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What kind of ship were you on? That damn flat bottomed LSD would rock like crazy in 4 foot seas......... Under power! It took the boiler techs well over an hour to get the plant back lit back off, stabilized and under power. It rocked like crazy in beautiful calm weather! I couldn't imagine being dead in the water close to a typhoon!
LHD ( also flat bottom)…..

We had a main space fire prior to this, so we were limping to guam on one boiler…. The typhoon blew in, and CO decided not to try pulling into the port with one engine (there’s these long jetties that stick out, that you have to go between….not good in rough seas with one screw)…. So we were waiting out the storm, when the ship took a crazy roll, and some of the bricks in the firebox of the remaining boiler fell down…. They shut it down immediately to avoid another fire.

The ship obviously wasn’t doing great before that…. We were on the return trip of a nine month deployment, with enough time without pulling into port in the middle of it, that we got two beer days without pulling into port between, plus we were well onto the way to our third. Was a shitty deployment (right when Iraq kicked off, we were right next to the Shilo, I watched them launch their missiles at Baghdad with my own eyes)…. :pass:
 
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