A Few Historical Questions

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Originally Posted by jgbishop

I have a few random historical questions:

1. How long did the captain of the ship spend 'on duty'?
2. Who was put in charge when the captain wasn't on duty?
3. If the weather was bad enough, were lookouts removed from their posts? The game shows them active regardless of the weather, but I have to believe that for safety reasons, some weather events were bad enough to warrant them going below.

I'll bite:

1. 24/7
2. the XO
3. This was War and I would think the safety of the boat came 1st.

Happy Hunting!

Art

Edit: there was a bad typhoon "Typhoon Cobra", December 1944 - and there was a good website years ago that told the story of the Third Fleet that was caught in it - that quoted from Samuel Eliot Morison "History of US Naval Operations in World War II"