Navy Ship
 

So i just saw a navy commerical and they had this ship in it

[img]http://www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/pics/HSVSwift.jpg[/img]

I took one from Moracco to Spain, with some of the worst sea conditions any naval personel on the ship has seen.

[img]http://www.texasnative.com/images/hsv-2.jpg[/img]

[img]http://members.home.nl/cyriel.stassen/Navy%20ships/Mariniers%20materiaal%20plaatjes/High%20Speed%20Vehicle%20Two%20(HSV-2)%20SWIFT.jpg[/img]

The HSV (High speed vessle) SWIFT. We adopted it from Australia, it was a civilian carrier to shuttle civilians around, but the navy adopted it as a fast moving carrier. We had 2 companies of LAV's in the hold under the ship. The damn thing is fast as shit 35 knots with 500 tons and 42 knots at 300 tons. Its crazy we were hauling ass. Wish i got pics of everyone who was sea sick that passed out on the helo pad, there was not one spot to stand on the helo pad because everyone went up there to lay down and not puke rofl.[/img]

looks sweet

It was nice inside, but small. I mean we had trouble sitting all of us, no where to sleep but in our chairs. But the seats were captains chairs, like big movie seats. Only problem is trying to sleep in it for 2 nights was horrid. Plus we were right where the glass is on the front and we would come off the top of a wave and hit head first into the water, it sucked.

yeah, i saw it on the history channel once. If I remember correctly, they said the navy wants to use it with a stealth emphasis...something about how it hardly leaves any back waves or something. I could be wrong.

Yeah when i was standing on the back it didnt leave much of a back wave, but it was LOUD as hell back there from the two gigantic motors pushing it, i mean we were hauling ass.

Saw something about these ships on the Military Channel, pretty cool. They can deploy a battalion of US Marines anywhere in the world in 5 days, with armor and deploy able buildings.

omg a battalion , we had trouble with 2 companies lol. We could do it, but it would be very uncomfortable.

yeah, they are also making stealth destroyers and missile ships called DDX. My dad works in Navy contracting so I get to know all the cool stuff about new ships and stuff. He won't tell me any secret stuff but he tells me the public stuff before most people know about it.

damn, 40 knots is certainly hauling some azz, that's a fine ship. rock:

BTW whats the BB in the background there? that USS MISSOURI?

Not to sure fluff, i dont know much about the naval ships biggrin:

[quote:9e4cb]High Speed Vessel Two (HSV-2) Swift maneuvers past the USS Missouri (BB 63) while shifting berths in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during Exercise Rim of the Pacific '04 on July 7, 2004.[/quote:9e4cb]

ya it is, I wonder of those double hulls are going to be the way for future ships.

No clue, you been in one yet?

I knew that looked familiar http://www.catferry.com/the_ship/ Thats a ferry that goes from Maine to Nova Scotia in 3 hours. I've seen it in action at top speed, its fucking fast for something that big.

heh, i think that ship in the background is the Missouri. gotta love that ship.

[quote="Unknown_Sniper":00125]I knew that looked familiar [url="http://www.catferry.com/the_ship/"]http://www.catferry.com/the_ship/[/url] Thats a ferry that goes from Maine to Nova Scotia in 3 hours. I've seen it in action at top speed, its fucking fast for something that big.[/quote:00125]

Indeed, i said it was a civilian vessle lol. Didnt know they used it up in canada though. I knew it was originated in Australia i believe.

[img]http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c64/sgtzap/hsv.jpg[/img]

This is the HSV we took to Australia last year. So far I've been on 5 of these things (4 times to S. Korea for training exercises). On the way to Australia the weather got so bad at sea that when I was on the deck on my back sleeping, there were times where I would come off the deck for a few seconds because the craft rocked so much. Haha, you should of saw the head... not very pleasant. I can proudly say I've never been sea sick before :D

I didnt puke, i tried so hard not to. Our Corpsman stood up after the second day and was like all calmly "im going to the hea...(PUKE)" fucking projectile vomit over the 3 rows of seats lol. It was ridiculous, i didnt eat for 3 days because i didnt want to leave my chair. Laying on the helo pad however helped a lot.

My dad has some fun projectile vomiting stories from when he was being transported on a flat bottom...

this sounds fun. I need to go see what it takes to get me sick.

haven't been in one myself tho we got seacat ferries that go from Dover-Calais, fast ships

[img]http://www.sunderlandmaritimeheritage.org.uk/images/news/SMH%20SeaCat%20Scotland.jpg[/img]

I think the RN was working on a demihull of that sort of design but it's not quite as big & I'm not sure if the project is still going. I'd have imagined it would have been a smoother ride on that than a regular ship because the catarmaran hull looks like it's designed to cut through the water.

[img]http://www.battleship.org/images/crest63a.jpg[/img]