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Post by imhidingshh on Feb 22, 2016 18:26:57 GMT
The only thing the Royal Navy has that might be called an aircraft carrier. Think they've binned her now, and I think the Queen Elizibeth is going through trials at the moment. My mate was in the Marines and he was a driver (?) of one of the landing craft and they used to park their cars in the hanger when along side. When she joined the fleet she had nearly 1000 defects! Another bit of useless info, all of the old carriers had an Jaguar car seat on the bridge for the Captain and a Jaguar car in the hanger for the Captain to use when abroad.
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Post by Snorelacks on Feb 22, 2016 20:49:16 GMT
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) Saw her anchored off Bahrain when we were tied up, she's that long I had to turn the Periscope about 30 degrees! We had some drinks with some of the crew in our hotel and we were talking about jobs on board, US Carriers have crew and their only job is to fill vending machines!! They also have people who are life guards in case anyone falls overboard, and they also said that they have ghettos on board and the OOD has to go with an armed guard when they do rounds (not sure about that one though). That last one is a bit of a stretch!!! However, when the carrier is out at sea it is one crew, but comprised of both the "ships company" (those assigned permanently to the ship- approx. 3100-3200 sailors) and the "air wing" (made up of multiple squadrons- approx. 2300-2400 sailors).
The ships company sailors are called "black shoes" because they wear black shoes with their dress uniforms and khakis and the air wing sailors are called brown shoes because the officers and chief petty officers can wear brown leather shoes with their khakis and some dress uniforms such as the Olive drabs.
Getting to the ghettos....there are some spaces deep in the ship where all the boilermakers, enginemen, etc. work and they are called "snipes" (I think this goes back to when engineers were first brought on board in the steam engine days and the sailors did not take kindly to them and treated them poorly. I think a man named Snipe pushed for better treatment). Supposedly Aviators and "deck personnel" that have wandered into these spaces have been messed with to the tune of getting tied up and greased with heavy grease and then sent on their way. I never witnessed this on the USS Saratoga, but it was always understood that they lived in their world deep in the bowels of the ship and all others quite simply didn't and left them to their duties. Besides, as you know, the days at sea are long with no days off and only provide little free time. I didn't really have the time to explore that big ship beyond my berthing spaces, the ship store, barber, hangar and squadron spaces, galley, gym and working on the flight deck between flight cycles.
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Post by Vince Cable's Exotic Spresm on Feb 22, 2016 23:07:33 GMT
The only thing the Royal Navy has that might be called an aircraft carrier. Think they've binned her now, and I think the Queen Elizibeth is going through trials at the moment. My mate was in the Marines and he was a driver (?) of one of the landing craft and they used to park their cars in the hanger when along side. When she joined the fleet she had nearly 1000 defects! Another bit of useless info, all of the old carriers had an Jaguar car seat on the bridge for the Captain and a Jaguar car in the hanger for the Captain to use when abroad. I think she's still in commission. She only came out of refit two years ago.
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Post by Vince Cable's Exotic Spresm on Feb 22, 2016 23:09:58 GMT
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) Saw her anchored off Bahrain when we were tied up, she's that long I had to turn the Periscope about 30 degrees! We had some drinks with some of the crew in our hotel and we were talking about jobs on board, US Carriers have crew and their only job is to fill vending machines!! They also have people who are life guards in case anyone falls overboard, and they also said that they have ghettos on board and the OOD has to go with an armed guard when they do rounds (not sure about that one though). Wait, you were the periscope guy. Does that mean you were the captain?
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imhidingshh
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Post by imhidingshh on Feb 23, 2016 9:34:52 GMT
Think they've binned her now, and I think the Queen Elizibeth is going through trials at the moment. My mate was in the Marines and he was a driver (?) of one of the landing craft and they used to park their cars in the hanger when along side. When she joined the fleet she had nearly 1000 defects! Another bit of useless info, all of the old carriers had an Jaguar car seat on the bridge for the Captain and a Jaguar car in the hanger for the Captain to use when abroad. I think she's still in commission. She only came out of refit two years ago. You'd be surprised what the Navy do, we had a refit (can't say what) and 4 weeks after we'd rejoined the fleet we had the bit of kit replaced again because it was "outdated".
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Post by imhidingshh on Feb 23, 2016 9:36:39 GMT
Saw her anchored off Bahrain when we were tied up, she's that long I had to turn the Periscope about 30 degrees! We had some drinks with some of the crew in our hotel and we were talking about jobs on board, US Carriers have crew and their only job is to fill vending machines!! They also have people who are life guards in case anyone falls overboard, and they also said that they have ghettos on board and the OOD has to go with an armed guard when they do rounds (not sure about that one though). Wait, you were the periscope guy. Does that mean you were the captain? Na, we were along side and I was duty (I was an engineer), I'd just come off watch and one of the lads said she was out there and the scope was up so I had a look.
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Post by Aschenblume on Feb 24, 2016 21:52:59 GMT
USS Constitution
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Post by Vince Cable's Exotic Spresm on Feb 24, 2016 23:26:43 GMT
Pah! I give you HMS Victory!
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Post by Aschenblume on Feb 27, 2016 14:59:57 GMT
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Post by I AM The Scouting Authority. on Feb 29, 2016 12:58:39 GMT
You are still being watched by the boats
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Post by Snorelacks on Feb 29, 2016 15:17:58 GMT
USS Constitution Old Ironsides!
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Post by I AM The Scouting Authority. on Feb 29, 2016 20:15:04 GMT
HMS Warrior
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Post by Snorelacks on Feb 29, 2016 21:51:33 GMT
Pah! I give you HMS Victory! Back when men were made of steel and ships were made of wood!!!
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Post by Aschenblume on Mar 2, 2016 17:08:58 GMT
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Post by Aschenblume on Mar 2, 2016 17:17:31 GMT
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Post by Aschenblume on Mar 2, 2016 17:20:39 GMT
Not to be confused with the Yorktown class USS Hornet (CV-8) which was taken bye the blue deep during the Battle of Santa Cruz.
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Post by Aschenblume on Mar 2, 2016 17:26:33 GMT
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Post by Aschenblume on Mar 2, 2016 17:29:42 GMT
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Post by Aschenblume on Mar 2, 2016 17:32:02 GMT
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Post by Aschenblume on Mar 2, 2016 17:35:10 GMT
USS Constellation in Baltimore.
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