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JZ29
16 January 1957
another LSD is if Bikini were out altogothar.
_ LUKE:
FELT:
Right.
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Would you nsed an extra one if Bilini were operated on eae limited basis?
There'd be no shot barges cor evacuation of boats.
LUCKE:
If you operate Bikini as at Inivetek, that's true.
CURRY:
An alternative vould be a small floating dryadeck. Zven with snall
shots at Bikini, you'd still need a fairly godesised boat pool and
you'd have to support them sozshar.
SANDERS s Also, in order to maintain the firing schedule you're tallcdng sbout,
that one LSD is going to have to be free to go back and ferth.
It
can't stay at Taongi until just before the shot or it won't get back.
Rice
It would tela it eesily four days to make a round trip.
CISBINS ¢ Do you suppose Hé!! will ever beat 48 hours in setting dow the moorings?
ma Ce
I think they have cons through the process of mooring md fired in 72
hours, that's from the time they dropped ancher until they fired,
GIBSINSs In connection with the LSD, it would be bringing in the barge, flooding
dom, and releasing the berge, then just standing by with the small
boats wmtil you Mred, unloacing then and leaving for ithe next barge.
Se it would be used just in support of Taongi during the time of firing,
FEY Cs
That's operating on a pretty tight schedule.
That Mgures ot to abait
an eleven day cycle between shots,
GIB3INS z Eleven days.
LUCEKEs
How do you figure that?
It would be about eight days. ‘Two days down to Enivetok, one day to
load, two days back and about 72 hours te moor.
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QIB3INSs Seventyetwo hours to moor?
RY Ce
About that, from mooring to Nring,
VAN .
Ancther LSD would cut that dom,
GINDINS: Well, I thought you were adding up what you could do with two LSDs.
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