| IndyVette - 8/30/2016 21:41 August of 1986, left out of Norfolk VA on board USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) heading to the Med, and Hurricane Charlie was heading north from Florida. I saw waves coming over the flight deck while the boat was trying to outrun the storm. It was pretty rough for a couple of days and the waves ripped off some cat walks.
I've got a book put out after the retirement of the F-14, with tons of great anecdotes from people who were around it in any capacity. In one story, on a dark and stormy night the Tomcat crew is on the waist catapult, while an A-7 is waiting to be the first jet launched on the bow cat. A rogue wave comes over the deck and completely covers the A-7. (Tail of an A-7 is 16 feet, deck height would be approximately 60 feet?) CAG comes on the radio and says "shut 'em down boys, we aren't flying tonight!"
A Google search of Halsey's fleet in the typhoon of 1945 would get some descriptions of terrible seas, too. |
Any naval people on here
