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Oberon

05-08-12 12:24 AM

USS William D. Porter

http://www.destroyersonline.com/images/dd579001.jpg

As ships go...not a particularly lucky one...

http://www.cracked.com/article_19637...same-ship.html

Falkirion

05-08-12 01:57 AM

Any other ships that have had as bad a run (in terms of names) as the Porter?

Nice find Oberon.

gimpy117

05-08-12 02:25 AM

sounds like a ship full of Bernards

Kongo Otto

05-08-12 02:28 AM

In the article it says the whole crew was arrested. What happened to them? Were they court martialled?

Rilder

05-08-12 03:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kongo Otto (Post 1881016)

In the article it says the whole crew was arrested. What happened to them? Were they court martialled?

It says on the next page of the article.

Quote:

There are worse places to face an inquiry than Bermuda, and after all the appropriate questions were answered, the captain and a few officers were sentenced to shore duty. It could have been much worse. The guy who forgot to disable the torpedo got hard labor, although his sentence was later reduced by Roosevelt himself.

TarJak

05-08-12 03:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Falkirion (Post 1881013)

Any other ships that have had as bad a run (in terms of names) as the Porter?

Nice find Oberon.

HMAS Melbourne was close. It ran over two friendly warships during manouvres in peace time.:damn:

Halgarre

05-08-12 11:42 AM

"The IOWA began evasive maneuvers, yet trained all guns on the William D. Porter. There was now some thought that the W.D. Porter was part of an assassination plot."

That's a lot of guns. :o

Sailor Steve

05-08-12 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by TarJak (Post 1881028)

HMAS Melbourne was close. It ran over two friendly warships during manouvres in peace time.:damn:

And came close to running over a third. I was there.

Jimbuna

05-08-12 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1881006)

http://www.destroyersonline.com/images/dd579001.jpg

As ships go...not a particularly lucky one...

http://www.cracked.com/article_19637...same-ship.html

Her Captain.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GhCzaCtRupQ/0.jpg

Karle94

05-08-12 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Halgarre (Post 1881179)

"The IOWA began evasive maneuvers, yet trained all guns on the William D. Porter. There was now some thought that the W.D. Porter was part of an assassination plot."

That's a lot of guns. :o

Aren`t nine of them all you`ll ever need?

kraznyi_oktjabr

05-10-12 03:54 AM

:har: Best laughs for this year so far! :rotfl2:

CaptainHaplo

05-10-12 11:32 AM

Seems to me that HMAS Melbourne wasn't unlucky - the destroyers assigned to guard her were! In each of those cases it looks like the escorts were clearly at fault based on the rules of manuevering at sea.

Armistead

07-06-14 11:12 AM

Worse ship in US Navy WW2

Just read this.....Captain and entire crew placed under arrest for being the stupidest ship in history. This should be a movie....
Make sure to check the 2nd page, so funny. Ship was exiled to Alaska and a drunk sailor decided to shoot the guns and blew up the flower garden in the front yard of....wait for it.....the base commanders house..lmao.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19637...same-ship.html

Sailor Steve

07-06-14 11:23 AM

I know it's been a couple of years, but...
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=195021

World_Devastator

07-06-14 12:11 PM

HAHAHA good read!

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