Hi Ted, Yes getting washed over board was always a concern especially on smaller ships, on my first ship the cruiser "Nigeria" while on our way from South Africa to the Falkland Islands I very nearly was washed overboard, being seasick, myself and another guy went up on the after deck for some fresh air but as we opened the steel door and I stepped out the ship rolled violently and a huge wave hit me and washed me through the torpedo tubes to the other side of the ship where I got tangled up in the guard rails which saved me from going overboard or I would still have been in the South Atlantic now, I was never sea sick again??? Mauri

Mauri Somebody up there likes you ,you scare the hell out of me, Regards Ted

Ted, At the risk of bragging but the "Nigeria" experienc was nothing compared to the two typhoons I went through in the Yellow sea, the first one on the aircraft carrier "HMAS Sydney' in 1951 during the Korean War and the second one on passage from Hong Kong to Korea on the little 1200 ton frigate HMAS Murchison when we nearly turned right over and the first time I heard young sailors screaming in terror.??? Mauri