[or-roots] Pacific Typhoon

[Leslie Chapman]

Walt;

Was that the typhoon in the early fifties or late forties that one of our
pacific fleets got caught in and lost a lot of ships and they had one famous
survivor that heeled over in the wind about 5 or ten degrees past capsize
and still came back upright?

I read about that in Readers Digest when I was pretty small taters and it
stuck with me, though obviosly details like "exactly" where and when have
escaped me. I probably don't even remember enough of it to look it up.

Les C

> and I have been on a ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with 200 MPH
winds and waves breaking  over the bridge 80 ft. off the water line. We were
in this for 5 days try that someday and you will know what a hurricane is
all about. And we were in an all steel ship 500 ft. long that breaking up do
to the wave action.
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Walt Davies
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