USS Enterprise to visit Dublin

westdub

From the Seawaves site...

01 Sep 12
USS Enterprise TBC
CVN 65
Dublin
Navy/Notre Dame game

http://www.seawaves.com/portvisits.asp

coylemj

Great, another opportunity for Sinn Fein, Joe Higgins, Richard Boyd-Barrett et al. to get free publicity though I'm sure the US Navy is used to that sort of stuff everywhere they go.

ANXIOUS

I envisage a lot of single women in Dublin that weekend.

coylemj

ANXIOUS wrote: »

I envisage a lot of single women in Dublin that weekend.

Reminds me of a brilliant one-liner from the TV series Dallas....

JR walks into his office and there's a lady from his past standing there. He isn't pleased to see her and says: 'what are you doing here - is the navy in town?'

The fact that the city of Dallas is land locked was conveniently overlooked!

LordSutch

Would be great if it was this version > http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/47/60590-compare_ncc_1701.jpg

Tabnabs

Can't see this happening sadly, look at the fuss that some test wells are causing 6km off Dublin currently, think how a dirty great nucelar powered ship sitting in the bay would go down...

Won't somebody please think of the dolphins.

Nforce

westdub wrote: »

From the Seawaves site...


http://www.seawaves.com/portvisits.asp

This is Enterprise's last deployment too...due to be decommissioned at the end of '12.




Edit: Btw,she's home to CVW-1

coylemj

A year or two after the Falklands War a West German navy ship paid a courtesy visit to Dublin port. It was a small frigate designed for coastal protection in the North Sea, presumably in case Sweden tried to invade!

Nobody was taking much notice until some radio DJ announced that the ship was equipped with Exocet missiles at which stage the queues were almost back up to O'Connell Bridge!

Madpaddy79

Cool, I wonder if they will put the a/c on static display at DUB again, like the JFK did. This game sure is attracting some interest.

newcavanman

Time for all us warmongering capitalist stormtroopers to stand up and be counted . Look what happened when the silent majority let the anti-war mob have it all their own way at Salthill . I know that wasnt the only reason Salthill failed, but im sure it didnt make it any easier for the organisers to try to get sponsors etc on board .

westdub

Looks like its not happening...:(

I sent a e-mail to the Public relations officer on the Enterprise and received a reply that included...

Thank you for your interest, Enterprise is not scheduled to visit Dublin, Ireland, during her final deployment. Sorry!

cyrusdvirus

westdub wrote: »

Looks like its not happening...:(

I sent a e-mail to the Public relations officer on the Enterprise and received a reply that included...

BOOOOO!!!:mad:

cyrusdvirus

The only thing is you can be guaranteed there will be one of the USN ships here for that game

coylemj

It was qualified with 'TBC' on the seawaves website anyway and I'd say with the tension in the Gulf because of Iran that they have cancelled all courtesy visits.

CaptainSkidmark

coylemj wrote: »

A year or two after the Falklands War a West German navy ship paid a courtesy visit to Dublin port. It was a small frigate designed for coastal protection in the North Sea, presumably in case Sweden tried to invade!

Nobody was taking much notice until some radio DJ announced that the ship was equipped with Exocet missiles at which stage the queues were almost back up to O'Connell Bridge!

There was a german Mine Diving Boat in cork Last year!

dev100

westdub wrote: »

Looks like its not happening...:(

I sent a e-mail to the Public relations officer on the Enterprise and received a reply that included...

Looks like its not happening...
Quote:
Thank you for your interest, Enterprise is not scheduled to visit Dublin, Ireland, during her final deployment. Sorry!



Damn shame . I was on the intrepid last year. The size and engineering gone into making them is amazing

Latchy

Ahh...pity if as said if it doesn't come to Dublin and actually the last time I was on a US Battleship / Distroyer was as a kid in Dublin about 30 odd years ago .I was on the Former HMS Ark Royal two years ago and more recently HMS Liverpool last month in Liverpool port ,her last sailing before decommision but the sight of one of those massive American ships ,with 4000 + crew sailing up into Dublin bay is pretty impressive indeed .

xflyer

There'll be a lot of US Navy personnel in town for the match. Airlifted from all over Europe and beyond. Yes girls, sailors!

Traditionally the Navy supplies a flypast of the stadium. We can expect that at least. What assets do they have in Europe? F18s? If Enterprise is within flying distance maybe they'll supply the flypast.

I remember just before the JFK visit. It was a sunny Sunday. I was upstairs when I heard this incredible noise. When I looked out the window. I couldn't believe what I saw. A formation of US Navy aircraft flew past at very low level. It consisted of at least one of every aircraft in the JFK complement. F14, F18, EA6, S3, E2 I think. The combination of jets and propellors made a sound I've never heard before or since.

They were gone before I could reach the camera. It was a sight I never thought I'd see over my house.

jimbis

Ah i got my hopes up there . I was away for the JFK visit so missed everthing, i did get a nice view of it from the Stena HSS on my way home though but that was it...

coylemj

xflyer wrote: »

I remember just before the JFK visit. It was a sunny Sunday. I was upstairs when I heard this incredible noise. When I looked out the window. I couldn't believe what I saw. A formation of US Navy aircraft flew past at very low level. It consisted of at least one of every aircraft in the JFK complement. F14, F18, EA6, S3, E2 I think. The combination of jets and propellors made a sound I've never heard before or since.

They were gone before I could reach the camera. It was a sight I never thought I'd see over my house.

+1 I think there was an airshow in Galway that Sunday so they nipped up for a quick visit and then came back to the JFK which was moored off Dun Laoghaire in readiness for the public trips which were held over the following four days.

I was in the kitchen making breakfast that morning when I heard a rumble and the planes then flew very low over our houses. I have a patio door inside of which is my dining area, the shadows of some of the fighter jets passed right across the floor of my dining area, I nearly died of fright! Like you I couldn't get to a camera fast enough and the next thing they were gone.

I had four tickets for the first day of onboard visits, the National Lottery had conducted a lottery for the tickets. Sadly there had been an accident soon after the JFK arrived when a barge which had been lashed to the side of the JFK in preparation for landing visitors actually caused damage to the hull because of a heavy swell and while they were fixing the ship, people with tickets for the first day had to make do with a cruise around the aircraft carrier and never made it on board. Having taken the day off work, my three friends and I were very disappointed.

EchoIndia

xflyer wrote: »

I remember just before the JFK visit. It was a sunny Sunday. I was upstairs when I heard this incredible noise. When I looked out the window. I couldn't believe what I saw. A formation of US Navy aircraft flew past at very low level. It consisted of at least one of every aircraft in the JFK complement. F14, F18, EA6, S3, E2 I think. The combination of jets and propellors made a sound I've never heard before or since.

They were gone before I could reach the camera. It was a sight I never thought I'd see over my house.

Here is that flypast:


Grumman F-14A Tomcat - Click here for larger image

Nowadays the US Navy has no aircraft permanently stationed in Europe, apart from a few small transports amnd helicopters in Italy.

Captain Chaos

EchoIndia wrote: »

Here is that flypast:


Grumman F-14A Tomcat - Click here for larger image

Nowadays the US Navy has no aircraft permanently stationed in Europe, apart from a few small transports amnd helicopters in Italy.

Today that flypast would be very different. The F-14s and S-3s are no more. The EA-6Bs are just about hanging in there until the Super 18Gs take over.

Now it would be Super F-18E/Fs and Legacy F-18C/Ds, EA-6Bs and E-2Cs.

xflyer

Yes that was it, somehow I imagined there was only one of each type. But it all happened so fast. I remember the singleton F14 which I assumed was the camera aircraft. I wondered if that footage or photos has ever been made available? That is one youtube video I would love to see.

Coylemj, I too entered that lottery but like all my lottery tickets. I got nothing. But I have to say that it must have been more disappointing to win one but only get a trip round the bay.

Incidentally the flypast was several days before the JFK arrived. Once it was moored, they couldn't have landed back on.

coylemj

xflyer wrote: »

Incidentally the flypast was several days before the JFK arrived. Once it was moored, they couldn't have landed back on.

Are you sure about that? Why would they have flown low over Leopardstown/Foxrock if not because they were heading to land on the JFK off Dun Laoghaire? If they were heading to land in Dublin airport or Baldonnell, they wouldn't have had any reason to fly low over my house on the way back from Galway.

newcavanman

The flypast was sunday afternoon and then she entered dublin bay on the tuesday morning . i remember driving up collins avenue on monday morning, and jumping out of the van to look at an F-14 and an F-18 taking off from 17 . What a site

coylemj

newcavanman wrote: »

The flypast was sunday afternoon and then she entered dublin bay on the tuesday morning . i remember driving up collins avenue on monday morning, and jumping out of the van to look at an F-14 and an F-18 taking off from 17 . What a site

Correct, research indicates the 1996 Galway airshow was Sunday June 30th and the JFK arrived off Dun Laoghaire on Tuesday July 2nd.

xflyer

Yes indeed the flypast was on Sunday. I was working in Dublin Airport at the time, frustratingly the wrong side so either the following morning or Tuesday morning from my office in Hangar two. I could see F14s, F18s etc landing on 28 in the distance.

They were put on display beside the Aer Lingus commuter hangar. Seeing those beasts up close was really impressive. You could get very close to them. The aircrew showing them off were impressed with the level of knowledge displayed by the visitors. When someone asked a question about the upgraded F14s which one Naval Aviator couldn't answer. Someone in the group piped up and told him. Remember this was before the internet.

What impressed me was how sturdy the undercarriage on the F14 was. That and how thick the paint was. I was a member of the flying club based there just beside that that hangar. It was odd to see fighters where I normally taxied my C150.

I must have pictures somewhere.

Delancey

The JFK visit was hugely disappointing for those who had won the lottery to get on board - the words '' US Navy '' ,'' brewery '' and '' piss up '' featured in a lot of sentiments expressed.

Visiting the aircraft at the airport was fantastic - never thought we could get so close to them.

coylemj

Delancey wrote: »

The JFK visit was hugely disappointing for those who had won the lottery to get on board - the words '' US Navy '' ,'' brewery '' and '' piss up '' featured in a lot of sentiments expressed.

That was our sentiment all right, we were herded into the old Carlisle Pier and told that we'd not be going onboard but that we'd just do a few circuits around her so we were well and truly p**ed off. I think they took visitors on board on the next three days, it was the unlucky sods like me who won tickets for the first day who lost out.

cyrusdvirus

You sure Coylemj? My brother in law and myself each sent in 20 entries with the understanding that if we won we'd make sure the other was one of the 4 that got one of the tickets. He won and himself, his father and his brother along with me all got on board early in the morning.

I remember sailing around her for about an hour, as they had underestimated the length of time people were spending aboard. The tour was supposed to last about 90 minutes (IIRC) but we were still looking around after 4 hours!!

The ship was damaged that night, but i thought all the first day people (which predominately seemed to be from further away from Dublin) got on board.

EchoIndia

Some more photos from that 1996 visit: http://tinyurl.com/buzdlb2

AlmightyCushion

EchoIndia wrote: »

Some more photos from that 1996 visit: http://tinyurl.com/buzdlb2

Did you take those? They're brilliant, can't believe how close some of them are.

EchoIndia

Yes, those are my photos. I was lucky enough to get tickets for a visit to the vessel (albeit in changeable weather conditions) and also to get onto the Aer Lingus Commuter apron at DUB where a selection of aircraft from the ship were on static display for some days.

coylemj

gatecrash wrote: »

You sure Coylemj? My brother in law and myself each sent in 20 entries with the understanding that if we won we'd make sure the other was one of the 4 that got one of the tickets. He won and himself, his father and his brother along with me all got on board early in the morning.

I remember sailing around her for about an hour, as they had underestimated the length of time people were spending aboard. The tour was supposed to last about 90 minutes (IIRC) but we were still looking around after 4 hours!!

The ship was damaged that night, but i thought all the first day people (which predominately seemed to be from further away from Dublin) got on board.

If it was 'early in the morning' as you say then it definitely wasn't the first day of public visits. I'm trying to remember now but the tickets must have involved designated time slots so we turned up at a particular time and our slot was fairly early on the first day. We were put on a boat of some type and we did few circuits of the JFK but there was no risk of us ever getting on board.

I can't say for definite if anyone in the afternoon of the first day managed to get on board but those of us with tickets for the morning of the first day certainly didn't make it on board.

cyrusdvirus

coylemj wrote: »

If it was 'early in the morning' as you say then it definitely wasn't the first day of public visits. I'm trying to remember now but the tickets must have involved designated time slots so we turned up at a particular time and our slot was fairly early on the first day. We were put on a boat of some type and we did few circuits of the JFK but there was no risk of us ever getting on board.

I can't say for definite if anyone in the afternoon of the first day managed to get on board but those of us with tickets for the morning of the first day certainly didn't make it on board.

I'm not gonna argue with you, but it WAS early in the morning, and it WAS definitely the first day of visits.

My Brother in law was then only my sisters boyfriend and himself, his dad, and his brother drove up from Clare the night before, stayed in my parents house, and we set off.

Storm 10

Came across this picture from Salthill Air Show during the JFK visit when F14 and F18 jets done a flypast in two waves of eight aircraft, there were also two Viking tanker aircraft that flew by. If I rember correctly it was two slow flypasts then high speed followed by each aircraft breaking away and climbing out. In the park in Salthill there was the Navy version of the Blackhawk, the JFK was operating West of the Aran Island for the display, I remember talking to a US Navy officer on the ground who was in comms with the ship.

http://www.salthillairshow.com/us_navy/us_navy_03_sm.jpg

coylemj

gatecrash wrote: »

I'm not gonna argue with you, but it WAS early in the morning, and it WAS definitely the first day of visits.

The JFK arrived off Dun Laoghaire on Tuesday July 2nd and the first public visits were scheduled for the next day, Wed. July 3rd. In the Irish Times on Thu. July 4th there was an article headlined '6,000 people circle boat in a little one' referring to the fact that people who had tickets for the first day of public visits couldn't get on board.

A pontoon brought up from Cork and lashed to the side of the JFK on the evening she arrived to faciliate the landing of visitors had damaged the side of the ship during a swell in Dublin Bay on the night of 2/3 July. The 6,000 people with tickets for the first day had to make do with a few circuits around the JFK, hence the headline.

The link to the article fails with a 404 error but you'll see the gist of the article here http://tinyurl.com/d3es93k

Blue Punto

EchoIndia wrote: »

Yes, those are my photos. I was lucky enough to get tickets for a visit to the vessel (albeit in changeable weather conditions) and also to get onto the Aer Lingus Commuter apron at DUB where a selection of aircraft from the ship were on static display for some days.

I too was lucky enough to get onto the AerLingus commuter apron and also Very lucky to be one of the people to get on board the JFK

i didnt take any pics but I did take and video recorder and I still look over it from time to time.
Must figure out how to convert it to digital

poiuytsam

last time the carrier was here , they had aflight exclusion zone , so even flying yo could not get that close!

Delancey

poiuytsam wrote: »

last time the carrier was here , they had aflight exclusion zone , so even flying yo could not get that close!

Worth remembering that since the JFK visit Al Queda attacked the USS Cole - any future US Navy visits would probably have even tougher air and sea exclusion zones.

Dogwatch

It is highly unlikely we will see a USN Carrier in Dublin again. They are all nuclear powered vessels and the good aldermen and councilors of Dublin City Council have declared Dublin a nuclear free zone. JFK was the last conventionally powered USN Carrier.

coylemj

Dogwatch wrote: »

It is highly unlikely we will see a USN Carrier in Dublin again. They are all nuclear powered vessels and the good aldermen and councilors of Dublin City Council have declared Dublin a nuclear free zone. JFK was the last conventionally powered USN Carrier.

Unless a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier plans to sail up the Liffey and tie up outside Liberty Hall some time soon, it doesn't really matter what the aldermen and councillors of the city council vote to exclude. The seas off Dun Laoghaire and Howth are outside the city boundary.

Dogwatch

http://indigo.ie/~goodwill/icnd/zones.html


Dublin Bay is controlled by the Dublin Port Authority which is subject to the edicts of the City Council.
The above shows all the Dublin Area Councils are Nuclear free zones and will not aid or supply nuclear powered ships.

Buffman

Dogwatch wrote: »

It is highly unlikely we will see a USN Carrier in Dublin again. They are all nuclear powered vessels and the good aldermen and councilors of Dublin City Council have declared Dublin a nuclear free zone. JFK was the last conventionally powered USN Carrier.

Maybe they can pretend the new JFK (CVN-79) is the old one for a visit when it's finished!:D Bit of paint to change 79 to 67 and they'd be grand!:D

Hopefully there will be a USN ship calling here for the game. Be nice to see a Wasp class LHD with it's Harriers, SuperCobras, Sea Knights, Ospreys, Sea Stallions, Seahawks and Twin Hueys.:D

coylemj

Dogwatch wrote: »

http://indigo.ie/~goodwill/icnd/zones.html

Dublin Bay is controlled by the Dublin Port Authority which is subject to the edicts of the City Council.
The above shows all the Dublin Area Councils are Nuclear free zones and will not aid or supply nuclear powered ships.

I suspect they are meaningless gestures with no legal effect. They were probably voted through by the Greens while the FF and FG councillors were in the pub around the corner collecting brown envelopes from Frank Dunlop.

Dogwatch

coylemj wrote: »

I suspect they are meaningless gestures with no legal effect. They were probably voted through by the Greens while the FF and FG councillors were in the pub around the corner collecting brown envelopes from Frank Dunlop.

It has been there for about 20 years or so you could well be right:D:D:D

gerire

No Enterprise

http://www.seawaves.com/portvisits.asp

01 Sep 12
USS Fort McHenry TBC
LSD 43
Dublin
Navy/Notre Dame game

bluecode

So I wonder does it have deployed aircraft? Even a helicopter flypast would be interesting.

urajoke

bluecode wrote: »

So I wonder does it have deployed aircraft? Even a helicopter flypast would be interesting.

Open flight deck no hangar, so any helis would be out in the open ! I imagine they deploy with some.

Aerohead

Again that says TBC which was the same for the Enterprise so its not set in stone yet whats coming.

cyrusdvirus

if i was allowed do a wish list of past and present ships on the navy roster, i would have LOVED to have seen one of the Iowa's coming here....