USS Rodney M. Davis Transits the Panama Canal
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Story Number: NNS070410-07
Release Date: 4/10/2007 12:33:00 PM
From USS Rodney M. Davis Public Affairs
COLÒN, Panama (NNS) -- USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60) completed her transit of the Panama Canal on March 25 from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean.
Despite the late night transit, Sailors were excited and impressed by the experience.
Information Systems Technician Second Class Juren Raske noted, “I think it’s really amazing that the locks work completely off of gravity, without any pumps.”
The Panama Canal contains three sets of locks: the Gatun locks on the Carribbean side which raise the ship 85 feet, and the Pedro Miguel and Miraflores locks on the Pacific side, which combined lower the ship back to sea level. Davis entered the Gatun locks late Saturday night and left the final set of locks in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Davis transited the Gatun locks alongside the yacht M.Y. Talitha G. The crew discovered she was formerly commissioned as the gunboat USS Beaumont (PG 60) in the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was stationed in Pearl Harbor with a crew of 110 Sailors before eventually being rebuilt as a charter yacht.
Ensign Brock Pooler spoke highly of his experience as the conning officer through the Panama Canal stating, “It was remarkable to be able to transit the Panama Canal on a Navy ship, let alone be reminded of the historic ships of our fleet that have passed through these very channels.”
Rodney M. Davis is returning from a mid-deployment maintenance availability in Mayport, Fla., to complete its counter-narco terrorism deployment in the Eastern Pacific. Davis is deployed under the operational control of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command (NAVSO) as part of a Joint/Inter-Agency Task Force.
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