Anyone have any experience living out of a ship?

[HawkerHurricane]

I'll count a boat, if thats all you got.
Or a submarine, which are really just ships that can come back up under thier own power after going underwater.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Yes, sort of, but not like you do, Hawker.

Sleeping on deck (in the wind and sometimes the rain -- run FAST) was great).

http://www.windjammer.com/

[nono]

2. Yep

Several years on a bird farm, and 20+ on my sailboat. Great life.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Hey that's not what that guy in highschool told me a submarine was!

x(

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. Well, we went to the submarine races in Chicago, down by the lakefront.

Never saw a submarine, never saw much of anything. LOL.

[oneighty]

5. Yup

One 220 foot long steelhull mine sweeper; USS Symbol AM 123. Korea 52, Ah, living was fun then.

To the Med and back on 180 foot MSO (Mine Sweep Ocean Wood Hull) Uss Detactor. Many, many MSOs

On Mine Clearance jobs. USS Yazoo, net tender many Mine recover jobs. Twice across the Pacific on "Troop Ship"??

One submarine rescue ship. New London. I do not remember her name. It was fun though. Many Shrimp trawlers.

And on my very own Clam Dredge, Shrimp trawler. The "Vicky Mary".

Ed.

[rppper]

7. 5 actually.....

uss james k polk (ssbn 645)got my dolphins onboard her, lots of good memories.....

uss billfish (ssn 676)i HATED this boat...HATED it....

uss woodrow wilson (ssn 626)funnest boatload of misfits in sublant; prototype for future SEAL delivery boats; every good sea story i have is because of this boat. was the oldest active sub in the fleet when i was stationed on her and i helped de-commed her....

uss hunley (as 31)de-com crew...nicknamed the "funley";we had dances on the helo-deck while underway...no sh@t; did the bone dance with the s-3 chief in a storage room 4 decks below...lol

uss tucson (ssn 770)plankowner...1st crew, last boat...i helped re-write a standard operating procedure for 688 class mine field operations along with my COB and planesman...i was bubble drivin' mofo....

[jpak]

6. Four months at sea on a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker

in the eastern Canadian Arctic (Kane Basin).

Leaving tomorrow for 4 months on a US research icebreaker (Barrow AK to Ross Sea Antarctica via Dutch Harbor, Honolulu, Pago Pago, and Christchurch NZ).

avast ye scurvy dogs....:evilgrin:

[HawkerHurricane]

8. Well, I've served on lots of ships

USS LaSalle (AGF-3), homeported Philidelphia, forward deployed Persian Gulf, 1984-85

USS New Orleans (LPH-11), homeported San Diego, 1985-86

USS Harry W. Hill (DD-986), homeported San Diego, 1986-88

USS Waddell (DDG-24), homeported San Diego, 1988-90

USS Elliot (DD-967), homeported San Diego, 1993-95

USS Copeland (FFG-25), homeported San Diego, 1995-97

USS Denver (LPD-9), homeported San Diego, 1997-1998

USNS Mercy (AH-19), homeported Alameda/San Diego, 1998-2001

Leaving current ship blank, as is my custom.

[cmf]

9. Submarines are boats.

Ships are targets. My husband (the submariner) is very insistent on that distinction.

[HawkerHurricane]

10. Submarines are submersible ships.

Boats are not commisioned, only ships are.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

13. I have never understood people who wanted to

go down on something long, black and full of seamen for months at a time.
To each their own.

[MaineDem]

11. My husband was ASW

He always considered subs to be targets. :evilgrin:

I've spent summers on a 25' sloop, does that count?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. Oh yeah... lots of times... 25 years active duty... 14 sea duty

how's that for ya, skivvy waver?