The Way The U.S. Coast Guard Replaces Its Largest Ship's Motor Is Mind-Blowing

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5. "parking job"

*twitch*

As an aside, destroyer escorts during WW2 were diesel-electric. Fleet destroyers had to be able to move fast to keep up with carrier battle groups (30 knots or more), but destroyer escorts only had to be fast enough to catch submarines (they moved about 17 knots n the surface; convoys usually did less than 10 knots). So the fleet destroyers uses steam turbines (with expensive gearboxes) and destroyer escorts used cheaper diesel-electric propulsion.

Some of the retired DEs were used after the war as floating powerplants; they'd dock them in some remote city and hook the generators up to the power grid.