East Coast MilGov Naval assets 2001

[Olefin]

I wanted to start a new thread specifically to discuss East Coast MilGov naval assets based on the canon material that is out there - to make it more accessbile for anyone searching for this info instead of on the other threads that have discussed this

The canon that I used is the following:

A Rock In Troubled Waters, Challenge Magazine 42

Going Home

Last Submarine

I know there are at least two other canon sources but I dont presently have them

Inland Waterway Challenge Magazine (not sure of the issue)

Rifle River, Challenge Magazine 39

These ships are in commission, armed and crewed - fuel is short but they have sortied recently and are active duty ships

Per the canon here is what I found so far

Norfolk -

Forrest Sherman class DD's USS Manley (DD 940), USS Blandy (DD 943) (Troubled Waters)

Spruance class John Hancock (Going Home)

SSN Corpus Christi (Last Submarine) - assumed she returns to Norfolk after the events in Boomer

Cape May

Forrest Sherman class DD USS Bigelow (DD 942)

USS Hyman Rickover - formely the Barkentine Gazela Primeiro - and considered the best duty at Cape May - crack crew with high morale - used as a coastal patrol boat looking for Russian or pirate vessels

Length: 177 ft. overall, 140 ft. on deck, 133 ft. on the waterline
Height: 94 ft. from the deck
Width: 26 ft. at maximum beam
Draft: approx. 17 ft.
Tonnage: 652 deadweight, 299 gross

armed with a 3"/54 deck gun, two pintle mount M2 MG, two pintle mount Mk19 AGL, two 81mm mortars, crew of 28

She is used as a patrol ship and can operate under power or under sail and her commander is Commander Beckly a former nuclear sub commander - and no I have no idea why he is not in Last Submarine

USCGC Confidence (WMEC-619) - her armament was supplemented with a Mk75 turret mounting a 76mm gun in the early 90's

4 PCF inshore patrol craft - modified off-shore drilling support vessels, mounting twin 50's and a 40mm AGL

one ocean going tug

two Cape May/Lewes ferries

two LCM 6 turned into monitors - taken from the amphib base at Norfolk and modified to add boiler plate armor and available weaponry - forward turret with two 20mm Vulcans from wrecked fighters, a 20mm or 25mm autocannon and a 40mm AGL, bucket amidships with a 81mm mortar and two 7.62mm MG, rear turrets carrying either twin 50's or a 40mm GL and a 5.56mm minigun

two LCM 6 turned into Armored Troop Carriers - lack the forward turret and the midship bucket of the monitors - 20 men can be carried or eight tons of cargo

eight patrol boats Riverine - four with salil/motor , four with motor

one 10,000 ton tanker, immobile used for fuel storage

plus a civilian fleet of 120 fishing boats, 14 large motorized, 21 large sail, 85 small sail - large being over 50 tons, small being under 15 tons

there are also small aerial detachments as well

according to the article if the gold is found in Armies of the Night the Bigelow is what would have been called in to help in retrieval and fire support

If you want the article it can be downloaded for only $2.24 - the only T2000 article is that one but its a very good one if you have campaigns in the Delaware to NJ area and inland to Lancaster PA - has a wealth of information on that area and its canon - written by Adam Giebel


Does anyone have other info from canon articles for this thread?

[Olefin]

Oh forgot this detail so I will add it here

Gazela acted as a auxilliary packet ship from January of 1998 to March of 1998 ferryin supplies, personnel and messages between scattered military forces and the dozen or so naval vessels hiding along the Chesapeake

Norfolk was declared operational again and put in for minor maintenance and was then changed to the Rickover (implies April to May 1998) - and then got her new armament and paint job

So that says that there were at least a dozen or so operational USN vessels on the East Coast in the Norfolk area in the Jan 1998 to March 1998 time frame - and the Forrest Sherman DD's, five of which were recommissioned and put back into operation, didnt join the navy until Thanksgiving 1998 with what is described as a greatly swollen work force

So that means there were at least 19 operational USN ships on the East Coast in the 1998 time frame, 12 survivors of the Norfolk nuking, the five Forrest Shermans, the Hyman Rickover and the Corpus Christi which was undergoing repair in CT.


Of which the canon is giving 5 known survivors (the three Shermans, the Rickover and the Corpus Christi) - and some of the others may be the ships that Frank Frey had in Kenya (the deployment timeframe of the 173rd and the followup units in his notes suggests that possibility)

As for Hancock - she may have been one of the 12 ships or she may have already been in Europe

I highly recommend picking up A Rock in Troubled Waters - a literal gem of an article

[Legbreaker]

The article does indeed list those vessels, but states there is little to no fuel for them.

The article also lists a few air assets in the area (little more than light civilian aircraft with a machinegun or two strapped to the wing and a couple of ex-cropdusting helicopters), but these too rarely leave the ground due to fuel supply issues. There's a couple of larger aircraft included, but the article clearly states they NEVER leave the ground.

[Olefin]

it states that they rarely put to sea due to a lack of fuel

but it does say they sortied to escort Task Force 34 in on the last third of the journey back on Omega and also that Bigelow sortied for a mission to Atlantic City and shelled and destroyed three casinos that were home to marauders and destroyed at least one of them with a single shot.

And the aircraft are as you say -

112th Naval Aviation Squadron

A Flight - two P-3C Orions (fuel limitations keep them from flying at all but engines being turned over most likely as with B and C flights)

two 0-2 Cessna's armed as B flight

B Flight - three Cessna 0-2 twin engine spotter planes with a 7.62mm MG

C Flight - two Bell 47G helos

enough fuel to turn over the engines and fly the planes for only critical support ops

It does have info also on the Cape May County Airport

hangars, fortified control tower, four runways, one being 5000 feet long, constantly patrolled, navigation aids and control equipment in place

filed is maintained as a relay station to New England - which implies MilGov forces operating in New England recieving air shipments - and is one of the few airbases in the country operating

fuel and spare parts are scarce, fuel bunkers are guarded and flights are restriced to a minimum

so limited fuel is available for military operations for both the ships and the planes, less so for the planes but sorties by the big boys (i.e. the DD's) would be limited to very important ops - for instance as mentioned fire support and recovery assistance if the gold is found in Armies of the Night

from the article there is fuel for ops like Hyman Rickover using it for shallow draft operations or for the various patrol craft and monitors - no limits on their operational availability was stated

[Olefin]

thus the question of whether or not there are corvette or bigger ships operational on the East Coast is settled per canon - they are there, under MilGov and USN control, with very limited fuel but they can sortie on critical ops

with Corpus Christi being the exception due to her being a nuke boat

by the way the info in the article on the 78th and the New Jersey units is terrific as well - the kind of details that is tailor made for referees and story tellers

[Legbreaker]

For a bit of context, this is from the introduction of the article.

This article provides a detailed reference of the area, centering on the Intracoastal Waterway-the most reliable local avenue in the year 2001 used by slow-moving military and civilian traffic. It is also designed to tie the Going Home module with any adventure set in the northeastern United Slates. "A Rock In Troubled Waters" (set in early 2001) details the territory and notable clusters of civilization from the Delaware Canal and Cape Henlopen in Delaware, north and east across Pennsylvania and New Jersey to Perth Amboy. This includes Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington, Cape May Naval Base, Fort Dix, and Tom's River Naval Station. Also covered are the specifications on several "brown water navy" vessels, as well as the state government and militia system for New Jersey (as organized by Milgov).