Everyone makes fun of the Coast Guard but they are in the smaller ships out in the worst weather all the time. Talk about taking a beating... I can attest.

I did ride the New Jersey from the East Coast to the West Coast in the '60's when she was sent to Nam, no real rough water. Rode the Mitchell in '64 to South Korea and hit a storm between Japan and the Philippines and as the bow went down you felt like you were floating and when rose you felt like you weigh about 3 times your weight. In '65 I discovered that Destroyers were half ship and half submarine. Rode through a storm during the night while in the Galley and a Chief was there drinking coffee and his wrist was like a gimbal and never spilled the the first drop and sayin that this storm was nothing, he said he was with Halsey when he went through a Typhoon during WWII.

I was in the U. S. Navy and served onboard the U.S. S. Ajax AR-6 which was commissioned in early 1942 and was designed and built as a Repair ship. It was a large ship with about 75 different repair shops that could repair, restore or manufacture parts and whole components like large valves as she had a fully equipped foundry for casting items, a Carpenter shop for making patterns for making the molds for the foundry and large fleet machine shop the could machine virtually anything. Inside the fleet machine shop was a storage rack that each could hold one barrel for either a large cruiser or destroyer barrel. This ship had a top speed of only 20 knots which I saw the ship attain as we sailed from Diego Garcia to Sydney Australia in late September to early October 1980. I would have to refer to the ship's cruise book for the exact dates. During that leg of our deployment we encountered a storm where we had quite heavy seas and severe rolls of over 33 degrees. I remember the mess decks having the tables and chairs stacked up and secured with ropes. All sailors eating on the mess decks were given paper plates and plastic ware. We sat on the floor to eat. Paper cups we used for our drinks. Many people were sick from the motion of the ship, down, up, left , right, some at the same time for a few days in a row. I was able to jump up a ladder 10 rungs as the bow of the ship fell away into a deep trough between massive waves buy lightly holding onto the stainless steel handrails and jumping just as the bow fell away. Our bunks had straps used to keep you from falling out of your bunk. Some berthing compartments had bunks stacked 4 high. It was a quite an experience for a 21 year old on his first Western pacific & Indian Ocean cruise.

"Storm tracking was not as good as it is today." You sir, have a talent for understatement that I have rarely heard matched.

I was in a Sub in about 1979 and we were on our way from Guam to the Philippines. There was a typhoon and all the other ships were directed away except us. We would not have any problems in most cases. We receive radio messages in the blind and the messages repeated from the top of the hour for ten hours. We were approaching the 10 hour point and we were could not keep an antenna out of the water long enough to keep a radio signal. The swell was about 200 feet and at times there were 50 foot plus breakers on top of the swell. Subs are round for the most part and we were taking 30 plus degree roles and angles. We had to surfish in order to get a SATCOM broadcast long enough to get our messages. It was the only time I ever felt a sub role when we were below 400 feet.

The USS Tang was dispatched to attack a Japanese weathership while it was heading to its patrol area. The position given turned out to be in the middle of typhoon cobra. A submarine can dive deep to avoid a storm of this magnitude. However if you're on the surface searching for your Target and then realize that you are in a typhoon you can't dive. You see when a submarine transitions from a ship to a submersible it goes through a moment of instability. Under these conditions that moment of instability could have rolled the ship like a log resulting in permanent loss of stability and loss of the ship. USS tank was forced to button up on the surface, running on the batteries and tried to maneuver to minimize the impact of waves. USS Tang was on the surface running high periscope and the periscope was submerging under the waves, meaning the waves were taller than the top of the periscope with tang on the surface. They estimated wave heights at 120 ft Plus. Tang was fortunate to get into the eye of the storm and in the relative calm there dive. They had to go blow 150 ft to minimize the role of the submarine submerged. My source for this is the bark clear the bridge by admiral retired Richard O'Kane. The ship's captain.

Gotta LOVE weather at sea - I've done serious storms and winter seas aboard Frigates to Aircraft Carriers, and the difference in the ride/safety is NOTED. One time up off Siberia - we not only took green-water over the bow on a frigate, but buried the flight deck as well - along with 20+ degrees of roll. Then again, in the Southern Ocean tween India and Australia aboard USS Kitty Hawk, we were doing transit in sea-state of 8 - barely noticed the motion on that big pig - and LAUGHED at the others who were seasick with less than 10 degrees of pitch and almost 0 roll.

Incredible story from the veteran who served with Gerald Ford

My father was on a British troop ship heading for India in early 1941. Their escort was HMS Hood. The troop ship was tossed around in the swells of an Atlantic storm but my father said HMS Hood rode right through them. Shortly thereafter the Hood left to join in the hunt for Bismarck and met its end.

Sometime around late eighties onboard USS Saratoga (CV-60) we were alerted to a 1mc announcement to come out and see what Mr and Mrs Borda’s son Mike can do today. Adm Borda was battle group commaner. When we got on deck the USS New Jersey was coming by us on the port side she fired a full broadside across our bow. One of the most impressive sights I saw in 22 years!

That ship is by far the best thing about New Jersey.

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Amazing to hear Mr Owen Garrison‘s recount of the storm. Thank you for keeping memory of our veterans alive.

During Viet Nam the USS New Jersey BB-62 hit a storm. We hit it at night doing 22 knots and were in it 3 days. We took solid green water up to the 05 level. We lost both motor whale boats. It took off all starboard hand rails and replenishing lights. It pushed in the most forward starboard door going into offices country.

I’ve been boating since I was 5 years old, I’m now 64 and have never been seasick.Two years ago I took my 42 foot Bristol Trawler from Syracuse NY to Jacksonville Florida single handed and spent the winter. One time on Lake Ontario it was very rough and my dog threw up and went in his crate,as soon as I pulled into the Sodus Bay inlet and the water calmed down he came out happy as a clam!

I served from 1996 to 2000 and was aboard the USS John C. Stennis CVN-74. I was on her for her first 2 deployments in 98 and 00. Both times we went to Australia after being in the Persian Gulf. Both times we went was during their winter so the seas were very rough. As we sailed down to Australia, some of the waves we were hitting were so huge they would come up over our bow and flow down the flight deck. Of course we were pitching heavily, but even so from the waterline to the flight deck was around 75 to 80ft or so, so seeing those waves come up over the bow was amazing. Walking up the ladders was a challenge too. You had to time the waves. If you tried walking up while the ship was pitching up, it felt like God had his hand on your head and was pushing down on you. If you tried when it was pitching down, it felt like you were floating up the ladder. I personally never got seasick, but know a few guys who did. Going through those seas were also the best sleep I ever got. The seas just rocked you to sleep. I miss those days. I could really feel it in my berthing space too. It was at frame 21, so very close to the bow and was on the 01 level, so just above the hanger deck or main deck. I was also right under the forward catapults, so sleeping during flight ops was a challenge til I got used to it.

Hi, Ryan. I'm an Army guy (Vietnam) but did have a seasick experience when my wife and I took a cruise from NYC to Bermuda. On the return trip the engines suddenly stopped and nobody said anything for about 45 minutes. People were getting concerned. Finally the captain announced that we had stopped to allow a tropical storm to travel up the east coast and we'd swing in behind. After a couple of hours we resumed, but by now it was dusk and the forward horizon was steady lightning. Our stateroom was forward-facing and high enough up that the only thing above us was the Captain's stateroom. Even so, during the early morning hours waves were breaking over our windows. Later the crew said we'd gone through 30-foot seas. Luckily, the ship was older and built in Greece for service across the North Atlantic, unlike modern shallow-draft cruise ships. Everything on the nightstands ended up on the deck, and all the water sloshed out of the toilet bowl. I'd had a sinus infection so, yes, I was very sick. Later, when I went to the dispensary, the ship's doctor told me they had treated bone fractures during the night. I never went on another cruise! When I researched the ship's name recently, she lies at the bottom of the sea after a horrific fire in the Philippines.

Nimitz: "This ship that was involved in the incident in the Phillipine Sea, the USS Pittsburg?" Halsey: "The one the front fell off?" Nimitz: "Yes." Halsey: "That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point." Nimitz: "Well how is it untypical?" Halsey: "Well there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don't want people thinking heavy cruisers aren't safe." Nimitz: "Was this heavy cruiser safe?" Halsey: "Well, I was thinking more about the other ones." Nimitz: "The ones that are safe." Halsey: "Yeah, the ones the front doesn't fall off."

I was on the USS California (CLGN36). It took me 24 hrs to adjust to sea motion each time we went out. I have lots of fun memories. I enjoy your New Jersey stories. Thanks 😊

I was in the Vietnam War Zone three times. Twice it was on the U.S.S. Cogswell, DD-651, which was one of the last WWII Fletcher class destroyers still in commission. She was never Frammed, and still had an open bridge. We went through several bad storms in the Pacific, and during one storm we were taking 53 degree rolls. She was designed in 1943 to take a maximum 56 degree roll befor capsizing. But that was well before a lot of top heavy electronics were added. The metacenter was never recalculated, so we didn't know for sure at what point she would capsize, but we knew for sure it was going to be less than the original maximum of 56 degrees. That storm lasted three days, and for three days we watched as the inclinometer on the bridge continually hit 53 degrees. We had our hearts in our throats for three straight days. I was the Main Propulsion Officer at the time, and I knew how close we were to rolling over. To this day, I have no interest in even going out on a rowboat on a small lake.

FWIW, about how the different ships handle various sea states: the first ship I was on was the USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) and was assigned to V-1 (Flight Deck) division. It wasn't unusual for me to watch some of the Underway Replenishment operations the Enterprise conducted. On Enterprise's flight deck one could feel the ship pitching and rolling so gently that if one wasn't on the flight deck with a reference to the horizon one might think that the Enterprise wasn't pitching and rolling at all. Then I would observe a destroyer alongside the Enterprise doing an UNREP. And then observe that at various times the sea was either washing over the destroyer's deck almost to where her forward 5 inch gun mount was located, or conversely that her bow was pretty much completely out of the water and you could just about see her bottom. The guys on the destroyer manning the various lines and performing other duties were hanging on for dear life to anything they could grab a hold of. Meanwhile the Enterprise continued on with her gentle pitch and roll that was scarcely noticeable. Thus your argument that Halsey might not have realized how bad the storm was because the New Jersey was able to ride it so well has merit.

I have seen the New Jersey at sea from the ship I was on many times. She certainly seemed to be a very good sea boat and looked to behave in a far more stable manner than the little frigates and the lithe, lean destroyers that accompanied us. She cut through the waves very gracefully. I got to observe her at all different distances and in all but the worst of seas and I have to say I would much rather be aboard the New Jersey than any of those small boys during a storm.

A friend of mine wore a t-shirt at work, USS New Jersey, "we lob shells as big as your Chevy 26? miles." This was around 1972 or so, and he had returned from Vietnam service.

I was on a destroyer in 1968(USS Fechteler DD870). On my first weekend cruise out of Long Beach, we were off Catalina Island. I was an ET. The chief asked me to read some numbers on the multimeter. I said as well as I could that if I opened my mouth any further I would throw up. He said to go out and throw up over the side and get someone else to help him. After that I never became seasick but I did get angry when you were being thrown around and could not control your body movements. At 6'6" I found that steel doesn't give when you hit your head on it. Once we were taking almost 40 degree rolls on the edge of a typhoon. Some guys never got used to it but crackers that were always available on the mess deck helped them a bit.

We went through a storm rounding the horn of southern Australia on a westpac in 01. The waves were coming up over the flight deck on CV-64 USS Constellation. The ocean was basically all white caps. Totally epic.

My father went through a typhoon in 1949 on his way to Japan on a dead ship that was being towed. Everybody was praying they would survive but my dad was so seasick, he was praying for it to sink. When he came home in 52, they put him on a B29.

I was in a typhoon in 1983 (IIRC) in the South China Sea while deployed to USS David R Ray, a Spruance destroyer. The DESRON commander was on board and we were scheduled to participate in Exercise Cobra Gold in the Gulf of Thailand. We were in Hong Kong on a port visit and there were reports of a typhoon in the SCS. Of course, the DESRON commander was NOT going to miss the exercise, so off we went. As we departed Hong Kong, we were already taking heavy rolls and we weren't even close to the storm. When we were in the storm, one night I headed to chow. To get there I walked the long passageway on the first deck that led directly to the mess decks. That was my first exposure to the storm. I literally walked most of that passageway on the bulkhead. We would roll many degrees and the ship would just hang there. Best thing about chow in a typhoon? Not much of a line. Ha! After chow, I had to go up to the Main Deck. I took my first step to go up a ladder and all of a sudden I found myself at the top of the ladder! Just as I was stepping up onto the first step, the ship dropped into a trough and boom! top of the ladder. What if the ladder had been oriented in the opposite direction? The weight of the ship would have come down on my head I would think and I wouldn't be writing this right now. I did get a chance to see what the seas were like outside the skin of the ship. It still makes me shudder to think of what it would have been like to fall overboard in such seas. The most incredible story I ever read about a ship in a typhoon was that of USS Dewey in Typhoon Cobra. They took an almost 90 degree roll! My Lord! Now THAT'S a sea story!

In 1966 while serving aboard the Alfred A Cunningham DD-752 as a Radioman one of our crew needed to be hospitalized to have his appendix removed. I was selected to operate the PRC 10 aboard the motor launch to bring him into Keelung, Taiwan ….we had to anchor out from the harbor for some reason…the following seas towards shore made the trip easy, but on the way back to the ship it was rough but I was ok…ok until we came alongside and because of the up and down movements of the launch and the steadiness of the destroyer I lost it over the side! Thank God my dentures stayed in! We were all wet and very glad to get back aboard..We all got a rum ration that I didn’t even drink.

I was aboard USS Coral Sea (CVA43) when we actually had the antennas on the angle deck dragging in the water, and the starboard catwalk on the angle deck was submerged. That was 1963 and she came back up!

I spent a large part of the winter of 71-72 running back and forth across the North Atlantic on a 420’, shallow draft Electronics Survey ship. 15-20* rolling was pretty normal, and we got as bad as 45* occasionally. You got your sea legs quick or suffered. No bull, never missed a meal, but had to strap into my bunk wedged in with a life jacket to get much sleep. Ah, the good old days?

My father's heavy cruiser was in Halsey's Typhoon. She took a 46 degree roll which took the starboard airplane overboard. The bow gun tub was ripped off. Other than that, she did fine. Very few reports of sea sickness. I understand some of the carriers took 70 degree rolls. My father said they looked like billboards. As you mentioned, some DDs took 90 degree rolls which allowed seawater to enter the stack. In May 1945 she was drydocked and had her bow strengthened.

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During WW 2 the Queen Mary was used as a troop ship. As many as 15,000 men and their equipment would sail to Europe on each crossing. I've learned this during a tour of her. On this tour I saw a picture taken from a bomber heading to Europe of the Queen Mary almost completely submerged in a storm. Only the very top deck and the funnels were visible through the waves and spray.One of the most amazing pictures I've ever seen and, needless to say, she made it through.

My father was on the Monterey (CVL 26, Carrier) when it went through this storm. The planes in the hanger deck broke loose and caused a fire which seriously threatened the ship.

There is a picture on the Queen Mary we saw during a tour of her, taken from a bomber ferrying to Europe during WW2. It shows her in a storm in the North Atlantic. She was used as a troop ship during the war and could carry 15,000 troops and equipment each crossing. This particular picture shows the waves covering the entire ship, one of the largest liners ever built at over 1,000 feet and 80,000 tons. All you could see of her is the very top and the three funnels. Amazing that the ocean can get that rough and this beautiful ship still got through.

I have visited all eight floating battleships, and appreciate your presentation. More later. Thanks.

To show you the amazing sealing power of Flex Seal, we replaced the bottom of this Iowa Class Battleship with 2000 screen doors! Love your channel and passion for keeping such an incredible part of our history alive!

In the late ‘60’s while serving on the USS Hornet, we went through a typhoon in the South China Sea. Waves were 55-60 ft high. The wave period was such that the ship rode over two consecutive waves and through the third. We had the hurricane bow, but is was still dangerous in the forecastle. Not just from the violent motion throwing personnel about, but from the pounding of sea on the hawse covers. Each of the covers was 2’ x 2’ x 2”, with 8 - 1” dogs bolting the cover down. After over 15-20 hours of the pounding, the bolts sheared off and the hawse cover flew 75-80 feet and ricocheted of the after bulkhead like a b-b shot! It was being in a bell with the house cover being the ringer. It scared the hell out of me. The chief bos’n immediately cleared the forecastle.

Imagine abandoning ship in the middle of a hurricane- massive waves breaking over you, the wind stifling any cry for help you might make, the cold water sapping your strength, all in darkness. What a nightmare those men who’s ships went down in those storms had to endure, I hope some of them managed to survive.

Ryan, I must say- the production quality from you and the team has improved immensely! Looking very professional! Thank you for the uploads

I got sick on the Coral Sea once but I don't think it was seasick as I woke up suddenly and had to barf. The berthing space was on the 03 level and as I recall, it was pretty calm. After one bout of sick in the head I was fine. Big carriers roll very slowly, it's 30 seconds or more for one cycle and while under way, and they don't roll that much. One time though, we went dead in the water out in the Molucca straight for some maintenance reason. Then she rolled! You could stand on the hanger deck and look out one of the big elevator openings which are something like 25 feet high with the deck level about 20 feet above the water and see all water, all sky, all water, all sky. A lot of shops had weight sets to do a little work out off shift. If you were doing bench presses or dumbbell presses and the bench was set up out toward the edges of the deck (mostly in the hangar bay) you had to deal with variable weight weights. If you had 50 lbs on the bar it would way 70 on the up-roll and 30 on the down-roll.

Yes, seasick the first day or two after shore leave but then it stops. Then, going into a storm, sick again. Once we were moored out in Athens, Greece when the sea was rolling into shore during calm weather. Seasick then, too. A type of vertigo was also happening when we went on shore after a cruse. The land seemed to rock back and forth.

I was a helmsman on the heavy cruiser Saint Paul in 67 & 68 when we departed Hong kong to head into a typhoon. Thank you for this program.

As her Weapons Officer, I was in Iowa in 1985 in the vicinity of Iceland in 30-foot seas. The ship rode well with heeling about 12 degrees either side when on the best course. The main problem was the boarding seas which came aboard where the hull widened out from the narrow bow and broke the lashings on the lowest boat in the midships davits slamming them into the boat above.

I have to geek back to my video graphics days for a second and tell you just how killer that intro bumper is with the block letters masked over footage of the New Jersey in rough seas. Really captures the essence of the ship IMHO. Nice work.

As a six year old we sailed from Bayonne, NJ on the Troop Transport USNS Darby. We ran into a hurricane and we rocked and rolled. My dad kept us busy and mostly topside so we were one of the few that actually went to chow and kept it down. I learned to love the motion even when we were in our cabin as we had a porthole. The glass was closed but the deadlight was not and we watch the horizon as we rolled. There were times the sea got very close to our level as we rolled and it was a wild view.

I like the git-r-done style of these videos. No slick editing or a bunch of added entertainment stuff, just pure substance.

On the way to Viet Nam on the USNS Geiger I got a little queasy the first couple of days out, but I was an "ossifer" so I was damned if I'd let the enlisted men see me get sick. 3 weeks later approaching Okinawa we hit the tail end of a typhoon, and I actually loved the "ride" & watching waves break over the bow.

I was on the USS Sides, FFG-14 during some rough seas when more than a third of the ship's complement was down with motion sickness. My station was in CIC, but I made my way up to the bridge, in the doorway, not actually on it, and was able to see our sister ship having her bow to the forecastle submerged in water, come roaring back up, and plunge again, over and over. While I could feel movement on our ship, it didn't feel that profound, but seeing what the seas were doing to another Perry-class frigate made me understand what was happening to ours, and I back to feel nauseous. To combat this, I left the bridge and set myself to whatever tasks I could to keep my mind busy and the nausea quickly passed. In fact, I made my way to the mess hall only to discover the seas were too rough to cook in and accepted an apple. Crunching into that led to many of the "old salts" feeling a little queasy themselves. In the above, we had recently has stabilizers installed and they worked well enough.

yooo that veteran, in the beginning, gave me chills with that story o.o

According to some of the men that I've heard speak on storms as sea during WWII they said that usually the big ships, battleships and fleet carriers "faired pretty good, but the little tin cans (destroyers) were tossed around something fierce" to the point they burned so much fuel trying to keep up the big ships had to slow down to refuel them.

I grew up on the east end of Long Island, New York, where for several years I commercial lobstered during the summers prior to joining the Navy. The first time out each summer the running joke was about getting sick when you opened up that first bait barrel of the season. Lobsters eat decaying fish, so imagine the smell as you cracked open a 30 gallon barrel of rotting fish on a hot summer's day. Then having to reach your arm fully into the barrel, your face just inches away from the opening, to grab some bait while the boat is being gently tossed about by the waves. If you didn't get sick at that point you were good to go for the season. Personally I never had a problem. Fast forward a few years later, I reported aboard the USS Badger, after completing boot camp and "A" school, where she was in drydock at Pearl Harbor. For several months the guys in my division would taunt and tease me about getting sea sick and how they were "old salts". Two in particular, one Third Class and one Second Class Petty Officer, would rib me constantly as we got closer to the day that the ship was to get underway for the first time since I had reported aboard. That day finally arrived and right after breakfast the sea and anchor detail was set. As a young Operations Specialist, I was in Combat, learning the ropes from the the Third Class mentioned above. We were still in the harbor and hadn't reached the breakwater when he started to turn green. He made a beeline to the weather deck, two water tight hatches away, in the hopes to reach the railing and get sick over the side. As he open the outer hatch, accessing the weather deck, he lost his breakfast. Hilariously, at least for me, he vomited all over the Second Class Petty Officer mentioned above, who promptly lost his own breakfast. Needless to say, I never gave them any slack about how salty they were.

I've found your channel only recently, so I have a huge backlog of videos to watch, but the story Owen Garrison told here really moves my heart. Can't imagine how terrible it was to fight enemy that you can't win against - the nature herself. Greetings from Poland, you're doing amazing job!

I had an Uncle H Misskelley who was stationed aboard the USS Pittsburgh & experienced this Typhoon. He spoke several times about that experience.

WOW what revelations - bless our wonderful men we lost, so sad..........

My Dad was a Marine on board the battleship Maryland BB 46 from 1942 - 1945. He was a Platoon Sargent and his battle station was as a gun captain. You toured Marine compartments and it peaked my interest on the role of Marines on board battleships. Can you please help me understand the duties and responsibilities of Marines on board as well as the battle stations they manned. My Dad told me stories long ago and I have been unable to track down anything but brief statements about Marines aboard the battleships. Thank you.

My dad, still with us, was on the Tennessee and rode out the typhoon.

My Dad did two North Atlantic cruises in the early 70's on a destroyer. He would strap himself into his bunk at night and wake up in the morning with bruises on his arms. All day and all night up one wave and down the other with the ship rolling from side to side. When his ship came back into port I asked him why the ladder rails connecting upper and lower decks on the exterior of the ship had all kinds of dents and bends in them. He nonchalantly said "waves"

I love learning from this channel

Four years in the Navy and I got Sea Sick once. Coming out of dry docks in Guam, we had received several Green Seaman, fresh out of Boot Camp. We headed out for Sea Trials and the Boots were Barfing over the side, and I made fun of them and them proceeded to the Ammo Locker. I turned GREEN, ran topside, and joined my shipmates feeding the fish. Never again did I ever make fun of anyone who was Sea Sick! Learned my lesson well and never got Sea Sick again.

Learned so much from this channel. I’ve thought about the effects of storms on the Navy. Seeing the footage of the storms slamming into these ships is unbelievable.

This is the best Iowa class battleship because you can see a metal concert on the Camden Waterfront with this ship as a background! It's crazy watching a band with this warship as a background, I highly recommend it.

My Dad was on the USS Randolph (CV-15) while it weathered Hurricane Edna in 1954. He was on watch duty on the upper superstructure when she rolled 35 degrees to port. At the moment of maximum roll, he lost the contents of his stomach. He said he observed the "bolus" fall to the flight deck below and off the far side of the ship.

I was aboard Iowa in the North Atlantic in 1985 in roughly 30-foot swells. Our escort completely disappeared in the troughs at times. Iowa was taking seas over the bow, and the sailors in turret one looked down through the ventilation holes in the aft end of the turret booth to see water a foot deep sweeping across the deck. The port side whaleboat was lifted out of its cradle by the seas and smashed into the bottom of the captain's gig, and a couple of weather doors in the stbd side superstructure 01-level were damaged.

I know about that rock and rolling. Went through a couple typhoons in South China Sea in a WWII DE.

So Halseys meteorologist was as sharp as Beatty’s signal officer

Seasick, yes I have. Back in 1988 we rented a 38' Hatteras on a fishing outing. We left Harwichport, Cape Cod in the early morning. Heading toward Nantucket in a gently rolling Atlantic. Between the constant rolling of the boat and the endless smell of diesel exhaust swirling aft of the bridge, I did get seasick. Vomiting was a big part of the day. The only way to escape the constant exhaust was to move and remain foreward on the bow. But that presented it's own issues, the more pronounced up and down action from the ocean swells. On the plus side, we did catch many bluefish in the shallows near Nantucket.

I was a cattc on a few carriers during my 30 year career in the navy. I can remember and have pictures being at my station up in the island and going through storms, like typhoons, hurricanes, etc,, especially if we had to be at an assigned mission by a certain time, and in one case, had to plow through a big one, while the smaller escorts were sent around the storm to avoid damage, the iran hostage crisis, and the storm we went through, looking out the windows and not being able to see over the tops of some of the waves. Took some damage and had to pull into the PI's to get the front of the flight deck fixed up, before continuing on with our rescue mission. And anyone on a carrier that was a converted battle wagon, knows how much rockin and rolling it does during rough seas.

During WW2 German submarines sent regular weather information to base by coded radio broadcasts. This regularity of sending specific standard information was of use in breaking their codes.

So the weatherman led them astray... nice to see some things never change!!

Well done Sir!

Good stuff, TY. Yes sick as a dog! When I was 14, I rode the USS Rodgers back from Pearl to SD on a Tiger cruse. 2 DDGs headed home from Nam. Zero S given about the weather. Punching through one wave and riding over the next. On a good one I could see 1/4 of the keel on the other ship. Dad was an OSC. I was dry heave sick riding foreword in Chief's quarters. They found room for me in Officers country. The rest of the storm was a piece of cake. Loved every minute of it to this day.

Years ago in high school I wrote a paper on the book Halsey's Typhoon. Fantastic book, worth the read.

Love those great sailors sharing what it was really like in the Pacific theater. Thank you. You are the best.

I first sailed on aircraft carriers most of my career. My first time at sea on the ENTERPRISE I got slightly ill but adjusted in a matter of hours. After that I never had a problem again, even when I sailed on the cruiser ARKANSAS (CGN 41). We sailed under Africa from the Atlantic on to Perth Australia. Despite the heavy seas, I felt fine, fairing better than some of the small ship Sailors.

The USS Upshur troopship in 02/1968 going to Vietnam ran into a north Pacific storm and waves were breaking over the bow. That was a wild ride for the 7th Squadron, 1st Cavalry regiment.

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You may want to brush up on the relationship between righting moment arm and center of buoyancy. I was on a Forrest Sherman class destroyer.. The maximum righting moment was at 45 degrees and while the righting arm became smaller at angles greater than 45 degrees it was still present up to 90 degrees. This means that at 45 degrees of roll you have the greatest force trying to right the vessel. In rough seas this provides a very snappy roll. I did experience both green water over the bridge (height of eye 35 ft) and rolls of 60 degrees in the North Atlantic.

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My experience was that every time we got underway, I would get seasick!!! Because of the type of ship I was on (Destroyer Tender) we stayed in port for months at a time. So, when we did get underway, it started all over again!!! Seasick for 2 or 3 days!!

On our trip in Vietnam we hit a storm that took a door and bent the heck out of it on the main deck just aft #1 turret starboard side. Water has a lot of force. It was a storage locker if I remember.

New sub at 95.1k. I see you are close to 100,000 and I'll be part of that. I was an MM on a the FF-1082 (USS E. Montgomery) in the mid 80's. The gentleman narrating knows his s**t. I was in some rough water in N. Atlantic but I absolutely loved the storms. I probably would be scared of today.

10:44 That backs up how my father-in-law described destroyers rolling in the summer typhoon 1945. The funnels would touch the water and the ship would roll the other direction and funnels would touch again. Then some started to roll over and disappear. He did not know the water going down the funnels was knocking out boilers. He highly respected the guys on "the fightingest ships in the Navy" and felt terrible watching the beating the destroyers & smaller cruisers were taking. They were the perfect length/design to wallow/roll badly during a bad typhoon. My F-I-L was on a Yard Minesweeper which bobbed like a cork or fishing bobber up/down more like a roller coaster ride. Later came the kamikazes.....

I served on the USCGC Seneca in the late 80’s. We left Guantanamo Bay in the middle of the night into hurricane Gilbert to rescue a oil platform supply ship. The boat got trashed, lost a generator and just beat the hell out of us.

I had a relative who was a Battleship Sailor (Combat) and career Navy. He said that a Battleship was the smoothest ride in the Navy.

I remember the troop ship heading for Vietnam, starting in Oakland, then heading up the coast to Tacoma to pick up more troops. We definitely had water going over the bow. I was sick as hell. Got some orders from somebody, but couldn't do anything. Once we got out into the Pacific it was a lovely trip, very nice seas. A very pleasant, relaxing time. Really didn't want to see land on that trip, but it did happen. Actually "hit the beach" from landing craft. We didn't know what was going on. Anyway, since then, I've "sailed" boats, 17 footers, in races in fairly stormy weather on Lake Erie and late Ontario. I just don't get sick doing that.

I spent 4 years on U.S.S. Truxtun DLG(N)-35 1970-74 as a Nuc MM. We met the ship in Subic Bay and headed north to the Sea of Japan. It just so happened the second day on board was the day for Advancement Exams, so we sat on the Mess Decks taking exams with our little puke cups beside us. Truxtun was a one of a-kind ship with 2 huge lattice masts so it rolled a lot, you would find yourself walking on passageway walls on large rolls. After that first day sea sickness never bothered me.

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They did find the bow of USS Pittsburgh after the storm. I think that part of the ship was towed back to Ulithi. I think the radio message either from the aircraft or from its base was that they had found the suburb of Pittsburgh.

I could watch WW2 vets talk about their experiences ALL DAY

I just found this channel and this is my first video. I really appreciate the casual nature and well informed take of this video. This is great! Quality content!

I served on the USS Bryce Canyon, AD-36, from ‘66-‘68 as an HM3 and made a few WESTPAC cruises, but never went through anything like these storms; thank goodness!

I was on the USS Iwo Jima HLP in 1969 going from Viet Nam to Philippines when we got hit by a Typhoon, hearing the props over rav due to them coming out of the water is very scary but not as scary as the sounds the hull was making - loud bangs and groans that were completely unnerving No one got any sleep that night.

I was twice in typhoons and they hit about 2 to 3 days out from land. We had to heave to in one of them and when we arrived at Amagasaki we were 3 feet down by the bow. The storm had stove in the anchor which raptured the anchor housing and we took 1500 tons of water which filled the entire foreward parts, right up to the fo'c'sle deckhead. We were at anchor when the chief mate and the bosun took a couple of sailors went up ot open the fo'c'sle doors and check the damage. One of the sailors took a lump hammer(10 pound hammer) and started opening the cleats on the stbd. door and the water was seeping out, which went to gushing and on the last cleat he whacked it with the hammer and the door flew open and he was washed down the deck while the others ran away! The other time was a very hairy experience, I was officer of the watch from 8 to 12 one night and the storm was raging, there was an electrical storm too and I looked ahead and saw the biggest wave I ever saw coming towards us, I called the Captain to come and have a look, he arrived fast. He took a look and whistled and said, "there's f**k all we can do about it now" it seemed to take forever to arrive and all hell broke loose, sea everywhere but we came out of it, now I know what submarines feel like. The damage was quite extensive but really only cosmetic. I went through a lot of storms at sea but those things are cruel. I was in a Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico one time, that wqas entertaining. Those ships were 25000 ton bulk carriers from a Scottish shipping company. One more thing about those big storms is when the is coming at you and you are climbing these enormous waves, the ship sort of glides over the waves and glides towards the oncoming sea and now picking up speed. We hit the oncoming sea at about 10 knots and then all hell breaks loose and the sea has come over the fo'c'sle and as far back as number 3 crane, we had 5. The ship would be now struggling to get going but she did, the accommodation was all on the aft end of the ship and when we hit those seas the whole aft end would shake, as if in an earh quake, seriously. This went on for quite a considerable time. It was fun back then, I am an old man now and prefer watching it on youtube instead. I went to school on a square rigger. Good times when you are a young man.

Did I ever get sea sick before? Yes, I was on my final time at sea on my Submarine USS SCRANTON SSN-756, PLANK OWNER. We were pulling into Norfolk and for the first time ever I actually got sea sick. After 4 yrs at sea and never had been sea sick before at all until my last piloting party entering Norfolk!! I was stunned, couldn't understand why now of all times!. I miss the sea , best days of my youth being on that Submarine and being a part of the Silent Service.

Yep, served on a guided missile destroyer, 1987/88 WESTPAC cruise with the USS Ranger (CV 61) battle group (Battle Group Echo) who joined up with the USS New Jersey battle group, cruising/patrolling the Persian gulf and North Arabian Sea (Gonzo Station). On the way back home to San Diego ran straight into a typhoon in the South China Sea as we rounded Singapore on our way to Hong Kong. Wow, ya gotta experience in person the power of the ocean and storm, words or film don't do it justice, huge ocean swells ("green water over the side"), winds howling, boat's rockin' and a rollin', our screws would sometimes come out of the water when we crested a huge wave (gotta watch those shaft RPMS!). When we slipped down into the trough it seemed like there was a wall of water in front of the ship until the bow dug in and we popped up on the crest of the wave. Even though things were strapped down tight on the main deck stuff still got torn away and washed overboard, like the starboard ladder going up to the ASROC deck. The forward fire station on the fo'c'sle was clean ripped off. We had a couple of expansion joints on the main deck about amidships to try and manage the twisting and flexing of the ship which after riding through that typhoon needed repair work when we got back to San Diego. We had to clean footprints off the bulkheads about waist high in the main passageway because as you rocked n rolled you learned to walk down the passageway by putting your foot on the bulkhead depending on whether the ship rolled to port or starboard. The bunks had these wide canvass straps that you used to strap in the sailors who got sea sick and were pretty much useless ("hang on man, we'll be in Hong Kong in three days..."). I'm glad I didn't get sea sick, it was absolute misery for some of the guys. We'd go up to the signal bridge and dodge the waves that broke over the bow, hit the bridge and sprayed water up and over the signal bridge. And yes, if you go "hot and dark" (loss of power due to loss of boiler fires) in this kind of sea you are in big, big trouble...BTs had to be on the ball! Great stuff!

My Grandfather was on the U.S.S. San Jacinto, and told stories about how devastating that storm was. Typhoons are no joke, and taking a fleet through one, is insane. Halsey didn't have a choice though, he tried to out run it, but eventually had to turn in to it. My Grandfather said the storm was so bad that literally split a DD in half.

My Dad served in the Army in Europe in WWII. He was wounded in action on December 4th, 1944. After surgery to repair his right arm in England, he was sent back to the states on a hospital ship. He told me that was one miserable trip. TO him it seemed like one continuous bad storm for the entire trip. He was forced to stay in his bed with his right arm and part of his chest in a cast. The ship was pitching so bad the prop would come out of the water and shake the entire ship. I think this bothered him more than getting shot! I am both Air Force and MI Army National Guard. I have flown in many aircraft both military and civilian. I never got airsick even in some pretty bumpy rides. I did get vertigo once flying. A Sgt I knew that worked in the Wing Command Post asked me if I would go up with him. He had just gotten enough hours to take passengers. We took off from Grissom AFB. At my request he practiced a couple of stalls and recoveries. When we got back in the pattern at Grissom, he flew the downwind leg and made the turn onto base leg. Then he surprised me by saying the airplane is mine! I took the control yoke and both pulled back and twisted it to make the turn onto final. I may have banked a bit more than needed, but the plane held altitude. I was watching the runway come around and twisting my head to look up and left to see the compass. I knew the compass heading for the runway. This turning my head to see both gave me a strong case of vertigo. I knew that when flying an airplane, trust your instruments and not anything your body is telling you. So I ignored the vertigo and continued the turn. As we got close to the heading I focused on the compass and eased the plane back to straight and level flight. We were both shocked that when I was done, we were perfectly aligned with the center line of 2 miles of Grissom AFB runway! The first and last time I have flown an airplane!

I was on a channel ferry from Belgium to Dover England in very choppy waves, People all around me were getting sea sick and vomiting on deck and would go back inside. My dad and I stayed outside on deck and never got sick. We also had a beautiful view of the white cliffs of Dover.

1965 Sailing from Road Island to Cuba, Gitmo .. left November 3 into a North Atlantic winter storm, 30 foot waves on an LST flat bottomed ship designed to run up on beaches ... everyone including the crew was sick for 5 days.