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Originally Posted by mmartin798
Floating bases were talked about in a different thread. There is a company that will make a luxury yacht that is basically an artificial island build on a SWATH style hull. I don't think any consensus was reached.
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I suspect you're referring to the proposed "Mobile Continuity Force", described in the "Professional Notes" section of the US Naval Institute "Proceedings" (July, 1984) and excellently depicted as the "Mobile Continuity Force" vessel on the Shipbucket web site. The USNI article isn't easily available online, but the Shipbucket page is:
http://www.shipbucket.com/drawings/7048
The old Shipbucket forum had a detailed description of the crew, weapons, sensors, etc. ... they're recently re-mixed everything and the old forum pages don't seem to be around.
Our Classic-era campaign has quick-and-easy conversions of T-2 tankers (they were turbine-electric vessels, and low cost in the early 1980s) rather than a built-from-the-ground-up design.
http://asmrb.pbworks.com/w/page/5264...uction%20Fleet
The tanker conversion description is based on the vehicle transport vessels built for the government in the late 1960s (from earlier conversions to railcar carriers).
https://www.t2tanker.org/ships/t2active.html
https://www.t2tanker.org/ships/t2convstory.html
The "Lewis B. Puller" is sorta similar, though perhaps a bit too blatant for the Morrow Project to get away with:
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/ho...pte-1658743256
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Michael B.