04 August 2017

Navy Memories #8: Warships vs. Big Waves

This one speaks for itself. Every sailor since ships were invented knows this experience.
I recommend watching in full screen mode.


12 comments:

drjim said...

Saw a little "Green Water Over The Bow" in one of the sequences!

Rev. Paul said...

Indeed. I've seen "green water over the signal bridge" too many times. Just the same, I miss it. :)

threecollie said...

AWesome in the literal sense. Such incredible engineering!

Rev. Paul said...

Agreed, ma'am. It's not surprising that the old wooden ships used to break up, sometimes. More surprising that they held together as well as they did.

Well Seasoned Fool said...

Remember being on the lifeboat deck of the General Rose troop ship and seeing the bow underwater all the way back to the mid section. If I had understood what I was looking at I might have been frightened. Sometimes it is good to be dumb.

Rev. Paul said...

WSF, concur!

Ed Bonderenka said...

Awesome.

Rev. Paul said...

True, Ed. Obviously it wasn't like that all the time, but it was that way a lot. And even with the danger, I miss it.

Old NFO said...

Yep, rockin and rollin... Bet the evacuated the bow billeting... ;-D

Rev. Paul said...

NFO, those hatches wouldn't leak ... would they? LOL!

Toirdhealbheach Beucail said...

Reverend, when I see this I am impressed all the more of the mariners of old, who risked traveling incredible distances with perhaps 2 feet of wood between them and the bottom of the ocean.

Rev. Paul said...

TB, I share that impression. And having only 3/4" of steel rather than the wood doesn't really make that much difference, from an experiential viewpoint.