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Interesting photo to say the least. What's with the platform shoes? And the shirt with epaulets (?)and rope. Then there's something poking out of the right side of his pouch. Not to mention the sailor peeking over the deck in the lower left of the photo. It's almost like Dali trying to imitate Picasso on what looks like the deck of a submarine.
Well, I can explain the shoes. Those were heavily weighted and used by tethered deep sea divers to overcome their natural buoyancy. Nowadays they use weight belts.
NOT A SUB. Note the heads on a lower deck. A 'Mail Buoy Watch' has been a long tradition in Destroyer Navy. Newbie is convinced that mail pouch would be left by a passing ship attached to a buoy. This guy is "out of uniform". he has He has: 1. no life vest 2. no boat hook ( a long heavy oak pole with a hook on one end to bring boats alongside.) 3. he is not at the pointy end of the ship or a proper lookout station 4. no sound powered phones to alert the bridge when the "buoy sighted". Binoculars and appropriate dress in case he went overboard. The more ridiculous the attire the longer he was told to "man your watch until properly relieved". He search the horizon until he caught on or someone told him it was a farce. Word would spread and until all aboard had the chance to be amused at his naiveté. Yes, I was invited and NO I did fall for it. Then I was a 33 year old Ensign with 10 experience as enlisted Air Force. Mail buoy watch, greasing up strikers, polliwog initiations into Shellbacks, CPO initiations, and even checkerboard paint search were just part of life at sea. It is truly days of boredom. My division passed out clean laundry but displayed the drawers with meanest skid marks at the ladderway to their berthing.
Interesting photo to say the least. What's with the platform shoes? And the shirt with epaulets (?)and rope. Then there's something poking out of the right side of his pouch. Not to mention the sailor peeking over the deck in the lower left of the photo. It's almost like Dali trying to imitate Picasso on what looks like the deck of a submarine.
ReplyDeleteWell, I can explain the shoes. Those were heavily weighted and used by tethered deep sea divers to overcome their natural buoyancy. Nowadays they use weight belts.
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ReplyDeleteNOT A SUB. Note the heads on a lower deck. A 'Mail Buoy Watch' has been a long tradition in Destroyer Navy. Newbie is convinced that mail pouch would be left by a passing ship attached to a buoy.
ReplyDeleteThis guy is "out of uniform".
he has He has:
1. no life vest
2. no boat hook ( a long heavy oak pole with a hook on one end to bring boats alongside.)
3. he is not at the pointy end of the ship or a proper lookout station
4. no sound powered phones to alert the bridge when the "buoy sighted".
Binoculars and appropriate dress in case he went overboard. The more ridiculous the attire the longer he was told to "man your watch until properly relieved". He search the horizon until he caught on or someone told him it was a farce. Word would spread and until all aboard had the chance to be amused at his naiveté. Yes, I was invited and NO I did fall for it. Then I was a 33 year old Ensign with 10 experience as enlisted Air Force.
Mail buoy watch, greasing up strikers, polliwog initiations into Shellbacks, CPO initiations, and even checkerboard paint search were just part of life at sea. It is truly days of boredom. My division passed out clean laundry but displayed the drawers with meanest skid marks at the ladderway to their berthing.
Interesting info. Thanks!
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