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Originally Posted by Matt W
We have a supply base at Isle Royale. Which is a nice idea. BUT...Where are the ships? And where are they going to dock and unload?
There should be teams that can set up Ports (inland or coastal)
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I have drawn up a littoral support ship that my Project uses in small numbers around the CONUS. They are small, but are designed in such a way to provide water transportation, a mobile machine shop, a communications hub, a small medical facility and construction support with it's deck crane. It has a draft of only 6m, so it does not need large docking facilities and has a launch that has a draft of only 1.5m that can carry a single fully loaded 40' shipping container, a V-150 or similar sized cargo. The ship has a crew of 15 and bunks for 18 additional personnel. In an emergency, about 75 cots can be set up on the machine shop/cargo deck. Between containers on deck and items in the hold, it can carry about 2000 tons of cargo.
This ship is small enough to easily go through all the locks in the Great Lakes and St Lawrence Seaway system. It should also be able to navigate most of the major rivers in the US, allowing it to reach a great number of pre-war metropolitan areas. It's max speed is 22kt/40KPH, making it capable of sailing from San Diego, CA to Honolulu, HI in about 4.5 days. New York City to San Diego via the Panama Canal would take 9.5 days assuming the Canal is navigable, 14 day if they need to travel around Cape Horn.
This type of ship gives the Project the ability to move large amounts of cargo to most areas of the CONUS very quickly. Logically, there needs to be this kind of ship.