Also those flat bottomed LSTs, bow takes a massive dip, stern comes completely out of the water with screws squealing, then a THUD as the stern is thrust back into the ocean while the bow rises...
Two feet forward, three feet back....
Haze Gray & Underway....
True on the ‘strap ins’, used to have to strap oneself into the chair while sitting radio circuits....FUN TIMES, especially when one is YOUNG, ‘DUMB’ and BULLET PROOF...
(DUMB in this case is outwardly showing NO FEAR), no matter the situation.
All the while the steel is creaking, popping and moaning as the ship flexes.
Sounds like you have ridden out a typhoon in in WESTPAC.
“the ‘strap ins’, used to have to strap oneself into the chair while sitting radio circuits.”
A sad event that I remember.
Thinking the crew were looking forward to a nice time in Australia and perhaps some interesting notes in a logbook.
Sad.
“On 8 January 2005, the Los Angeles-class submarine USS San Francisco, while underway and submerged, collided with an undersea seamount about 350 miles (560 km) south of Guam in the Marianas Islands. One of her sailors, Machinist mate 2nd Class (MM2(SS)) Joseph Allen Ashley, of Akron, Ohio, died from the injuries he suffered in the collision. This happened while San Francisco was on a high-speed voyage to visit Brisbane, Australia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_submarine_incidents_since_2000#USS_San_Francisco_collision_with_undersea_terrain