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Oberon
05-08-12, 12:24 AM
http://www.destroyersonline.com/images/dd579001.jpg

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

http://www.cracked.com/article_19637_the-5-craziest-war-stories-all-happened-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
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.


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

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

http://www.cracked.com/article_19637_the-5-craziest-war-stories-all-happened-same-ship.html

Her Captain.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GhCzaCtRupQ/0.jpg
Karle94
05-08-12, 01:27 PM
"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
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_the-5-craziest-war-stories-all-happened-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!
nikimcbee
07-06-14, 01:10 PM
http://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarp/entertainment/television/2014-02/740-tin-conway-mchales-navy-comic.imgcache.rev1393257960059rendition.jpg/jcr:content/renditions/cq5dam.web.420.270.jpeg
fireftr18
07-06-14, 04:20 PM
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_the-5-craziest-war-stories-all-happened-same-ship.html

Sounds like the real, live, Cap Wernher. :har:
Armistead
07-07-14, 12:16 AM
Yea, pretty bad when the Iowa with FDR got so concerned over the dumb actions that the guns were aimed at it.

Still, minus the many unseemly events, it did serve bravely most the time.
Jimbuna
07-07-14, 05:20 AM
I know it's been a couple of years, but...
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=195021

Threads merged.
Armistead
07-07-14, 07:51 AM
You just did this because I posted it....:O:
Jimbuna
07-07-14, 09:31 AM
As if I would :hmph:
vienna
07-07-14, 12:02 PM
I think the final end of the Porter is truly amazing: you manage to avoid a kamikaze attack only to have the plane skim under your keel and blow you out of the water, essentially being reverse depth-charged by the plane...


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Armistead
07-07-14, 03:48 PM
As if I would :hmph:

.

I see numerous threads that get bypassed and I ...I...get called out on one for two years ago....remembered by who else....


I filed a complaint with AVGWarhunk
Kapitan
07-07-14, 05:06 PM
my great great uncle was on the submarine K13 in 1917 ...........maybe some of the older crew were transferred she sank on trials because some one left a hatch open.
vienna
07-07-14, 05:25 PM
I was kind of curious about the person after whom the Porter was named, so I looked him up on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_D._Porter


Seems a bit of a shame such a capable commander should have as his only namesake a ship that is a bit of o laughingstock to the rest of the world. I say they should give another go at naming a ship after Commodore Porter...


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