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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:50:46 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

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My Dad and his war buddies used to tell tales of things like this on
North Atlantic convoy duty - he commanded a DE and often said that he
sometimes spent more time under water than on top of it.

Great pictures. Thanks for the link.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653

Yikes! Did you see the link to this pic?
http://www.naval.com/canadian-ice/

And folks in this newsgroup complain about the cold
weather. :^)

-Jim

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:50:46 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

http://tv-antenna.com/heavy-seas/

My Dad and his war buddies used to tell tales of things like this on
North Atlantic convoy duty - he commanded a DE and often said that he
sometimes spent more time under water than on top of it.

Great pictures. Thanks for the link.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
-----------
"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653

Had a roommate in school that had been on the Bonne Homme Richard carrier
during a typhoon. HE said they had green water tolling down the deck, and
never figured out how the DE's and destroyers survived.
Bill

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:48:04 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:50:46 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

http://tv-antenna.com/heavy-seas/

My Dad and his war buddies used to tell tales of things like this on
North Atlantic convoy duty - he commanded a DE and often said that he
sometimes spent more time under water than on top of it.

Great pictures. Thanks for the link.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
-----------
"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653

Had a roommate in school that had been on the Bonne Homme Richard carrier
during a typhoon. HE said they had green water tolling down the deck, and
never figured out how the DE's and destroyers survived.

My Dad and three his friends (along with others) were co-opted from
the USCG into the Navy expressly for the purpose of DE duty. They
were classmates and all four eventually ended up in the South Pacific
on DDs.

Man, the tales they told - unbelievable.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653

I always get a kick out of seeing that picture, having spent a good deal
of time on that ship in similar conditions, including one time having to
go forward to close the door on the foc'sle, which led below to the
"rope" locker.

otn

Jim wrote in message
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Yikes! Did you see the link to this pic?
http://www.naval.com/canadian-ice/

And folks in this newsgroup complain about the cold
weather. :^)

-Jim

Darn dangerous. The crew usually have to go out armed with fire axes to chop
the ice off. Too much and the ship might roll.

Depends on the ship and it's "initial" GM

Don White wrote:
Jim wrote in message
...

Yikes! Did you see the link to this pic?
http://www.naval.com/canadian-ice/

And folks in this newsgroup complain about the cold
weather. :^)

-Jim


Darn dangerous. The crew usually have to go out armed with fire axes to chop
the ice off. Too much and the ship might roll.

otnmbrd wrote:
I always get a kick out of seeing that picture, having spent a good deal
of time on that ship in similar conditions,

Spent a week in same conditions one Christmas near the dateline on the
"Kenai" running from Valdez to Tsingtao. Winds over 100kn sustained,
waves over 100 feet. On the crests it was impossible to tell the
difference between the air and the water.

The noise alone was enough to write sea stories about. The sound of the
wind was only drowned out by the sound of books, TV sets, refrigerators,
and the contents of closets and desks crashing from bulkhead to bulkhead
in the room above as the ship rolled.

We lost 5 liferafts, about 200 feet of railing, the ladders on the
kingposts, stove in the overhead above the cross passage and wiped off
most of the strain gauges on the main deck. There was no way in hell any
human could have survived a trip to the foc'sle.

Well, maybe Jax could, and he probably did near the rocks off Cape
Hatteras where the Gulf Stream lurks.

Rick

Calif Bill wrote:
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Hmmm contrary view has to be put & as always only too happy to discuss
it:-)

Thanks for the pics though, they prove yet again that "huge" waves in
open water are the stuff of over active imaginations & of course once
again that Rick is almost as big a liar as Harry.

Before you knee jerk have a good look at the pics & you'll see that
there is not likely to be a 30ft wave there in any of them & that's
about as bad as it gets as claimed by the pic posters.

Well found properly handled small boats in open water have little the
fear from any of that.

K