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"Larry" wrote in message
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(Richard Casady) wrote in
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They have built 150 footers with 2 1/2 wood hull
planking. Minesweepers. John Wayne owned one.

My last Navy duty station was Mine Force Support Group, Atlantic, back in
'69-'71. I got Shanghai'd a few times to solve this or that electronic
problem aboard them and taken to sea because I couldn't jump that far to
the dock.

NOTHING rolls like an MSO.....(c;]

It's a damned good thing those Packard engines are so deep in the hull....

They roll much worse when the damned rubber bladders full of diesel fuel
on
deck get sloshing around in the slop.

Been there, done that....got the T-shirt.

Draft loaded for the Med is only about 8'!

I rode the "Inflict", "Leader" and the "Adroit" in the 80s. Only vessels I
ever rode that "rained" below decks! I'd toss my bedroll in the reel room
because it was dryer than the berthing comparment and I wouldn't have to
"hot bunk". Ha!