HMAS Westralia & Brisbane RAS UNREP accident, Houston we have a problem

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11 жыл бұрын

Royal Australian Navy - Tanker replenishing a "Perth" class DDG (Based on Charles F Adams class). RAS / Unrep accident
Re-posted on FB "Back in the Day" a few times.
Steel span cable parts after being fully paid out, diesel hose parts shortly after.
Notice "sparks" when cable parts.
DDG HMAS Brisbane could not maintain station in heavy seas.
We were too slow to avoid the cyclone.
Quality of vid a bit dodgy, it was shot on VHS-C, then copied to VHS and is nearly 18 year old.
Weather is from a typhoon in the area just south of Japan.
From memory the DDG was very low on fuel, so we had no choice in the matter.
For USN folks, a RAS (Replenishment At Sea) is same as UNREP
Are you ex HMAS Westralia crew, why not check out the HMAS Westralia Facebook page, join us!

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@jasonbody9927 5 жыл бұрын

I remember sticking my head of the pump room to see how things were going since we gave up on the Port side...next thing snap...oh well better get back in the pump room! Thanks for posting this video, brings back great memories.

@KG84C 5 жыл бұрын

No worries Jason!

@texascclp1445 3 жыл бұрын

brings back a lot of memories aboard the DD878. Emergency breakaway, the oiler hadn't stopped pumping fuel oil to us, hosed down the Sailors close to the connection, bulkhead, deck and side of the ship.

@KG84C 3 жыл бұрын

Furnace fuel oil I assume, gloopy horrid stuff, a Gearing, old school. This was diesel oil, so not as bad to clean up. Check out my channel for a look at ships band on DDG HMAS Brisbane if interested doing "Proud Mary". Glad you liked.

@carlschneider2424 11 жыл бұрын

I remember that day distinctly, loving these videos...

@robertfrandsen2066 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!! I was there on the bow of HMAS Brisbane pulling the lines when this RAS incident occurred! Can’t believe I randomly found this video. Cheers for sharing 👍🏻 ABETS Frandsen ;)

@KG84C 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Rob, I was on Westralia's catwalk (Down in prone position when it went pear shaped). I've got Brisbane's band playing Proud Mary at break away on one of my other vid's.

@KG84C 11 жыл бұрын

Carl, glad you like it, often wondered how many people would stumble on this, more to come.

@janarthansrikantha3072 4 жыл бұрын

Great video Tony. RAS in those conditions are always challenging, lucky no one was hurt.

@marywheaton6985 Жыл бұрын

Good shiphandling. Reminds me of when I was CO of DDG4 and we had to refuel from a Canadian Oiler in a blizzard north of the Arctic Circle in Nov 75 We were attached to a Canadian DESRon. It was so rough we could not fuel going into the sea and had to do it on a down sea leg. We were able to hold station but the oiler could only refuel a DDG2 class at one station, we had 2. All went well until the transfer pump on the oiler died. They had to disconnect and we had to refuel from their aft station after they got it rigged.! A long refueling but my hat is off to both ships crews as we were alongside for almost 2 hours! It was so cold XO and I alternated the conn every 15 minutes.

@marywheaton6985 Жыл бұрын

This is actually my grandfathers comment

@weldermartins2715 Жыл бұрын

LOL

@robw7786 Жыл бұрын

Great short video. I served on HMAS Brisbane (FC) until a few years before this video was shot. A really good/rugged ship & crew but wow did 'she' roll around in heavy seas, not having any stabilizers and being top heavy as well. 🙂⚓

@TCFan30 10 жыл бұрын

Lucky none of the dump party got wiped out by that hose.

@alphasixfive1658 2 жыл бұрын

I miss those DDGs

@brucestasinowsky7426 4 жыл бұрын

I was there on the Brissy up front on a handling line. I remember that roll which had the Brissy and Westralia roll opposite directions. Couple of other things I remember; The hose connection was still attached to the Brisbane fueling port after the hose separated, and the message from Westralia was don't throw it overboard. Hang on to it. Had to laugh when I heard that. Its too bloody heavy to throw over the side. Second was we would not have been in those conditions had the Westralia not been so slow (no hard feelings). We were basically stuck riding out the storm because they weren't fast enough.

@KG84C 4 жыл бұрын

Bruce, glad you liked it.

@ponytopgun 8 жыл бұрын

Excellent video given the transfer issues. - Pony Moore The Phot.

@jorgearriola7671 Жыл бұрын

When things go bad remember your training

@flubesmith3751 4 жыл бұрын

Underway replenishment in rough seas. Those guys had it rough. Hard dangerous work. Many ships have collided performing this exercise over the years. I was after line handler on the identical class ship in the US Navy.

@KG84C 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Flube, glad you liked. We worked with many other navies, USN, RN and many others. We kept those Charles F Adams class running for about 35 years. We had 3, they were called Perth class as they were unique in that they had the Australian designed and made IKARA ASW missile rather than ASROC. Only took our government 15 years to replace them.

@flubesmith3751 4 жыл бұрын

@@KG84C The Adams class has its own Facebook page. Lots of posts from the Aussies. In fact the picture on top of the main page is that of an Aussie DDG, (no ASROC) facebook.com/groups/2455630198097840/

@ripperdingo 11 жыл бұрын

Best ship i ever sailed on and happiest too!!

@DrMatey215 Жыл бұрын

Those swell are pretty big. I'm surprised the captains went ahead with this revolution.

@opatxc78 4 жыл бұрын

haha the refuelling pipe was gold

@driverjeff1498 Жыл бұрын

Why dont you see if you can find rougher seas for that

@andrewstackpool4911 2 жыл бұрын

BZ. Great footage and great memories

@KG84C 2 жыл бұрын

There's more to see in some of the other videos on the channel.

@andrewstackpool4911 2 жыл бұрын

@@KG84C DE AS R+

@budibahariawans.7158 3 жыл бұрын

Wah it's dangerous when the host was broken. Lucky's when nobody HMAS Brisbane crews hurt. Good video & it's for our education how to do RAS problems.

@Nibby12 Жыл бұрын

Fun and games on the Fighting 41, I cut my teeth in 2 fire on this beauty during K81. Great ship and crew, great days.

@mikewalrus4763 2 жыл бұрын

You are supposed to store the fule inside the ship - not on deck!

@lesliebirch7477 11 жыл бұрын

Mmmmmmmm, foo foo, keep it coming.

@Dutchy1965 11 жыл бұрын

Served on The Steel Cat in 1985

@josephdioneda2881 10 ай бұрын

If this type of ship are still existed, perhaps they can be re-designated into a missile guided Frigates, since the new type of Destroyers today are much bigger and much heavier, than those old types.

@UssrichardebyrdAdamsClass 8 жыл бұрын

Help me out here please. Is the reason that they are refueling from the forward station because there is not an aft refueling station, on this class of Adams Class destroyer?

@flubesmith3751 4 жыл бұрын

I was on the after refueling station on Adams class DDG-22

@thomasjeakle5762 4 жыл бұрын

We had a fwd and aft one on DDG-6 also...and used to refuel using both at the same time.

@brucestasinowsky7426 4 жыл бұрын

The Brisbane (Hobart class) does have both stations. Not sure the reason for using the forward.

@graemebacon2149 4 жыл бұрын

DDG's used the fwd station preferably as the bridge could have a good view of what was going on. Think it all depends on balance of the receiving ships as by fuelling aft in those sea conditions it would be dragging the stern in a long way making it hard to keep the ship on course.

@Ansdus 3 жыл бұрын

@@brucestasinowsky7426 This is the first Brisbane ( Perth class)

@alexlanning712 3 жыл бұрын

Blimey, a bit of chop

@KG84C 11 жыл бұрын

Buster This is just some of what I have, I do have some of the previouse failed attempts from WES ras point, hoses flailing about. Just got to convert from Video8 to digital, tedious. I handed the camera to some stoker mates when I got called to the point for a comms cable problem, not sure if you would have noticed me on the catwalk, I was down on my guts taking cover, yep we do shit over on O195 too. Did you know any of the band? Did you know any of the band

@SMOBY44 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! I served on an American version of the same ship. USS Robison DDG-12. I always loved the rough seas, but then again I was a Machinist Mate in #2 engine room so never got wet much at sea. Would love to see more!

@ArtietheArchon 10 ай бұрын

2:00 yikes

@sullyman72 4 ай бұрын

BZ!

@onnokrabshuis0555 Жыл бұрын

No slac on the hose...

@kilderkin 9 жыл бұрын

Just as well they were using dieso & not foo foo's

@andrewstackpool4911 2 жыл бұрын

Yup been there done that got the t-shirt. Another fine Navy day, Now, no doubt there will be armchair admirals out there who will laugh at this seeming stuff-up, my advice is unless you have gone further to sea than a Manly ferry and been in this sort of weather, then you dunno what you are on about. Good shiphandling though. Oh, RAS and UNREP are the same thing, one Brit one US

@robertf3479 2 жыл бұрын

No doubt about the "Armchair Admirals." Rough seas, crowded seas or UNREP at night all present potentially deadly challenges. My first UNREP was at night on the Atlantic with a sea running, line handling. At times up to my ass in cold seawater, tons of fun and no one hurt.

@andrewstackpool4911 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertf3479 Yeah. We had a nasty one in Perth during a RIMPAC and another Up Top in SWAN. Also in a Korean frigate which left a couple of tons of dieso on the fo'c'sle. Their skipper was not a happy camper. And some may disagree but I'm with you. They always seemed more fun in heavier weather. Typical of matelots at least after the event?

@robertf3479 2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewstackpool4911 What a lot of people who've never been to sea don't realize is the precision and attention evolutions like this require. F'ing up will put ships in the Body and Fender shop and probably kill people. I was standing watch on my ship's Bridge when this happened. We were fueling at night near Sicily and a damned Italian trawler deliberately steered to pass between our DD and the oiler. If anything had gone wrong during the Breakaway you can guess what could have happened. We ensured we had all the appropriate lights burning bright and the oiler's Captain called the trawler on Channel 16 to warn him off. The blast of seafaring language (in ENGLISH) from the trawler told us exactly what he thought of Americans and pointedly refused to shear off. People like this trawler skipper are a special kind of hazard. I wouldn't put it past an enemy (a-hem *China*) to pull some crap like this to cause an incident.

@andrewstackpool4911 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertf3479 Yeah. But the good thing is that in that sort of scenario the screen should be able to assist them decline. The best one I had was a nutjob in a yacht who was in a crossing situation while we were RASing with the old SUPPLY. YUP. He was to starboard on a steady bearing. We tried to raise him on Ch16 and by sound signals but he wasn't having any of it. We commenced an emergency breakaway with everything shipshape but too late. He was caught up between the two ships, passed down the sides, dismissed by the jackstay and the yacht turned to driftwood by multiple collisions with ship sides. We got clear and recovered the bloke who started screaming and ranting about how steam gives way to sail, he had right of way as on our starboard bow etc etc. Our captain had a major dummy spit, dragged him by the scruff of the neck into the chart house, got the COLREGS open at the right spot and shouted 'read that you fkn moron!'

@lesliebirch7477 11 жыл бұрын

bring on the blackers.