The Last Ship timeline for Ian

[anim8rFSK]

Ian asked:

The Last Ship (recorded) - Actually, at first, this episode wasn't that
dumb. But as soon as they got to the jungle, and especially when they
got to "El Toro", it got every bit as stupid as the promos suggested it
would be... �>:|
� �At least Fay Masterson's Chief Engineer is back on her feet.
� �Side-question: Do we know how much time has passed? This episode
mentioned a date "November [something]"... does anyone know what date
they were at in the pilot? TIA...

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In the pilot, Baldwin says they set sail in June. Four months later, he
says if they hurry back they can still make the World Series. That help
any?

--
Wait - are you saying that ClodReamer was wrong, or lying?

[Ian J. Ball]

On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:02:40 PM UTC-7, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Ian asked:
>

> > The Last Ship (recorded)...

> > Side-question: Do we know how much time has passed? This episode
> > mentioned a date "November [something]"... does anyone know what date
> > they were at in the pilot? TIA...
>

> In the pilot, Baldwin says they set sail in June. Four months later, he
> says if they hurry back they can still make the World Series. That help
> any?

So, they're saying only a month has passed?

Does that *fit* with their Arctic -> France -> Cuba -> Nicaragua travel?
(I dunno the answer to the above - I'm hoping someone with navy experience can answer...)

[anim8rFSK]

In article <94a01061-c57c-4560...@googlegroups.com>,

Speed: >30 knots (56�km/h)
Range: 4,400�nautical miles at 20�knots
(8,100�km at 37�km/h)

You tell me. :)

[Hunter <>]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:50:29 -0700 (PDT), "Ian J. Ball"
<ijb...@mac.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:02:40 PM UTC-7, anim8rfsk wrote:
>
>> Ian asked:
>>
>> > The Last Ship (recorded)...
>> > Side-question: Do we know how much time has passed? This episode
>> > mentioned a date "November [something]"... does anyone know what date
>> > they were at in the pilot? TIA...
>>
>> In the pilot, Baldwin says they set sail in June. Four months later, he
>> says if they hurry back they can still make the World Series. That help
>> any?
>
>So, they're saying only a month has passed?

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A little longer since they learned about the Virus.

>
>Does that *fit* with their Arctic -> France -> Cuba -> Nicaragua travel?
>(I dunno the answer to the above - I'm hoping someone with navy experience can answer...)

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Actually the "port calls" were from the high Arctic to close to the
North Pole then down to the French cost then to just off the cost of
Florida and then to Cuba, then to Serranna Bank and then to Nicaragua.
Here is the voyage and its travel time in detail though the fifth
episode, along with the deaths they have suffered:

Early in the fifth episode the captain mentioned in his video log that
it was November 5th. That is just about right. They arrived in the
Arctic in early June and stayed for four months, to about early
October. Let's say it was June 1st that they got there.

They left the Arctic in early October, let's say the third of October
since they had to stay an extra two days, assuming they were supposed
to leave October 1st, which I would imagine how the military would
schedule it. After they learned of the Apocalypse, the first stop was
to be at a fueling station 50 miles off the coast of Brest, France.
They sailed there at "trail shaft" speed, the most fuel efficient
speed, which is 12 knots or 13.8 mph.

So from above the Arctic Circle-I think they were on the island of
Spittsbergen where Dr. Scott got the primordial virus-to 50 miles off
the coast of Brest, France is approximately 3,500 miles.
3,500miles/13.8mph=253.5 hrs. 253.5hrs/24hrs=10.5 days.

So approximately a 10.5 days sail from Spittsbergen starting on
October 3rd to 50 miles off the coast of Brest, France. That would put
it at about the 13th of October by the time they arrive and see the
Russians nuke France.

Then after the atomic explosion they head due west briefly at flank
speed to avoid the nuclear fall out and found a "Italian" Liner less
than 30 miles away-around 70 miles from Brest, France-and refueled
from it. At this time one sailor was killed, Lt. Franklin E. Benz,
bringing the ship's compliment down to 216 from 217. This does not
include the civilians Dr. Scott and Dr. Topher making the grand total
218.

Then they proceeded to Mayport Naval Station, Florida (it's about 11
miles east of Jacksonville, Florida) approximately 4,020 miles from
the cruise ship, presumably again at trail shift speed of 13.8mph.
4,020miles/13.8mph=291hrs. 291hrs/24hrs=12 days, making it
approximately the 25th of October when they got to Florida, 22.5 days
after leaving the Arctic.

So by the end of the pilot 22.5 days had past (and one killed) with it
being October 25th.

There is a blooper: At the end of the pilot when Captain Chandler
tells them why they aren't going to go home he says "�four months ago
we left these shores as members of the United States Navy." The line
should've been "�*five* months ago we left these shores�"

The beginning of the second episode picks up exactly at the end of the
pilot. They traveled at flank speed to Guantanamo bay Cuba, which is
about 900 miles from Mayport Naval station. The Flank-or emergency top
speed-of an Arleigh Burke class destroyer is over 30 knots. The exact
figure is not published. I guesstimate 33 knots because the Navy's
nuclear aircraft carriers top speed are about 33knots and it would
make sense that the destroyers have the capability to keep up with the
carriers to protect them. Thirty-three knots is 38mph.
900miles/38mph=23.5hrs. Call it one full day to get from Mayport to
Guantanamo, 23.5 days after leaving the Arctic. This is right on
schedule because they reached Guantanamo the next day show time (after
the night time memorial service). Near the beginning of the episode
Dr. Scott as she debriefed the ship department heads about what the
disease she mentioned that the last time she contacted the CDC was
three weeks ago when they were up in the Arctic which fits the 22.5
day timeline. So it was about October 26 when they pulled into Cuba
near the beginning of the second episode.

By the end of the second episode which was spent almost entirely in
Cuba one man was added to the crew, Tex, the private contractor Gitmo
guard, bringing the ships' complement back up to 217. I consider Tex
as part of the crew now because he has gone on missions for them armed
and capable of fighting. Adding the scientists brings the total number
aboard back up to 219. In addition to refueling they picked up tons of
food to last for five to six weeks and a two man mini sub (SDV-25).
The episode ends with the Russians blocking their exit.

The third episode beginnings exactly where the second episode ends
with a Russian Kirov class Battlecruiser menacing the "Nathan James".
Two navy frog men manning the minisub-Smith and Bertram-looking for a
back way out of the harbor, were killed bring ship's compliment down
to 215 crew and 217 people total. The "Nathan James" spent the entire
third episode in Cuba except at the very end when they escaped. It
represented about a half a day from shortly after they put down the
Queda terrorist during the daylight hours to their escape from the
Russians that night. That is two full episodes they spent basically in
one place. Episode two about a day long, episode three about half a
day long; so by the end of episode three it was 24 days since leaving
the Arctic making it still about the end of October 26 (the 27th if it
was after midnight) the day they escaped from the Russians.

The beginning of episode four happens sometime after episode three,
since it was daylight in the first scene when it was night in the last
scene of the third episode so for the first time there is a
significant time gap between episodes by at least several hours. Lt.
Greene says to Tex he was on the ship for "four months almost five".
They were stationed in the Arctic for four months and left the arctic
almost a month before which is accurate. This scene also shows it was
still reasonably close to the third episode in time because Tex is
still asking questions like that to the crew like he just came on
board, which he had so I think it is indeed the next morning or
afternoon after they escaped the Russians so it is at least October
27.

That day the next crisis begins when ship suffers engine damaged due
to sea life bloom blocking the sea water service system intakes (their
filters were knocked off) that uses seawater to cool the gas turbines
that run the propulsion and electrical generators. Major damage to the
ships propulsion and electrical generation systems occurs. Dr. Scott's
lab samples are endangered because of this. What's more they cannot
create fresh drinking water because the ships Reverse Osmosis system
is also badly damaged. All would take about a week to repair but they
have to generate electricity for Scott's lab and get fresh water
within six days or they are all dead anyway. One propulsion engine can
run for an hour before overheating and having to be shut down for it
to cool for six hours. They head for the atoll Serranna Bank to get
fresh water and to repair. They rig up a skysail system to tow the
ship at about four knots-about five mph-while the engine is cooling
during its six hour down time, making some progress.

The episode ends with them finding Serranna Bank and getting water and
finishing repairing the engines. The episode covers about a week in
show time since it was mentioned near the beginning that it would take
six days to travel to the Island with the last two days without water.
Toward the end of the episode a badly dehydrated comm rate-Mason-puts
out a distress call mentioning they were two days without water, so
when they find the island and have the beach party there as the
engines and other systems are repaired in earnest, it was about six
days after the crisis began on October 27 and so it was about November
3rd when they reached Serranna Bank, 34 Days after leaving the Arctic.

The fifth episode picks up a couple of days after the crisis. All the
engines are up and running and the chief engineer is back on her feet
and the captain mentioned they be in Costa Rica the next morning. The
distance from Serranna Bank to the Cost of Costa Rica is 398 miles.
Assuming they are once again moving at trail shaft speed to conserve
fuel, 12 knots or 13.8 mph, the trip would've took 29 hours; but they
diverted to Nicaragua after learning about civil disturbances in Costa
Rica and went instead to Bluefields, Nicaragua, distance traveled 288
miles, 21hrs travel time at 12 knots from Serranna Bank.

This is the first episode we get our first hard and fast date of the
show: The captain recording his personal log on his laptop said it was
Wednesday, November 5th. During this episode to retrieve monkeys for
Scott from a primate reserve to conduct test of her vaccine on them,
Chandler and his men are taken and held captive by a former drug lord
but still depraved "El Toro". They are let go but Captain Chandler, XO
Slattery and Lt. Green turn back and comeback that night and kill El
Toro's men and save a girl from being raped (and also to retrieve
their NBC equipment as a side benefit). El Toro is killed by the
enraged father, they got back to the ship the next day during daylight
so by the end of the episode it is the next day November 6th.

So that's the timeline of the show as of the end of the fifth episode,
about 37 days since they left the Arctic.

------>Hunter

"No man in the wrong can stand up against
a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."

-----William J. McDonald
Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907

[Hunter <>]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:26:10 -0700, anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net>
wrote:

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You are forgetting they moved only at their best fuel conservation
speed-"trail shaft"-which is 12 knots...

http://wenku.baidu.com/view/e5952601de80d4d8d15a4fcd.html

...or 13.8mph, to 50 miles off the coast of France then when the nuke
went off they turned around and encountered the "Italian" "cruise"
ship and refueled with from that ship's bunkers, then headed again at
trail shaft speed for the coast of Florida then at flank speed to Cuba
and again refueled had a week long break down and finally sailed to
Nicaragua at trail shaft speed to conserve fuel. So they refueled
twice and was traveling mostly at their most fuel efficient speed.