Description
This barge is known as the Hughes Mining Barge, built in the 1970’s officially for mining the sea floor but really to pick up a Russian submarine in Project Azorian. It was later used for construction (Port of Redwood City) and storage of the Sea Shadow (IX-529), the US Navy’s stealth demonstration ship. Both the barge and ship inside are available to any interested and qualified museum.
Photo shows the Hughes Mining Barge HMB-1, with Sea Shadow (IX-529) inside.
Description and photos contributed by Geoffrey Wilkie
The original location of the Hughes Mining Barge HMB-1 can be viewed on BlooSee here
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This barge is known as the Hughes Mining Barge (HMB-1, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Mining_Barge), built in the 1970’s officially for mining the sea floor but really to pick up a Russian submarine in Project Azorian. It was later used for construction (Port of Redwood City) and storage of the Sea Shadow (IX-529), the US Navy’s stealth demonstration ship. Both the barge and ship inside are available to an interested and qualified museum.
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Thanks Geoffrey. Very cool! I would never have guessed the barge had such a cool history.
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This is really fascinating, thanks Geoffrey for sharing these cool facts.
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Took my dad sailing past here on Father’s Day—he was joking that the ships must actually be a secret spy training facility or prison. Turns out there was a bit of espionage going on…
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