Sedalia Dave Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 A boat ride that is. Bring back any memories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Sailing Ship Battles Through an Atlantic Storm, 1938 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Helluva ride in the fo'c's'le~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Good Lord!! I love living in the desert on dry land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 If I was on one a them boats whichever deck I was on would become the poop deck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Lizard Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 NOT A CHANCE IN HE$$....... Texas Lizard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: If I was on one a then boats whichever deck I was on would become the poop deck. You misspelled "Puke." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tell Sackett SASS 18436 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 said: Good Lord!! I love living in the desert on dry land. Oceans are for dolphins, whales , and fish!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Been there, done that. Exciting for awhile, then it gets old, tiresome and tedious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus Jack Calder Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 In 1969 my ship USS Guadalcanal LPH 7, sailed into the eye of a hurricane to launch a Helicopter to evacuate a medical emergency. Fun times. I went top side in the calm. Looking straight up the sky was an eerie yellow. Then we sailed back into the storm. When going up or down a ladder (stairs for you landlubbers) you had to hang onto the handrail or the ship would drop out from under you and then come crashing up and drive you to your knees. CJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 https://weather.com/news/news/2018-12-18-san-francisco-high-surf-coast-guard-training Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 My roommate in Spain was deployed on a carrier for a Northern Wedding exercise that got caught is a storm in the North Atlantic. First day they were commenting about how nice it was to be on a Carrier vice a small boy. By the end of day two the carrier was taking green water over the bow. He said that night and the next day he was the sickest he has ever been and that he never wanted to do that ever again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Vay-Capes...Yeehaw! The capes off of Virginia and south are notorious for knocking the new off of new swabbies. A little about the area. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/vacapes.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Mosby Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Back in my active duty days I was stationed on the lovely island of Shemya in the Aleutians. While there the gummint conducted an underground nuke test on an island about halfway twixt us and Anchorage. There was a Russian destroyer went sailing past us during the test, a few miles off the island.. Being the Bering Sea it was traveling in seas very much like the first video. I did not envy the sailors one bit!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 .... er, ...... y'all don't mind if I pass ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 My uncle was a Mustang and career Navy SWO. He actually loved the cruises that took them into high seas. He believed the Navy’s ships and crews had their best opportunity for testing and showing off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Pass Imis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 I had an uncle who was a tin can sailor. He walked weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 12 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: You misspelled "Puke." Both ends at the same time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a Cruiser’s entire bow submerged then come up to where the tip of the bow seems to be 200 feet out of the water. I think that one actually scared our crazy Captain. It’s all “Yo-ho Yo-ho the pirate’s life for me” for a little while but a day or two of walking on bulkheads and eating peanut butter sandwiches from a brown bag it starts getting old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramblin Gambler Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 I've always wondered if, when the seas are really rough, is it better to be underway to anywhere, anchored, or just floating on the currents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 23 minutes ago, Ramblin Gambler said: I've always wondered if, when the seas are really rough, is it better to be underway to anywhere, anchored, or just floating on the currents? No, you want propulsion so you have “some” control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Sloe Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 I made it through 18 years before I got sea sick. I knew that I was in trouble when I could feel the ship (Perry class frigate) rolling. I was new onboard, not qualified for a watch station, so I had taken a break in the wardroom. I looked out the porthole and we were still in Tokyo harbor with about 3 foot swells. So, when we did hit some bad weather, it was really bad. We were on our way to South Korea for some Christmas shopping and the Captain called off the trip. It was much better in the Spruance class destroyers. They had a sea-water compensation system: used sea water to fill the fuel storage tank banks as you used up the fuel. As you burned fuel you actually sat lower in the water. We were in 20 foot seas and really didn't feel it. Just a little rolling. Oh, the good old days. BS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Barry Sloe said: I made it through 18 years before I got sea sick. I knew that I was in trouble when I could feel the ship (Perry class frigate) rolling. I was new onboard, not qualified for a watch station, so I had taken a break in the wardroom. I looked out the porthole and we were still in Tokyo harbor with about 3 foot swells. So, when we did hit some bad weather, it was really bad. We were on our way to South Korea for some Christmas shopping and the Captain called off the trip. It was much better in the Spruance class destroyers. They had a sea-water compensation system: used sea water to fill the fuel storage tank banks as you used up the fuel. As you burned fuel you actually sat lower in the water. We were in 20 foot seas and really didn't feel it. Just a little rolling. Oh, the good old days. BS I was on the USS Virginia CGN-38. It started life as a League Destroyer but Carter needed to up the number of Cruisers to get closer to the number that the Soviets had so “Wallah”! The Virginia became a Cruiser. Anyway, we had these aft sideways rudders, I guess you could call them, that were supposed to stabilize the ship is heavy seas. They didn’t. Supposedly they made it worse. Some of the Gunners in my division that served on Destroyers and Frigates claimed the Virginia acted like a smaller ship when the swells and waves kicked up. I have never been seasick. Lucky, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howlin Mad Murdock SASS #4037 Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Was on the Kitty Hawk in the south China Sea going through the remnants of a Typhoon. We could not walk down a passageway without bouncing off the bulkheads. Watched the smallboys going THROUGH the waves, not over, felt bad for them. We had an airconditioner or a huffer, don't remember which, just that it was a big yellow thing on wheels. Was on the aft flight deck, and we had to get it down into the hangar bay. No tug available, so 5 or 6 of my squadron mates and I had to muscle it up to the starboard forward elevator. We stood behind it and held for all we were worth while ship pitched up, then ran downhill to keep up with it when ship pitched down. took us about 45 minutes to get to the elevator, then another 45 minutes to get it back aft in the hangar bay. Worst night I ever spent in the Navy, don't know how no one got hurt or managed to not hit anything. I never got seasick, never had motion sickness either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 14 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: I had an uncle who was a tin can sailor. He walked weird. I had a neighbor who was a tin can sailor. He was weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramblin Gambler Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Next question. What's the origin of tin can sailors? I googled it and I see that the name means they served on a destroyer. But I found no answer as to why a destroyer is a tin can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted July 19, 2020 Author Share Posted July 19, 2020 56 minutes ago, Ramblin Gambler said: Next question. What's the origin of tin can sailors? I googled it and I see that the name means they served on a destroyer. But I found no answer as to why a destroyer is a tin can. Tin Can Sailors Tincan – Also seen as "Tin Can," a common nickname for a destroyer. The nickname arose because in World Wars One and Two, the hull plating of this ship type was so thin the sailors claimed they were made from tin cans. In fact, a .45 pistol bullet would penetrate it. Modern destroyers have much thicker hull plating, but the nickname persists. This nickname is sometimes abbreviated as "Can", although to a radioman a ‘can’ is a set of headphones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramblin Gambler Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Don't hardly seem fair to put a boat up against a 45 ACP in the first place. Shoulda started out with something wimpier, like a 9mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Checotah Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 I remember coming back from a Med. cruise on the Nimitz (Aircraft carrier) we were in rough seas in the North Atlantic with 25 foot swells. I knew a guy in the signal dept. and went up to the signal bridge. I got to look at one of our escort ships through the big eyes (huge binoculars). I had always wanted to be on one of the smaller ships but was glad that I wasn't when I could see the Josephus Daniels going through green water over the bow. I could see the wipers on their bridge beating the water off the windshield. We had 70 knot winds going over our bow and we had to slow down for our escorts to keep up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 On 7/18/2020 at 6:17 AM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: .... er, ...... y'all don't mind if I pass ....... ... proving once again that Wallaby is younger, smarter and better lookin' than me! Not necessarily in that order! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 8 hours ago, Dustin Checotah said: I remember coming back from a Med. cruise on the Nimitz (Aircraft carrier) we were in rough seas in the North Atlantic with 25 foot swells. I knew a guy in the signal dept. and went up to the signal bridge. I got to look at one of our escort ships through the big eyes (huge binoculars). I had always wanted to be on one of the smaller ships but was glad that I wasn't when I could see the Josephus Daniels going through green water over the bow. I could see the wipers on their bridge beating the water off the windshield. We had 70 knot winds going over our bow and we had to slow down for our escorts to keep up. Your story reminded me of a time when we were in the Atlantic and the weather was very bad. I was an E-5 at the time and we were sailing with the "Ike" - USS Eisenhower CVN-69. They had a man overboard. We moved into station to see if we could rescue. The Duty Gunner's Mate was a new kid. It was his job to get an M-14 from the Armory and report to the Motor Whaleboat for rescue duty if the guy was spotted. His job would be to keep sharks from getting to the man in the water by firing the gun away from the man and attracting the sharks to the bullets hitting the water (I have no idea if this would really work). Anyway, I decided to take the duty. Unfortunately we didn't find anyone but we got to spend a couple hours getting drenched by rain and sea water sitting in the Motor Whaleboat on the O-1 level feeling sick that some poor guy was out there in the mess that was the ocean. We found out later it was a false alarm. Someone on the Ike reported a man overboard because they thought someone fell overboard. We never received any others details on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 12 hours ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said: ... proving once again that Wallaby is younger, smarter and better lookin' than me! Not necessarily in that order! ......... but, only just ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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