She should ride a destroyer through a typhoon sometime.
She would know fear then.
“She should ride a destroyer through a typhoon sometime.”
The Tin Can sailors were the first thing I thought about.
I had a cousin who served on destroyers in the 60’s-70’s.
He said after two trips through typhoons he could nap on any roller coaster in the world.
“Ah, the strawberries. That’s where I had them....”
I served on the old WWII diesel subs in the early '50s. Dryest boats in the fleet. We could go through some HEAVY seas and not be hit with anything other than wind-blown spume while on lookout up in the shears (those long posts sticking out of the conning tower). Those clipper bows splayed out and when you hit a big wave, it was like Moses and the Red Sea - it just threw them aside.
Later on I was transferred to a "Guppy" (streamlined snorkel boat). Those were the wettest in the fleet. Was a lookout when we ran into a big storm. On those boats, the lookout was only exposed head and shoulders and a bit lower in the sail. I saw us knife into a 50' wall of grey water and braced myself. It felt like I was under Niagara Falls. It got so rough, we dove to 100', and the boat still rocked, so you knew we were in heavy weather.
In the '80s, the wife and I were on a cruise that ran into a storm off Mexico. There was just a pleasant slight roll to let you know you were at sea, and so help me, some of the passengers were afraid we'd roll over.