You vill live in ze barge.
The USN is getting a new class of ships: "accommodation barges" to house sailors when their own ship is in drydock for repairs. There will initially be five of them. The news articles don't report any names, just the first hull number. What would PrepHole name them?
Name it Moskva II for good luck.
USS Hilton
USS Double Tree
USS Holiday Inn
USS Best Western
USS Red Lion
USS Super 8
USS Motel 6
USS Red Roof Inn
What's that nasty $50 motel outside camp liberty(?) in Jacksonville NC? Triangle Motel?
Not sure why they didn't just build apartments next to the shipyard, but whatever.
Go check out a sat image of PSNS or Norfolk and tell me where they should build these apartments
>t. retard
>Obvious aggregate storage of some sort
Yeah i'm sure that's just useless vacant land
That's silt from dredging the harbor
>That picture
That's a flashback. The sim for my radar endorsement was that exact area. I still remember how it all looks in green smudges. Fuck
That's dredging spoil.
Not only is that un-buildable land, it's also like an hour long commute to the ship lol
Craney Island suggestion aside, they’d be well suited just to fire-bomb Norfolk and the east end of Newport News and a goodly chunk of Suffolk and put those miserable Swabbies in tents.
Problem is that they’d turn it into an even shittier shit-hole than it already is.
Floating give mobility. If the Navy transfers some ships from one port to another, then they drag these barracks ships to the new location. Similarly, the Navy has floating drydocks.
They may not need permanent housing at a location, or they may not ve able to build housing on location for whatever reason. Historically, this also happened because officers drew more pay on ships than on land.
>fast forward 50 years
>housing barge maintiance hasn't been funded for 30 years
>barge sinks with 500 souls
AB-1 Personnel Housing Vessel No. 1
AB-2 Personnel Housing Vessel No. 2
AB-3 Personnel Housing Vessel No. 3
AB-4 Personnel Housing Vessel No. 4
AB-5 Personnel Housing Vessel No. 5
>What would PrepHole name them?
The Love Boat
Companion cube.
Every AD/ AS in the Fleet during the 80s was called that.
I don't think the APL-65's had names so why would these new ones?
>name?
They didn’t even have windows haha
Why not buy a old Disney cruise ship for cheap
I think modern cruise ships are so top heavy and structurally compromised that they're actually safe from conscription. Nobody wants a tall ship with a massive bulkhead-devoid space right in the middle. Those things would sink if a torpedo looks at them funny.
Every time I see a picture of one of those I marvel that they can stay upright because they look so top heavy.
The only reason we don't hear about more horrific losses of life on cruise ships is that they have genuinely good evacuation programs and take emergency drilling very seriously so all the passengers know where the lifeboats are and the crew know how to round them all up.
These things wouldn't be used in a war. The instant a war starts, every dock will house sailors where ever the government says so.
>born on a bayou
Is this because nobody likes americans anymore and are making fun of them even in Europe when they come and go to the hotels in pink hair and man heels? Thi is a sign thay america is losing influence but must keep playing world police or else monopoly money comes crashing down.
>monopoly money
Retard.
i don't think anything makes me more patriotic than turdie seethe
shit's like star spangled opium
Cumstain
Matchstick
Anal Rape
Floating Coffin
Enterprise
>Floating Coffin
Royal Oak
Is this so the locals dont make fun of their chud military when docked?
When I was in ISABPS/VERDIN training in Norfolk the BEQ was out of space so they authorized us to get a hotel. We were authorized $110 a day.
I got a corporate apartment for $3200 a month. It was a good summer.
Transient housing is expansive. Building BEQs/BOQs is expensive, especially when you add in the land needed for parking.
Putting housing on a barge so you can move it to where you need the housing is the cheapest way to do things. The parking is already there for the ships so it doesn't need to be multiplied.
>Hundreds of years-old military practice
>How do I make this about trannies?
Damn that sucks for sailors, the few that couldn't stop themselves from raping and killing locals when docked ruined it for everyone.
Theyll spin this thi and say its because americans miss the comforts of home or some shit
>"Join the military and see the world!"
>Can't even see the world beyond what you can see outside the window in your barge prison of a room
This is why you don't join the Navy and sign up with the Chair Force instead.
>Windows on the meatbarge
Oh you poor, naive soul. They'll be lucky to have air circulation.
>no windows
Do you know how many windows are in the berthing spaces on a Burke or a Nimitz?
Because the changes in ship design in the past 150 years make it a retarded idea.
>how many windows are in the berthing spaces on a Burke or a Nimitz
Do you get sea pay on da barge?
We all know which sailors are doing more than their fair share.
Which ones?
Is this because they start setting fires like on the Bonhomme?
they're preparing for our Waterworld future
They already have these, i drive by Norfolk all the time and have seen them since i was a kid.
these new ones are actually like a navy ship inside though. the old ones were like converted hospital barges and everyone was sleeping on cots. now they have regular naval racks. a lot more privacy and comfort
Fuck Shack No.1-5.
>t. Dirty Mike and the boys
Where do they stay when the accomodation barge is in drydock? This is just going t create more problems!
Was on picrel back in Yokosuka. They have a barge there at all time to house temporary dock workers and displaced sailors while berthing areas are being maintained. They're not any better or worse than any other ship, but the food is typically worse. I would just wake up early and walk to the base galley; I'd usually be earlier to the ship than the people waiting in line for the barge food anyway.
I would like to use them as housing for illegal migrants. Since we are not allowed to "deport" them as they dont have a pass, putting this into those ships for life is the best solution
that's what the uk planned on doing
it was widely considered a human rights violation
but hey, you signup, don't got no rights anymore
They should be converted from old warships and used to house POWs and convicts too
We've been using accomodation ships since the 1800s. A few of the Great White Fleet's ships and even a couple of Civil War vessels ended their days as stripped-down accommodation hulks at various bases.
>its bad because i want it to be bad!
>shit internet
>shit cell service
>no windows
>smelly
Yeah no thanks, gay.
That just sounds like the military.
>Barracks are too expensive to build at home ports
>Better put the seamen on a worse houseboat
Lol lmao
At least you get reception in your rack and commute to work is pretty much nonexistent. Aside from that, pretty shitty.
Squids have always had these.
USS Chuck's
How many people can live on one of these?
What do they eat?
So this is what they used to raid zappo-zap with...
Barracks ships by no means a new concept. I'm just wondering why they're purpose building hulls for this. Wouldn't old hulks work just as well?
old ones are either rusted as fuck and not fit to serve in anything, scraped, used as targets for training or brought by museums.
your pic are wooden ships with a coat of paint on them, they just get basic maintenance to avoid mold but they won't get repaired beyond that, eventually they all got scraped, what is interresting is why the US is building more of them now, did they run out of space in the USN bases or are the drydocks run by private companies and the sailors were housed in private hotels ? if it's the later i suppose it's to reduce the cost of living for the sailors
Rust didn't stop the navy from using them in the past. Its gotta be something else.
>pic
Purpose-built barracks ships =/= old warship conversions
Much less wear and tear on the former
This is the 21st century, we do not condemn our sailors to live in rotting hulks anymore.
Tits above are complaining about mobile and wifi coverage, you think they'd be able to live in a half-century-old environment slowly breaking down around them?
This is probably the answer. Plus modern accomodations standards being higher. Back then you could just sling up some hammocks and call it a day. Now they'd probably need to do serious work on the ships to convert old spaces into living spaces.
What the fuck that thing is fucking huge
First-rates were fooking huge (for the era).
Imo it's future proofing so they can store sailors in foreign ports during wartime
These have literally always been a thing and several dozen of them currently exist in shipyards around the globe.
pic rel is just the first one I've found on google. Unless you're on a really fucking big ship, you've probably stayed in one if you've been in the waterside navy at any point in the last century
Looks comfy
>The USN is getting a new class of ships: "accommodation barges" to house sailors when their own ship is in drydock for repairs.
There were already a few suicides on CVNs because the Navy didn't think of this sooner, and their existing barracks barges were uninhabitable, so sailors were subject to incessant loud construction noises constantly interrupting their sleep. Going months on end with 5 hours per day of sleep time (and only 1 hour per day of productive sleep) and bickered by illiterate obese LPOs and CPOs is a death sentence.
Stinky
Smelly
Poopoo
Peepee
Geoff
Juicy Target.
What, I'm just calling it. This is a horrible idea and I dare say this is planned by the Warhawks to cause case belli when hanging an enticing target to terrorists.
If you thought Pearl Harbor was an inside job...
The cut outs for the casemates are aesthetic as fuck.
I'd imagine that made for a really nice view deck
Former USS Chicago.
These things are not commissioned ships.
>Sprey-tier opinion
>/pol/tard
>everything's a conspiracy!!1!
USS South Compton
USS Harlem
USS Gary Indiana
USS 5th Ward Houston
USS Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Barge and Fried Chicken Kitchen
Haha now who is getting cubed stupid amerifats
how many hookers will it hold?
Wank boat.
For wanking.
USS North Tower
USS South Tower
USS Building 7
USS Pentagon
USS White House
>USS Building 7
you werent suppose to 'member fren
Oh cool! Barracks ships are a thing again! I thought those all died out after the repurposed sailing/pre-dreadnought barracks ships were scrapped after ww2. Neat. Shame they are purpose-built, it would be cool to see older ships get to continue their service.
>navy
Yeah, seems about right
The USS Sodomy, the USS Catamite, the USS Prolapse, the USS Incontinence, and the USS Fistula.
Option for the USS Anal Fissure.
The funny part is that with recruitment numbers cratering, there’s no need for these.
Coastal erosion, slowing volcanic activity, and melting ice will eventually sink all existing land under the oceans. Earth is a waterworld. Getting a start on perfecting a sustainable floating society is a good idea. I welcome the arrival of floating apartment buildings.
The Herpes Hotel
This is not new. Accommodation barges have been around forever.
Unlike most of the gays in this thread, I've actually had to stay on one of these pieces of shit for over a year while my ship was in the yards. How it works is if your ship goes into the yards, all the power and water is cut. So there no toilets, and no A/C and lights except for what's rigged from the pier. These barges are moored along side the ship to supplement the uninhabitable ship's berthing and office spaces. It was
>old as fuck, probably built in the 70s
>full of mold
>barely functional A/C
>half the toilets don't work
>couldn't even hold the crew of a destroyer, so sailors that lived off ship didn't get a rack, and had to hot rack on duty days.
>rusted all to hell
>despite getting Norfolk city water, which is pretty good thanks to the Chesapeake water shed, i'm pretty sure the water on the barge will kill you if you drank it every day for long enough.
Most of the problems with navy barges are the fact that they are old and the USN doesn't maintain them very well. The whole year and half we had one, we only ever got ONE handyman to fix problems on the barge. Just one fat boomer that could hardly climb stairs would come in the morning, try to fix something, and leave by lunch.
I'm glad the navy is finally getting new ones, but holy shit why did it take them so long?
Can you see the Middie straight from the Prick Factory with his Ensign bars gleaming on his shoulders getting his first duty station to be XO of a flotilla of berthing barges?
Kinda sends him or her a message, huh?
USS Rape town
USS Baby maker
USS Pride party
USS Domestic violence
USS Insomnia
Sea Collective
Port Yang
Factory Drift
Ocean Core
Deep Clustering
The Navy calls them 'Floatels'. While Admirals stay in luxury rentals on shore.
Looks like the prison barge in nyc
That looks so weird.
Why isn't it just shaped like a box. It's like 10 boxes put together incorrectly.
rearrange the pieces until its one big smooth sided square box shape
and a wild Korok will appear