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ivorthediver
04-07-2009, 19:52
I have often been told that I am to tight to part with my food and generally that holds true
I am quite sure that most of you have had it at some time or other.....so whats your cure to the problem...?:confused:
Stay Ashore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nigelweysom
04-07-2009, 20:35
wot you mean real sailors get sea sick :eek:
Nigel:D
ivorthediver
04-07-2009, 20:36
I See ........Mine is a Bacon Butty with brown sauce :p
Keep busy and carry a bucket!!
Ken
harry.gibbon
04-07-2009, 21:52
thats right Ken no cure ... bucket every watch for a mate of mine on Battle Class then he went onto a big un and still needed it when they left the wall.
I've related this story elsewhere but its the way it is.
Thankfully never suffered but one always felt for those who carried on despite what really is/was debilitating for them.
Little h
John Odom
04-07-2009, 22:47
Now there are pretty effective drugs. Drammamine and Bonine are trade names that come to mind. I get sick and throw up once, then I am OK. Mother, back in the days we travelled by ship, suffered terribly. She stayed sick from cast-off to debarcation. Most of the time she stayed in her bunk, never without a bucket! After Dramamine came out, it was totally different!
Am I right in saying that if you are seasick then it's too late to take any medication. It should be taken a while before you sail.
I found that sitting on the quarterdeck in the fresh air helped alot.
When I was on ships that rolled alot we would have the guys get some saltine crackers and a 7up. The 7up would settle the stomach and the crackers would asorb the rest.
Regards
Charles
John Odom
04-07-2009, 22:59
Yes, another combination was 7Up and toast. Same principle of operation.
astraltrader
04-07-2009, 23:59
The only time I was ever seasick was about 4 years ago when I with Mrs Terry caught the early morning car ferry to Jersey from Portland.
Our ferry was the last one to sail for the rest of the day it was so rough.
Despite having paid extra for First class, I spent the whole voyage wedged in a cubicle in the Gents, and literally turned a pale green.
Mrs Terry who took some pills she bought from the chemists the day before was knocking `em back with no problem at all.
Mr " I never get seasick" Terry didn`t bother and this little story has constantly been brought up ever since. [Although I brought up far more dramatic things!!]
So whilst I dont know if there is a cure for sea sickness there most certainly is a preventative option!:o
ivorthediver
05-07-2009, 05:46
Strange that Terry , as I went to Jersey about ten years ago on the SEACAT and it was great till we got clear of the land fall......then it made up for it..
The funny thing was Although I felt a bit quizy I was alright but I think it was because I was distracted by a large group of pensioners.....
It was very bad for them but I was in fits of laughter [ wrongly I might add]
As you are aware not doubt the toilet door threshold had an upstand on the bulkhead, and the floor whilst being covered with a non slip surface everywhere was causing a problem for two guys one behind the other trying to get into the toilet with their zimmer frames.
Everytime the ship pitched forward they would skid downhill line astern and then as the ship righted itself they would shuffle back skidding on the rubber end caps at the bottom of their "walkers"
I was so sorry for them that I eventualy hualed them into the toilet one at a time and then back out where they continued on back to their seats unpeturbed on their frames
Full marks to them as they were not going to let the heaving deck stop them from a call of nature bless em....
They may have had a British stiff upper lip but I could hardly see for tears !
The sobering thought was that I may be in their shoes one day !
dennis a feary
05-07-2009, 07:24
Cure for SEASICK - easy - Don Crabfat uniform & travel by `plane'
Sadsac
TrotOneLower
05-07-2009, 07:43
Full English Breakfast followed by; Tomato Juice and Twiglets. Failing that, follow Nelson's advice, and SIT UNDER A TREE.
Scratcher
05-07-2009, 08:56
I must have been one of the lucky one's,never sick.
Peter.
Jan Steer
05-07-2009, 09:11
Me too. Luckily I never did succumb to the mal-de-mer not even in the most appalling sea conditions but, God knows, I felt sorry for the poor sods that did. Is there a cure? I'm not sure but I believe that it helps if you can keep your eyes on the horizon line.
Had to smile a few years back. We had been on a short cruise for a holiday and returning home through the bay the weather was atrocious. The ship was falling all over the place and most of the passengers looked like things long dead. Those that could walk about had faces the colour of putty. I wandered up to the glass observation room abaft the bridge, whistling and humming a nautical air. One of the crew passed by and said, "Excuse me sir but are you an ex- matelot?" "Yes", I said. "Thought so," he replied and wandered off. I guess you can always tell eh guys?!
best wishes
Jan
TrotOneLower
05-07-2009, 10:15
Luckily, never suffered either. We did have a poor Stoker in Wolverton who did. He used to get so bad, that we had to put a watchkeeper (with a bucket) next to his cart.
MCM Matze
05-07-2009, 12:50
I've been lucky for only suffering once, too. But then we were in the bad tempered Gulf of Biscay and I had salt cucumbers after a load of ice cream.
Everytime we get new mates o/b and some of them get seasick we tell them to eat chocolate or chicken soup. Then they ask if it helps.
We then answer no, but with chocolate throwing up tastes better and soup doesn't hurt your throat. :)
Pic #1: Staunch little minehunter FGS Sulzbach-Rosenberg in the Gulf of Biscay 2001. The distance between water line and top of the mast is approx 20 meters.
Pic #2: Minehunters FGS Überherrn and HrMs Urk enjoy a nice day in the Northsea.
ivorthediver
05-07-2009, 13:00
Two years ago I took my son on a diving holiday in southern Red Sea and had a great time.
The dive pattern for the day was first dive at 07.00 hours , second Dive at 11.00 hours third Dive at 15.00 hours and a night dive if you wanted one at around 21.00 hours
Being a Type 1 Diabetic I had to eat before I dived which meant getting up at around 05.00 have breakfast , rest for an hour and then prepare for the morning dive.
On this particular morning I arose and the galley had no bread and they could only offer cereals and milk.
So I eat that and got ready and got aboard the rib to go to the dive site.
Not long after we set off we had a wind turn the sea into a very choppy state and I swallowed quiet a lot of salt water whilst being showered by sea water.
Did the dive which was very good but whilst beneath I began to feel a bit sick so I aborted the dive after about 3/4 hour and surfaced ,was picked up by the Zodiac and transfered to the dive boat.
Went down to get changed and came up on deck and was promptly so sick over the side I could not stand unaided and clung to the rail as hard as I could.....only to see a Dolphin smiling back at me.
This went on for about an hour and by this time one of my friends on board who was anesthetist at a local hospital came and saw me and checked me over and asked what I had drunk recently .he came back with a Tuppa ware box looked at me and said I was seriously dehydrated and whilst talking to me gave me a jab in the shoulder
I have know idea what was in the injection but within ten minutes I was feeling brilliant and managed to go on the 11.00 hrs dive with no ill effects what so ever
I have to this day not found out what was in it [perhaps its just as well] but if I knew I would have taken it on the next dive trip :(
Ughh...Just reading this thread is making me feel seasick....
I remember being sea sick once, when about 3 and coming out from England -We'd just had dinner...and my Dad had to take me to the side of the ship (I think) where I lost it. Apparently I started to cry...and he thought it was because I still felt ill...but it wasn't that - I was upset because, by leaving the dining hall early, we'd missed out on dessert!
Another time...about 20 years later I went out on a ski boat with my (soon to be husband, my future brother in law and sister in law - the 2 men went diving and we women stayed in the boat, fishing, whilst waiting for them to return.)
The only thing was - they'd anchored the boat over a reef and it was quite choppy. By the time they returned - I was turning green. It didn't help matters that my future sister in law had caught a glassy eyed fish. On seeing that I was looking queasy...they thought it'd be a good idea to head for shore....and took delight in mentioning that a good feed of greasy fish and chips would help:eek:
My Dad, of course, being ex navy...soon learnt that it was an advantage to have an ability to overcome seasickness. He had a very healthy appetite and quite often scored extra meals from those poor sods who were so afflicted that they couldn't eat.
Regards,
Bee
ivorthediver
05-07-2009, 14:04
I love the sea, in any form , anywhere ........but I have to say that as a rule I have good sea legs .......and can weather most seas ....but when I am Seasick I am big time...... and as above........ go down hill fast
Gangway :eek:....ahhhhh whats better......anyone fancy a Bacon Sarny with HP Sauce on it ???????
MCM Matze
05-07-2009, 14:30
Hmm ... HP sauce. Tasty. Could have nearly everything with HP on it.
Jan Steer
05-07-2009, 14:39
Interesting post Ivor but just a note for the future: we matelots don't do hours. We just have 0700, 1100, 1500 etc. Hrs is used by the pongos I believe.
Best wishes
Jan
TrotOneLower
05-07-2009, 14:49
Interesting post Ivor but just a note for the future: we matelots don't do hours. We just have 0700, 1100, 1500 etc. Hrs is used by the pongos I believe.
Best wishes
Jan
Yeah, so there! 0800 or, oh eight dubs, or oh eight buffalo....
dennis a feary
05-07-2009, 15:07
JAN / Trot1, also CRABFATS - we use hours - after all, 1100 hours, but 1100 could be 1100 `tins of beans' / spuds / members of crew !!!
Sadsac
Jan Steer
05-07-2009, 15:16
Not at all my friend. If I told you to be on watch by 1600 I would hardly be likely to be referring to tins of beans, number of crew etc now would I?
Best wishes
Jan
harry.gibbon
05-07-2009, 15:19
but surely it would be 1100Z or 1100B etc
JAN / Trot1, also CRABFATS - we use hours - after all, 1100 hours, but 1100 could be 1100 `tins of beans' / spuds / members of crew !!!
Sadsac
When it was piped "Shore leave will be granted at 1600" I can't ever remember anyone asking "Do they mean tins of beans"
I can imagine the reaction of the Jossman if he said to me "Blackwell. Be outside my office at 1100 with your cap" if I said "1100 Master, would that be potatoes?"
doug.birch
05-07-2009, 16:12
I dont have a cure for sea sickness, but as for sailors not getting sick, on most of convoys, the first two victims were the Captian, 4 ring RN and the sick-berth tiffy. I was lucky, a bit heady first day out after a break in port.
Doug. Birch
ivorthediver
05-07-2009, 16:31
When it was piped "Shore leave will be granted at 1600" I can't ever remember anyone asking "Do they mean tins of beans"
I can imagine the reaction of the Jossman if he said to me "Blackwell. Be outside my office at 1100 with your cap" if I said "1100 Master, would that be potatoes?"
What a load of S...t A...s we have on today ....must have been early closing at the British Legion today
I was brought up to always refer to time as xxxxhrs but if it keeps you old Salts happy we will refer to it in numerals only
the time is currently XVII .1/2
"I was brought up to always refer to time as xxxxhrs"
I guess that you have been watching too many Hollywood movies, Ivor
TrotOneLower
05-07-2009, 16:50
but surely it would be 1100Z or 1100B etc
In most ships, and certainly all boats, the routine has always been in Zulu time. When at sea that is, or was. who cares?
ivorthediver
05-07-2009, 17:15
"I was brought up to always refer to time as xxxxhrs"
I guess that you have been watching too many Hollywood movies, Ivor
Yes funny you should say that Dave ,and I always check the credits to see if I can see your name but have not seen it yet......so why do some people refer to you as a STAR........or is it because one of the lads said you were A bright spark ...I'm confused :confused:
Me? Star??????
No....I'm just a nobody of importance
Dave Hutson
05-07-2009, 17:24
Not sure how time got into the mal de mer thread. But come on TOL - ship time has always been local time - communications time was always ZULU unless otherwise stated. If everything was in zulu just imagine the confusion when Daily Orders in Singapore stated Both Watches at 0800Z - hey up lads we can lay in until 1630.
Just been looking at some of the photos - pass my bucket:(
Dave H
ivorthediver
05-07-2009, 17:27
Me? Star??????
No....I'm just a nobody of importance
Yea ......but.... Highly intelligent........ well arry said you were
TrotOneLower
05-07-2009, 18:39
Not sure how time got into the mal de mer thread. But come on TOL - ship time has always been local time - communications time was always ZULU unless otherwise stated. If everything was in zulu just imagine the confusion when Daily Orders in Singapore stated Both Watches at 0800Z - hey up lads we can lay in until 1630.
Just been looking at some of the photos - pass my bucket:(
Dave H
Err, I did say at sea. I know zulu is the international standard for communications, but it was too for submarines at sea, and also in a couple of ships in which I served.
astraltrader
05-07-2009, 20:36
I suppose Star is only Rats in reverse!:p
Local time for the RAN was the Time Zone we were operating in and using the 24 hour clock. Numerals only eg. 1200.
Communications time was always Zulu. There was never 0000 it was always expressed as 2359 or 0001.
:cool:
I am told there are certain periods of roll that excite the urge in almost everyone. Each individual's susceptibility differs, but when the roll moves into this danger zone, every man can expect to be at his worst.
I am told that taking ginger is good, but I don't have experience with it and don't know the preferred form.
tone
I found. from experience, that pitch was worse than roll to make you ill!
ivorthediver
06-07-2009, 04:59
I am told there are certain periods of roll that excite the urge in almost everyone. Each individual's susceptibility differs, but when the roll moves into this danger zone, every man can expect to be at his worst.
I am told that taking ginger is good, but I don't have experience with it and don't know the preferred form.
tone
I agree with you ....Ginger is my Favorite Wren
ivorthediver
06-07-2009, 05:00
I suppose Star is only Rats in reverse!:p
I bet that gets ignored Terry ...nice one
ivorthediver
06-07-2009, 05:02
I found. from experience, that pitch was worse than roll to make you ill!
Tar very much for that Dave...but makes your teeth black !
Long thin boats (destroyers, etc) would roll on wet grass but very little pitch; managed quite well on them. Short fat boats (sweepers), especially in a cross sea, would climb up on side of a wave and fall down the other in a corkscrew motion. That was the one that I was seasick on, although eventually I got used to it. Hence my comment, keep busy and carry a bucket.
Ken
I have little direct experience (especially in comparison), but pitch most likely affected you through slamming (vertical translation from being well forward or aft of the pitch axis) rather than by pitch (the angular rotation) itself.
D K Brown writes at some length in at least one of his books about components of ship motion and their effect on habitability.
tone
ivorthediver
06-07-2009, 21:11
I have little direct experience (especially in comparison), but pitch most likely affected you through slamming (vertical translation from being well forward or aft of the pitch axis) rather than by pitch (the angular rotation) itself.
D K Brown writes at some length in at least one of his books about components of ship motion and their effect on habitability.
tone
I was always told to get as near to the centre point of the ship where there is least movement.... but then I did not have to do anything except eat Bacon Sarneys with HP Sauce whilst there:rolleyes:.
That is true, Ivor. Amidships and low down. And guess what!!!! That is where they put the Engine Room and Boiler Room to pamper the little stoker's delicate tummys
What A life they lead. Better than 1st Class on the Q.E.2!!!!!!!!!!!
ivorthediver
07-07-2009, 05:18
That is true, Ivor. Amidships and low down. And guess what!!!! That is where they put the Engine Room and Boiler Room to pamper the little stoker's delicate tummys
What A life they lead. Better than 1st Class on the Q.E.2!!!!!!!!!!!
No they know who to look after,mate as the stokers always bring their toys back home in one piece unless some silly sod manages to find something hard to hit in all that water out there.:rolleyes:
fearless_rs
21-09-2009, 21:24
I dont think there is one. on my first ship (Mohawk) we went out for post refit trials, and I threw my heart out for two weeks.
We went into Guzz for the weekend and I was dreading going back out on the monday, but I was alright then and ever since. No magic pills or potions.
Never had the problem, I suppose being up in the fresh air on the roof might have helped.
Michael Bentine of Goons fame was a bit of a Yachtie and recommended porridge. Tasted the same coming up as it did going down:D
Scurs a quick google search revealed a hypthosis from a respected Harley Street shrink, that sea sickness is invertionally proportional to I.Q. Did you ever get seasick?;):D
Sea Sick - I always found 11 pints of good lager the night before cured sea sickness! well you was still not well but put it down to a hangover rather than sea sickness and by the time that wore off the following day you usually had your sea legs and felt fine hic!
Danny
ivorthediver
22-09-2009, 18:29
Well my man ,
I was always told that good hydration was essential to keep fit and healthy Whilst dehydration would drag you down like a falling lift ....
So if a medicinal liquid was administered to prevent dehydration then thats a cure in my book........:D
doug.birch
23-09-2009, 01:01
Hi, its a terrible thing sea sickness, futunatly I was never sick, our first two crew members to fall sick was our Captain and our sick berth attendant. Doug.Birch.
In my at sea it was either flat clam or just flat nasty! The poor new guys just reporting aboard prior to getting underway took the worst of being sea sick.....7 days of looking yellow and a bucket in hand is not always fun. And of course a few Officers would were sea sick, only 1 officer was put ashore.
The Bouy Tenders were lousy when it came to riding the rough sea out....Roll and Pitch was the order of the day in nasty seas/Storms...10 to 30 rolls were not uncommon. Now try to get to the bridge with a cup of coffee!
Regards
Charles
ivorthediver
23-09-2009, 05:22
No thank you Charles.....I only take milk in my coffee ....no salt !
Nice to hear from you though...
Regards Ivor
Vegaskip
23-09-2009, 08:36
I can't remember who said it, 'Sit under an Oak tree', surefire cure.
I remember sailing from Middlesbr'o aboard 'Benvorlich',the first job I was given in the galley was to gut and clean ten fresh chickens, at least I had a bucket betwean my feet.
Ah, but you have missed the best one - Nelson suffered so badly from seasickness that he wore a specially made TIGHT CORSET!!!
Or so I was old .........
Ednamay
Guz rating
23-09-2009, 23:52
The worst sea I experienced was on board the Eagle down the "Bay of Biscay" You would never believe. Something as big as the Eagle would bob around like a cork. Lots of people were sick, I was lucky to be born with good sea legs.
Alan.
PS Ednamay That could have been Nelson's excuse to cover up a beer belly. Men can be very vain.
Men?? Vain???? Surely not!!! Never!!!
Ednamay
ivorthediver
06-10-2009, 16:43
Men?? Vain???? Surely not!!! Never!!!
Ednamay
Now young Lady ....Have you been talking to our Lady Bee ....per chance?
Regards Ivor
fearless_rs
11-11-2009, 01:15
Err, I did say at sea. I know zulu is the international standard for communications, but it was too for submarines at sea, and also in a couple of ships in which I served.
Onboard MOHAWK in Adelaide, Australia. Nobody noticed the MCO clock had stopped so someone had to go round to the RHYL to find out what Zulu time wAs.
bert-261
10-02-2012, 10:30
According to Shep Wooley the best cure for sea sickness was to sit underneath a tree. Can't really argue with that. bert-261
Forester
10-02-2012, 12:21
Cure for SEASICK - easy - Don Crabfat uniform & travel by `plane'
My father was a signaller, north atlantic convoy escorts but never the least bit ill even in the heaviest weather. There was some conflict over signalling to RAF Catalinas and signallers were sent off to fly in a Catalina and see for themselves what the difficulties were. He says he laid on the floorboards for the whole flight, so sick he was nearly down to his stomach lining by the time they landed. :)
Destroyerman
10-02-2012, 13:56
I always found that a can of soup purchased from the NAAFI and heated on the messdeck toaster did the trick. This was gulped down just prior to going to sea in "roughers" and seemed to successfully line my stomach.
Whether or not it was purely psychological I don't know, but I always managed to keep my stomach intact.:D
Sandy.
Mitch Hinde
10-02-2012, 15:20
Hi All
Only time I felt really rough was 1963 while on Striker, LST, flat bottomed, no tanks on board therefore very high in the water trying to sail from Aden to Mombasa. Big Indian Ocean rollers on the starboard bow making us corkscrew, horrible feeling. Down below you could see the doors on the long port and starboard passages going out of line as the ship flexed.
While returning from Singapore on troopship Nevassa we hit a touch of roughers in the Bay of Biscay and I was standing on the upper deck talking to an old chief when a pongo remarked that it was very rough and he felt ill. The chief replied that when he got home he had to get the wife to throw buckets of water at the bedroom window so he could get to sleep.
Mitch Hinde
Dave Hutson
10-02-2012, 15:29
Nice one Mitch,
Yes down the coast of East Africa there is a 120 feet swell which wasn't very comfortable in our 103 foot Patrol Craft in the Kenya Navy. But it was a great cure for sea sickness - most of our Kenyans mastered it after a while but we certainly saw a few Green Tribesmen and I will admit ourselves for a while.
My cure ? - Fright when I found the only man on his feet at 0300 was my Sparker - on the wheel three cables off the reef with instructions from the OOW who was below prostrate to maintain that course until 0600 :eek:
Dave H
jainso31
10-02-2012, 16:43
Liked that one Dave -liked it a lot!!
jainso31
Will admit I often felt queasy, especially "the morning after", but was never actually sick. Even in KEPPEL, which akin to all Type 14's would bounce around in any sort of conditions (even rolled when alongside and a harbour tug went by), and when I felt thus, I found that sucking a Rowtrees Fruit Gum helped.
whalecatcher
16-02-2012, 15:46
Will admit I often felt queasy, especially "the morning after", but was never actually sick. Even in KEPPEL, which akin to all Type 14's would bounce around in any sort of conditions (even rolled when alongside and a harbour tug went by), and when I felt thus, I found that sucking a Rowtrees Fruit Gum helped.
Maybe take Gravol before watching this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=T4FIS1FnOQg
Whalecatcher
ivorthediver
16-02-2012, 18:52
That is one angry sea whalcatcher
Mitch Hinde
16-02-2012, 19:36
Hi All
That brought back memories, not to mention lunch and dinner:eek::eek:
Mitch Hinde
Anyone ever heard that THE cure for sea sickness is to look at something stationary. For instance, go on deck and you keep your eyes on the horizon.
I haven't looked this up recently but seasickness is a form of motion sickness and it involves the bones in your ears. The movment of them sends signals to your brain that conflicts with those from your eyes.
Hence the cure above as it keeps the movement of the body, registered the 'ear bones', in accord with what you're seeing.
Found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_sickness
John Odom
17-02-2012, 00:16
My poor mother got sick just looking at a ship! She spent nearly every voyage sick. I generally had a short spat of queasiness then was OK for the rest of the voyage. Now I use Bonamine and don't even get queasy.
BlackBat242
17-02-2012, 10:35
Anyone ever heard that THE cure for sea sickness is to look at something stationary. For instance, go on deck and you keep your eyes on the horizon.
I haven't looked this up recently but seasickness is a form of motion sickness and it involves the bones in your ears. The movment of them sends signals to your brain that conflicts with those from your eyes.
Hence the cure above as it keeps the movement of the body, registered the 'ear bones', in accord with what you're seeing.
Found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_sickness
I helped "cure" a shipmate that way in 1986.
Aboard a USN supercarrier, no less, that USN avionics tech was getting pretty green... just after leaving harbor, and on a fairly calm sea (probably SS-3 or so).
Since we were below decks in a small room, I convinced him to come up to the flight deck. Almost immediately he felt better, and when he went back below he never had a bit of trouble again.
It seems he had been in that workshop since we were tied up to the pier... and it was his first time at sea. Once his brain and his inner ear got together and compared notes, instead of arguing, all was well.
Granted this was on a pretty large ship, but the rougher the ride, the better I liked it. I always had fun when we got to rolling (sit in a wheeled chair and roll back & forth across the shop) or pitching (go to the bow and practice "speed-ladder"*) and so forth.
I never slept so well as when we were running north from Korea ~100 miles off the Soviet coast under cover of a typhoon. My berthing was in the bow, and with my bunk taking a 15-20 foot rise & fall, and rolls of ~15-20 degrees or so, I was very comfortable.
We never really got into any corkscrew motion, and never experienced rolls & such like the "now you see my sonar dome, and now here's my screw & rudder, watch me roll 35 degrees from vertical" plane-guard frigate did.
* standing at the top of the ladder and step off just as the bow begins to rise, one long step and I was on the deck below comfortably... stand at the bottom and jump up & ahead just as the bow begins to fall, 2 steps and I was on the deck at the top of the ladder.
ivorthediver
17-02-2012, 19:17
~Well when this started it was for a good reason ...and now having read your collective contributions ....it is in itself ........a fascinating subject albeit a but sordid for the sufferer .....I must just have been lucky but then I have never been in the type of " Roughers"described on here
Thank you all for your comments and look forward to reading more of them :)
Must admit, what FELT the worst weather of my experience was a Force 10 between Iceland and Scotland in KEPPEL.
Or a Force 9, off North Cape, in CHICHESTER.
Neither the little Type 14's, nor the AD Frigates with that top-heavy "double-bedstead" radar aerial, were particularly good "seaboats".
Went through a typhoon, between Hong Kong and Phillipines, in AJAX, which didn't seem as bad as the above, but the Leander Class Frigate WAS a very good "seaboat".
I managed not to be seasick ! Actually, to do a bit of lamp swinging......whilst I was QM in SURPRISE we ran into an unseasonal Mediterranean gale and not being seasick backfired on me, as it meant I was "watch on- stop on" on the helm as the other three QM's were out of it! :D
ceylon220
18-02-2012, 14:31
My mate when in training at RALEIGH in 53/4 decided to have a go at those pedal boats(2 of you sit in and work the pedals to move the box type punt) which were down below Plymouth Hoe and make our way to the light house about a mile out from shore,half way there he started throwing up and that continued right back to shore,after his training he requested a transfer to the RAF ---cannot say if his request was granted, never met up with him after that.
Mitch Hinde
18-02-2012, 16:09
Hi Scurs
We too hit a force 10 in the North Atlantic while on Naiad. Stabilisers played up for a couple of days but once repaired it was fine. As you said Leanders were great seaboats. Indian Ocean swell in 63 on a flat bottomed LST was much worse than the force 10.
Mitch Hinde
derek s.langsdon
18-02-2012, 17:31
Every cross-channel ferry trip I ever made was the signal for the water to become "a little choppy" my stomach always copied the motion...the
(centrally positioned) bar below always seemed the best spot with the mineral water and "sea"-biscuit to soak it up asper the 7-UP mentioned earlier.
None of it worked !-- the later Hovercraft services just made it a speedier experience ! thank god when I finally took to the air,.but a pity that the
tunnel (beneath the turbulence), came too late for most of my Euro travels .
derek-L
Old Salt
19-02-2012, 01:53
My first trip was to Iceland 'for a months patrol during 'Fish War 1'
It was blowing a real nasty when we left Rosyth, I lasted OK until we hit the open North Sea. Çrook as a dog, as they say in Oz. !
The Captain appeared with the Chief Steward who was holding a plate. "Get this down you lad !" It was a plate of fat off the ham ! Once I got stuck into it I started feeling better and was never seasick again. And I went through some real roughers around the world after that.
Apparently the fat puts a lining back in your stomach and makes you thirsty, so you drink to stop dehydration.
I have suggested this cure to several shipmates over the years but never found one brave enough to eat the fatty ham !
Brian
The only certain cure STAY ON LAND !!!:D:D
harry.gibbon
01-03-2012, 16:59
Hansard Dec 1956
Re; Debate regarding the death of a boy seaman formerly of HMS Zest/HMS Maidstone
I realise that some forum members and/or guests may be related to the boy sailor who was being discussed in this piece, indeed some may have served on these ships with him, so I have elected to provide a link (http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1956/dec/14/royal-navy-seamans-death)which covers the debate.
Tragic whatever the cause.
Little h
bert-261
01-07-2012, 12:49
This is not a cure for seasickness but it is sound advice. Instructions from a Royal jogging round the upper deck of Canberra on the way to the Falklands, to a newspaper journalist vigorously feeding the fishes with his regurgitated breakfast. 'That's the way boy, but if you feel something round, brown, and hairy in your mouth, for f****'s sake swallow hard, 'cos it'll be your asshole'.bert.
Like many others here, was fortunate enough to be born with a cast iron stomach and have never suffered from sea-sickness ... did however once suffer from someone else's "mal de mer"
Was a junior watchkeeping officer in HMCS Fundy (RCN Bay Class minesweeper converted to a training ship) many moons ago. Our cadet training officer was chronically seasick and stood watches with a 5 gallon bucket beside him
During one particularly nasty night watch off Cape Flattery (NW coast of Washington State) he had done his best to fill the bucket and I, as a midshipman, was told to empty it over the side. This entailed carrying it down a ladder from the open bridge to the focsle.
One of my mates told me to start down the ladder and he would hand the bucket down to me ... I was halfway down the ladder, the bucket was being handed to me and the ship took a particularly nasty roll to port ... result was one midshipman covered from head to toe with the contents of the bucket ... to which I must admit, I immediately added the contents of my stomach!
To be fair, my training officer did stand me to several "wets" when we got back to Esquimalt .. he said it was the least he could do!!!
I'm also blessed with a good stomach as far as seasickness is conserned. However, it plays up a bit when others are emptying theirs all around me, so I have naturally taken a keen interest in how to avoid seasickness.
The best cure is to take a swim, and if you are on a sailboat or other yacht/pleasure craft, that combined with taking the helm can be an effective cure. A bucket of seawater over the head can also be a good tip.
The pills sold in the UK against seasickness that contains quite a lot of caffein have produced remarkably good results. And that combined with fresh air and being forced to watch the horizon will give good results.
(note that seasickness pills might produce harmful effects in divers)
Teuchter
16-07-2012, 08:34
I am told that taking ginger is good, but I don't have experience with it and don't know the preferred form.
tone
My Cousin who suffers from vertigo and suffers dreadfully from seasickness "swears by" ginger - so as a preventative measure he always eats some ginger biscuits prior to taking a sea trip - he says it works!
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