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Originally Posted by RickC Sniper
I have heard it said that the small destroyers can actually end up completely submerged and then pop back up in a bad storm, but I've never seen any film to back that statement up. Would her boilers stay lit if that happened?
I'm curious what you navy vets have to say about that.
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Remember the "storm of the century"? We were smack dab in that thing. We were at 400 feet and I remember it perfectly because i was in the Conn wondering why in the hell we were rocking and rolling at 400 feet. In about a nano second we actually broached the surface. That is how bad those seas were. Pullled us up like a cork. We brought in more water to get heavier, then went to 800 feet were things were OK.