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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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I'm not a navy vet, but I'll give it a try:
I highly doubt that they'd be submerged (Usually, submerged ships don't come back up. Submarines go against God's law.), but you could completly lose sight of the ship for a few seconds, maybe a minute, if it's in the through of a wave, and you're in the next one.
Plus, spray plumes (The white stuff) can shoot off a hundred feet in the air, easily. That can make it seem like the ship is under.
The boilers would probably stay lit, I suppose. Is any modern ship still using steam? I'm more familliar with diesel; those can usually take a beating, weather wise.
I've seen it where all we could see were the deck cranes sticking out, and where water'd hit my forward facing porthole on the poop deck. But I can't go into great descriptive details, cause I was sea sick. Delirious, please-kill-me seasick.