seaworld

Many years ago I have asked what the ads. I joined the Royal Canadian Navy, see the world. I loved it. Since the world was almost at peace, our job was to travel the oceans of the world in which companies with fleets from other countries, calling at many ports and conducting exercises such as Roving Ambassador.

What was an exciting life. We visited countries such as the beauty lies in the Caribbean, The Virgin Islands, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Cuba,and many others. We also visited Norway, England, Ireland, Holland. We stopped at Gibraltar on his way to France, Italy and Spain in the Mediterranean Sea. Nothing could parallel the feeling of entering a port of call, we had only read our history books.

During these visits, we saw the Crown Jewels in London, the Pope in Rome, the diamond cutter in Amsterdam, before Castro in Havana, the Empire State Building and the fjords of Norway and has many other wonderfuland exciting places.

Our basic training ended with a trip to Bermuda from our base in Halifax, Nova Scotia on an old ship mines. Shortly after our return, I joined what to my new home for the next eighteen months as a crew member aboard the HMCS Haida, a destroyer, left their traces in both World War 11 and a designation as a train buster earned while conducting raids during the Korean War. It is now established as a national park in Hamilton, Ontario,Canada.

Haida did take on fuel every four or three days, when running at high speed were performed. Their engines were not the most economical, engineering wonders of today. They burned fuel as if it went out of fashion. So it became necessary for us to fill up very often and it had to do, regardless of whether the sea was calm and we were in the midst of a raging storm.

How did we do it?

First, a large ship like an oil tanker, supply vessel or an aircraft carrier would beselected to feed our tanks. The ships carried enough fuel to allow them to steam for long extended trips without tight.

The mother would steam ship with a speed that would allow for relatively fast course corrections to around twelve knots. Our ship would be approaching from the rear and one side of the mother ship. We would come along side the gap until the gap between us was less than a hundred yards. A specially-equipped weapon will be used toFire a thin brass rod with a light nylon cord attached to our bow. Once we'd found other heavier lines above this line, until we finally pulled up with six or more lines. A line needs to be on very strong as it used to be pull the refueling hose.

Then began the hard work. The cables would be used to discuss fresh baked goods, hauling vegetables, maybe a few movies. Mail would be allowed one of the goods. A strong steel-wire cable would be fixed on our shipand a winch connected to the mother. On the cables of the refueling hose would be run through the gap and the hose connected to our filler neck and started pumping.

While we are on a few lines on this site would be designated as pipelines. Small colored flags line would be set every ten feet. These were important because they said the captain of the exact distance between the vessels.

All this is from one hour to three hours depending on the weather. Soon we would be separatedand we were good for a few days. Some of the mother ships had their own band on board and they would us with an incredible musical serenade. And that's the way we refueled at sea many years ago is.

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