A U.S. navy boo boo

[puddle jumper]

I was told this was a true story by an old guy I work with. On one foggy night
two radars met. One person came on the radio stating that the other boat
must alter course. Another voice came on the radio stating that he was in the wrong and he must alter course. The other voice came back on and said (cant remember the name of the craft) this is the USS biggest aircraft carrier in the US Navy YOU WILL ALTER COURSE. The other voice came back on and said THIS IS A LIGHT HOUSE YOU WILL ALTER COURSE. Apparently this conversation was recorded.

 

[RubberDuckie]

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It's a funny story, however it is not true, although it has been quoted as truth by many.
It has even been made into a funny video commercial (by the Dutch?).
http://my.break.com/Media/View.aspx?ContentID=100895'

But, Snopes says it's just a myth.
http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp'

Heck, even the US Navy has a post about it.
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/navy_legacy.asp?id=174'

 

[180shabah]

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Don't know when or where the story started, I remember seeing it as a campfire skit a LONG time ago.

Still funny though!

 

[rndn]

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I was told this as a joke back in the early 70's. The video is great!!

 

[jimyoung]

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I always heard it as a lesson in communication.........

 

[JB]

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This story grew and morphed from a true incident during WWII.

During a maneuvering exercise a DD (Destroyer) brushed, without damage, the stern of a CVA (Attack Carrier). The Admiral on the CVA radioed the LT commanding the DD, "Touch me there again and I will scream!"

BTW, all sea stories that are prefaced with "This is no bull. . . " or "this really happened. . ." or even "this is a true incident..." are mythology.

 

[180shabah]

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....BTW, all sea stories that are prefaced with "This is no bull. . . " or "this really happened. . ." or even "this is a true incident..." are mythology.

You're never gonn believe this........I swear......

 

[SandMan*]

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the USS Abraham Lincoln the largest aircraft carrier in the US navy?

I live in Victoria, BC Canada and it was stationed in our waters for a short time recently.

It's said that every time they station here, tourism income for the city goes up by over $1 million for the short time they're here.

The crew consists of over 3,000 without the extra piece of the ship, with the extra attachment the crew is over 5,000!

It's like a miniature city on a ship...

 

[sbulla]

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the USS Abraham Lincoln the largest aircraft carrier in the US navy?
The crew consists of over 3,000 without the extra piece of the ship, with the extra attachment the crew is over 5,000!

It's like a miniature city on a ship...

If it's the biggest, the crew count is probably more than that 'cause, I was on the USS Kitty Hawk in '72 and we were at 5000 back then!

No women back then either! :-(

Sonny

 

[steve201]

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gotta remember that at 3000 men..that's just ships company..the boat is not the longest in the fleet...that honor I think goes to either the Eisenhour or the Enterprise....can't remember which....the Dwight Ike has a catepult extension on the bow and I think the Enterprise is pretty close too 1100ft in length.....
the air wing adds another 2k people plus 80 aircraft.....

oh ....and Ya'll ain't gonna believe this one!!..but this is no bull Sh#t......that story is all cannon fodder!!.....neeeever happened!!..

 

[frayedknotarts]

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I was told this as a joke back in the early 70's. The video is great!!

Heard that on my first watch as a helmsman in '66 - of course, preceeded by the "This is no B.S." qualifier...

 

[Matthew_B]

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the USS Abraham Lincoln the largest aircraft carrier in the US navy?

The Abraham Lincoln doesn't get to hold any records. The longest is the Enterprise by 9 feet over the "Nimitz" class. The Nimitz class are all the same length & use the same power plant, but each one gets heavier. The wider spaced catapults on the Regan and GHW Bush make them far heavier than the others in the Nimitz class.

 

[edthearcher]

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Iam sure the navy has many boo boos, back in the 50s we pulled into gitmo , aboard a 236 ft steel mine sweeper, converted to a survey ship, so we didnt need a tug, the od man (captian) hit the cement pier not only once three times. off of turkey running survey lines we had to post a watch on the bow radar would not pick up the wooden boats the blip looked like a wave. coming back to the U.S. crossing the atlantic. heading west are sister ship 5 miles off are starboard bow, all of a sudden the watch spots a sub. not flying a flag. sisnal men send out the able able call via signal flags and on the radio. no response, the old man calls are sister ship for instructions. there captian says run it over. at this time Iam just entering the bridge above and below deck watch. the old man calls Gq full speed ahead makes a hard right hand turn, and is heading for the boat. at this time the con tower comes alive, flags come out and the signal man is flashing are ship. GUESS WHAT it was a U.S. sub charging its battries, with out a watch top side. so yes there are many boo boos that we dont hear about

 

[puddle jumper]

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I bet it doesn't mater what country your from i bet there's boo boos happening in every military that thay dont want you to know about.

 

[wavrider]

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The good old days of Uncle Sam's canoe club.
Yes a lot of mistakes are made that John Q Public does not get to hear about regarding Naval maritime navigation.

I may be wrong but I believe the Stennis was the longest carrier, or so the claim was on her around the world cruise maiden voyage.

Full CAG onboard it is usually between 5500 and 6000 sailors onboard when deployed. 2500 to 3000 ships company.

This is a no bull sh**er, really happened, true story.

One of our work ups took us off the VA. Capes area and after a few weeks out we headed back into Cheasapeake Bay. Our skipper ever dilligent of an oppurtinity to train his crew decided to have a man overboard drill and launch the port motor whale boat for recovery.

Ok what the heck one more drill before we get liberty and a cold beer so everything went smooth until they pulled"oscar" the dummy man overboard from the water.

Had to beat off the hungry shark with a paddle to get our dummy "Oscar" onboard. the port motor whale boat radioed that the man overboard was injured due to marine life encounter.

Our Skipper, the nice guy he was, (did I mention he was ever dilligent for oppurtinities for training?) Decided to sieze the moment to have a mass casuality drill also with man over board recovery.

Of all the times I have been in and out of Cheasapeake Bay, (more than I care to remember) that was the most memorial. I am pretty sure I was onboard the IKE at that time, I think J.J. Dantone was CO, back when there were no women onboard.

 

[puddle jumper]

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Waverider thats funny. Poor Oscar.
I herd that the Canadian Navy off the east coast had some dignitaries on board. So thay sent some deep sea divers over board to get some big lobster for dinner to show off there skills. The only problem was the fisheries busted them. There was a closer on lobster from over fishing and thay had no licence also. Never did hear if the charges stuck or not.

 

[wavrider]

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Wonder if they got to eat the lobster or had to turn them over to the authorities?
They probaly ate the lobster, not good politics to let dignitaries go hungry?

I like the story about the lighthouse and Naval Warship.

We were doing training ops in the Gulf letting the future joe jet jocks bounce off of our deck, during daylight hours only of course.

We must have cruised in to the good grouper grounds or something because several boats were all in the same area, the same area we were heading to.

The aircraft carrier did not change course for the anchored boats, instead the helmsman just laid on the fog horn, and it is a very loud fog horn to be heard over the jet engines. Needless to say the fishing boats weighed anchor and scattered like cockroaches when the lights get turned on.

I do not know if that was proper seamanship or not but we were recovering aircraft so had to keep 35 knots of wind across the bow and we were really churning some water that day.

Sort of felt bad for the fishermen there cuz the bite must have been good for so many of them to be there in one spot but when you see somethig as big as an aircraft carrier heading your way I would have weighed ancher alot earlier than they did. I guess they expected the carrier to change course.

 

[Robbo22]

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the USS Abraham Lincoln the largest aircraft carrier in the US navy?

I live in Victoria, BC Canada and it was stationed in our waters for a short time recently.

It's said that every time they station here, tourism income for the city goes up by over $1 million for the short time they're here.

The crew consists of over 3,000 without the extra piece of the ship, with the extra attachment the crew is over 5,000!

It's like a miniature city on a ship...

I lived in Esquimalt when the Abraham Lincoln visited in Dec 96..

Victoria and surrounding communities were awash with US seamen, they were in the local pubs and at junior A hockey games.

My compliments to ships company, they were having fun in our town, were respectful and behaved like perfect gentlemen when ladiies were present. We were delighted to have these young men visit our city, they were very well behaved and a total credit to their ship and country....good job US Navy.

 

[SgtMaj]

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I do not know if that was proper seamanship or not but we were recovering aircraft so had to keep 35 knots of wind across the bow and we were really churning some water that day.

I believe the proper thing is for the mobile vessel to avoid the anchored vessels... on the other hand... the other proper thing is, navy ships go where navy ships darn well like, and it's up to everyone else to make sure they don't end up under the navy ship.

 

[RubberDuckie]

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"Big Boat Wins"