1963 Navy aircraft carrier & support ship in rough seas

[emerald1one1]

tough as nails. 

[SuperAncientmariner]

As an ex member of the boat-people (bubblehead to you Americans I believe) Happiness is Seas like these...... at 250 feet. :o)

[GR8TM4N]

Isn't a aircraft carrier more vulnerable when in rough seas ? Since it can't launch any of its airplanes, i think it is ..

[archerychair]

I was a radiomen on the USS Meredith and was on watch the night the Evans was cut in half. We left for search and rescue immediately from the gun lines of nam. Later in Subic Bay, Phillipines I saw the aft section of the Evans. Quite the sight to see as we were the same class destroyer as her.

[rhino004]

I was on the USS Kearsage that retrieve the survivors of the Frank E Evans. I was a hospital Corpsman. They towed half of the Evens to the Phillipines for investigation. Igot outright between the twin stacks. Looked like a clean cut with a meat cleaver. 77 men died. We were doing a multi country exercise at the time and it was at night time. The Evens was our escort destroyer and cut in front of the Melbourne and got cut in half. very nasty accident. I was busy working on the suvivors

[1234canadian1234]

@rightfredsdead let just say the ship was named the USS gaylord, first u said it was a destroy but then u said it was a medium cruiser which i never head of, im pretty sure its just light or heavy cruiser

[1234canadian1234]

Canada should get back to the aircraft carriers, we use to have such a strong military but now its shit, it might just a coincidence but some of our stuff got cut when we had these frenchy prime minister

[speedskiff2]

cooks get a break...crackers and water in those seas.

[kolaski33]

This is why I joined the Air Force .

[TheDanceofjoy]

it seems that the on board planes will have to wait until the ship is at a neutral state for the planes to take off., am i right ?

[IngerulBisericii]

1963 ? great ...:D

[bigrider2806]

brings back memories ! thank you

[b24line]

it would be nice if the transfer place could keep their logo out of the vid. kinda takes away from the vid

[Sooksawaspakdee961]

Kazakstan navy nr:1 navy in the world!!!!!

[NorExpedition]

@Sooksawaspakdee961 You think the Kazakstan navy is the #1 navy in the world??? That's weird.

[HelmutVillam]

It's a joke, Kazakhstan is a landlocked country, they have no need for a navy.

[locutus12]

@Sooksawaspakdee961

Kazakstan Potassium better than other country potassium

[DerHossMeister]

That's the USS Hornet CV-12 and the USS Frank E. Evans DD-754. The USS Frank E. Evans was later cut in half and sank after being in a collision with the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne in 1969.

[hoffbill]

@tongandennis

Yeah! Macadamia's navy rules!

King of the nuts!

[vanbeukenmans]

same task btw for the attack subs. patrol the 7 seven seas. find a Delta III and stick the fuck to it, everywere they go. just be quiet as hell and ready to blow 'em out of the water before they do there ballistic missile trick

[RockinWoody1]

Yeah there was alot of ASW support out there. P-3's, H-2s, H-60s,Frigates,Destroyers and Subs. Thats the bad thing about hunting them from the surface is they know they are being tracked and followed in the Sub they were stalking them undetected. When we were up north we would get a daily fly over from our Russian neighbors to the west or we would get followed around by a spy ship.

[RockinWoody1]

We used a helicopter a old SH-2F to fly out make a contact relay it back to the ship and we would start tracking it. Russian Subs were pretty noisy it wasn't a hard task once you found them. There is a Russian Sub museum in San Diego and they had picture taken from the subs periscope of our Nuke carriers right in their crosshairs. So we did have some slip through our fingers

[RockinWoody1]

During the cold war it was nice to know where their Ballistic missle subs were. It was a nice feeling to know they werent parked 25 miles off the coast of Los Angeles waiting for the Party Chairman to make up his mind if democracy was evil or not. Thats what a destroyers job is Anti Submarine warfare. Im not saying there was never a sub parked off the Southern California Coast but we did the best we could.

[PPiTTislakatamia]

CV-12

[RockinWoody1]

You havent lived until you have been in the Bearing Sea on a destroyer in January. We had to stuff clothes under one side of our mattress to keep from being thrown out of bed at night those rails and safety straps did nothing. We spent almost a month up there chasing Russian Subs coming into the Pacific before handing them off to another ship to track. Somedays we had 30ft waves but mostly typical 20-25 footers. Wouldnt trade that experience for anything.

[karadan100]

And you enjoyed that? Props to you mate :) I'd have been puking all over myself in a heartbeat!!

[RockinWoody1]

Our helicopter broke down on the carrier when it was getting our ships mail. We had to go to the carrier to fix it we were there 2 days. When we got on the carrier it seemed like we were on dry land. It was funny to watch all the carrier guys getting sick thinking they were in rough seas. We look out a few hundred yards and our ship was disappearing in the waves lol. They were puking and we would just laugh at them and call them pussies. Your not a sailor unless you spent time on a tin can.

[karadan100]

Indeed haha! I certainly am not a sailor. I've been in rough seas before and it was not nice at all! I guess it is one of those things you just get used to.

You would have been laughing at me and calling me a pussy had i been there, lol.

[derfdeer]

Try it in a submarine

[wullu5]

Those kind of seas in a sewer tube with no keel?

Thank you, no. Will stick to crashing through em on a target thanks all the same!

;)

[flynnyJF0LFC]

lol bad times on subs in rough seas

[Bustafunny]

Great vid of a Skyraider trap and launch.

[exenrontexas]

I think that ship is the USS Hornet. I served on the Bon Homme Richard and we went thru two typhoons of off the PI.

[HerrNOS]

It's the Hornet alright, CV-12.

[Jpdt19]

Seeing stuff like this makes me think about the poor bastards on the Russian Convoys in WW2.

Some of the horror stories you hear are quite incredible.

[Thefallenraptor]

you have a good book about it..

Alistair Maclean - Cruiser Ulysses

UK and US convoy 71 en route to Russia

[EnigmaNZ1]

Read that decades ago as a teen, damn good story.

[tsufordman]

The support ship is the Frank E. Evans DD-754 which collided with the Australian carrier HMAS Melbourne June 3, 1969 killing 74 men.

[Nightcap68]

You havent lived until you get sea spray on the signal deck of a nimitz class boat (CVN-69).

[Cirux321]

Heard that shit. We were in a battle group with the Lincoln headed to the Persian in 02 when we hit a nasty ass storm. From the flight bridge of my destroyer I could see her props come up out of the water since we were behind her. Couldnt see her bow, but spray was hitting her Island. Course naturally our 9000ton Arleigh-Burke class destroyer was getting tossed around like a god damned ping pong ball in 25+ft seas. That day I literally left boot tracks on the bulkheads. Good times werent they?

[sigsson]

Yea, I've done un-reps many times, but not in seas like that. geofbee's not kidding. If you're conning either ship, you'd better keep your wits about you every second, no matter what, and thinking about everything possible that could go wrong and what you'd do about each one - but never let it show, it makes the crew nervous.

[geofbee]

This looks like USS Hornet (CV-12), although the aircraft has FR on the tail (Franklin D. Roosevelt? CVB-42). To put the sea state into persepective (for those "landlubbers" and "fair-weather sailors" who think this is nothing) the flight deck of these ships is around 60 feet from the surface! Its no freakin joke when you're on one of these and "shipping 'em green" (waves braking over the front of the flight deck). Have some respect!!

[louswire]

I've seen bigger waves at a half empty stadium...

[gb1227]

Rough seas? LOL I have been on the Pacific Ocean on a 58' wooden bottom-dragger with 30' seas & 60kt winds. When we crossed the Columbia River bar (graveyard to the Pacific), the swell was so big that the freightliners would totally dissappear from view. Rough seas....pfff

[relic141]

Same wave over and over each more directing you to the add...wow

[raff62]

yawn, ive been out bigger in my 21 footer.

[rprince418]

Could the waves possibly get any bigger?!

[pspboy63]

wtf i dont get the names!!!!!!

[pspboy63]

wtf i dont get the names!!!!!!

[66chrissy66]

my father was in the navy although i'm a 53yr old woman alway's had an interest in the sea vessel's

[Harregarre]

Especially in his seamen, I suppose?

[robbyd1986]

Ha ha

[transam579]

how rude can you be? what an asshole.

[rprince418]

Dude, that was uncalled for.

[MomOfSailorOnUSSKH]

Cool, i'm a mother of a sailor on an aircraft carrier. I find ships very interesting too. I especially like that video by a Turkish sailor under rough seas. It is very interesting.

[stinkingdog101]

The carrier is the USS Hornet. CV-12 I was on the USS Hancock CV-19

[crapper1]

you think landing in a little crosswind is hard in a cessina try having the runway pitch and roll

[texasroadking]

The destroyer alongside number 754 is the USS Frank E Evans which was unfortunately rammed and sank in a naval exercise by Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne in June 1969.

[Merlin161]

The lesson is Carriers always have right of way, and that ships playing "plane guard" should always know where they are in relation to the carrier. The investigation cleared the CO of HMAS Melbourne of any wrong-doing, although the whole incident ended his career.

[49commcop]

really cool!!

[Slyder440]

SSN-754  USS TOPEKA

[lolercopter321]

crazy footage

[flying2275]

Does that say 21 on the bow? USS Boxer?

[wirenuting]

it's 12 not sure of the name. need to look it up

[ahereticiam]

12 is the USS Hornet, 21 is the USS Boxer

[ahereticiam]

This one has to be the Hornet. 1st of all, the numbers are read from amidships, not off the bow. 2nd, the aircraft landing at the 1:15 mark is a Douglas A1 Skyraider which was a late comer to the WWII era but was a Navy staple aircraft through Korea and into Viet Nam.

[ahereticiam]

3rd, The Hornet was in active service until 1970. Hornet was the ship that recovered the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 capsules after their trips to the moon. Boxer was decommissioned 1 December 1969, and stricken from the Navy List. She was sold for scrap on 13 March 1971. Hornet is a museum, moored at Alameda, CA.

[wirenuting]

Yup, your right about that. Thanks

I was on the kennedy cv-67 so I know all about flight deck markings.

[marneydog]

This is the USS Hornet.

[wirenuting]

Yup, your right.