So - have any of our FR sailors slept in a hammock while at sea?
“So - have any of our FR sailors slept in a hammock while at sea?”
No. But a nuclear warhead kept my feed warm.
Nope. Soft steel bed pan. Lift it up for space for your stuff.
Actually yes, but it was in the cabin of a 40 foot Freedom Ketch on a sail from the Chesapeake to Jacksonville. Took almost 10 days! Beating into a head wind and trying to stay outside the Gulf Stream. It was a bucket list trip that I never want to repeat. 😬
My husband was on the Aircraft Carrier Independence doing a 9 month Mediterranean cruise during the Viet Nam war. He was a “brown shirt” (took care of the planes). They had racks and his bunk was directly underneath the flight deck by the arresting cable #3. He said it sounded like a dragon whenever it was utilized. A crash first when the plane hit the deck then the loud roar/squeal of the cable every 45 seconds. Flight operations went every 45 minutes. There were times when the cable was missed and it broke the rhythm - a crash and no roar. Somehow he got used enough to it to get some sleep. He said working the flight deck was the most exciting thing he has ever done and that’s after 20+ years as a firefighter.
We had racks, with “all hands heave out and trice up” as a reminder of hammock days. My ship was built in 1940; I served aboard from ‘61 through ‘64, so she was well broken in.