USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) slammed by giant wave during typhoon
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2013
- This is a clip from the bridge of the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) aircraft carrier on its way home to Yokosuka Naval Base Japan during a typhoon. My dad was on board this ship as they passed through the storm (that's how I got this footage but it was not shot by him). As they left the storm the damage to the ship was hard to miss. The starboard side cat walk on the bow was heavily damaged and the safety netting ripped clear off. I do not own this film, it was shot in 2008 ish and i received this film from my Dad shortly after his return home. ( the USS Kitty Hawk is now retired from active service)
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To answer the most common question asked here, the helicopter was left on the bow because it landed and crews had to tie it down and get their butts off the deck as they entered the storm.
The Real Yeff
hell I'm so blind I didn't even notice the helicopter sitting there to begin with. ok cool...on to more cat vids.
what a stupid and idiotic comment i've ever heard
korng sombath haha you scared
Thanks for that, mind you after all that salt water had been through it they may as well have just kicked it over the side - salt water just loves aluminium and electrics - corrosion or what!
@Mike Walrus, aluminum is actually one of the most resistant metals to salt water. I work with subsea robotics, and our subs are made of aluminum. Yes, we wash them off when bringing them to deck, but there are times we go weeks to months in the water, with no issues.
Former Kitty Hawk crew member here, I was on board during this storm. It was a nasty one. Normally you don't really feel the waves all that much on a carrier, but we were rocking pretty heavily. Felt bad for our escorts.
What year was this storm?
@@davidburnett2458 2007 if I'm remembering right.
В каком году ты служил.
Wow. That pretty insane. The smaller ships must have gotten pounded
@@VegetaLF7 2008. We were headed to Hong Kong, but got turned around and headed back to Yokuska.
It looks like they strapped that helo to the bow of the ship as a sacrificial gesture to the wave gods.
Clean the bugs off the windscreen
They must have to clean everything when the storm is over because that salt water has to make literally everything corrode.
My dad was the shop foreman and the lead engineer on Kitty Hawk when she entered Hunters Point shipyard in San Franciso for some repairs in November of 1961. Because of his position at "the yard" he was able to take me on a tour of Kitty Hawk, from sitting in the Captain's chair up in the Island, all the way down to the engine room. What an experience for a young boy.
lucky man, i may not have served yet but i got to see her in the pudget sound naval base from the highway for the first and only time. she got scrapped about a year or two later :(
I was on the USS Hepburn (FF-1055) way back in the day and the guys on the carriers used to tell us how much they would laugh at us because we disappeared in storms like that. Never once though did I get seasick which is something most of my shipmates couldn't say. Ah, the good old days headed to Subic Bay.
GO NAVY!
FLY NAVY!
Its take a meritorious group to keep O'Kane's out of water in NA
Hard to imagine how big that wave was. In fact, it's so hard to tell how big it is because the ship itself is massive and those waves made it rock like a tinny in a bay shore break
Im medical spacex starboard siarnoarf
Typically the deck of the USS Kitty hawk is 63 ft above the water line.
I served aboard the Hawk from 92-96. This occurred on my first voyage with her, on our way to Japan, riding at the head of the typhoon. The waves were buckling the steel plates of the bulkheads in the forward compartments and our DC team had to shore it up to keep it from caving completely. Someone took a picture...looked like a spiderweb of 6x6s in that compartment. It was truly awesome. The waves pushed water up into the air intakes, just under the flight deck and it poured into many of the compartments. Still, glad I was on the carrier and not one of the small boys in our battle group. Those poor folks really took a beating.
I remember this West-Pac. We left San Diego on my 21st birthday.... November 3rd 1992. I was stationed on board with VAW-114.
Jp CNLSports I was on that cruise also. We left on election day of that year. I was in VS-37.
A.J. Heinrich was this after cross-decking with the indy on the way to Yokosuka? I believe i was there if it was. ABE waist cats
I believe so...1992? I was the Aviation Med Tech, working physical exams, eye lane and hearing booth. We had a terrific Medical Department.
A.J. Heinrich Nope i graduated high school that yr. I joined in 96 and she was in dry dock in Bremerton for a complete re-fit then went to san-dog for a few months and then Yokosuka by way of pearl harbor to replace the indy as the forward deployed carrier there. So i guess she was the not so shitty kitty when i came aboard.
Thank Your Dad For His Service to Our Country 🛩🛩👍
Yeah give him a big old thanks for working on a big boat that bombs third world countries for no reason lmao
I served on the USS George Washington (CVN 73) and worked on the flight deck (catapults) from 1998-2003. On our 2002 deployment, we went through a really crazy storm. I woke at 2AM to one big damn wave crashing over the fight deck that knocked the slot seal out of the starboard side catapult. It flooded the space below the flight deck on the 03 level. I woke up my Chief and helped the Damage Controlmen (ship’s fire fighters) empty the water out of that space with buckets! It was scary but then exhilarating to be a part of a team like that. :) It’s one memory out of many on that boat that I’ll never forget!
I bet the guys in the submarine below you were chilled to the max!
TheCalvatron indeed😂
depends, we fair much better then this, but you can still feel a storm like this at 150 feet.
It’s great to hear that they have subs accompanying them, according to some other videos, unless aircraft carriers are actively looking for adversary subs, they don’t know if a sub is approaching or not. But I bet subs are supposed to detect subs sooner than aircrafts carriers
@@hunelysium Carriers never travel alone. They travel with full battle group of several ships, many of which are there to protect the carrier, which is the flagship. There are usually subs, destroyers, and various other support craft.
@@daemonelectricity a* full battle group
I was on the Kitty Hawk for a few days when I was in the Marines, for a joint exercise in which we launched helo infantry off the ship. I made friends with some sailors in ordnance (red shirts) and they brought me up to watch the F-14s take off at night. An awesome sight I'll never forget - 20 foot cones of fire coming out of the engines, incredible heat, and awesome sound. They gave some of us berthing in the ship, but we were berthed with some guys who had day shifts. So all night they were slamming their beds down (they stored their stuff under theese litte mattresses) and shouting. That sucked so we used sleeping rolls and camped in the forcastle, right under the flight deck, with the anchor chains. This was in 1995. They also showed me some of the planes in the hangar, and honestly I was surprised at how dirty and banged up these things were. Instead of nice smooth fuselage, lots of dings and dents, and grimy. It certainly wasn't 'Top Gun.' But, carrier life is hard on equipment. One F-14 they called 'Christine' because it had sucked two different guys into the engine on two different occasions.
You had some inconsiderate guys in that berthing compartment.
Did the guys die?
@@joeb7640 from what I was told one guy lost a hand and one guy was banged up but ok
lmaoo i love that they named it Christine. i feel bad for the guys who got sucked into the engines tho
This ship protected my country Taiwan from invasion of communist china in 1996 when I was a kid. I want to say thank you for your service.
Love Taiwan
Better Taiwan than commies China
@@fatnlazychinc go kiss uncle Sam's nut sackz no one cares about your hate comments
@@fatnlazychinc China is scared of America, they wont even push them out of South China Sea. US operates there frequently.
The Mythbuster.... “technological advancement” = stealing American tech. China cheated its way up the economic ladder but that changed on Jan 20, 2017.
intresting description. i was an operations specialist on this carrier. i was on the starboard bow catwalk on low vis watch. where i was standing was ripped from the ship completely. i saw it when we pulled into port. couldnt even walk out that door. i will never forget those waves. really glad someone uploaded this to youtube. it was emailed to everyone onboard.
How awesome to have a dad that served on this, you must be proud of him, nice clip thnx
i am very proud of him, thx
No kidding!!!
My father served on the Shitty Hawk way back in the 80s. I had the luck to go on Tiger Cruises on the Hawk as well as Constellation and Midway.
I miss being a kid around the Navy.
Isn't the Pentagon far more prestigious?
My mom severed on the USS Kitty Hawk as well
Lol the windshield wiper makes me laugh. This massive powerful display of power, but just a simple school bus style wiper blade
Jordan Mungo and let’s remember, the flight deck is about 70’ above the water line, that windshield is another 35-40’ up. The impressive part is, white water (waves crashing) over the flight deck.
So this ship is basically unsinkable by heavy storm.. i like to see how calm the ship was under heavy storm like this.. nicee
Workshop45 I was on CV-60, went through a storm, not this bad, but it was fun watching the small ships in company bobbing around, first we would see the sonar dome and then the screw. We were leisurely hanging around on the cat walk, having a smoke break. Of course karma, I got stationed on a small ship and longed for my days on the carrier.
what did you expect a team of ninjas to wipe the window?
Neo funny, but no. Most people don’t expect the sea water to go that high.
seahawk: who da hell tied me here, this is Not the bachelor party i asked.
They Use to call the Glory Hole
Wow that's incredible. It's amazing how engineering can bring so much steel together. It's one thing that something weighing thousands and thousands of tons can float, but it's another when it can withstand forces such as this.
You said it
Did my first deployment on the Kitty. Took it to Japan, 1997 I think, can’t remember a damn thing anymore. All the deployments blend together. Out of all the carriers I deployed on it was my favorite, crew had to have their shit in one sock, many fires and under way replenishment had to happen every 4-7 days, depending on fuel consumption. That team was dialed in. Still remember walking the P-ways with the smell of hot wires. Kitty road pretty well, can’t remember if it was the Carl Vinson or the John C Stennis that was horrible in even moderate sea state. I was a flight deck Coordinator toward the end of my carrier, we where off the coast of Korea and trying to outrun a storm in middle of winter, I remember being all the forward on the flight deck verifying heavy weather tie downs on aircraft and being completely drenched by a wave of freezing water. Let’s you know how small you are. A lot of salty dogs in the comments, thank you for your service. -PRC Retired.
I was stationed in Kitty- Hawk from 1999- 2003, We experienced a lot of this we cross the equator to many times. We lost some of our shipmates sometimes when we got hit with storms. This video bring back my memories back to the Big Bird Kitty- Hawk.
I was on the Kitty Hawk from 2000 to 2003
The Shitty Kitty.
I served on an Aircraftcarrier in 1966. We were on our way home from Vietnam. Between Japan and Midway Island ran into a typhoon with 150 MPH winds and 80 ft seas. It was 90 foot from the flight deck to the Ocean. Waves where coming over the flight deck. Some waves went as high as the bridge on the 011 deck. Our screws were coming out of the water. We could only do five knots to steer the ship. Destroyers that were with us looked like submarines when they were hit by large waves.
It was announced yesterday (October 4th 2021) she will go the the scrap yard. Rest easy Kitty Hawk. Thank you and thanks to all who served on her.
I would rather see her go that way than rusting away in a mothball fleet. I only did one cruise with her (VA-192) but I will always remember her. She brought me home safely.
I was aboard Queen Mary 2 when she encountered a strong storm and very heavy seas during a westbound transatlantic in 2017. Wave heights were 40-50’ so the ship was constantly pitching and rolling. Every few minutes it felt like her bow struck a particularly large wave, and this went on for some hours. A crew member said it was the strongest storm QM2 went through in ten years. It was all quite impressive!
I was proud to serve on board the old Kitty Hawk back in 1989-1993. Definitely had my share of large waves! Good memories and a fine crew!! Thanks for sharing!!
I remember see the Kitty Hawk in Pensacola when I was real young. Had to be the 80’s, maybe early 90’s. Every time we went out to the beach & going over the 3 mile bridge we were always so excited to see the carrier & battleship. If I recall, the USS Lexington was stationed there too. I can’t imagine waves so big that they would crash over the flight deck. That is insane & terrifying!
That would be the Lexington, not Kitty Hawk.
Lexington is a WW2 carrier that was used as the Navy Training carrier at Pensacola until the early 90s. She's now a museum ship in Corpus Christi Texas.
Nice to see the Kitty Hawk again. I was on her sister the Connie from 84-87. We went through a North Pacific Typhoon in 86 with conditions just like this but at night. 75ft waves breaking over the bow, winds way over 100mph. Because we were in bingo ops we cleared the deck completely. The basement was filled and zipped up tight and the rest flew to bingo fields. I snuck onto the flight deck catwalk without getting seen by the air boss (woulda been my ass had I been caught and if I got blown overboard that woulda been it, game over). Connie had some similar hull plating damage but our escorts, particularly the DDG's got trashed. One lost most of a mast. The storm was severe enough to rearrange the the sandbars in the Cook Inlet to Anchorage, Alaska. We had to wait a couple days to chart a new course to get Connies draft safety through. I'm not quite sure why the Hawk didn't spot that helo closer to amidships near the island. Seems to me that would be closer to CG and safer for the crew to shut down and go below. I was V-2 Division, Waist Catapults.
Intense! I've never seen footage of a supercarrier in rough seas before. Thanks
If you have to be out at sea in a typhoon, this is the ship you want to be on. I was stationed on USS Enterprise in 1978 and had to leave Subic Bay early on account of a typhoon; BG decided to head for Hawaii instead of coming back to port, so we rode straight through the typhoon and out the other side. The ride was pretty much just like in this video. Stood in the hangar deck with the elevator doors open and watching the crest of waves going up above us almost to the 0-3 level. Water never entered the hangar bay, oddly enough. Strange phenomenon but awesome to witness just the same.
Was on the USS Jason AR-8 and we also left Subic only in 1983 and ran from a typhoon. We had the crest of the waves going higher than out O-1/O-2 levels. Our screws came outta the water as we crested each wave!
I did a tour around 77-78 , attached to vf 213 fighter squadron, I recall going thru rough weather back then on that carrier, what a great ship , thanks for the memory's.
I remember when I was a kid living on Subic Bay in the Philippines in the late 70's and the Kitty Hawk used to come to port. The women in Olongapo city surely remember it as well.
Yes they Remember,them Baby girls are MAGANDA KA.
I remember them! Desron15 74-79
Pattaya
I was onboard in 1975, Subic Bay, fond memories indeed
@@halwelch6939 Sons and daughters outside?
I cruised on the Kitty Hawk in 1985 through similar typhoon waves in the south china seas. flight deck is 65 feet above the waterline and the waves crashed over that.
I was on the uss hoel same storm
Yup I was there attached to VA-147 . 84, 85 and 87 deployments
We sailed with the Kittyhawk in the mid 70`s, I was aboard the USS Chicago (CG-11). Saw some crazy storms in the west pacific. We were tied next to one another on Coronado Island San Diego as our home port. Great times !
My Father was a Vietnam Veteran, aboard the Kitty Hawk. He would of been 76 this year. Did you know any Kitty Hawk crew member by the name of Daniel Yambrisak?
To all you men and women that served in our military I thank you all. We have the best standard of living. Without our young men and women we would not have a great country like we have. Thank you all for what you do. I have the utmost respect respect for all of you. You are in our hearts and prayers!
My Dad flew his Skyraider off the Kitty Hawk. He use to talk about landing on a rolling deck, sometimes at night.
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The most stressful thing a Naval Aviator does outside of combat
Spads forever!! :)
This was in late 2007 & I was on board the Kitty Hawk when we hit that storm. We were heading for liberty in H.K. when beijing suddenly changed their mind & denied us entry into HK. That SH-60 belongs to HSL-51 & their Det MO almost had a stroke when he saw what happened. His guys had to do an Emergency Reclamation after the storm due to the saltwater's corrosive properties. Abt. that wave, most people would think it's only water; well, all that water in two great waves weighed in tons. The impact was so great that the fwd stbd catwalks were crushed & twisted. Some sections were even ripped off the ship & fell into the sea. If that helo wasn't chained onto the padeyes of the flight deck, HSL-51 would be going back to NAF Atsugi one helo less.
Actually its a HS-14 aircraft
@@mcraea1 Lightning 617
This was during carrier qualifications in 2008 during March to the beginning of April. As much as I remember from the weather report, it was a tropical low off the coast. Typhoons don't form in that time of the year due to the water being too cold. Also the Admiral's ladder in the aft was destroyed and removed by the waves, and in the forecastle, a lot of shoring destroyed lights and bent some parts of the ceiling and the immense pressure from the waves dented in the bow on the starboard side. If you go to Bremerton, you can see the dent. Many things were damaged by the storm. This is common for ships whether they are large or not; they always get damaged. Mother Nature is more powerful.
Exactly. The wave was totally random. People are confusing this with the other storm we were in. The other storm we had zero damage. This Rogue wave caused millions of dollars of damage
When you have birds on any weather deck, we all took rotation on the "Splash team". Whether it was on the deck edge elevator in high swells or blue water coming over the bow like we see here, as soon as safely possible they would call away the splash team for whichever squadrons plane had been splashed, and we all grabbed water paks (big bladder filled with fresh water with nozzle that you pumped, looked kinda like a flame thrower) and washed the aircraft down to minimize corrosion. Aircraft are expensive, but they have lots 18 and 20 year olds to wash them!
Why not stow them below deck instead?
@@nczioox1116 Not enough room in the Hanger bay for all the birds.
Nice Video. Brings back old Memories USS Intrepid. 1971-1974 Been there and done that. Sorry video was not invented at this time.
My father was on the USS Wasp CV18 during the August 25t 1945 Typhoon. 35' of flight deck was broken off. A later modification was the "Typhoon bow" ww2db.com/images/55a753ec1afbe.jpg
I bike past the Intrepid all the time along the Hudson River. Every time I want to pump my fist and yell and the tourists, "Victory! VICTORY!"
My Father was on the Fighting "I" from 64 to 68 and has plenty of film from fight operation while on Yankee station that I watched as a kid. I am sure that someone has footage form the time that you sailed on her.
I was there from 1971-1974
My dad was on the Intrepid from 68-71. DK1 Larry McCrann
I rode through a severe storm with Kitty Hawk aboard USS O'Brien DD-725. The storm tore some life rafts loose from the Kitty Hawk. It also bent one of our 5-inch gun mounts out of alignment on its base, so that the guns could not be correctly aimed. We had to go to Subic Bay PI for repairs. Ah, the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club.
Ozbourn DD846 had the same damage to gun mount 51.
It was almost 50 yrs. ago, 67 or 68, when I rode through that storm. It seems to me that our damaged mount was 52, but mount 51 would seem more logical, due to its location nearer the waterline and farther forward. The life rafts torn loose from Kitty Hawk were mounted about 50 feet (5 stories) above the waterline. In another story, when we were taken under fire by North Vietnamese shore batteries near Dong Hoi, 23 Dec. 66, planes from Kitty Hawk and Enterprise came to assist. Our counter-battery fire had destroyed the gun emplacements, and the fighter planes destroyed the rubble.
My dad was on the Kitty Hawk around the same time. He shared some great memories of his time on the Kitty before he passed away in 09.
jerlan238
Wow
Your dad is a brave man to not only film this storm but also not get seasick!
Talha Tariq I guess reading the video description is asking too much?
How in the world does something this heavy withstand that level of stress? It's amazing.
Science.
One engineering degree at a time!
@@DisabledParkHopper Lots of dedicated people that studied very hard.
Had a similar experience on the USS Hornet CVS 12. It was amazing.
I'm 46 years old and hard to believe but my dad served on that ship
I’m 39 & my late Father did as well. He would of been 76 this year (passed in 2015). He was a Vietnam Vet that served as a meteorologist on this ship. Perhaps both of our Father’s knew each other maybe?
I served on the Kitty Hawk from 1993-94. V-2 Division, Bow Cats 1&2. We would go through rough seas but nothing like this video. She is a TOUGH ship. I used to pray to God that he keep her together.
My grampa was on DE742 USS Hilbert during WW2. He said they survived a typhoon that was more frightening than any battle.
My dad served as an AO on the Hawk from '97 or '98 to '01. He says some of the best times of his life were on that ship, and from the stories he tells me I can see why
I served with your father then. I was crash and salvage 2000-2004
"The Edmund Fitzgerald" just started playing in my head..
Mike Hampson Serving aboard the USS Hornet CVS-12 with VS-35, on our way to Yakuska,Japan in October 1968. We encountered Typhoon Irma and were taking water over the bow and flight deck. This video brings back memories.
I was on board her-80/summer 83. We went through a massive storm January 1982 traversing from Bremington,Wa. Towards SanDiego,Ca. Just after a year in dry dock. Poor families were sea sick the whole way through. Was the 1 only time we were able to jump n float across(Superman) as she way bobbing so hard.
See, this is why I joined the Army :D
Meanwhile:
Destroyer: dive dive dive!
Cruiser: follow them, dive!
Lol
That windscreen wiper is really the star of this video. Without it we would have just been looking at the inside of a Window covered in rain.
Fantastic clip .
Not even a typhoon can match up to these mighty carriers. American naval muscle at its finest
i stil love the joke about the light house and the carrier, man that's hilarious the light house cant move and it's jesus christ youre gonna run me over
Nicholas Buck the version I heard was a USNavy Battle Ship, calls to the object in his path gets his best macho going and radios “unknown vessel this is a U.S.Navy Battle Ship. You are in our path. Change direction of you will be fired upon”
“USNavy Battle Ship, this is a light house, I can not change course. your call sir”
My uncle and brother served on the Kitty Hawk...Uss Joseph Hughes...they arent here now but wow...Have a buddy that served on the Nimitz and doesn't know who he is now...
The days of brave patriotic Americans
Great footage - thanks!
Dad survived the sinking of the USS Spence, DD512, during Typhoon Cobra. Thanks to Halsey 790 men from the Spence, Hull and Monahan,combined, were lost that day late in 1944.
My pops was on that ship from 71-74
I was on board for this
My daughter is stationed at Puget Sound where the Kitty Hawk sits in the reserve fleet. She says every once in a while the light in the Captains cabin or the sirens aboard the ship will turn on or sound off. She gets to go aboard and turn them off. She says the Kitty Hawk is haunted and is very active.
I was on board the Kitty Hawk CVA63 during a typhoon but that was back in '72. No problem. The ship was worthy of what mother nature threw at her that day. Did make for an interesting voyage for awhile however, I was down in #4 Main machinery room (#4 eng room) and didn't feel any motion whatsoever. We were 7 decks below the waterline.
I was on the Kitty Hawk the same time you were on it 72-76 remember several storms like this. I was in the fuels dept ABF purple gang.
@@ChuckieC my Father Daniel Yambrisak served during same time. Was on captain’s deck however. Served as one of the meteorologists. He told me his mates called him Yambo.
I served on the Kitty Hawk 1968 1969 in Viet Nam! Rode out a typhoon too!
69 she was in dry dock bremerten i joind her july
@@abkolman474 yes. She went to dry dock right after our return in early 69. We called her the shitty Kitty for a reason!
I just missed you mate, got out Nov. 67. James cain.
I did my first tiger cruise on the Hawk my step dad was a squadron commander fighter pilot ,i spent 10 days on her and that Damn flight deck is just shy of 100 ft up, so those waves right there are no fkn joke!!! Respect the old timers in row boats for sure!!!
My first Tiger Cruise was on the Shitty Hawk.
Father was an Aviation Fire Control Technician, VA-146 "Blue Diamonds" back then. When they still flew the A-7 Corsair.
100 ft high????? Damn!!!!! Did you get sea sick often??? I did my service in the army during the seventies. 91B10...my mos. Field medic
bayushizero just deployed along side vfa-146 last year on the Nimitz.
I was onboard for this. A lot of damage. The waves twisted a .50 cal mount. Couldn’t mount the gun afterwards. Ready Service lockers were smashed from the back side. Amazing power the sea has. The Kitty Hawk was a good ship. She will be missed.
I was aboard the USS Wasp CVS-18 in 1967 I believe when we hit a similar storm. Crushed the bow and twisted the catwalks along the flight deck to a 90 degree angle. Spent a short period of time in Roosevelt Rodes then off to dry dock. Gave me great respect for the ocean.
I was on the Kitty back in 04 and a wave hit her so hard it to a 25-30ft length of catwalk and rolled it up like a spring roll. blew my mind because its Grated steel....
I remember that
Ya, I remember that happening.
Similar thing happened to HMCS Bonaventure in Bay of Biscay in the '60's
The Shitty Kitty, was a nick name of hers, I was on board Forrestal in the late 80's, been there, done that, man seeing this brings back memories and headaches, the sea is a powerful woman, must respect her or she'll Step On Your D_ _ K quick!
I was with vfa 102 for that
No match for the Kitty Hawk ! She's a capital ship, not a tugboat.
Hardly. USS Nimitz, not the Kitty Hawk.
@terraria gaming When the Kitty Hawk was made? No. But during her service, she was overshadowed by the USS Enterprise and then the Nimitz
@@Tinfoil_Hardhat Bullshit, we scored the Presidential Unit Citation on our first cruise in 'Nam.
@@Tinfoil_Hardhat Bull, I was on from '79 to '84 also served on the Enterprise in "78, Kitty may have been older and not a nuke but we were a better ship, won more Battle "E's", Did more launches and traps and had a better safety record than either of those 2 wannabee's Love my Kitty, we took out a Russian Sub in '84 the only proven sub killer in the Navy.
@@jamescain7598 You know it, the Hawk was the best, mainly because of the crew and a reputation for excellent training.
...”you lift me up to stand on mountains, you lift me up to walk on stormy seas, you lift me up to stand upon your shoulders, to be more than I can be...”
Served on the Kitty Hawk 81-83 G-1 Div. (Ships Armory), Living in Bremerton and drive by her all the time, It's sad to see the old girl just sitting there rusting away.
THIS is how I remember it!
In 2006 while sailing UP/DOWN the Great Barrier Reef...I heard the following on Channel 16 but never actually SAW the vessels interaction described below.
A "smaller" (than the Kitty Hawk) sailboat sighted KH and called questioningly stating:
"Aircraft carrier...I presume that we shall pass PORT to PORT?"
KH replied: "Sir...we shall PASS any way you prefer, over"...the US NAVY at it's best.
The USS Kitty Hawk was stationed in Subic bay Philippines when I was a little boy. I’m 56 now. Whenever we go to parts of the beach I would see it every time and I even found a lighter with the name on it
I was onboard Kitty Hawk in 1975 and remember a similar storm we went through,,thought for a moment this was footage from that storm but the years dont add up.
My late Father Daniel Yambrisak served during same time as a meteorologist. Said his mates called him YAMBO.
I rode one in my dream . I landed safe after defeating our enemies
The help maintainers had to have been unbelievably pissed off. It probably didn’t fly for a month 🤣
Great video,keep it up!
My late Father was a Vietnam Navy Veteran aboard this ship (not 100% sure what years he was active), but during the conflict. He would of been 76 this year, God rest his soul. His Name was Daniel Yambrisak (told me his mates onboard called him Yambo). He was a meteorologist during his years.
I was on the Hawk from 80-83. It was a great!
Probably around the same time my father was on the Shitty Hawk.
VA-146 out of Lemoore.
I was on Constellation 77-81, Hawk was Great. I use to call her, Pretty Kitty, she was not Shitty. She was a great ship and knew how to relieve others, always ON TIME, Ranger CV61 SUCKED SO MUCH. I saw some idiot wearing a Ranger ball cap, I told him, take that POS off your head or I will kick your ass. He thought I was joking, 5 seconds late, he took his lid off.
Scott Vawter I was on a tiger cruise in 82 from Pearl Harbor to San Diego. Thanks for the great trip.
I was on Mount Hood during the same time. We unreped you
@@bayushizero Its not the Shitty Hawk, its the Shitty Kitty.
VF-154 00'-04' Some memorable times attached to the Shitty Kitty, good and bad. Miss those days.
I've not heard that moniker in quite a while! Reminds me of the Sorry Sara (CV-60)
Hey Sammie, I was in 136 with Demetrius from 00-05. love that ship. Hope you're both well. Parrish
VFA-192, from '99-02 here.
I was on the vincennes, cg 49. 01-03. Now THAT ship was a piece of shit.
TheRedmage420 just wondering why is it a pos?
She was built at New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, NJ and christened on May 21, 1960. My grandfather helped build her. I was attached to VA-195 as a Corpsman and deployed on her for a West Pac in '77-'78. Crossed the equator and am a proud Shellback. Good memories.
Did he tell you the story of the fire in the yards and the keel hull numbers were swapped? 63 is 64!!! or is it 63 is 62. I forget now
Sad to think she's being laid to rest, and now soon her sister variant "The Big John".
Love the Battle Cat, probably my favorite classes of Carrier.
damn just think how tall that ship is!!!!
The last of the Oil Burners! HOOYAH! Go Navy!
Of all the ships I was on, this was the smoothest. Then again, the other ships included 2 frigates, a destroyer, and an ammo ship. But still, I remember waves cresting over the flight deck as we went around cape horn crossing from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
I was on the America cv66 during the storm of the century in 77. We put screws on full to turn around to out run it. You never seen 4 football field long boat bobing in the water like a little destroyer, this video can't do it justice!
I would hate to be a mainteance guy for aircraft on a ship like this. I mean constantly scrubbing salt from every orifice of a plane/helicopter must be a nightmare.
you repaint it, not scrub it , that damages the coating
but yeah my cousin works on the Uss Gerald R. Ford as flight deck crew
exactly what I was thinking. I remember my last duty of EVERY DAY, getting all the SALT off, wiping down the aircraft. That HELO CREW was screwed. I feel for them :-(
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As a pilot I have to add I've landed in some very interesting conditions, but trying to ride the glide slope and hit the first or second wire on that pitching deck would be a challenge..
I've witnessed a Whale landing on the Hawk during a very heavy torrential dwnpour when I briefly worked on the pri-fly for the Air Boss. I can't believe it made it and it was a sight to behold.
If you were a pilot, then why are you aiming for the 1 wire?
"first or second wire" HAH
my brother and brother in law both served on this ship. I toured it when it was docked in San Diego back in 2000.
No you didn’t. It left San Diego in 1998.
Yeah, I was on the Kitty in 2000. It was no where near San Diego...lol
USS Kitty Hawk: I mean destruction
Mother Nature: Hold my cup of sea
I was there when that happened.
who are you lol. last name only and rate please.
@terraria gaming what? i mean he posted 3 years ago. i wouldnt expect much from anyone.
I was in HS-2 antisubmarine helicopter squadron, aboard the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk CV-63, in late February of 1983, when the Kitty Hawk left the Naval dry dock in Bremerton, WA, and hit a winter typhoon off the northwest coast of Washington, as Kitty Hawk was heading back to San Diego. 50 ft. and bigger waves were breaking upon the Admiral's bridge. In early October of 1982, HS-2 was aboard the U.S.S. Ranger CV-61, heading back to San Diego. The Ranger was 2 days east of Guam, when a typhoon caught up with the Ranger and a sneaker 100 footer hit the starboard side, that nearly capsized the Ranger and it came with-in 3 degrees from doing it. The Captain and a Chaplin got on the 1-MC and told the whole crew of 5,340 to start praying. The next morning, the Ranger was in the eye of the typhoon and swing north towards Japan.
I was on the Indy and went through a storm like this. Buckled our bow plates, 3 communication antenna, 30 ft of cat walk on one side, 40 ft on the other side and about a foot and a half of water in the hanger bay. Oh yea, flooded out the chain locker.
I was onboard that day. I remember that helo that was left chained down on the bow took some expensive hits. And when we pulled into port, the bow of the ship looked like a train smashed into it and full speed.
Perfect example...
Advantage submarine!! Especially in those conditions.
What about farting?
What goes up must come down. But what goes down doesn't necessarily have to come up!
The heli in front is for balance?
Oloco
No, it just need a wash, that’s all~XD
Once they realize they should have moved it it was too late so they just left it...I guess..lol
They where hopping to get new one
Shower
That chopper is like..... *GET ME THE FUCK INSIDE*
RIP kitty hawk. Very sad to hear of her being scrapped.
JUST RIDING THE SURF...
The helicopter was getting a shower
I was on the USS Independence (CV-62) in Japan. I remember when the Kitty Hawk relieved us and took over the homeport in the late '90s.
I don't know why but when I noticed the windshield wipers it made me outburst laughing.