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fortyrod

Posted 2025-07-14 5:31 AM (#105532)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 884

Subject: Port call

What was the worst liberty(?) port you ever pulled into. For me it had to be Dajabouti. What a sh-t hole with a thousand beggars. Horrible place. It made Augusta Bay, Scicily seem great. Bangkok rated number 1.

Gil

Posted 2025-07-14 10:31 AM (#105533 - in reply to #105532)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1670

Subject: RE: Port call

Okinawa. Only because we pulled in for only one day, and I had the duty. I offered to pay someone to take my topside watch, but the leading PO rejected it. Spent my topside watch looking at the poisonous sea snakes basking on the boat's pressure hull (apparently they felt the vibration), and listening to guys coming back saying it was the best liberty they ever had. Since then I've only been to Okinawa's airport.

I love traveling, especially in any foreign country. As a civilian I did a lot of traveling. The only two places in the states I have no desire to ever see again are Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and Mansfield, Ohio - both places because: I never got decent weather, there was nothing for me to do afterhours, and the city of Mansfield didn't sell alcohol on Sunday. Nothing against the people I interfaced with in these two cities, but those are two places I'd hate to spend a weekend in.

Coyote

Posted 2025-07-14 12:27 PM (#105535 - in reply to #105532)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1254

Location: NE Florida

Subject: RE: Port call

Safaga, Egypt, up the Red Sea from Djibuti. Hot. Beggars. Rip you off if you didn't argue.

PaulR

Posted 2025-07-14 12:47 PM (#105537 - in reply to #105532)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1287

Location: Hopewell Junction NY

Subject: RE: Port call

Lots of port calls in THE MED. Naples was rated lower than most. But plenty to do just a short distance away. like Capri, Vesuvius

Runner485

Posted 2025-07-16 5:47 AM (#105540 - in reply to #105532)

COMSUBBBS

Posts: 2714

Location: New Jersey

Subject: RE: Port call

Djibuti by far the worst, Naples a close second.

C Stafford

Posted 2025-07-16 11:35 AM (#105541 - in reply to #105532)

Senior Crew

Posts: 232

Location: San Diego, CA

Subject: RE: Port call

The weather in Adak the worst for having to be topsde during refueling the boat.
We didn't have to worry about beggers

Coyote

Posted 2025-07-16 12:25 PM (#105543 - in reply to #105532)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1254

Location: NE Florida

Subject: RE: Port call

I left Seadragon at Adak under orders to Key West. I think that's the longest transfer in the continental US.

Coyote

PaulR

Posted 2025-07-18 12:21 PM (#105545 - in reply to #105541)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1287

Location: Hopewell Junction NY

Subject: RE: Port call

While in ET "A" school, poor performers wee threatened with orders to ADAK. However I've also read that it was not really a bad duty site.

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