Steve Featherkile said:
Ralph, you are putting yourself on report as never having been to sea as part of a ship’s crew.
But I’ve been on a cruise and have spent the night at a Holiday Inn Express 
Ralph
We took a typhoon head on north of the Philippines back in the '60’s. Some waves were as high as the flight deck. No one could walk anywhere. They delivered “lunches” in paper bags to the watch. Only time I ever got sea sick during my short Navy career.
What was really cool was our escort Destroyers were completely under water some times as a huge comber washed over them. I’m glad I wasn’t aboard one of those cans back then.
We were trying to keep up with the Nimitz in one of those storms, and taking green water as far up as the pilot house. The Skipper kept asking the Nimitz to slow down, but got no response.
Finally, in desperation, after one particularly bad wave, the Skipper sent the message, “Permission to surface.”
We slowed.
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Navy ? Typhoon ? Problems ???
Great now I turning Green! ;(
Doug Arnold said:
I wonder how much the “used” containers will go for?
Doug, when I was in Uganda, I used to buy used 20 foot containers, had them trucked to our compound and made living quarters out of them… At that time they were about 400 US$… (plus the trucking and unloading) It cheaper for the shipping companies to sell them rather than truck them back to the coast and ship home. Where ever home was!!!
We mainly used the fiberglass coated plywood ones rather that the all steel… Much easier to keep cool…
Set Periscope Depth.
Just another day at the office.
Well…I think youse guys missed it. Remember very recently when one Scott “found” a container of track?
Wonder which ship it fell off of?
Curmudgeon mcneely said:
Well…I think youse guys missed it. Remember very recently when one Scott “found” a container of track?
Wonder which ship it fell off of?
ROTFLMAO