# Sembawang shipyard....Part 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Military Sealift Command\ **Created:** [January 20, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/sembawang-shipyard-part-2/15761 "2016-01-20T13:43:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![oldSK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c89c15/32.png) [@oldSK](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/oldSK)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/sembawang-shipyard-part-2/15761/1 "2016-01-20T13:43:13Z")
Part 1 was new distillation equipment and a new diesel engine. About a week or more in the yard…and a FINE time was had by all in Singapore. ;):cool: OK, repairs made and we are just outside the harbor heading to an undisclosed location. We are an Oceanographic Research Vessel (no names mentioned). I am on the bridge with headphones to the engine room and making notations in the bell log. I hear on the phones…from a bow lookout…something about line or hawser in the water…dead ahead. It flashed thru my head that if it got caught in the propeller shaft/screws…it could mean trouble. I, personally, did not say anything…as it was not my place. Just a possibility of a line in the water. I was SURE others on the headphone circuit would say something. Alas, no one alerted the bridge and a THUMP THUMP…SHUDDER…was felt. I think someone looked aft and saw a line in the water. A check of the shaft compartment disclosed water coming in. A diver sent to look said, “Yes, there is line tangled in the shaft”. :o So…a call to HQ was made and a short while later we were sent back to Sembawang for dry dock repairs…Part 2. We had to tie up next to a Navy ship for a couple of days before dry dock and once there, another 7 days or so. GOSH DARN…a delay in our schedule and that means another 10 days in Singapore. ;):cool: Guess no one else heard the bow lookout… and he never got in trouble. But he did get high fives from me…and others. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Commodore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@The\_Commodore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/The_Commodore)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/sembawang-shipyard-part-2/15761/2 "2016-01-20T14:51:09Z")
It was your place to say something, but good of you to try and dodge responsibility. I imagine you are on a USNS ship, so I’ll remember you when I pay my next tax bill, or the Union hits me up for more $ to help my brothers out. ---
**Author:** ![swab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@swab](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/swab)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/sembawang-shipyard-part-2/15761/3 "2016-01-20T15:36:31Z")
Why even post this nonsense? The safety of your vessel is everyone’s responsibility. You should have taken action to relay that information up the food chain the second there wasn’t a reply on the coms. ---
**Author:** ![oldSK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c89c15/32.png) [@oldSK](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/oldSK)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/sembawang-shipyard-part-2/15761/4 "2016-01-20T15:58:07Z")
This was in 1977. ---
**Author:** ![Jeffrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@Jeffrox](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Jeffrox)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/sembawang-shipyard-part-2/15761/5 "2016-01-25T20:05:29Z")
[QUOTE=oldSK;177453]This was in 1977.[/QUOTE] So, you’ve been a DICKHEAD for 38 years. ---
**Author:** ![oldSK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c89c15/32.png) [@oldSK](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/oldSK)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/sembawang-shipyard-part-2/15761/6 "2016-02-01T11:45:32Z")
Hi Jeff…Well, no. (I have been referred to in the past as a PECKERHEAD, however) After we left Singapore I did have a religious experience, similar to Saul of Tarsus. When we landed next in the Philippines a very over wight woman let loose with a gigantic fart …and threw me out of the rickshaw in which I was riding. When I awoke, I was a changed man. No more a dickhead. That was in 1977. I had such a good time in Singapore for the shaft repair…that I have no guilt whatsoever. I will try to mitigate my behavior with a story. We tied up somewhere outboard of a USN ship as there was no room at the dock. Being a Jr. Purser I was allowed to roam their ship. I noticed 2-3 sailors, ET’s I think, tossing stuff over the side. I asked what’s what and they freely told me it was electronics/chips, etc. Reason being that this was in excess of what they were allowed and a ship’s inspection was coming up shortly. They would have been penalized if their inventory was over the allowance. What, $1000 or more? Who knows. What had they tossed previously…and in the future? How many other ET’s, RM and SK’s were doing this, Navywide?