM
Chinooks moved freight from Causeway to shore. Heli-lift  
you cound helicopters, LST's and Fearless etc.  They required industrial ports I imagine.

 
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HR    Admiral Keff-troll   6/28/2015 4:51:47 PM
You said RO/RO first... are you now saying Chinook? Big difference in concept between the first and the second! Of course you need connectors unless you need some sort of dock to bring the RO/RO to... it can't splash anything to the shore.
 
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