At the 28:59 mark, shows a bunch of racks. The middle rack was where my friend Rich slept from 1975 to 1981. Great video, as it brought back a bunch of memories for him.
A ship like this with three guns could devastate a coastal city in California or anywhere on the eastern seaboard. It could just anchor off a mile or so and go to work either surgical strikes with the greatest precision or area bombardment with saturation shelling. I was a loader in MT51 DD943. Before I joined I dreamt of being on a fighting ship. Working the canons and reigning destruction. Not too much later I was 3 decks down handling 5" semi fixed HE into a carousel. The other team loaded from the opposite side of the carousel the powder charge. Rarely did it require more than One or two rounds to handle business. Typically Iranian Boghammer rocket boats. The order would come down to the gun Capt" load 10 rds of HE " 2 Star shell, two proximity. The fire control team took it from there. Setting the fuse and other ballistic computations. All done remotely from the fire control radar director 5 decks above. Our guns were gyro stabilized. And the magazine below the waterline. If the boat took a hit, she would go down. All hands in the magazines would go down as well. Magazine access was a single scuttle with room for one man at a time to pass. We'd all been dead ducks. We knew our fate were it to happen, was literally sealed. Naval tradition and ignorance as well as, the coolness of the magazine was agreed a fine place to rest. We all knew we would die together as many before us had. It's funny but I recall a sense of calm that that brought me. That the many men before me who passed went out in a similar fashion. So it diminished the fear of drowning. I wanted to live up to their example. To this day I give thanks so 17 years old humping HE rounds.
I'm a huge fan of these ship tours. This was was awesome to walk through 👍 I'm hoping to visit the HMCS Haida next, a Tribal class destroyer that served in the Second World War, the Korean Conflict and the Cold War docked on Hamilton Ontario if it's open this summer.
Man the museum that is taking care of her had better start getting to work on those decks. Did you get any rest here and begin to become a hazard the Navy will take that destroyer back and scrap it. I'm being the last of the forrest Sherman class destroyers I would really hate to see that happen to her.
Too kewl , thank you ❤
FYI- Edson does accept volunteer work. Go on there facebook page and ask.
My home 1980-1982
At the 28:59 mark, shows a bunch of racks. The middle rack was where my friend Rich slept from 1975 to 1981.
Great video, as it brought back a bunch of memories for him.
That's cool! I've taken a number of ship tours and this one was my favorite so far.
Very similar CIC to the one on my 1st Ship USS Dahlgren DLG-12 when I served on her from 70/72 before she was converted to NTDS.
Thank you for your service 🙏🇺🇲
I asked about the non-skid for the deck. Too expensive these days.
USS Bigelow -1980-83.
Silent movies. There back
¿ A qué clase de Destroyer ... correspondia el USS EDSON ? 🤔
Last of the US heavy destroyers, pre missiles system
I love these ship tours. I hope to go on another soon in Hamilton Ontario.
@@TheGreatOutdoors good luck and be safe
A ship like this with three guns could devastate a coastal city in California or anywhere on the eastern seaboard. It could just anchor off a mile or so and go to work either surgical strikes with the greatest precision or area bombardment with saturation shelling. I was a loader in MT51 DD943. Before I joined I dreamt of being on a fighting ship. Working the canons and reigning destruction. Not too much later I was 3 decks down handling 5" semi fixed HE into a carousel. The other team loaded from the opposite side of the carousel the powder charge. Rarely did it require more than One or two rounds to handle business. Typically Iranian Boghammer rocket boats. The order would come down to the gun Capt" load 10 rds of HE " 2 Star shell, two proximity. The fire control team took it from there. Setting the fuse and other ballistic computations. All done remotely from the fire control radar director 5 decks above. Our guns were gyro stabilized. And the magazine below the waterline. If the boat took a hit, she would go down. All hands in the magazines would go down as well. Magazine access was a single scuttle with room for one man at a time to pass. We'd all been dead ducks. We knew our fate were it to happen, was literally sealed. Naval tradition and ignorance as well as, the coolness of the magazine was agreed a fine place to rest. We all knew we would die together as many before us had. It's funny but I recall a sense of calm that that brought me. That the many men before me who passed went out in a similar fashion. So it diminished the fear of drowning. I wanted to live up to their example. To this day I give thanks so
17 years old humping HE rounds.
I'm a huge fan of these ship tours. This was was awesome to walk through 👍 I'm hoping to visit the HMCS Haida next, a Tribal class destroyer that served in the Second World War, the Korean Conflict and the Cold War docked on Hamilton Ontario if it's open this summer.
Man the museum that is taking care of her had better start getting to work on those decks. Did you get any rest here and begin to become a hazard the Navy will take that destroyer back and scrap it. I'm being the last of the forrest Sherman class destroyers I would really hate to see that happen to her.
Remote control part's