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Old 04-09-2011, 08:23 PM
kip Foss kip Foss is offline
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My uncle was the capt. of the destroyer Emmons in the N. Atlantic during WWII. He told me that many of the tin can type ship could roll so far over that they would take green water down the stack and put out the boilers. I think that it would have to be over more than 45 degs.
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