SHIPPING REPORTER WARSHIP PUZZLE

 

Our waterfront  roundsman is in a puzzled state of  mind after  he  took a  series  of  photographs  of  a  warship, said to  be  American, surrounded by a  floating  boom  in the port of Townsville  . An onlooker said all American warships  have a  floating  boom  when  they are  in port . 

 Downloading  the  pix, the Shipping Reporter was surprised to see  what  looked  like  bad  rust , even  holes  near  the  waterline , see  below.  He  wondered  if  there had  there  been a  recent  Coral  Sea  Battle  which somehow  he  had  not  heard  about . 

Also in port , looking as if it had been in a  naval battle, was the  asphalt and  bitumen carrier,  Da  Wei  Shan.