“My best port calls were in Sasebo.”
When I was aboard the USS Enterprise we made a port call there before going on to the South China Sea off Viet Nam. Well, we no sooner left port and then had to head up to the coast off North Korea to be involved in the “Pueblo Incident”. It was very cold up there in Winter.
I don’t know why we were there, after multiple Westpacs things get fuzzy...but
I was on the USS Benjamin Stoddert in a Destroyer Group with USS Turner Joy in the north Pacific cruising the strait between Hokkaido and Russia.
We had ice parallel to the waterline the entire length of the ship. It was most pronounced on the superstructure all the way up to the signal bridge and antennas aloft. And that was from salty sea water at 20deg or less.
Gets friggin’ cold up there.