[neverevergiveup]

Why are ships painted grey? Is that the most stealth color at sea? I would think you'd want to be painted the same color as the ocean, but I guess grey would make you less visible on the horizon?

[Afterguard]

That’s a pretty long at-sea period but it’s not really rare. Waaaaay back in the ‘70s my squadron made two 9 month deployments in a four year period. The reason was a realignment in deployment cycles for two of our sister squadrons. That may have been a factor here, too. But of course the published reason is the ‘Rona.

Kudos to the ship and her crew!

[jmcenanly]

It could have a worse. Consider the voyage of the Codfish

[TexasTransplant]

215 days is a record?

I’d have to look it up but on Kittyhawk I think we did like 367 days and that wasn’t even close to what they did during WW2