I like Ships too

[JohnnySavage]

 

[Kitschshaman]

Very cool photo, thanks. Especially for me, because I worked on three out of the five at my tenure as an engineer at the shipyard at Newport News.
thanks

 

[JohnnySavage]

 

[JohnnySavage]

Just making sure the cooks have stowed for sea.

 

[JohnnySavage]

 

[ryan8558]

In the voice of Keith Jackson, "Whoa Nelly!"

 

[JohnnySavage]

 

[JohnnySavage]

 

[JohnnySavage]

R2D2's nasty brother

 

[JohnnySavage]

The U.S. Navy plans to deploy a squadron of underwater drones within the next four years, including the Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, or LDUUV, a 10-foot, highly autonomous, and very, very yellow subdrone, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said today.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Just making sure the cooks have stowed for sea.

Judging by the absence of rough seas in this photo, I'm guessing there is a captain with a lead foot and an affinity for tight, high speed turns.

 

[Que]

The U.S. Navy plans to deploy a squadron of underwater drones within the next four years, including the Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, or LDUUV, a 10-foot, highly autonomous, and very, very yellow subdrone, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said today.

Boeing is taking their design cues from Bikini Bottom?!??

 

[JohnnySavage]

Judging by the absence of rough seas in this photo, I'm guessing there is a captain with a lead foot and an affinity for tight, high speed turns.

You can see the wake a little to the left of the picture. Based on my photographic analysis, I suspect the skipper ordered a hard to starboard.

 

[JohnnySavage]

The bone yard

From Left to Right: USS Independence, Kitty Hawk, Constellation & Ranger

 

[JohnnySavage]

 

[JohnnySavage]

 

[ryan8558]

Lots of 4 stackers there. Were these the lend lease destroyers that were sent to the UK?

 

[JohnnySavage]

Lots of 4 stackers there. Were these the lend lease destroyers that were sent to the UK?

I believe so. That picture is from the late 1930s and is of one of the inactive fleet depots.

 

[JohnnySavage]

This is what happens when you get on the wrong boat.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

You can see the wake a little to the left of the picture. Based on my photographic analysis, I suspect the skipper ordered a hard to starboard.

With all due respect, matey, if that white foam behind the helicopter is wake, then my photographic analysis tells me the photographer is facing astern, and that, therefore, the skipper has ordered a hard to PORT!! The deck seems tilted the wrong way for a turn to starboard.

Aye, aye, or should I enlist in the Air Force?

 

[JohnnySavage]

With all due respect, matey, if that white foam behind the helicopter is wake, then my photographic analysis tells me the photographer is facing astern, and that, therefore, the skipper has ordered a hard to PORT!! The deck seems tilted the wrong way for a turn to starboard.

Aye, aye, or should I enlist in the Air Force?

I think your naval physics may be askew.

The photographer is indeed facing aft. When a ship turns, the hydrolic pressure on the hull causes the top part of the ship to tilt against the turn, not into it. So because the ship is listing to Port, the turn is to Starboard.

 

[trysail]

With all due respect, matey, if that white foam behind the helicopter is wake, then my photographic analysis tells me the photographer is facing astern, and that, therefore, the skipper has ordered a hard to PORT!! The deck seems tilted the wrong way for a turn to starboard.

Aye, aye, or should I enlist in the Air Force?

Do you know where to find your nearest Air Force recruiting station?


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[ryan8558]

And not one person said "JIBE HO!!"

 

[oggbashan]

And not one person said "JIBE HO!!"

Right Hand Down a bit (from The Navy Lark)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_I6mL0_Lbw

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I think your naval physics may be askew.

The photographer is indeed facing aft. When a ship turns, the hydrolic pressure on the hull causes the top part of the ship to tilt against the turn, not into it. So because the ship is listing to Port, the turn is to Starboard.

Okay. I'm a believer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6LE7Ar8CJE

"Tower. Three-seven-four-niner Charlie taxi for take off with information TANGO."