[Magnatron]

This puppy would take some seas that would make your heart stop. Spent some serious roller coaster time in the North Sea, Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Horn -- along with a nasty hurricane in the Atlantic. It did all of this with a crack across the O-1 deck (later replaced with an expansion joint on newer vessels). Walking on the walls, eating cold food, and watching breakers wash down the passageways added to the excitement...

[Mariner]

I rode the USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22), another Adams class ship.

In addition to being the prettiest ships ever built, they sure could handle rough seas.

50ft swells in the north Pacific.

It was like being on a submarine.

Nothing but coffee and horse cock sandwiches. For four days.

[KC Burke]

Your story reminds me how much I enjoyed reading the book Halsey’s Typhoon.. What was the name and class of your ship?

[sasportas]

Been there and done that. That’s the Adam class destroyers, the first US guided missile destroyers.

Was in a typhoon near Hokkaido, Japan on one of them. Seas so large we were “going over one wave, under two” The carrier sailors we were screening said we looked like a submarine.

While going under a wave our screws would come out of the water shaking the whole ship. This while the carrier was taking green water on her flight deck.

Sturdy built destroyers, they were.

[faucetman]

When ships were ships and men were men. The good old days.

Now we have surface ships that look like submarines crewed by transvestites, women who identify as men and men who identify as women.

The DDG-1000, performed so well in modest sea trials that the navy will only acquire THREE of them, down from its original plans to acquire a fleet of 32 of these ships.

But it looks KOOL!