Tin Can Riders-- Over one and Under two; US Navy Destroyers

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  • Опубликовано: 12 янв 2019
  • Tribute dedicated to the US Navy Destroyer sailor commonly nicknamed the Tin Can Sailor. This short video reveals the heavy seas and conditions that their ships operated in. The toughest sailors in the world ride Destroyers. Images courtesy of our US Navy Destroyer crews. Images used for non-profit historical purposes only.
    Photographers include Dale Yanz of DD850, John Shaw of DD782, and Gary McCaughey of DD873

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  • @user-vg8sz3sc6x
    @user-vg8sz3sc6x Месяц назад +4

    My dad survived typhoon Cobra, aka, “Halsey’s typhoon “, on 18 December 1944.
    Six destroyers ordered to refuel, 3 destroyers capsized and sank killing most hands. Hickox flooded her tanks with seawater to sit heavy. Numerous rolls passed 60 degrees with every one praying for her to right herself. The worst part of the war for my dad.

  • @Me2Lancer
    @Me2Lancer День назад

    Thanks for sharing. I find it thrilling to watch a Tin Can take water over the bow and make severe rolls from port to starboard.
    We experienced the heaviest seas during typhoons in the western Pacific and in the north Pacific between Midway Island and Adak, Alaska in 1964 aboard a Navy Edsall Class Destroyer Escort USS Brister DER 327.

  • @texascclp1445
    @texascclp1445 4 года назад +18

    Can't go for than 2-3 days without returning here for my dose of 'I remember that' Tin Can memories. A fitting soundtrack.

    • @jpkdd850
      @jpkdd850  4 года назад +2

      Thank you for your service!

    • @rodneycaupp5962
      @rodneycaupp5962 Месяц назад +2

      Gods love, when the Seas get ugly. Adventuresome on complicated levels, Movies on the Mess deck in an F 5 hurricane, NO SHIT. The Film Reel jumped off the projector and rolled with the ship... Anchors away tin can sailor. I am DD 861, USS Harwood, Des Ron Flot 6... Mediterranean, 1970, 71 black sea ,Russians... The Navy is a 5 star cruise for some of us on the dark adventures scale. Top of the main mast antenna in a snow storm, Istanbul,. Priceless in December 71

  • @barryr9880
    @barryr9880 3 года назад +6

    If you're not a tin can sailor, you could never appreciate this. USS Allen M Sumner DD-692.

    • @lelandgaunt9985
      @lelandgaunt9985 3 года назад

      My friend willie Montgomery was on the summer at the Cuban missile crisis.

    • @rodneycaupp5962
      @rodneycaupp5962 Месяц назад +2

      I am laughing at your comment, because I am a tin can sailor... DD861, USS Harwood. Anchors away bro. I loved it... though it was not what we went through in the F 4 and F5, both near sinkings. 3 meals and Mid Rats, Never Missed a beat, Thanks Cookie, and Captain. the ship went allied Navy ,and was sunk in a friendly fire deal with Greece 1974. RIP TCG Kocatepe D 354... Great Turk Sailors..!

    • @turkuazdedektor5697
      @turkuazdedektor5697 4 дня назад

      ​@@rodneycaupp5962no "great turkish air force" 😢. Turkish fighter jets sank tcg kocatepe at cyprus war.

  • @Cha-y412
    @Cha-y412 2 года назад +7

    To My Dad snd his identical twin Brother Nicholas , and their Navy buddy / Cousin inlaw Jim Casaburri that circumnavigated the globe on DD 536 USS Owen in 1953 with a 5 Month battle stop in Korea.
    What a ride that must of been. I miss you guys terribly.

    • @rodneycaupp5962
      @rodneycaupp5962 Месяц назад

      #Cha, all Sailors miss their brothers. I nearly joined them in 70 and 71. I thank them for service in Korea, on their way home.

  • @sigpaulazzo4058
    @sigpaulazzo4058 2 года назад +5

    DD787 the James E Kyes 1 day we were in a hurricane were we had to lay on our bunks, you could not stand except the bridge and engine room, 1953

  • @stevemoore9951
    @stevemoore9951 Год назад +3

    Served on the USS Lyman K Swenson 1965 to 1968 two WesPac cruises. Great times when you are young and bullet proof.🇺🇸

    • @rebsarge
      @rebsarge Год назад +1

      In 1970-71 spent 6 months at LZ Baldy, SE of Danang and about 3 miles from the beach. Many nights we heard those 5-inchers ripping overhead, bent on some mischief in the Que Son. There were almost always at least two Tin Cans off the beach, waiting for our call. Even had Jersey fire over us a few times. That'll damn sure get your attention!

    • @jimsxray
      @jimsxray Год назад +1

      Served on the Swenson 1961 - 1962. Home port Long Beach then Yokosuka.

  • @amossnowdaharleyman9179
    @amossnowdaharleyman9179 Месяц назад +1

    I went through 2 hurricanes on FF-1079 and 4 typhoons on AOR-7. Wild rides.

  • @johnwhitehead5457
    @johnwhitehead5457 Год назад +2

    Most of these films were in calm seas. Film maker didn't want to harm enlistments showing Tin Cans in rough seas, but if you want to go Navy, Tin Cans are the only way to go..

  • @boywjc4evr
    @boywjc4evr 4 года назад +11

    I sleep well on heavy seas,tin can rider DD 681.

  • @l.garcia3525
    @l.garcia3525 Год назад +1

    I Served on Destroyers, I was a Tin Can Sailor, Fletcher class, Gearing Class and others. I was a SM2, Signalman 2nd Class. Was in Typhoons, and even Sailed back alone fm Sasebo, Japan once making fuel stops in Guam, Midway, Pearl Harbor finally got to our Home Port at Long Beach, CA. Aboard the USS Brush DD-745. In 1962. I am a Member of VFW 4142, Neosho, Mo. A Lover, Fighter and a Tin Rider. 🇺🇸USN

  • @user-qb5yg6sh8u
    @user-qb5yg6sh8u 11 месяцев назад

    My home USS Noa DD-841 Mayport Fl. 1960/1964 Loved every minuet of it.

  • @rickroybal7022
    @rickroybal7022 3 месяца назад

    USS MULLINIX DD944 '73-'77. Proud tin can sailor

  • @paulkersey2179
    @paulkersey2179 8 месяцев назад

    Those guys were real "salts" back in the day.

  • @vicb.2708
    @vicb.2708 3 года назад +3

    DD 938 USS Jonas Ingram. Boiler Tech 2nd. 33 knots at full power run. The greyhounds, baby!!!

  • @larryhuston5538
    @larryhuston5538 4 года назад +34

    Enjoyed heavy seas, loved being on the helm, any time, but especially when we were rockn' and rolln' with green water coming up over the bridge and the fan tail screws out of the water, slapping the waves, shuddering the entire ship. DD-790 sailor USS Shelton. Bring it!

    • @markscott9622
      @markscott9622 3 года назад +4

      I loved when the sea smacked the windows on the bridge.

    • @stephenmccandless3167
      @stephenmccandless3167 2 года назад +4

      Been there done that !

    • @robertholley4952
      @robertholley4952 Год назад +2

      Mostly because with the exception of critical work, galley , boiler and navigation , all the officers and supervisors got seasick and disappeared, it was great! The only time I relaxed at sea.

    • @VarangianGuard13
      @VarangianGuard13 Год назад +5

      Gods bless the Tin Can Navy.
      Takes many sets of Big Brass Balls to ballast a little ship in heavy seas.
      Thank you all for your service on those little ships, Anchors Aweigh.

    • @martinwalker9386
      @martinwalker9386 Год назад +2

      Rode a typhoon trailing the port shaft. Had to hold 10 degrees rudder to hold her straight. The group guided off of us because we had limited control. This was the fall of 1972.

  • @fz10rider26
    @fz10rider26 3 года назад +3

    Loved every minute of being in heavy seas. DD818 DD845

  • @br30able
    @br30able Год назад +2

    The USS Dyess was in our Squardron, She was stationed at the Brookland Navy Yard along with the USS Myles C Fox DD829. It is nice seeing Her again. Man after seeing that video I wish I was there again. Love it. ⚓

  • @markscott9622
    @markscott9622 3 года назад +3

    That rocked! And I really miss that schitte and the South China Sea!
    USS Knox FF 1052 / USS Henry B Wilson DD7

  • @tommytorrence7553
    @tommytorrence7553 3 года назад +4

    I rode four cans over a twenty year career. MMCM(SW) DD-945 /DDG-14 /DDG-18/DOG/CG-28. I'D Do it again, and again, and again....

  • @kens.213
    @kens.213 2 года назад +6

    I was on a WWII destroyer (Gearing Class) for 2.5 years. It had the FRAM I mod which made it a wee bit top heavy! It was fun most of the time, but taking sideway seas wasn't fun. The internal passageway that ran fore and aft often had footprints a foot or three up the bulkheads! No hot chow in heavy seas either! Other than that it was lots of fun out there on the great expanse of oceans. Nighttime was magical! Especially when the phosphorus on the surface was glowing and sparkling.

    • @WFOHara-gt8ku
      @WFOHara-gt8ku Год назад

      Concur. Sailed on Dyess DD 880 1970. We had footprints on the fore / aft passageway as well. Got used to getting wet on the UNREPS.

  • @suzannelebizarre5705
    @suzannelebizarre5705 2 года назад +2

    I was crew on two...the DD 693 and DD777 - way back when...grinz...and they didn't ask me about preferences either...

  • @texascclp1445
    @texascclp1445 4 года назад +28

    I look back and wonder just how we got anything accomplished. Never wondered then. Every Shipmate had each others back. We just did whatever we had to do to get the job done. DD878

    • @firebearva
      @firebearva 4 года назад +4

      You never stopped until the job was done. Hard work and good times. DD-863.

    • @nederlander9321
      @nederlander9321 3 года назад +3

      Stand fast . DD-876 USS Rogers

    • @oldsalt7534
      @oldsalt7534 3 года назад +2

      DD 822 USS Robert H. McCard 1965-1967

    • @lauranpauloverton7827
      @lauranpauloverton7827 3 года назад +1

      @@oldsalt7534 Shellback?

    • @oldsalt7534
      @oldsalt7534 3 года назад +1

      @@lauranpauloverton7827 No. Never crossed the Equator. Wish I had.

  • @luacreskid
    @luacreskid Год назад +2

    I rode a DLG for a short period and never experienced anything like this. However, while refueling Cans off a CVA I saw many do some of this stuff. Great show. BZ to Tin Can Saliors.

  • @johnwright37
    @johnwright37 4 года назад +7

    I saw the bow of the USS Henry B. Wilson disappear and rise throwing water to the bridge gotta love it.

    • @markscott9622
      @markscott9622 3 года назад +1

      I ran Mount 51 on the Hammering Hank at the end of the 70's, beginning of 80's out of San Diego.

  • @jeanneserna4205
    @jeanneserna4205 Год назад

    2/17/23. Vincent serna. Started out of San Diego in 1956 aboard the USS YARNALL DD541, later out of Mayport on USS BIGELOW, USS BRUMBY, USS PERRY and ultimately on the USS WILLIAM C LAWE, every day was a holiday, and every meal a picnic.

  • @milesdee1806
    @milesdee1806 Год назад +1

    Great vid! Served on the USS Henderson DD 785. Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club '72 & '73. This is perfect music for the clip especially at the end. I remember being through some rough seas (and loving it as a young man) and when heaving up the sonar dome would clear the air with an extremely loud "bwong" noise. Great times, great shipmates, great memories.

  • @texascclp1445
    @texascclp1445 5 лет назад +15

    Haze Grey and Under Water - DD878 - I still remember the feeling i had when experiencing my first 'Death Shudder'.

    • @jdtfcs
      @jdtfcs 4 года назад +2

      My Brother and I were both "Tin Can Sailors". My brother served on the USS Vesole DD-878 back in the early '70s.

    • @texascclp1445
      @texascclp1445 4 года назад

      @@jdtfcs ; What was his rating? i was on her sep 71 to sep 73. PN3. If you haven't already go to facebook and search Tin Can Sailors II. I believe you and your brother might like it. Good to hear from you.

    • @jdtfcs
      @jdtfcs 4 года назад +3

      @@texascclp1445 He was an SK. Probably an SK3 back then. He passed away on February 17, 1991 at 42 years old.

    • @texascclp1445
      @texascclp1445 3 года назад

      @@jdtfcs; Sorry for your loss. Sure i knew him.

    • @jimsxray
      @jimsxray Год назад

      @@jdtfcs My brother and I briefly served together on DG-22 in 1966. We were both Radarman/OS

  • @jimreimer7429
    @jimreimer7429 3 года назад +2

    Brings back memories!

  • @bruceferguson6637
    @bruceferguson6637 3 года назад +2

    A destroyer feels alive and lively. Much prefer it to a carrier and I've served on both.

  • @tomkershaw4384
    @tomkershaw4384 2 года назад +1

    Some nice shots of the DYESS DD880, my home for two years, '78 and '79. I remember those rough seas when the whole crew was seasick . good times!

  • @WFOHara-gt8ku
    @WFOHara-gt8ku Год назад +1

    Memories long ago and far away; DD 880 USS Dyess

  • @g.t.richardson6311
    @g.t.richardson6311 15 часов назад

    The destroyer on the original thumbnail DD880 …. USS Dyess
    My uncle served on her 1966 VM deployment .. he still around
    Saw him last July .. still sharp as tack, looks like he’s 65 not 84

  • @oceanmariner
    @oceanmariner 4 года назад +6

    Most of the dramatic pics are from underweigh replenishing. You always get bigger wave when along side another ship at sea. To leave you have to pass thru the bow wave of the ship you refueled from. I was a helmsman. You have to steer a course within 1/2° in any weather. The Sumners and Gearings had twin rudders and were easier to steer. The Fletchers had a single rudder and wasn't as responsive. DDs 687, 747, 754. On the gun line in Vietnam, we shot during the night and replenished during the day. Sometimes from 3 ships in one day, fuel-food-ammo.

  • @lambojack1
    @lambojack1 5 лет назад +11

    I was on the Vogelgesang (DD-862) from 1956 through 1961. I saw blue water on the bridge more than once. What a great life!!

    • @tomm4284
      @tomm4284 4 года назад +1

      The water over the bridge looked green; maybe that was just me looking green. DDR882 & DDR 711

    • @firebearva
      @firebearva 4 года назад +1

      The Steinaker DD-863 EM2, 1971-73

    • @coastiefc
      @coastiefc 4 года назад +1

      Hey shipmate, I was on DD 863 Steinaker. MM B4 aft engine room. We decommed with the ‘Sang in ‘82.

  • @joanneknanishu1810
    @joanneknanishu1810 Год назад

    Awesome! Just like my Dad said!

  • @elizabethdezabala5029
    @elizabethdezabala5029 9 месяцев назад

    My dad was a Tin Can Rider!

  • @marks.schwartz8468
    @marks.schwartz8468 5 лет назад +5

    Perfect background music for these sea trials !!! ;) BZ (again) !!!

  • @j0er0ckhead
    @j0er0ckhead 5 лет назад +6

    I was lucky, I rode a Spruance Class! Much bigger than the others. Still took a lot of Blue Water in the I.O. In 83. :-) Great Pics!

  • @fz10rider26
    @fz10rider26 4 года назад +3

    Proudly served on the USS NEW DD818 and USS BAUSELL DD845 I do miss it !!

  • @matthewrobinson4323
    @matthewrobinson4323 4 года назад +6

    Wow!!! The memories came in like a flood and overwhelmed me. U.S.S. John R. Craig DD-885.

    • @tedsdroneworld558
      @tedsdroneworld558 4 года назад +1

      Hi Matt.. Thats crazy! I was on the John R.Craig also between 1975-1978 "Ted White -- sonar technician 2nd class". Hi to my ex shipmate :)

    • @matthewrobinson4323
      @matthewrobinson4323 4 года назад

      @@tedsdroneworld558 QM3, 1/1967-7/1968. When the N. Koreans took the Pueblo, The Jolly John was enroute to Vietnam, but we and the Scurvy Herby (Herbert J. Thomas DD 833) were diverted to the Sea of Japan to stand by for further orders. We were the first tin cans there. Part of the time we escorted the Yorktown CV 10. I saw green water completely engulf her! Her flight deck is 60 feet above the waterline. That was a bit disconcerting! 🤢
      I have an ex-brother in law who was a Sonarman about the same time you served. As I recall, he got out as a Chief. Mark Pfeiffer. He didn't serve aboard the Craig but he was on one of the newer cans. I can't remember which one.

    • @tedsdroneworld558
      @tedsdroneworld558 4 года назад +1

      @@matthewrobinson4323 I joined the Craig in San Diego during its last years as a reserve support ship. It was a bit like "Mchale's navy" actually :). It had just been repaired after taking a hit hit on the fantail by shore battery in Vietnam. I did spend quite a bit of time out ton sea on her. Sometimes the waves were very big -- much higher than you could see over. Its was a bit scary! When the 5-38 guns were fired it was very extremely loud I remember. For GC I was the ASW firing petty officer, firing perhaps 6 or so ASROCs. that was cool.

    • @matthewrobinson4323
      @matthewrobinson4323 4 года назад

      @@tedsdroneworld558 When I first reported onboard, after a year in Da Nang, my gq station was QMOW, but after a bit it was changed to helmsman. We took a lot of enemy fire on the gunline, with some very close calls, but were never hit. Please fill me in about when she WAS hit.

    • @johnllamas1645
      @johnllamas1645 4 года назад +1

      My dad was on the sister ship! USS ORLECK DD-886 in Korean. He is 90 and still kicking ass in 2020. In Vietnam her name was the "Grey Ghost of the Vietnam Coast".

  • @jh-pg4up
    @jh-pg4up 9 месяцев назад

    I was on the Fox for 3 years…….. shipserviceman…….. 72/75 3:42

  • @johnshusdock411
    @johnshusdock411 2 года назад

    DD873'Hawkins DC3, DE1079 Bowen, HT2, Thanks for the memories!

  • @Wildman706
    @Wildman706 Год назад

    I served on board the USS Steinaker DD 863 when it was a reserve tin can out of Ft Fort McHenry in Baltimore,Md.Loved it.

  • @edwardpate6128
    @edwardpate6128 4 года назад +2

    God I miss this! USS Preble DDG-46 1981 to 1985

  • @harrellmorlan6817
    @harrellmorlan6817 Месяц назад

    I served on the Bordelon DD-881 home port Charleston, SC, I was discharged just before the last Med cruise 1975.

  • @nederlander9321
    @nederlander9321 Год назад +2

    USS Rogers DD876, countless crossings through the Columbia River Bar

    • @tyghtrachsel9614
      @tyghtrachsel9614 5 месяцев назад

      Yep that was some kind of fun. Took some big rolls crossing the Columbia River bar. Spent 2 years aboard the Jolly Roger’s and always enjoyed rough weather at sea. Here’s to all the Tin Can Sailors that served. Joke of the day was “are we getting sub pay today”.

  • @MrGreystone59
    @MrGreystone59 Год назад

    I served on the uss Vogelgelsang dd862 out of Newport RI, on her last before decommissioning. Carry on tin can sailors!

  • @tedsdroneworld558
    @tedsdroneworld558 4 года назад +2

    I was on exactly the same ship type (Spruance Class Destroyer) myself "Ted White ST2 75-78". Brings back so many memories! . Really nice collection of great shots well edited. Thanks.

  • @user-ms4ef8xz9t
    @user-ms4ef8xz9t 2 года назад

    Just part of the deal. I even miss it sometimes. Thanks for the video. USS Farragut DDG-37

  • @josephpadula2283
    @josephpadula2283 Год назад +1

    Gearings were updated Sumner class a bit longer.
    36 knots.
    Faster than most current naval ships other than carriers…

  • @jordancoleman9560
    @jordancoleman9560 4 года назад +7

    My dad served on Uss Dyess 880! So damn cool to see part of the old man's history and put to such a great song!!! If you have anymore pics of his ship please let me know!💜💜💜💜

    • @jordancoleman9560
      @jordancoleman9560 4 года назад +1

      He told amazing story's of his time in the Navy on the Dyess loved looking at his books and pics nothing but respect for all you that served!

    • @celticpain
      @celticpain 3 года назад

      @@jordancoleman9560What years?

    • @walterlamer6166
      @walterlamer6166 3 года назад

      @@jordancoleman9560 Dyess 1965- 1968

  • @precision3084
    @precision3084 4 года назад +8

    Rough Tough hard to bluff, *ckers, fighters, we were tin can riders!! BT AFT Fire Room DDG 13

  • @frankhall7005
    @frankhall7005 3 года назад +3

    My first ship was a Gearing Class spent 4 years doing this just a normal day at sea. I didn't know how bad we had it until I got stationed on a sub tender.

  • @stephenmccandless5113
    @stephenmccandless5113 4 месяца назад

    Been there, done that. 744 USS Blue '68-'72.

  • @raymondcoache7442
    @raymondcoache7442 Год назад

    USS Worden and USS Knox out of Yokosuka late 70’s early 80’s as a young Electrician’s Mate great times sailing the West Pac then

  • @millstb
    @millstb Год назад

    such good stuff and a great sound track; crossed the Atlantic in heavy seas (USS Fiske DD-842), used to love going up to the signalmens shack (above the bridge) to watch the good stuff, then on to the Red Sea in August '68 just when the 6 day Israili war broke out. Tracked Russian subs up and down the Red Sea, shore patrol one night in Etheopia, 1 AM & temp still over 100 degrees and humid. Then on to the Indian Ocean where we picked up the broken and bruised USS Forrestal and escorted her back to the States. Still get choked up when I remember a high line with them and then on send off, the Navy band kicked into 'anchors aweigh'... Now that was adventure ....

  • @johnantonucci9963
    @johnantonucci9963 Год назад

    Served on the New DD818, The Robert Owens DD 827, The Sampson DDG 10 1961=1964 BT2

  • @billl3936
    @billl3936 3 года назад +1

    I was on Richard B Anderson DD 786 70 to 71. On our way to Japan we went through a typhoon. Forward part of the ship flooded and destroyed all of the toilet paper.

  • @richardmaile8397
    @richardmaile8397 3 года назад +2

    Rough water was when the bow tossed water over the fantail. USS Southerland DDR 743 59-62'

    • @edbuckley8796
      @edbuckley8796 3 года назад

      Nothing like standing watch on the open bridge and going down into a trough. The nothing like part comes from looking up at the wave which was about to pound you. One after another. I miss those days.

    • @frankhall7005
      @frankhall7005 3 года назад

      @@edbuckley8796 I don't

  • @imagicworldview
    @imagicworldview Год назад

    As a quartermaster on the USS Renshaw, DD499 (1:31 in video), my duty station was the bridge. My bunk was the very most aft rack in the starboard corner. Had to run on the 01 deck from stack to stack to keep from getting soaked while trying to get to work.

  • @marthabecker8734
    @marthabecker8734 3 года назад

    i like how they shoed the gearing class destroyers and one pic of a fletcher. still good pictures

  • @tyronemarcucci8395
    @tyronemarcucci8395 2 года назад +1

    DD883, DDR 875, DD 705, DE 1014 and DD 966,m My ships and of course the CVA16. Go Navy. Lovers,fighters and Tin Can Riders. SMC, USN, Ret.

  • @redrider1079
    @redrider1079 3 года назад +1

    First Tin Can I was on was the USS Cowell out of San Francisco. We were waiting for our ship to be commissioned so our Ops Officer got all of the radio, radar and signalmen on board for training to San Diego. We were mostly fresh out of A school and boot camp. Man I was sicker than a dog and the Golden Gate bridge was still in sight behind us. Next year in transit from Subic Bay to Naha, Okie we caught the tail end of a typhoon. That was awesome. Green water coming over the bow and up to the signal bridge. My striker and I had to go out and cut off a piece of canvas that had come loose and was slapping the rails so hard the OOD thought a light had come loose. We spent the rest of the watch in the shack in our civvies trying to dry out. USS Somers DDG 34, call sign "Time Clock" November Delta Whiskey Hotel.

    • @user-nc3pt7zc3c
      @user-nc3pt7zc3c Месяц назад

      You sound like a Signalman

    • @redrider1079
      @redrider1079 Месяц назад

      I was. Years later I went back into the reserves and retired from the Seabees.@@user-nc3pt7zc3c

  • @DDGVET4
    @DDGVET4 4 года назад +1

    USS Lawrence DDG-4. The original "Don't Give Up the Ship!"

  • @johnpritchard5410
    @johnpritchard5410 3 года назад +2

    USS Gray: I thought it was going to roll over more than once....

  • @seandal1
    @seandal1 4 года назад +1

    Good video. USS Wallace L. Lind DD-703

  • @bobellis2026
    @bobellis2026 2 года назад

    I rode out s typhoon in Southeast Asia 0n the Floyd B Parks DD-884 in early 1972

  • @williamsanders5066
    @williamsanders5066 4 года назад

    I served on USS Semmes DDG 18 and USS Kinkaid DD 965. Rode USS Henry B Wilson DDG 7 in 1985 from San Diego to Vancouver and TAD to USS Towers DDG 9 in Yokosuka Japan in 1986.

  • @charliekindlesparger5502
    @charliekindlesparger5502 3 года назад

    USS Basilone DD 824......and USS Voge FF 1047.....GMG3.....rockin and rollin baby !!!

  • @doughesson
    @doughesson 5 лет назад +1

    @ 1:40,it's said that the Arleigh Burkes may never be the fastest ships in calm water but they are designed to be the fastest ships in heavy weather.

  • @rebsarge
    @rebsarge Год назад

    outstanding! I've loved the Small Boys for years, though I did my time in the Corps. I'm a truly obsessive fan of Taylor Anderson's alternate history series, "The Destroyermen," and can't recommend it highly enough. As if that weren't enough, I just finished "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors," about the incredible story of three DD's and a DE against the Japanese main battle line at the Battle of Samar. Holy crap! That's a tale for the ages, too, but it really happened! Oh, and one of the older gents at my church was on one of the Tin Cans that ran the Communist batteries at Inchon! Great video, Amigo.

    • @jimsxray
      @jimsxray Год назад

      Great book and one of the US Navy's finest actions. Incredible bravery.

  • @roynickerson8205
    @roynickerson8205 4 года назад +2

    Tin can rider and Shellback, USS William R. Rush DD-714

  • @stevenjones1171
    @stevenjones1171 Год назад

    I served on the USS Taussig DD--746, went throw Typhoon Ida 69 Sea of Japan.

    • @jimsxray
      @jimsxray Год назад

      My first ship 1960.

  • @recordingstudiotech
    @recordingstudiotech 3 года назад

    Pops was on that DD 499. Hello from Damage Controlman Fred Oresto.

  • @geoben1810
    @geoben1810 2 года назад

    4 years of sea duty and never set foot aboard a ship. I was stationed at NAS JAX FLA attached to an ASW Squadron that deployed to NATO bases in Iceland and Scicly. Good duty but should've, would've, could've re- upped and requested Destroyer duty. 40+ years later I still regret it. Proud U.S. NAVY veteran PO3 '73>'77 ✌🇺🇸

  • @jonasparsons9236
    @jonasparsons9236 4 года назад

    went thru Cape Hatteras In a bad storm aboard the U.S.S Compton in 69. 45 degree rolls and leaping like a wild stallion. Didn't think we were going to make it on that old can.

  • @fredludwig656
    @fredludwig656 3 года назад

    Took me back DD853

  • @ralphdenson4058
    @ralphdenson4058 3 года назад

    Oh yeah typhoons. Was on a light cruiser. When it got in a rhythm coffee cups half full and any sea legs then were of no use.

  • @masterskrain2630
    @masterskrain2630 4 года назад +1

    DD-890 U.S.S. Meredith... last of the Gearings. DesRon 14, Mayport, Fl.

  • @zeke216
    @zeke216 4 года назад +3

    USS Laffey DD724 Alexandria VA '72-'75

    • @1redrubberball
      @1redrubberball 3 года назад

      I spent 5.5 yrs of arduous sea duty aboard 3 Gearings out of Mayport, in the '66 - '72 timeframe. Visited Laffey in '96 at Mt Pleasant, SC and as I walked across the brow onto her, the smell of paint and fuel oil was still there and the memories came flooding back! Although of the Summer class, I quickly knew my way around her and thoroughly enjoyed my visit. It was an honor to visit "the ship that wouldn't die"!

  • @m.larsen4751
    @m.larsen4751 3 года назад

    BBQ spareribs underway off Cape Hatteras DD-821. 1973-74

  • @doughesson
    @doughesson 5 лет назад +14

    If heavy weather don't learn newbies the importance of maintaining watertight integrity,what will?
    USS Mahan DDG 42

    • @edwardpate6128
      @edwardpate6128 4 года назад +2

      Amen to that! I was on your sister ship USS Preble DDG-46 81-85

    • @doughesson
      @doughesson 4 года назад +2

      I was in Mahan from 1985-88.
      I'd been told that Preble was the only Coontz class ship in the Pacific but in 1986 or early 87,I remember seeing her at Norfolk NOB.

    • @skipgumphrey9579
      @skipgumphrey9579 2 года назад +1

      My old man was a CWO on Mahan during that timeframe. I always liked the lines of DDG-42.
      He retired before I transferred from ARS-53 to
      DD-987 there in Charleston as well. Loved my time on Cans ! I was a Bosn and wrapped up my career on DD-970 out of NOB…

    • @doughesson
      @doughesson 2 года назад +1

      @@skipgumphrey9579 I remember Mr Gumphrey.i didn't work in his division but he was the underway OOD when I stood helm & lookout watches.
      Is he still with us?There's a veterans of the USS Mahan FB page if he or you would be interested.

    • @skipgumphrey9579
      @skipgumphrey9579 Год назад +1

      Sorry to have taken SO long to reply Shipmate ! Yes, Dad is still around and unlike myself he actually has a FB account. I’ll pass along to him that y’all have that page, maybe he’ll stop in to swap sea stories with everyone :)

  • @dwilliams2068
    @dwilliams2068 5 лет назад +4

    We never had to refuel in weather like that and I never had the conn when refueling. When I was there in 1954-56 I was on the Wiltsie (DD716) and we had Hamner (718) Chandler (717) and Chevalier (805). I have photos of the Chandler heaving in and out in swells no more then 3'. [Harmonic motion with long swells].

    • @The50Fordman
      @The50Fordman 5 лет назад

      CF Adams refueled from the Saratoga in the Med during rough weather and parted the fuel hose before we finally gave up and waited for calmer seas/

    • @dwilliams2068
      @dwilliams2068 5 лет назад +1

      We were in The Pacific but my Midshipman cruise was in the Atlantic. Never saw a hose break but remember several pullouts, which is why the potatoes, stored topside, always tasted like fuel oil.

    • @panner75
      @panner75 5 лет назад +1

      My Dad was on the Hamner 718 , I have his book Wanderings in WESTPAC 1954 USS Hamner DD718. His name was Frank Jr. Silver, he served 16 years in the Navy.

    • @jimsxray
      @jimsxray Год назад

      @@dwilliams2068 I experienced a couple of pull-outs myself.

  • @richardwood262
    @richardwood262 3 года назад

    My father is a retired IC1 Tin Can Sailor.

  • @jamesmckernan3056
    @jamesmckernan3056 4 года назад +2

    Hell those seas ain't shite. DLG-23 USS Halsey going through a Typhoon with 150mph winds and 65 feet seas--blue water over the Bridge.....that is the limit any ship can take. Clinometer at 55degrees warp angle.......whoa dudes.

    • @tomm4284
      @tomm4284 4 года назад

      1962 Gearing Class DDR; saw the 65' seas. Wind speed?: the anemometer broke off early when the wind worked up to around 70 kts

    • @donlove3741
      @donlove3741 3 года назад

      Typhoon Pamela 1976.
      DD 845 USS Bausell.
      Main deck door torn off.
      Radar mast cracked.
      Scuttle on fantail torn away. All weatherdeck fire hoses lost most lockers.
      Aft steering flood and fire. Manual steering back to Japan. 3 day Search.
      STGSN Dane Christiana lost at sea.
      Was my third typhoon aboard.
      DesRon 15 Yokosuka.
      Wind speed ??? 55 + roll after steering loss.

    • @donlove3741
      @donlove3741 3 года назад +2

      @@SSN515 Gurke Rowan ,RB Anderson Bausell and Parsons !
      DesRon 15 !
      I remember the Hammond and Knox wasn't it were the first 2.

    • @donlove3741
      @donlove3741 3 года назад +1

      @@SSN515 yes The Lockwood had a buddy in her. I got to Bausell Nov 74 left just before she went back... Okie
      boat and Midway were there when I got there..
      I went to a test ship FF1070 Downes Long Beach then 32nd st..
      Tested harpoon and NATO Sea sparrow and a targeting system Called TASS.. Gravy train.. Longest "cruise" was Long Beach to San Francisco Fisherman's wharf! Lots Catalina time.. Those FFs couldn't hold a candle to the FRAMs!..
      Small world!

    • @donlove3741
      @donlove3741 3 года назад +1

      @@SSN515 Nasty City ain't heard that in a while ! Hahaha.
      Fleet leaves 32nd head to Nasty City for women on the prowl..
      Left the Downes in Feb 79. It was roomy. It never had the feel or soul the Bausell seemed to have.
      Nasty city had nothing on Honcho ichiban !

  • @TINCANsquid
    @TINCANsquid 4 года назад +1

    BZ. 3 DD and an FF: 863, 933, 988, and 1087

  • @michaeljeffries5701
    @michaeljeffries5701 4 года назад

    QM2- USS O'Hare DD-889 Just another day of the pond

  • @thud105gify
    @thud105gify 4 года назад +1

    USS John Young DD-973.

  • @DDGVET4
    @DDGVET4 4 года назад +3

    Wonder if we can still " walk the walls" and not spill a drop of coffee?

    • @larryhuston5538
      @larryhuston5538 3 года назад +2

      Walls? did you just say WALLS? Think not, not on a ship.

  • @rodneycaupp5962
    @rodneycaupp5962 Месяц назад

    The stack of the Joseph Kennedy got installed on DD861 in the Yards during fram II . Captain Robert Marshall had connections with GOD and Poseidon both. I loved the terror of the Sea , more than I should say... Captain always got us through. He made the crew save the ship in 2 of these storms... a year apart, No Rudder x 48 hours... PRAY. Get to work ... this is the Captain speaking, ( litteraly) " we are sinking. "Save ship and crew. No problem Robert Marshall.. Captain Sir.

  • @fredludwig656
    @fredludwig656 4 года назад

    DD 853 :)

  • @georgekoelsch3641
    @georgekoelsch3641 4 года назад +3

    Go back in a minute haze Gray and underway. DD-968

  • @TheMotorick
    @TheMotorick 4 года назад +3

    My father, God rest his soul, was on the DD-459 Laffey. Survived Pearl Harbor attack before that (USS Maryland). I'm sure he experienced those seas a time or two.

  • @edwardpate6128
    @edwardpate6128 2 года назад +1

    Hey man, what happened to the Stones music!

  • @TheMotorick
    @TheMotorick 4 года назад

    Not today, Mr. Neptune, not today.

  • @jimsinclair2862
    @jimsinclair2862 2 года назад

    Rode the USS Braine DD630 (a Fletcher) and the USS Wallace L. Lind DD703 (a Sumner) as an EM2. My friends don't believe me when I tell them that being a Tin Can sailor was like submarine duty without the extra pay!

    • @johnlindvig1506
      @johnlindvig1506 2 года назад

      i was on the Braine DD630 in 1958 to 61. mm2nd. well done my friend. then on a sub tender (Sperry)

  • @wallyjohns7312
    @wallyjohns7312 2 года назад

    Looks like fun now but not then. Gearing DD710.

  • @GaryFlott
    @GaryFlott Месяц назад

    My uncle was on a destroyer in ww11

  • @crpsdlr1
    @crpsdlr1 2 года назад

    DD-873 USS Hawkins 74-78