Talk:USS Sample

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O'Bannon damaged USS Sample (FF-1048)

Accordiing to the article USS Sample (FF-1048), the USS Sample (FF-1048) was damaged by the O'Bannon to such an extend that the Sample had to return to the shipyard. However, the article does not state, what precisely caused the damage. Is there more information available? -- Wo st 01 (talk | rate) 17:59, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This hasn't really been answered, so I'll take a stab at it. I realize this comment was from 2010, but my 2 cents would be the sonar dome was damaged by O'Bannon during mooring in a nest with Sample. Possibly by O'Bannon's anchor or anchor chain hit it. This image from Navsource.org shows Dec 1968 with O'Bannon's anchor down near the waterline. It would be pretty close to an adjacent ship's sonar dome. Fold3 has an image of Sample from the 1970 cruisebook, Sample has a sign on the starboard bow that says "Caution Sonar Dome", facing outward so other ships or tugboats could take notice. It must have been a result of the damage. Perhaps O'Bannon was not used to nesting alongside ships with a bulbous bow sonar dome, unlike other older destroyers. --Dual Freq (talk) 01:29, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]