On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:13:57 -0500, L D'Bonnie wrote:

I missed that sort of fun when I came back from Europe on the USS
United states. I was told that there was a hurricane that summer and
she outran it. Took a sort of detour to stay out of it as I understood
at the time. I think that was 1964 or 65. She had the speed to do so.
At the time I heard that she was sort of like the empire state
building moving through the water at 60 knots.