I like Ships too

[Brains_N_Boobs]

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[trysail]

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Eminently salvageable.

Somebody had a soft landing.



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[Kitschshaman]

Eminently salvageable.

Somebody had a soft landing.



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At least it doesn't have a hole in its side like the SS Minnow...

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

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[Brains_N_Boobs]

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[Brains_N_Boobs]

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[urguyscott]

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Man, I've been in seas like that watching the ships with us completely go under and then pop up like a whale from the deep. I've been at the helm, well most of me, my stomach was back on the fantail, trying to keep the ship on course, the pilot house with several inches of water splashing around and my Lee Helmsman rolling around on the deck in the small pilot house after losing his footing trying his best not to knock me off my feet and away from the helm. He broke several toes jamming himself into a corner.

I've been on the open bridge in heavy seas that broke over us hanging on for dear life. We had an OD, a BM, a QM or SM and two lookouts. In heavy seas one look out would be place facing the bow bending over the rail looking down at the running light. At night you can't see the wave that is going to hit you so he would look for the spray as it shined just before we were hit and yell "Duck!!" This was called the Duck Watch.

My father said one of the destroyers in his force was hit so hard by a wave that it turned part of the substructure lose and twisted it around. We had blanking ripped from the side of our wooden minesweeper and parts of the boat torn off. The sea as you have seen from pictures from the Japanese earthquake can be a powerful thing. But it can also be a beautiful thing when she wants to.

 

[oggbashan]

I have been on a destroyer converted into a survey ship when it ran into a storm. All the ship's boats were lost but the crew had an irreparable loss.

The ship still has its minelaying rails and they had been filled with barrels of Guinness from Dublin. All the Guinness and the minelaying rails went overboard.

 

[ryan8558]

USS Pittsburgh after a typhoon

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[Brains_N_Boobs]

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[Brains_N_Boobs]

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[thør]

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[Kitschshaman]

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Are those LNG carriers?

 

[trysail]

Somebody didn't know what the fuck they were doing.

A canoe ?? In 25-30 knot winds?? In open water with a 2-3 foot chop ??




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[Brains_N_Boobs]

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[trysail]

Too damn close in those seas.
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