VIRGO: :GUNTER@FENNEL.CC.UWA.OZ.AU (Gunter Ahrendt) (04/10/91)
From: "VIRGO::GUNTER"@FENNEL.CC.UWA.OZ.AU (Gunter Ahrendt) I found a picture of a Bendix RIM-8 Talos missile shortley after being launched from a Navy Test Site, in the background is the Operations building with the following name: LLS-1 U.S.S. DESERT SHIP LLS-1 ??? My question, is this the way the Navy refers to it's land bases? Can someone explain the designation please?
jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (04/10/91)
From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov >LLS-1 U.S.S. DESERT SHIP LLS-1 >My question, is this the way the Navy refers to it's land bases? Can someone >explain the designation please? I think (he said as thin ice crackled underfoot) that this is a unique designator that stands for something like Land-Locked Ship. She's at White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. --Joe
agates@mainz-emh2.army.mil (Allen Gates) (04/11/91)
From: Allen Gates <agates@mainz-emh2.army.mil> > "VIRGO::GUNTHER"@FENNEL.CC.UWA.OZ.AU > LLS-1 How about Land Launch Site #1? As an old sailor who finds himself beached in MAINZ GERMANY at an ARMY Depot I am looking for a good NAVY designation for this operation.... any suggestions? -- Al Gates Box 127 MAINZ ARMY DEPOT APO 09185 "Everythings fine Colonel... but I don't think she'll ever get out of drydock."
ptm@jake.tmc.edu (Peter T. Murphy) (04/11/91)
From: ptm@jake.tmc.edu (Peter T. Murphy) >LLS-1 U.S.S. DESERT SHIP LLS-1 >My question, is this the way the Navy refers to it's land bases? Can someone >explain the designation please? This is the sort of name that the Navy gives to stationary platforms, Like the USS Neversail (a traning "ship" in a field). There are others that I've heard of, but they escape me at the moment.
norton@manta.nosc.mil (Scott Norton) (04/12/91)
From: norton@manta.nosc.mil (Scott Norton) LLS-1 = "Land-Locked Ship - 1". It just a local in-joke. I'm not surprised that someone from a Commonwealth country would be confused. I know that the (British) Royal Navy names their naval stations like their ships. Once, as a LtJG on the USS Harry E Yarnell, I was told to watch for honors from HMS Dolphin as the ship pulled into Portsmouth. I thought I was looking for a ship, but I fortunately saw the sign that said "Her Majesty's Station Dolphin." It had an anchor ball on the yardarm. LT Scott A. Norton, USN <norton@NOSC.MIL>
jb7m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon C. R. Bennett) (04/13/91)
From: "Jon C. R. Bennett" <jb7m+@andrew.cmu.edu> >from LT Scott A. Norton, USN <norton@NOSC.MIL> > I know that the (British) Royal Navy > names their naval stations like their ships. Once, as > a LtJG on the USS Harry E Yarnell, I was told to watch for honors from > HMS Dolphin as the ship pulled into Portsmouth. I thought > I was looking for a ship, but I fortunately saw the sign that said > "Her Majesty's Station Dolphin." another interesting ship is the H.M.S. Diamond Rock which is a fort built into small island off the south coast of Martinque, which once withstood a siege by French ships till its water cistern cracked, it seems that even on land the Brits have trouble finding fresh water :-) jon
wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) (04/13/91)
From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) >LLS-1 U.S.S. DESERT SHIP LLS-1 | This is the sort of name that the Navy gives to stationary platforms, |Like the USS Neversail (a traning "ship" in a field). There are others |that I've heard of, The U.S.S. Go Nowhere @ Great Lakes, my SeaBee friends tell me. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu & no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335