• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

A cool aircraft carrier picture.....

I can't remember exactly when it was, but during one port visit onboard the USS Independence, I was on duty, and just walking around the ship.

I walked up to the Forecastle (pronounced " fo'c'sle)

There was a guy with a fishing line going out the hawse, and was fighting with it. He'd actually hooked a small shark, but couldn't get it through the opening!!

NC


 
Impressive sight...
Looking at those huge anchors: are they routinely used?
I can't think of a situation where they would be.
 
Actually, they get used quite a bit. When overseas most port calls require larger ships like carriers to "anchor out". The crew gets back & forth using boats chartered locally. They are known as "liberty boats"
 
N2056 said:
Actually, they get used quite a bit. When overseas most port calls require larger ships like carriers to "anchor out". The crew gets back & forth using boats chartered locally. They are known as "liberty boats"
Click to expand...

Yep. I never had the opportunity to experience walking off a carrier at the dock, except at Mayport, FL. And waiting for a ferry boat to take you to fleet landing on liberty can take hours and hours. Once I made CPO, it was a lot better. But I can remember standing in line ALL day. The dress code for liberty USED to be very strict. No shirts without collars. The ship's CMC would be waiting to check out what you were wearing. If he didn't like it, you didn't get off the ship, PERIOD.

NC
 
Navy Chief said:
Yep. I never had the opportunity to experience walking off a carrier at the dock, except at Mayport, FL. And waiting for a ferry boat to take you to fleet landing on liberty can take hours and hours. Once I made CPO, it was a lot better. But I can remember standing in line ALL day. The dress code for liberty USED to be very strict. No shirts without collars. The ship's CMC would be waiting to check out what you were wearing. If he didn't like it, you didn't get off the ship, PERIOD.

NC
Click to expand...

What boat and when as when I was on the Sara things were rather relaxed. But I do remember the long liberty lines at some ports. Naples was the only port that the wait was rather short and there we had both our U-boats and the local ferry's running. I do remember one thing about the liberty boats, I always had trouble getting into them sober if they were tossing in the swells, but it was no problem getting in or out when I was drunk.
 
I ALWAYS made sure I was one of the first to get off the liberty boat when returning to the ship. Why? Because I learned real quick that the drunks would fight, puke, and fall over each other. So I figured the faster I got back onboard, and went through the searches by the Master At Arms.....the faster I would reach my rack!!!

NC
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top