[AT] Bin fishing...

[Al Jones]

I remember reading about the big typhoon in the S. Pacific in 1944 that naval Task Force 58/38 ran right through the middle of.  Several destroyers sank during that storm. 

Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 11, 2014 12:15 PM
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>My uncle, who was a medic in the Army, was on his way home from WWII
>aboard a destroyer.   He said the last day before they got in to New York
>they ran into a storm.  When they went to bed that night they were steaming
>full ahead.  The next morning the captain announced that they were still
>steaming full ahead but were being pushed back by the seas and were some
>fair distance further from New York than they had been 8 hours before.
>
>Charlie
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
>Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 12:04 PM
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>
>Never met a commercial fisherman but have known some old time Navy guys. One
>fellow told me about a storm they hit that was so bad that a lot the fellows
>that had been in the Navy for a while got seasick, practically all the
>younger guys did. He was a machinist and told me the stock racks in the
>machine shop failed to hold the stock secure. While the matl was bouncing
>around on the floor it managed to take out a couple pieces of equipment. I
>don't know what size ship he was on at the time, he served on everything
>from subs to carriers.
>
>John Hall
>
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Herb Metz
>Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 11:26 AM
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>
>This same(?) u-tube was around 6 or 8 months ago, and was (supposedly) shot
>where Columbia river enters into Pacific.  Regardless of when and where most
>commercial fishing is a tough, and many times, a dangerous way of making a
>living.  I have not been there and done that but have experienced quite
>similar situations; five weeks on a destroyer in North Atlantic, on duty on
>the bridge when we did several rolls of 45 degrees or more (at which time it
>is easier to walk up the wall than it is to walk up the floor).  And at
>other times the bow would come out of the water so high that when it came
>down and hit the ocean water it just smacked very loud and caused huge
>shuddering vibrations traveling throughout the ship. I found these
>vibrations more concerning than the 45 degree rolls.   We were doing wartime
>training exercises with couple dozen ships so did not have the option of
>course or speed.
>Later on went through two separate hurricanes where we had option of course
>and speed; no big concerns.  This was 1954-55, long before TV having todays
>good radar.
>
>
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