USS VELLA GULF HARD RIGHT RUDDER

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This was taken a few years back. This is the USS VELLA GULF breaking away from the THE USNS SUPPLY!
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Rallscrawls  2007-12-26 18:50:00 wow __________________________________________________
bluntedboy  2007-06-14 04:45:15 oh, wait... You were going to say it is a battleship? Nope, it is a CG...Cruiser Guided Missile. 563 feet long, an Iowa class battleship is 887 feet long and would have a much larger turning radius. __________________________________________________
bluntedboy  2007-06-14 04:42:33 DavetheDopeMan...of the USS has been cut up for razor blades. Master Helmsman is a person who is really, really good at being told which course to steer. In other words, able to block out all that pesky brain activity and just do as your told. You stand some watches on the bridge, then aft steering, and tada- you are master helmsman. I'd like to see you actually dock a boat, or navigate from point a to point b. __________________________________________________
bluntedboy  2007-06-14 04:37:49 goodchris...I wouldn't brag about driving a ship through a hurricane. Holding a wheel and taking orders from an OOD is not driving a ship, it is simply following orders. Putting an E1-E3 behind the wheel of a ship is the Navy way of making a sailor feel important. In essence you are a autopilot that can easily be replaced by a computer. __________________________________________________
bluntedboy  2007-06-14 04:32:06 agrigorof...Let me give you a little historical perspective. On the RMS Titanic, the ships wheel would turn the opposite direction of the rudder. Hard-a-Starboard would turn the ship to Port. One of the reasons the deck orders were changed to right and left rudder. Nobody would be ridiculed to say right when referring to a steering command, since that is the order given. I know you have never been a deck officer aboard a ship nor in the MSC. __________________________________________________