thats me at the end of the video looking at the other ships. im the short guy standing beside the other guy. almost positive. see my facebook page..name is tony lupis. i remeber starting the simms we had to hang matresses over the side.
@tbi109 As I remember it beat up both ships pretty bad. Didn't you go to drydock when we got back? That was when we went to Arthur W Radford. Did you get my personal message?
@tbi109 I had forgotten about losing the doors. We didn't fly again until inchop so I never saw the hole they left. Seems like I remember the sonar dome having cracks as well.
if i recall correctly the indy had a man overboard during this storm. video must have been shot during the first day of the storm because the swells dont look like the ones i was seeing but it is an excellent video. a lot scarey at night.
@tbi109, Indy lost two men overboard and they were recovered the next day. Air wing called over to see if we could launch to assist. No could do. We had every chain we owned holding the helicopter on deck and whenever the ship rolled, the up-slope wheel came off the deck. There is a book "Ghostrider One" written by an H-3 pilot on the Indy in the same storm. They actually wound up launching two helos. According to him, the seas were 60 feet with 130 knot winds.
i was onboard during this storm, and the seas were a lot higher than 35 ft. i sent out the messages from the captain so i know what are situation was.
@tbi109, I took a little video during the height of the storm, but it was unusable. There was so much water and spray you couldn't see out of the window. Were you on board when we jump-started the Simms that December night when she lost power in the storm and went dead in the water?
Dad was in the Navy, and said it was the best time of his life-sadly he has passed away, so my question about rolling[as opposed to pitching] will go unanswered, hence my asking you guys.
seriously, why is it that when the sea looks moderate, ships can roll so horribly? often on you tube, ships are shown rolling, yet the sea doesn't look that huge, there must be a reason for this-or maybe on videos, waves look smaller than they are in reality.
i have only been on rough short crossings, and the waves weren't huge, but the ferries plunged and rolled.
I have served on this ship between after she joined the turkish navy. I can say this girl endured a lot of bad weather like this one also in black sea, Mediterranean and aegean in her last years. Just for your information she is now serving as a museum in Turkey open to public visit.
Thanks for the posts. It's good to see more LAMPS/FF video. My kids are grown now and, until this, had no idea what Daddy did for a living. It's hard to explain that it was more like "Mr. Roberts" than "Top Gun."
i was on the knox ff 1052 out yokosuka jap. In jan. 81, we were doing cicles off of valdustock russia in no. sea of japan when hit a typhoon that it was so bad that it completely submereged the bow several times. bent the fresh and salt water wash down 2"x 24" pipes completely bent over against the deck an the big rubber seal around the 5" gun was smashed in into gun houseing, that they had to turn the gun around and point the gun at bridge and cover it with tarps from flooding the magazine.
Muetzel was a RAG instructor when I went through HSL-30. I flew with him a couple of times. Jeff Kranz and I flew together in the WST a couple of times, but my logbook doesn't show us in the air together. The others aren't familiar to me.
Ahhh the memories (barf! Hehe). Great musical accompaniment. Sounds like it was from "Victory at Sea." I remember my days on the USS Elmer Montgomery (FF-1082). Nice to see the Sea Sprite again :) Was the Ainsworth homeported in Norfolk or Mayport... can't remember now. Thanks for the post!
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unclemouldy1 2 weeks ago
wow tks... i can't imagine it being possible for u guys to land the helo in that weather upon the little deck of the ainsworth...
tbi109 2 months ago
did the sailors survive that were overboard?
tbi109 2 months ago
@tbi109 I heard they found them the next day with their dungarees inflated and tied together with their belts.
navyflyboy73 2 months ago
thats me at the end of the video looking at the other ships. im the short guy standing beside the other guy. almost positive. see my facebook page..name is tony lupis. i remeber starting the simms we had to hang matresses over the side.
tbi109 2 months ago
@tbi109 As I remember it beat up both ships pretty bad. Didn't you go to drydock when we got back? That was when we went to Arthur W Radford. Did you get my personal message?
navyflyboy73 2 months ago
we spent a month in Greece gettin the ship repaired. Lost the thick steel metal doors in the back and cracked stack along with a lot of other damage.
tbi109 2 months ago
@tbi109 I had forgotten about losing the doors. We didn't fly again until inchop so I never saw the hole they left. Seems like I remember the sonar dome having cracks as well.
navyflyboy73 2 months ago
if i recall correctly the indy had a man overboard during this storm. video must have been shot during the first day of the storm because the swells dont look like the ones i was seeing but it is an excellent video. a lot scarey at night.
tbi109 2 months ago
@tbi109, Indy lost two men overboard and they were recovered the next day. Air wing called over to see if we could launch to assist. No could do. We had every chain we owned holding the helicopter on deck and whenever the ship rolled, the up-slope wheel came off the deck. There is a book "Ghostrider One" written by an H-3 pilot on the Indy in the same storm. They actually wound up launching two helos. According to him, the seas were 60 feet with 130 knot winds.
navyflyboy73 2 months ago
i was onboard during this storm, and the seas were a lot higher than 35 ft. i sent out the messages from the captain so i know what are situation was.
tbi109 2 months ago
@tbi109, I took a little video during the height of the storm, but it was unusable. There was so much water and spray you couldn't see out of the window. Were you on board when we jump-started the Simms that December night when she lost power in the storm and went dead in the water?
navyflyboy73 2 months ago
Dad was in the Navy, and said it was the best time of his life-sadly he has passed away, so my question about rolling[as opposed to pitching] will go unanswered, hence my asking you guys.
Oakleaf700 8 months ago
seriously, why is it that when the sea looks moderate, ships can roll so horribly? often on you tube, ships are shown rolling, yet the sea doesn't look that huge, there must be a reason for this-or maybe on videos, waves look smaller than they are in reality.
i have only been on rough short crossings, and the waves weren't huge, but the ferries plunged and rolled.
Oakleaf700 8 months ago
''Ashore it's wine, women and song,
Aboard it's rum, bum, and concertina''
[old Naval saying]
Oakleaf700 8 months ago
that was heavey !!!
dvideto 1 year ago
HSL-37 on the last ride on the ff-1057
joeybnsf2001 1 year ago
I have served on this ship between after she joined the turkish navy. I can say this girl endured a lot of bad weather like this one also in black sea, Mediterranean and aegean in her last years. Just for your information she is now serving as a museum in Turkey open to public visit.
akifusenet 2 years ago
Thanks for the posts. It's good to see more LAMPS/FF video. My kids are grown now and, until this, had no idea what Daddy did for a living. It's hard to explain that it was more like "Mr. Roberts" than "Top Gun."
hannah18322000 2 years ago
i was on the knox ff 1052 out yokosuka jap. In jan. 81, we were doing cicles off of valdustock russia in no. sea of japan when hit a typhoon that it was so bad that it completely submereged the bow several times. bent the fresh and salt water wash down 2"x 24" pipes completely bent over against the deck an the big rubber seal around the 5" gun was smashed in into gun houseing, that they had to turn the gun around and point the gun at bridge and cover it with tarps from flooding the magazine.
MyRoyalstar 2 years ago
Awesome. I served on the old girl up till she decommed in '94. Nobody every believes my stories of the waves breaking over the bow... thanks!
kbuote 2 years ago
And again, on the Moinester the following year. Here's some names for ya:
Muetzel, Kranz, Willis, Price, Tolleson, Strousa, Harmony, Maples, Hall. Any familiar? Det 5 1978
aarial1 2 years ago
Muetzel was a RAG instructor when I went through HSL-30. I flew with him a couple of times. Jeff Kranz and I flew together in the WST a couple of times, but my logbook doesn't show us in the air together. The others aren't familiar to me.
navyflyboy73 2 years ago
Ahhh the memories (barf! Hehe). Great musical accompaniment. Sounds like it was from "Victory at Sea." I remember my days on the USS Elmer Montgomery (FF-1082). Nice to see the Sea Sprite again :) Was the Ainsworth homeported in Norfolk or Mayport... can't remember now. Thanks for the post!
TrueCourse 2 years ago
Great video. We ran into similar weather aboard USS Moinester (FF-1097) when we were returning from the Mediterranean later that year.
sherlandp 3 years ago