This is How Navy Refuels Ships at Sea
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Understand the intricacies of Underway Replenishment, or what many nations call Replenishment At Sea. #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT
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Sidelined - Dip Diet
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I retired in 2014 after 30 years as a supply officer with 10 of them being at sea. I've participated in more of these than I can count. On a smaller warship like a frigate the UNREP is relatively short. Usually connected for fuel then frequently standing off for VERTREP. On the carrier it was understandably a huge operation. Not only bringing the food stores aboard but breaking down the pallets, stowing the food (mindful of shelf life) etc. Fortunately the Navy's been doing this a very long time. It's a skill that differentiates the brown water from blue water navies. Only on submarines do the not replenish at sea (unless that's something they've tried since my retirement). The cylindrical hull form of a submarine and lack of UNREP infrastructure make it stupidly complicated if you tried. Good times.
I have seen another of NWYT’s video discussing deliveries to Subs, if course, it’s very different and if no vessels are around, then the Air Force has to do it.
To my knowledge if a submarine desperately needs a resupply it either heads back to port, or a helicopter airdrops supplies
I remember seeing a video on here where what I could tell was a sea going tug that had been selected to deliver mail. Well… the outgoing mail left the submarine but never made it to its destination on an account that the tug was sunk by the submarine. The men on the tug were able to make it out in time and were quickly rescued
@@frostyvr9805 I did a tour on an old 680 stretch sturgeon. I can't imagine fetching an air drop but I suppose if the need is urgent enough. Considering the cost per flight hour of a C5 or C-130 that part ends up being very very expensive :-)
Aguiar Ed I've seen that. It was a tug accompanying an Ohio class SSBN. Somehow the tug got impaled on the rudder of the boat. The tug rolled over and sank in moments. So surreal.
I'm starting to notice that this dude is sneaky funny and you can tell when he tells a joke or a good pun he's smiling from ear to ear, so proud of himself. We see you my guy!! Keep it up, it's hilarious !
Like “who says you can’t have hose on a Navy ship” LOL 6:45
@@Some0ne001 I about fell out when he said that!! Knowing he had to do a few takes on it to keep himself from laughing lol
And the pears
It's the pauses after the jokes and puns right after that get me!
I was one of the personnel that ran the refueling rig on the, Boatwains Mate, I was also on thd last of the oilers that was navy run not civilian run. I always enjoyed refueling/cargo transfer. The longest was 14 straight hours.
I was on an AOR in the 80's, just before they were retired. When a sister ship hit the Rocks in Pearl Harbor, we had to supply three battle groups on our own, then stay with one of them as they deployed Asia - unexpected WestPac!
I wonder is the records we set for number of UnReps in 45 days was ever beaten...
Is there a problem with being a ( CIVILIAN)?
The UK English expression "England Expects" came from signal flags. Lord Nelson had some words for the fleet before battle and was going to signal something else but the person in charge of the flags suggested "expects" to make the message short enough to fit into once string of flags.
My dad was in the Indian Navy and i vividly remember being on a supply ship similar to the one in video when i was about 5-6 years old. I had the chance to see a connected unrep in person and it was really cool!
Which ship?
9:14 Those sailors really rocked the socks outta everyone! Being a member of a ship's band must have been quite the assignment.
Very few ships have a band. Usually they play a "breakaway" song over the 1MC
#shorts ... NWYT is living in another universe where 10 minutes is just 30 seconds for them
terrifying
hehe fixed 😉
Always great seeing the Friday vid. Great work on the channel!
Even as an Air Force nerd, I have to say I'm CONSISTENTLY impressed by naval technology and methods.
Naval aviation 😳
Trying landing a air force jet on a moving deck at sea at night during a storm.
I was in Engineering on 2 CGNs. During unreps, we had to be very precise in our response to throttle orders. Any lag or in the rpm of the screws could cause damage to the lines or even collision. We had an incident on my first ship with the last pallets that was sent over to us. Immediately after the pallet arrived, we did an emergency break-away. ( I don't think we ever did any other kind) after all the lines were returned, we started unloading the last pallet, which were 5 inch shells. At the same time, the old man gave the order for full speed and left standard rudder. That caused the ship to heel to starboard. Five of the shells fell our of the rack and started rolling around. We were able to corral them all before they went over the side. A bit of a brown stain moment.
Wow. A Marcal Moment. Thank you for your service 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The puns keep getting stronger lol. 😂
Did we have puns? At this point it comes naturally 😅
@@NotWhatYouThink Had a pair, I believe.
6:49 😂
"Who said, you can't have hose on a navy ship" - That caught me totally off-guard 😂😂😂😂
_An entire pallet of Monsters_
"Mission critical supplies"
Do more of these long vids
We publish long vids every Friday.
Don't miss the old ones 😉
Oh ok sorry I'll go back and watch them all I must have missed them, damned personalised notifications
No u
Which is harder; keeping ships side by side for replenishment or aerial refuelling?
I don't know the answer, but:
There are 2-3 people involved with aerial refueling and it takes a few minutes.
There are 10s of people involved with UNREP, and it takes hours.
Maybe having more people over a longer period of time means more opportunity for something to go wrong.
@@NotWhatYouThink there are a lot more than 2-3 people involved in a VertRep and a lot less materials being transferred. Plus crew members are subject to being blown overboard. And I have never heard of refueling by VerRep, just about anything else is done. You need to fix your system to pronounce Corpsman correctly as Coreman, just as Marine Corps is pronounced Core. It is very offensive and just plain WRONG !
@@dallasarnold8615 who?
@@dallasarnold8615 I'm pretty sure they were talking about aerial refueling between planes...
@@linkthegandorfslayer yes
I'm a Boatswain's mate for the US Navy, and I can agree that we do this.
Unrep is one of the most fun things I get to see underway
I am the guy who cnc machines the probe receivers! I NEVER knew what they were for until now!! Thanks for showing me!! This is why its so important to take pride in everything you do!!!
In the Canadian Navy we called it a RAS. My position was in the "dump". Which is right at the business end of receiving supplies. It requires constant vigilance and attention to one's surroundings, as it could be a very dangerous spot to be in.
2 months after I left the Navy in 1995, the sailor who took over my spot on the RAS team in HMCS Winnipeg was killed when a block disintegrated under strain and the sheave struck him in the head.
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By maintaining steerage speed, the ships are under control and not at the mercy of wind and wave.
The slowest effective speed for stearage is used to give the helmsman reaction time.
The first line across is the phone and distance line. This is a hand tensioned line providing a sound powered phy between the bridge of both vessels. It also has colored and numbered flags to indicate the distance between ships.
One of the main problems is that different ships have hull shapes that have different ideal speeds for maintaining stearage at low speeds. The fuel ship usually sets a course and the receiving ship makes an approach from behind.
It can get exciting very quickly if somebody makes a mistake.
I love how much HMCS Vancouver and MV Asterix are featured in your video! It's been a while since I've been part of one, but it's always fun to watch a RAS from the flag deck :)
There you go! RAS.
I've never heard of UNREP until this video, but I've done many RAS on board the Iroquois.
For the Americans.... that's Replenishment At Sea.
And I thought they used oil platforms at sea as gas stations 😂 crazy how much random things I've learned from this channel. Thank u. Merry Christmas everybody
Lol that would be pretty funny
I have a picture of 5 ships all tied together, doing about 15 knots. A CVA (America, JFK, or Forrestal, don't recall), a ammo ship on one side, an oiler on the other, another tin can on the far side from us, on a tin can (DD-821) in the Med, 1971 or so. That was a sight!
We also got to witness the first time the Russian fleet did an actual underway refueling, stern to bow. They were doing it at anchor initially, it was our job to mess with them...😏 We kinda forced them into pulling up anchors and putting on a couple of knots to finish up...
Years later, I ran across an old Russian Navy guy that was on one of those ships, we had a good time, comparing our views of the other side at the time..
The only time I saw Soviet at sea refueling they did it stern to bow and were dead in the water. Don't think I was ever impressed with anything the Soviets did at sea. Well I guess I was impressed their ships stayed afloat! 🤣
@@johnknapp952 yeah, we watched that once in the Med in 71. It was kinda like 3 monkeys and a football!
Can you put that picture on here, I would like to see that.
@@barrybuchert1345 Me too!
Adds new meaning to curbside pickup. Great video. Thank you.
Once while VERTREPing in the Med, the helos just kept on coming. Turned out that we received two of everything ordered. We had canned goods stacked in the passageways for weeks.
6:48 "Who says you can't have hoes on a navy ship?" 😂
You barely touched on UNREP. After four and a half years on USS Sacramento(AOE-1), I still did not learn everything. Nighttime, with restricted lighting is fun. Also UNREP a carrier during recovery OPS, very fun and rare. Only done when needed, such as after 9/11. The only time the carrier set course and speed for an UNREP.
Being in the Navy at sea, fun times...
AOE-4 USS Detroit was our oiler/supply for a couple cruises.
We did do a unrep with the Detroit then us (CG-58) then the Saratoga. We played pass through for the Sara when she was launching strike packages. Quite a site.
I actually helped build several of the replenishment ships shown here. T-AOs (Tanker Auxiliary Oiler) 187, 198, 200 were all built at Avondale Shipyards outside New Orleans in the 1990's. Glad to see them still serving the fleet.
I was just on the 187 Henry J Kaiser
@@alchiecamilo1151Nice! How's the old girl holding up?
@@DustyBooks2020 No kidding? Were you there when we Jumbo'd her at Avondale in '91? We did all five Comarron-class oilers in the early 90's. One of the coolest things I've ever seen is the front half of a fleet oiler floating in the middle of the Mississippi.
@@DustyBooks2020 That would be cool to see as well, although a bit sad for those of us who have worked on her. I've worked on many ships during my time at the yard, and it always makes me proud to see one of them in the news or in a documentary. The Carter Hall (LSD-50) is one of 'my' ships, currently serving in the Red Sea. Thank you for your service; we could use more Merchant Mariners and Sealift Command capability, considering the current state of global affairs.
In my ten years in the Navy (76-87), I served aboard two ships, a carrier (USS Forrestal) and a frigate (USS Vreeland). As an ET, on the Forrestal, I had nothing to do with unreps. However, on the frigate our shop was responsible for the PDL (Phone and Distance Line, never heard it called a P&D), which is the first line across and the last one down. Usually, we'd be on the signal bridge, with the sound powered phone within the PDL allowing communication from bridge to bridge without involving radio. Our primary job was to keep the line tight, since it acted as the "ruler" measuring the distance between the ships. There is a flag marking the distance every 20 feet, only accurate when pulled tight. Which is surprisingly difficult with the wind all those flags catch. As I recall, our PDL was around 200' long. The 160' separation mentioned in this video is larger than anything we ever did. And, it varies. I want to say on average, it was usually around the 100' or 120' flag, max, where we'd be holding the line.
Crossing the Atlantic on that frigate was when I experienced my one and only, for real, not a drill, emergency breakaway. It was an atypical hookup, instead of the signal bridge, we were down at the mack deck (basically, just aft of center, more or less). Everything was going normal, then, we suddenly found ourselves hauling in on the line faster than usual, trying to keep it taut, but failing because we were also suddenly a LOT closer to the oiler. About the same time we were realizing our futility in keeping up with the line, the collision alarm went off. We all grabbed something to brace with, the ship leaned HARD into a turn, and we separated. We hauled in what was left of the PDL and found that the oiler had cut the line between the 0 and 20 foot flags.
We ended up circling back and completing the unrep. The explanation given was that a large swell came along and threatened to push us into/under the oiler. On the repeat, the oiler sent over their PDL since ours was ruined, as well as returning the other end of ours. Thing is, this was also a brand new PDL that we'd finally gotten. First time out, and it gets cut. Back in port, it fell to me to electrically splice the phone line and a Boatswain's mate spliced the line back together for us.
Retired Boatswains mate here, this was my favorite evolution of all time. No shave morning of, its bad luck. On station four hours prior to our along side time, going over my station, checking all of my equipment, double checking procedures, putting together my safety brief with any adjustments from the last evolution debrief. Nothing gets you giddy like taking the life lines down and grabbing the cheater messanger. Also we do use that flags, but now, we just use radios. but its able to be done with flaghoists but you need the signal paddles on station as well.
If we had no shave mornings on the sender, everyone would be walking around stepping on their own beards. We ran these several times a day.
I was on a merchant ship giving fuel to Navy ships. 6 of us on deck shorts and flip-flops.
Them ,200 guys on deck ,helmets ,life jackets ect.
I hope somewhere out there JROTC teachers out there are showing your videos to their classes. All of your b-roll is so exciting to watch and timed perfectly with the narration.
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Back in the day our NJROTC instructor got us on the USNS Rappahannock for a few days at sea. These operations were great to watch also ships usually give their chef's best food for "payment" so they gave us the chocolate chip cookies from one the ships. They said it'll be the best damn cookie you ever had and they weren't lying.
I've been apart of so many unreps I can't even count. I was a Boatswains Mate aboard the USS John C. Stennis CVN-74 and was in charge of all the unrep gear aboard ship. One thing he said on here was it took days to replenish a carrier. That's false. The longest unrep we did was 12 hrs, an ammo onload before a deployment. Usually unreps were no more then 1 to 3 hrs tops. We had 3 receiving stations for fuel. Each station could handle 2 hoses and each hose could pump 3000 gals. per minute. We never got below half our fuel supply, so it only took an hr to fill up. Also, while yes the carrier did unrep on its starboard side, we could if needed unrep on the port side for cargo only and only on one station.
The humor sir 😂👍 I like your videos very much 😊👍 more power to you and your channel sir God bless 😊👍
Great video! I do this for a living as a civilian mariner on the supply ships. It's a lot of fun! Its apparent you did your research very well. Just a note: you can do a vertrep and a conrep at the same time. Those are the most fun, especially when you have two ships along side!
My father was Navy. I got to sail on the USS Roanoke (AOR) for a tiger cruise. pretty amazing to watch an unrep for real.
Dam your father was the us navy
@@breadboi1248 and David was my older brother. I didn't say he was The Navy. I said he was Navy. Next time you make an error like that I'll have to call the grammar police on you. Please don't make me do that. They'll take you to the basement for abasement. That's pretty ugly.
This is the most American resupply process I have ever seen
It was invented by the British and most of the pictures were of British RFA ships RASing
There's a distance line between the two ships with flags set at 20ft between the flags.
The flag colors are Green, Red, Yellow, Blue, White, Green (repeating).
The way to remember this pattern is "Go Rub Your Balls With Grease".
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NATO and allied navies all use a standardised, international signalling system, but the USN still has its own unique system. This can cause problems. In 2010, HMS Ark Royal refueled from a USNS ship mid-Atlantic. Ark Royal's crew tried to signal to the USNS crew, but it seemed the US ship couldn't understand. Ark Royal's OOW got on the radio and explained they were using standard signals, but the USNS ship didn't know that system (presumably that ship had never trained with allied navies), so in the end all signals had to be relayed through radio comms via the bridge, rather than the UNREP/RAS decks signalling directly to each other. This delayed everything and made reacting to possible accidents more dangerous. Why do they maintain a separate system in the USN? No idea. Doesn't seem worth the headaches.
The fact that you think MSC doesn't UNREP foreign ships every week shows you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. In one four month period my ship UNREP'd French, German, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Australian and UK ships. The US uses two Pubs for UNREP one is domestic and one is an Allied pub both of which we know. If the station didn't understand the paddle signals they would use the sound powered phones for more recently hand held radio to communicate. The bridge wouldn't be used for station to station comms.
@@kyleharlan8422 they do UNREP foreign ships. I didn't say otherwise What I said is in text above. The particular ship in this case DID NOT understand Ark Royal's signals at all and the radio was used. Matter of public record. Was even in the press (a film crew was onboard). As the"expert" I leave it up to you to suggest why comms broke down.
@@lukedogwalker must have been the accent
@@terryquarton2523 😆👍
I've done a few replenishments at sea. The worst thing that has happened during one is where we had to let go of the line and drop a payload, line, and line hook into the sea because the line reeler on the unrep ship was smoking. But overall, it isn't that bad on a DDG.
Overall the best spot to be in is the back at the missile deck where you pull the line for the fuel. Because every time we pulled in the line, that was it. We could just sit around and take a break until we had to load stores onboard.
@Delna Feta get out of here, spam bot.
Can't believe he said "who said you can't have hoe's on a ship" lol
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He said "hose on a navy ship" lol
0:54 ship doin a little dance
For signal flags, they have different meaning when flown by military ships, but if we want to signal the international meaning, we add the pennant Code/Answer
I was a winch operator on the USS Shasta AE-33 and UNREP was something I really miss from my Navy time. We actually had a nice collision with the USS Sacramento while being the control ship. I was on starboard side Station CONREPING ASROC anti sub missles to a Knox class FF. Scary stuff when the emergency breakaway happened. We couldn’t detension our inhaul winch so we couldn’t detension so the FF took off with our rigs still connected. 😱
9:20 This just gave me a great idea for a surprise concert.
Imagine you're just done with the refueling and the band that playes isn't some sailors but a real, full time band.
Just turn the ship into your own mobile concert hall
6:50 genius advice
When I was a kid our NJROTC instructor got us on the USNS Rappahannock for a few days. These operations were great to watch also ships usually not just play music but also give their chef's best food for "payment" so they gave us the chocolate chip cookies from one the ships. They said it'll be the best damn cookie you ever had and they weren't lying.
It was hilarious watching the Destroyers bouncing next to the Carrier during UNREPs. I almost got seasick watching all the deep dives and leaps. Payback was when the smallboys tied up in port and the carrier was anchored miles out cause there was no anchorage available.
Reminds me of our visit to Cape Town. We got to pull in, carrier was anchored out. One night the waves got too rough for the ferry to take people on liberty back to the carrier, so it ended up with a few hundred people stuck hanging out on the pier all night.
I was a DC on a destroyer. My job during UNREP was to sit there and pray there wasn’t a casualty. Everyone who wasn’t part of the topside groups didn’t know that an UNREP was over until we heard the song blasting over the 1MC. If I remember correctly, my ship would play Eye of the Tiger a lot lol
I would have been on the main engine throttles during Unrep, bell (shaft speed) changes were on the order of one to two rpm. And our Captain played 'On the Road Again'.
I Sail for the US navy's military sealift Command I'm the master helmsman it's my job to stear a perfect course and make it look easy I enjoy it and I'm very good at it now 22 years plus
I was a signalman on an old steam destroyer in the early 70s. We always had our best helmsman on the wheel for unreps.
Good to have you both here. Hope you enjoyed the video 😊
Good to see a large selection of Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels within this video (British navy for the unfamiliar), despite the lack of mention
Corpsman is pronounced Core-Man, while he was going over the helmet color meanings he accidentally pronounced it like it reads.
Oh I didn’t know that! I guess that makes sense, just like how Marine *Corps* is pronounced.
Learned something new today. Thanks Nick!
@@NotWhatYouThink your welcome
I like taking notes of NWYT
And not school
NWYT’s vids are very interesting
Nice.
Ah yes, i remember doing that. Did a few of those out at sea, was always an adventure. Once we had to practice with the carrier in the event the refueling ship was unable to help us, and that was interesting. This brings back memories, thank you
Fun fact: the US Navy started doing primitive UNREP in 1799 (ship to ship by small boat) but the modern systematic version was pioneered in 1916. It was a war winning ability in WW2, especially in the Pacific.
We did an Unrep for fuel when a soviet cruiser cut across our bow. It was onboard the U.S.S. TRIPOLI during a westpac in 81.
Been there, did that, multiple times. We make it look easier than it is.
Onboard USS Midway (CV-41) in the 1970s, a pallet of milk was brought onboard, and the conveyor lift down to the reefers jammed on the 3rd carton (3 gallon? 5?). They put out a call on the 1MC for volunteers to manhandle the milk down about five decks, twisting through the available hatches and doors, and I have never seen milk stowed so fast.
The whole process is an incredible circus. Never saw or heard of any accidents while onboard. There's a lot of institutional knowledge built up over the years.
Ur literally awesome dude keep it up
Brings back a lot of memories doing UNREPS with some of allies; Japan, Australia where I still have the beer they sent across as a token of gesture and my ship Suppo sent them few female bikinis. Conning a cruiser during these evolution is also a challenge especially in a not so calm seas.
I was a 23-year-old Master Helmsman on a DDG during the Unrep. talk about a stressful situation. The ship was constantly trying to pull away due to the current the two ships would create.
When I was in back in the 80's, some line throwing guns still used a .45-70 blank cartridge.
During the '60s we used 5" primers in our .410 line gun for extra long shots.
Done hundreds of these. VERTREP…. The rotorwash of most helos, especially the V22 Osprey, are powerful. I’ve seen ABHs get literally blown on their backs and rolled down the flightdeck lol. They were also usually both welcomed but also dreaded as sometimes they could be all day evolutions. Welcomed because majority of the time, it would also mean mail call, where we would usually receive care packages from friends and family. Miss these operations and working on the flightdeck!
During the late '60s (Nam) our VERTREPs were choppers hovering over our forecastle transferring very important items as it was very dangerous but sometimes very important that the items got transferred. And yes we did transfer guys like that. They were scared shitless though.
Ex military here, 34rth division. I was on duty few years back and it was snack time. All the soldiers were having tummy time and it was great days
Yeah it's Friday again!!
In VERTREP there is also a minimum weight requirement. If the pallet is too light the downdraft from the helicopter will literally lift the pallet off the deck a few inches and "levitate" it across the deck and over the side. If the pallet is light enough to float it is possible for the helicopter to use its rotor wash to slowly push the pallet over to the receiving ship where they get to figure out how to get pallet out of the water.
When I was serving back in the 1970’s at first we did not have probes on the end of the fuel line from the oiler. The hose had a threaded cap on the end that we unscrewed and stuck the hose into the fueling trunk, tying it down to keep it from popping out, which it did from time to time. When the probe system was installed we thought we’d died and gone to heaven.
Wow, yeah that would have been quite an improvement.
Operating in South America with some of the coastal navys, just the hose with the end cut off.
Had one pop out and turn me into a Tar Baby!
@@barryd.thomassr.9156 That happen to us in port. The Chief Bosn insisted that one of his men tie down the hose to the fueling trunk. It popped out and when we got topside we found one of our guys holding on to the hose, covered from head to toe in black,oil and standing in two inches of oil.
do a video on the Russian aircraft carrier with the repair tug boat
ok
It’s not visually obvious but all these ships are continuously moving forward at a synchronized speed the entire time for all evolutions.
It kinda is obvious though….?
Absolutely brilliant video
Cool
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@@NotWhatYouThink can I have a medal pls? 😁
Thanks for sharing Scott
Your pun game is on point in this one! :)
Receiving supplies is one thing. Getting those supplies to their respective stores is another
I don't know if it was unique to my ship, but we called it 'Christmas Day'. And when there were supplies to be stowed, it was an all-hands kind of thing. Excepting, of course, those actually running the ship.
We were doing one at night
When all of a sudden a 35' sail boat
Appeared and went right down the middle, the mast missed the refueling hose by maybe 3'
Sacred the crap out of everyone
Involved. We also refuled with a Japanese oiler leaving pearl harbor
Those guys are very professional
The person of that sailboat should of been arrested for trying to sabotage the unrep.
@@barrybuchert1345 yea, not sure what it was doing, dead in the water, no running lights, nothing like a goast ship LOL if anyone was on board.... from pitch black to the middle of an unrep I can only imagine what was going through their mind
In other words it's a floating grocery store. Thank you for the video I enjoyed it Feed me more.
As an former 7th Fleet sailor and snipe (FF-1087 & FF-1055, 1974 to 1980) I remember many an UNREP. For me it was hours of keeping my throttleman in Main Control on his toes with the constant one or two RPM shaft speed changes to keep us exactly on station with our supply ship.
And on the bridge, the helmsman had to be really competent to maintain the optimum distances between the ships. Lots of coordination and seamanship required by everyone.
Appreciate the song!
USS Kansas City AOR-3, 1988-90. Did this more times than I can remember.
Nice vid mate keep up the great work 👌🏻😉😉😉
Informative as always. Keep it up NWYT!
It really is amazing just how complex the whole thing is. Its Litterally a city on water
Been there done that with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary service. 32 years before the mast. Five minutes to stop pumping.
Pretty cool. I work on these replenishment ships as a Merchant Mariner(Oilers and AKE's)
I've done this so many times as an E-1 and I hated it when I first joined, which was about 9 years ago.
It's no easy task, depending on your station. For me I was on the P&D line which was quite annoying due to the fact that you would be standing there for hours holding a line with alot of tension.
Would I go back and do it again though? Nope.🤣
Were you undes or BM
Haha, one of the few people who commented that were actually were on a supply ship. Unless you're a BM doing the rigging it's a lot of fucking boring! I guess that's a good thing... excitement means things went wrong and it's crisis control!
I was on a cruiser in the mid 80's and our Unreps we're both connected (fuel) and by helo for everything else at the same time
Makes perfect sense, when coming in from behind only one at a time:)
Halsey sure could have used this Dec. 17, 1944. 3 destroyers and 790 men wouldn't have been lost during Typhoon Cobra
I like the blurry Canadian frigate in the thumbnail
I almost died one time doing on a rep. The probe became unseated and started from spring JP5 everywhere. One of my Lyman tripped and fell rolled towards the side. Both me and another safety officer grab them. Then we roll towards the side so other people grabbed us and thank God I'm here to tell about it.
thats some great piloting from those guys piloting the blackhawks
00:42 RFA Tideforce conducts replenishment at sea with HMS Queen Elizabeth as part of carrier strike group 21. I was at the helm of Tideforce as this was being filmed.💪
Wow dude
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Sometimes I watch u when I play a game idk how put ur voice is calming for me
Hehe thx. Maybe I should do a meditation channel too 😅
One thing they didn’t mention but did show was the signal paddle. I’ve done multiple UNREPs as the signalman utilizing the signal paddles.
At 8:00 we do mention it briefly, but yes, didn’t get into details of it.
Been there. Done that. Many times. Music didn't exist during Breakaway. Unless you counted the Ship's Horn and the Noise of the increasing Shaft RPM,
Yet there again,... Neither did Winches to Haul Lines over. Unless you counted the Boswains Mate Screaming "Heave Around On It!"
There was however, Cold, Wet, and Great Respect for the Knot Hole as I recall.
This video was packed with info I didn't know. Instant sub. Can't wait for more!
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Nice video, talking about my job at msc is cool.
Shame they can't just tip one ship up to pour the fuel directly into the other.
Wow! You gents get nice food and $3.00 MONSTER energy drinks. Holy shit.......
Interesting for "sure"!