I love Light Cruisers, the greyhounds of the sea, so i took the Cleveland out on a cruise...or started to... unfortunately my ship handling skills have gotten rusty from too much shore leave....
we started out fine, dockside, everyone waving and the band playin nice tunes, the gulls flying around, and all of us in a great mood...
Yours truely began to feel smug barking out orders to the helm, and watching the ship swing obediently into the appropriate maneuvers to do a high speed reverse turn S run about.... but......
I forgot to check the charts of the channel and it has been a LONG time since i had to con a ship out of or into Pearl...so sadly the cruise was over before it started....
but fortunately there were no casualties, and it was a short swim ashore for all hands.
it is a lovely prospect tho to have this beautiful ship to do a campaign with, looking forward to it...if BuShips lets me have some new construction