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I just love that pic. it's show just what those boats was build off. I bet there are not many boats that can do that today.

A very big typhoon for pulling the bow of the ship !

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I quess boats today can still do that.
One british destroyer had no structual strenght anymore, exept wooden beams holding the hull.
She made it home.

A dutch Frigate (s class) lost her bow, and still speeded with 26 knots towards the closest base, because she had a leak in her hull that was getting bigger by the hour.

Both where repaired and back in action.

A chinese destroyer (old age) lost a whole panel from the side, and ripped off some structual beams. She made it come after crossing the pacific.

And i know a merchant ship, who lost about 45% of the front section (whas no oil, but container ship). And she made it home aswell.

It is not such a big achievment.

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I've had water over the manifoil on a 35000 ton tanker.
Pretty much all warships designed for open ocean operations are capable of taking green water over the bow, but die to the way they are ´designed (Large superstructure etc.) it looks a lot less dramatic.
Edit: Ignore the above, I was seeing something completely different.
However, civilian ships have made it back to port with entire sections missing

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Tough but why was the bow weak enough to be torn off?

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It wasn't weak, it just went through a powerful storm with 70 knot winds & 30m waves. Not much can take that for long.

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Ok, fair enough, only the specifically designed could get through that with lighter damage I suppose

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Would have sucked to be in the bow when it was destroyed...

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IIRC the bow remained afloat, the crew in the bow were taken off, and a fleet tug collected the piece and towed it back to the US, where it was re-attached to the ship.

I suppose the break was behind the first or second watertight bulkhead

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There's no such thing as "nothing left to draw" If you can down 10 pints and draw, you're doing alright by my standards