I like Ships too

That's what sailors are for. If you have time to stand around, you have time to paint something!
 
You'd think they could slowly surface the boat through a paint-slick floating on the water.
 

Been there done that. I watched one of the sister ships in our division completely go under mast and all next to us and then pop up like a whale. We of course were doing the same thing.

One time my Lee Helmsman lost his hold in the pilot house and even with the compartment closed up we had water rolling around inside. Good old Harv broke several toes that night in order to keep from knocking me off my feet at the helm as he washed back and forth.

Another time 8 of us were washed over the side. One on the Port side got caught in a line and was going up and down like a yo yo till BM2 Clark heard his yells and pulled him back on board. The others were on the other side of the ship sitting on the deck trying to hide from the sea as we waited to go along side an oiler. There was a Can going first and we were the life guard station. One of my mates made a joke about they could forget us saving any of them as we wouldn't be able to save one of our own in these seas. Just then the kid Teddy who was in the middle of our bunch slipped and fell on his back and went over. He reached up to grab the bottom life line, but like fools the guy on one side of him grabbed his hand and I grabbed the other. So he just kept going and we went with him. The guys on either side of made a grab for us and they went, and the last two garbed for them, but held on to something so we were like a rubber band stretched out. Some in the water others part way when the ship rolled the other way and all of us were in the air and then fell back. We quickly got back in our spots and held on. No one said a word.
 
HMS Dalrymple, an RN survey ship originally built as a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate.

I spent six weeks aboard her in the 1960s. The whole class was said to roll violently on wet grass. We experienced a Force 11 returning from Belfast to Liverpool. We lost the radar mast. all the ship's boats, and much more importantly for the crew, forty barrels of Dublin Guinness that had been attached to the minelaying racks.

http://www.naval-history.net/Photo17SurveyDalrympleNP.jpg
 
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