Rogue waves..
 

I was in a little later than you guys.76-82.
I did 4.5 yrs on FF1056, USS Connole.
We chased the russian subs around the Med.
Anyway, no rogue waves but once after leaving Sardinia, we got in a
storm that I didn't think we would survive. We ran with following seas
for three days. One late evening in the worst we were surfing the waves
on the downside and when we hit the trough the ship would torpedo
staight in to the face on the next wave, send green water up to the
bottom of the bridge, The 5 in gun on the mid bow would dissapear under
water.
At one point we took a 54 deg. roll as recorded by the incinometer.
At between 55and 60 deg. the mack was supposed to tear away to keep the
ship from capsizing.
Seas were estimated at 50-70 feet.

Rogue waves..
 

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I was in a little later than you guys.76-82.
I did 4.5 yrs on FF1056, USS Connole.
We chased the russian subs around the Med.
Anyway, no rogue waves but once after leaving Sardinia, we got in a
storm that I didn't think we would survive. We ran with following seas
for three days. One late evening in the worst we were surfing the waves
on the downside and when we hit the trough the ship would torpedo
staight in to the face on the next wave, send green water up to the
bottom of the bridge, The 5 in gun on the mid bow would dissapear under
water.
At one point we took a 54 deg. roll as recorded by the incinometer.
At between 55and 60 deg. the mack was supposed to tear away to keep the
ship from capsizing.
Seas were estimated at 50-70 feet.


I was always jealous of the newer, Knox class DEs (renamed FFs) like the
Connole. Mine was the older, hurricane bowed, Dealy class. BTW ... I got
out of the Navy a year after you went in. ('68 to '77).

Eisboch

Rogue waves..
 

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I was in a little later than you guys.76-82.
I did 4.5 yrs on FF1056, USS Connole.
We chased the russian subs around the Med.
Anyway, no rogue waves but once after leaving Sardinia, we got in a
storm that I didn't think we would survive. We ran with following seas
for three days. One late evening in the worst we were surfing the waves
on the downside and when we hit the trough the ship would torpedo
staight in to the face on the next wave, send green water up to the
bottom of the bridge, The 5 in gun on the mid bow would dissapear under
water.
At one point we took a 54 deg. roll as recorded by the incinometer.
At between 55and 60 deg. the mack was supposed to tear away to keep the
ship from capsizing.
Seas were estimated at 50-70 feet.


I was always jealous of the newer, Knox class DEs (renamed FFs) like the
Connole. Mine was the older, hurricane bowed, Dealy class. BTW ... I got
out of the Navy a year after you went in. ('68 to '77).

Eisboch


Yea , they redesignated them in the early 70's, I think, when they
were turned into advanced ASW platforms.
We had an enormous amount of sonar gear.
I was an ET though, radar primarily.

As you said earlier, I was jealous of the newer ships coming out when I
was in.
We were in Bath, ME for refit when the were putting together a one of
the first, if not the first, new Perry class frigate. Steam turbines
and all the latest weapons and stuff.

Amazing how they would build it in sections inside completely rigged
and then use a humongous crane to set it on the ways and weld each
section of hull, piping and other stuff together.

Rogue waves..
 

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 13 Sep 2006 12:29:35 -0700, wrote:

Amazing how they would build it in sections inside completely rigged
and then use a humongous crane to set it on the ways and weld each
section of hull, piping and other stuff together.

One of my tenants is a Union painter and is currently working on that
crane repainting it.

That thing is huge.

Yea it was. at the time it was billed as the largest mobile crane in
the world.
I remember seeing a big painted sign on the side that said 220 tons
max.
Amazing. I have lots of pictures from there.
Great place and the Mainers were some of the friendliest people to
sailors anywhere in the world.

Rogue waves..
 

My Dad's neighbor served on the DD-655 USS John Hood, and told storied
exactly like you posted.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/0565502.jpg

http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/655.htm



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I was in a little later than you guys.76-82.
I did 4.5 yrs on FF1056, USS Connole.
We chased the russian subs around the Med.
Anyway, no rogue waves but once after leaving Sardinia, we got in a
storm that I didn't think we would survive. We ran with following seas
for three days. One late evening in the worst we were surfing the waves
on the downside and when we hit the trough the ship would torpedo
staight in to the face on the next wave, send green water up to the
bottom of the bridge, The 5 in gun on the mid bow would dissapear under
water.
At one point we took a 54 deg. roll as recorded by the incinometer.
At between 55and 60 deg. the mack was supposed to tear away to keep the
ship from capsizing.
Seas were estimated at 50-70 feet.