The Hughes Mining Barge , or HMB-1 , is a barge that can be mined about 99 m (324 ft) length, width 32 m (106 ft), and height more than 27 m (90 ft). The HMB-1 was originally developed as part of the Azorian Project (wider, but incorrectly, known as the "Jennifer Project"), a secret attempt put forth by the Central Intelligence Agency to save the remains of the submarine Soviet K-129 from the bottom of the ocean.
The HMB-1 is designed to allow devices to be used to understand and lift submarines to be built in barges and invisibly, and to be installed in Glomar Explorer in secret. This is done by appealing to HMB-1 , with an in-catch device, to a location near Catalina Island (off the coast of California), and then sinking it to a dock stabilization that has been installed on the seafloor. The Glomar Explorer then maneuvered over HMB-1 , the open roof opened, and the capture device was lifted into the large "moon pool" of the ship, all in clear sights from the people on the beach.
After the conclusion of the Azorian Project, HMB-1 was mothballed at Todd Shipyard in San Francisco, California until November 1982. At that time, the United States Navy pulled a large barge into Lockheed Martin facility in Redwood City, California, where it became a floating drydock for development experiments and a sea of ​​Sea Shadow, an experimental stealth ship being tested by the Navy. Sea trials from Sea Shadow continued until 1986.
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Fate
After several attempts to find the ship as a house in a museum, the General Services Administration offered HMB-1 and Sea Shadow for sale as a junk. The ships were bought by the Bay Ship & amp; Alameda, California Yacht Company worth US $ 2.5 million in June 2012. Under the terms of the sale of Sea Shadow should be canceled.
The HMB-1 has been reassembled on Treasure Island for service as a closed drydock. This allows the shipyard to more easily control waste byproducts, maximize quality control for painting, and avoid loss of productivity due to bad weather.
The reshuffle includes new equipment to allow the dock to soak and surface by pumping ballast water, rather than by the previously compressed air system. The barge is no longer able to fully sink. Like other drift drydocks, it takes enough water to allow vessel entry, then pumps out until the inside of the dock is above the water.
In August 2013, HMB-1 is labeled in Bay Ship & amp; Yacht Company Amenities in Main St. in Alameda, CA.In March 2015, the helipad had been moved from the top of the dry dock by Power Engineering, with the help of a floating crane.
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References
- Notes
- References Roy Varner and Wayne Collier "A Matter of Risk: The Incredible Inside Story of the Hughes Glomar Explorer CIA's Mission to Lift Russian Submarines", 1978
External links
- AZORIAN Generation K-129/2009 - 2 Movie Documentary Films TV/Michael White Films Vienna
- Photos and details of HMB-1
- Project Review of Jennifer
- "Navy Has The Most Secret Ship Asked To Display" by Barry Newman - Wall Street Journal - February 24, 2009
- Virtual tour inside HMB-1 and Sea Shadow, 2011, including HMB-1 operating manual.
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