US Navy Plays Barrett's Privateers While Leaving Halifax

[@Virginia91]

I'm just imagining the captain saying "yo pass me the aux"

[@JasonP25]

No, I think it's through bluetooth... If my 2013 honda civic has bluetooth function I think so does this vessel...🤔

[@armadillerff]

@@JasonP25 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Aux cord?? Bluetooth??? Lmao y’all don’t know too much about US Navy ships lol. I was on one of the newest subs built in 1992...from a design from 1973. The crazy rat nest wiring we had to do when this new fangled technology called “email” came to the boat in 2003/ lol

[@tylersweet7538]

Lol he wishes

[@lordgustav6227]

@@armadillerff I was about to say 🤣

[@NoWorries-tp2yw]

We used to do that in Iraq and Afghanistan lol, all our trucks had internal comms and we would hook up music to listen to, because it gets quite when at times when you're driving around waiting for something to happen 🤣

[@elusive1970]

I remember that visit from the US navy. They sailed in with a Canadian flag, the next day some of the sailors came ashore and helped build houses through Habitat For Humanity and they sailed out playing this. That's UNBELIEVABLE CLASS. Much appreciated boys.

[@frankdawe5156]

Absolutely right, my friend. The Americans are not the arrogant bullies that many believe them to be. In fact, the US Navy has, as you said, a lot of CLASS. I, for one, am proud to be their ally.

[@frostyvr9805]

@@frankdawe5156 the us military is a class act (the navy in particular). It only gets really messy when you get into parliament and the senate

[@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis]

That's awesome!

[@CT-5736-Bladez]

Makes sense, US and Canada are practically sibling country’s with Britain and France being the parents.

[@findecycle6533]

It's traditional to fly the flag of the host Nation when coming alongside a foreign port. At least in the RN, cannot comment about other Navies.

[@sukhoisu-24fencer3]

But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barrets privateers.

[@garge7676]

Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town (I wish I were in Sherbrooke now!) For twenty brave men all fishermen who would make for him the Antelope's crew!

[@chasbodaniels1744]

Ooof, I’m feeling a bit loose in me stays this morning.

[@kylewarner9822]

oh, now i feel dumb. I thought the lyrics were "But I'm a broken man on a Halifax beer the last of Barrets privateers"

[@davecrupel2817]

@@garge7676 God damn them all! I was told we'd cruise the seas for American Gold We'd fire no guns, shed no teeeeras!

[@aidendelpino4613]

*Barrett's

[@JettaJack]

From Wikipedia: “It is regarded as one of the Royal Canadian Navy's unofficial anthems, the unofficial anthem of Atlantic Canada and also often heard sung at many Atlantic universities including (west to east) Acadia University, University of New Brunswick, Mount Allison University, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, University of King's College, St. Francis Xavier University, Cape Breton University, and Memorial University of Newfoundland.” Stan Rogers, a legend gone too soon.

[@exJacktar]

That's so true. I must have heard and sung this song a million times when l was in the Navy in Halifax. Nice to see our friends and neighbors playing a little RAS music as they sail out of town. Loved my USN counterparts.

[@RuleofFive]

I was wondering why they played this song and here I find your comment. Thanks.

[@matthewlebo1841]

There’s gotta be a degree of trolling in there, too-a US Navy vessel playing a song in Halifax about a Canadian privateer sunk by an American merchant vessel.

[@exJacktar]

@@matthewlebo1841 nah, it's a popular song here, there would be no offense meant or taken.

[@Vinemaple]

Nice to know there's no disrespect intended there, I was wondering.

[@OdykKayne]

Haha, I approve of their sense of humour! :P

[@totalwartitan5118]

There is a reason we wound up liking "Yankee Doodle."

[@davecrupel2817]

This is hardly humor. It's so fantastic a choice of song! It's just beautiful! Whoever made this decision is a damn proud nautical traditionalist!

[@noahdavis3236]

420th like (yes I know nobody cares)

[@lachyt5247]

@@davecrupel2817 It is absolutely humor, an American ship pulling out of a Canadian port blaring a song about a Canadian privateer getting obliterated by the USN.

[@reverendrico5631]

Sadly, not the strangest thing I’ve heard from a USN ship leaving port.

[@6Six6Six6Bruh]

you know any videos of the strangest?

[@jeffburnham6611]

@@billybatts9491 you blasted music over the 1MC when departing your homeport? I'm familiar with blasting music during the breakaway from an UNREP, but never heard it when departing a port (I served aboard USS Forrestal CV-59 in the mid 1980's).

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

What is the strangest then?

[@marshallj2415]

@@TheEmeraldMenOfficial I was a bosun mate on the America and when we’d break away from those USNS refuelers they would play comin to America by Neil diamond.

[@kevincrosby1760]

@@jeffburnham6611 I used to keep a list of every ship and every breakaway song that I heard. Being stationed on an oiler out of the Bay Area, that list was somewhat long... Sadly, her final cruise was similar to the Forrestal...A couple of tugs and a tow to Brownsville, TX for scrapping. IC2 USS Kansas City (AOR-3)

[@johnshepherd8687]

A fine bit of trolling that is up to Royal Navy standards.

[@danielmontague9822]

That is a resupply ship. It is customary when a ship is resupplied at sea that one of the ships plays music for both ships. Several times we had our ships band pay live music during the resupply.

[@fairwinds610]

I was on a Kilauea-class ammunition ship that looked just like that one. (1976-1980, USS Shasta AE-33)

[@whitedragon179]

That's a T-AKE

[@hieug.rection1920]

My ship (LPD-20) had the Marines form up for the chain gang resupply on the top decks and sing work cadences. Once they started getting too colorful and boisterous for the ladies, the supply ship took over with shanties. After that, the Marines were banished to the lower decks for future resupplies.

[@danielmontague9822]

@@hieug.rection1920 We would steel the officers ice cream.

[@dundonrl]

Of all the underway replenishment's I've participated in, it's the ship that's receiving the supplies/fuel that plays the "breakaway song". Here's one that I recorded when stationed on the USS Halsey DDG-97 after we broke away from the USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKrdfZhjpberitE

[@SootHead]

I find myself going back to this again and again! Each time, I wish it was longer. I love the irony of a United States naval vessel, albeit an auxiliary, leaving the legendary port of Halifax playing a song about a hapless British letter-of-marque privateer setting sail from the same port some 240 years past to prey on American shipping and failing dismally. I had never heard the song before and my admiration for Stan Rogers is now boundless. Still, I think I like the McKenzie's arrangement best (imagine writer ducking under his desk). The song needs to be BELTED OUT and the drums add to that. I was a U.S. Army mariner in the Vietnam era and we never got to do fun stuff like this when entering or leaving port. Well, come to think of it, it wasn't much fun to be a soldier out in public at all in those days.

[@seashmore]

Thanks for the laugh. Much respect to you for your service. A good shanty needs someone to keep a good beat, whether it's drums or clapping or stomping Ahab's leg.

[@DaLonelySheperd]

hey, man. people back then may have been insipid but you have 3 whole generations born afterwards that respect and love our veterans, regardless of your job or battlefield. Thank you for fighting in Vietnam, and I'm sorry you had to deal with the backlash.

[@ISAFMobius18]

US Navy is like the cool kid walking out of the cafeteria at school.

[@nytugboattrash]

That’s not a Navy crew on that. It is crewed by Merchant Mariners

[@dracobruhma]

Oh come on. Everyone knows that the US Army is the cool kid. All the other branches just want to be like him

[@ISAFMobius18]

@@dracobruhma Nah, Army is the Star Quarterback Jock of the football team.

[@rinislaboratories1315]

@@ISAFMobius18 that's the Marines, who rely on the navy to do their homework

[@ISAFMobius18]

@@rinislaboratories1315 I was going to say Marines is that shady rebel kid who never follows the rules and does his own thing lol

[@dabenzel45]

We love you Halifax. My ship pulled in there once in the 80s. I'll never forget the love y'all showed us.

[@rickoc3022]

Wow, a Navy Captain with a sense of humor. My, how times have changed.

[@KenricKite]

That's a nod to our Northern neighbors

[@ronstewtsaw]

I take it as a dig. It was an American ship that crippled the protagonist.

[@andreworiez8920]

@@ronstewtsaw If it was a dig then a light hearted one... The kind of picking on only delivered by brothers who truly care about the other!!!

[@fmf5304]

@@andreworiez8920 whether meant as a dig or a nod i know the story of the song and take it as a dig but a damn well humoured one if nothing else

[@andreworiez8920]

@@fmf5304 Exactly....what are brothers for?

[@fmf5304]

@Ban this youtube i wasn't gonna bring that up but yea you could call it even

[@jobu88]

Always nice when the CO has a sense of humor and history

[@TheHagarcobra]

I witnessed the Kitty Hawk playing Willie Nelson's " On the Road Again" leaving Bremerton,Wa.

[@forddon]

I was on the Connie, one time we left P.I. playing the "Smoky and the Bandit" theme

[@fadoodle]

Wow! The audio quality of the 6MC has really improved since I was serving during the seventies.

[@bubbabeanable1]

That was one of my first thoughts! Maybe they boosted it with the 1MC.

[@minirock000]

More better to hear the forced prayer time?

[@kevincrosby1760]

@@minirock000 Where in the HELL did that come from? I have NEVER heard a religious service on board ship that I did not deliberately seek out in order to attend.

[@minirock000]

@@kevincrosby1760 I had a friend that was on a destroyer and he said they would play religious content on sunday if they could, for about an hour if they could other wise they would just do a quick prayer. I asked him if that was legal because it should not be but he said it bother him he just smoked and joked off the back. I mean that can't really be legal, you know. I know the Army always has impromptu prayers. Usually when they have you in a formation. They need to curb that shit, makes us look like religious zealots.

[@kevincrosby1760]

@@minirock000 I'm afraid that your friend was not being honest. They could get away with a very brief non-denominational prayer in certain circumstances. Anything more would be strictly non-reg and would quickly result in an investigation. The ship that I was on had a relatively small crew of 345 or so. Church services were split up among different denominations, with each having its own assigned time and area. Catholics might be on the mess decks, Protestants might be on the cargo deck, Wiccans in a helo hanger, LDS at the other end of the cargo deck, etc. You can NOT force a service member to participate or even listen to a service or sermon which he does not want to. It is a violation of Military law, Federal law, and the US Constitution.

[@jbt369]

I guess The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald might have been bad for crew moral.

[@jerrykinnin7941]

Tre Wrech of the Edmon Fitzgerald is to seamen what the Song Widowmaker is to Truckers. A Sad song of Mourning.

[@osimnod]

And morale. But there's a moral to the story in the song.

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

Fitzgerald was a laker, the lake is a demilitarized zone.

[@MichaelEdelman1954]

@@themanformerlyknownascomme777 It wasn’t in 1812.

[@evanboothe5649]

I though the Edmund Fitzgerald was an American ship.

[@davidj.7227]

I spent 4 days in Halifax back in 1990 on USS Frank Cable. It was a great time from what I remember. I was 22 and climbing the hill to the pubs. Beautiful city.

[@geekymalcolm]

I remember touring on the USS Frank Cable when I was a kid back in 1990!

[@davidj.7227]

@@geekymalcolm Awesome that you remember this. I worked on the boat deck up on the level with the stack and the huge crane.

[@dannymcguire8202]

How cool, a random story from a builder of, a tourist visiting, and one who'd served aboard, one valiant ocean going vessel. Kinda neat.

[@tugbabywi]

Building 40 Pier Mike in the Charleston days.

[@davidj.7227]

@@tugbabywi I left the ship just before it started prepping for Guam. I was in 3rd Div Deck. Halifax and St Thomas/Puerto Rico were the best cruises of the 4 years. When were you onboard?

[@portfoliofotoz]

Great song. Great liberty port too. I'm retired US Navy and today, a yachtsman. Barret's Privateers is a song that is played at least once on every cruise! My guests love it. GO NAVY!

[@seapappy9183]

That’s the ”US Navy” only it’s a ship crewed by civilian US Merchant Mariners... that’s why they’re cooler than the rest of the Navy. On 9-11 we passed an American Crowley ship in Galveston flying a giant American flag from its midship crane while “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” by Toby Keith was cranked up super loud on their PA. God Bless our US Merchant Marine!

[@johnavast5939]

True class act! Proud to call Americans our brothers and sisters!

[@tim.a.k.mertens]

This is THE pinnacle of american-canadian friendship. I have my beef with america but i really fucking love this.

[@whippy107]

You are the best neighbors EVER! Thanks for putting up with us.

[@kevinb2469]

Yeah we've been pretty terrible neighbors especially lately. Sorry about that, we're trying currently to fix it.

[@alexandermccabe556]

@@kevinb2469 cant wait to get back to the bipartisan war effort did you hear they stopped trumps approval of taking troops out of Afghanistan so great now the world can respect us again

[@alexandermccabe556]

@Tinfoil gang I get not liking trump just understand the establishment doesn't dislike him for the same reasons so don't be quick to ally yourself with these people

[@alexandermccabe556]

@Tinfoil gang never thought he was

[@Mr_T_Badger]

I kinda wish it had been Stan’s original version but that’s still cool as hell.

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

They should have played the Stan Rogers version.

[@rogeranderson8763]

If you have not heard of Stan Rogers...google for some of his stuff. (I think he wrote Barretts Privateers). The field behind the Plow is a great one.....as is the Rocks at Baccalou (little spelling problem there ) Stan died in a airplane crash, the jet caught fire, Stan got out ok but went back in several times pulling others out of the cabin. His music will live forever. -Veteran '66-68

[@jebbush458]

I believe he did write the song. However I think this is a cover by The Real McKenzies

[@maxwellmortimermontoure7274]

US navy been helping people get cars outta the snow in my neighborhood. They got my love!

[@ferrettijeable]

The irony of a USN ship playing Barrett's Privateers does not escape meet. True class skipper.

[@USBearForce]

US Navy vessel plays a song about a Canadian privateer picking a fight with an American ship and getting completely demolished... while leaving Canada. That's a whole new level of trolling! Haha!

[@RailPreserver2K]

U.s. Navy be like you guys just got pranked big time

[@GuntherRommel]

Don't make us remind you! LOLOL.

[@justamanwithasaxophone5391]

What's really great is hearing one of these oilers playing music as you pull away from them after a replenishment at sea

[@DreadX10]

Even greater is hearing the music during the RAS and then stop hearing it as the sound is replaced by a different kind of music; that of gas-turbines roar when the throttle is opened up all the way... ;-) Edit: And remembering the words my CO spoke (translated): "Officer of the watch, please show the [name of supply-vessel] how happy our gas-turbines are with the fuel we just received from them." "Aye, aye, Captain!" (spoken with grin on face) "Helmsman, set 220 rpm on both shafts!"

[@miked0rris738]

We about to run into the Carl Vincent in 86 because a kid got his port and starboard backwards we had the aircraft carrier on one side and a little Cruise are on the other it got pretty wild for about 30 seconds lot of snapping cables thank God no one got hurt

[@jimfowler5930]

FLYNAVY, BZ! Haze gray and underway! God Bless America!!!

[@jfangm]

To be honest, the Great White Fleet era USN had the best peacetime paint scheme.

[@andreworiez8920]

That ship was crewed by MERCHANT seaman......

[@jfangm]

@@andreworiez8920 Still a US Navy ship.

[@andreworiez8920]

@@jfangm A United States Naval Ship (USNS) is a non-commissioned Ship that is owned by the Navy but operated and crewed by the Military Sealift Command (MSC) and crewed primarily by civilians. It's splitting hairs I know but to the men onboard its a rather important distinction.

[@jfangm]

@@andreworiez8920 It's owned by the Navy, thus, a Navy ship.

[@phantomkate6]

That's The Real McKenzies version!

[@bad74maverick1]

And horrible to boot!

[@jfangm]

And it's real BAD.

[@phantomkate6]

@@bad74maverick1 Boo hoo

[@bad74maverick1]

@@phantomkate6 Yeah I'd cry too at that version. I feel ya'

[@adamruiz5789]

Stan Rogers did it best but I won’t ever turn down The Real McKenzies!

[@kraggthegrimm6185]

Well I love the Mckenzies version so 🤪 Although, I really love the Weddings Parties Anything version even more.

[@susie154]

GOD BLESS THE U. S. NAVY 💙

[@MARKLOCKWOOD2012]

These days laughter is the best medicine.

[@r.mar.673]

Stan Rogers please =P

[@stonebear]

RIGHT?! The Original And Best Accept No Substitutes!

[@loyalsingletentacultistsin2047]

exactly what I thought, Americans couldnt even play the proper version.. XD

[@GregHoodMorris]

That wasn't Stan Rogers? I thought it didn't sound quite right!

[@foamer443]

@@loyalsingletentacultistsin2047 I'm surprised they have even heard of Stan Rogers.

[@pieceofschmidtgames6389]

@@foamer443 rogers actually did some concerts in the US for a while. While he may not be mainstream, there a quite a few fans here.

[@johndettman4683]

Respect to these sailors it’s all I’m gonna say.

[@michaelashcraft8569]

Cool, my U.S. Navy Destroyer played Zorba the Greek's theme while in the Med. 73-74 USS Claude V. Ricketts DDG-5. Doc Mike USN

[@gwydion6968]

Who doesn't love irony. Well done USN.

[@christopherhull5501]

Class, pure class!

[@tolvaer]

hahaha, I love to listen to Stan Rogers, as an American and as an USN member, we'll give you Canucks crap enough but.....of course, when the Maple Leaf fans helped out our National Anthem singer, then it's "first round of beer is on the Americans", Cheers!

[@tolvaer]

@@Amoore-vv9wx call it even after we repaint the white house the original color, together, and the Americans will stay out of the Northwest Passage

[@tolvaer]

@@Amoore-vv9wx that depends on how many hockey sticks you have on hand

[@johnallen7807]

First class PR! I had great times on exchange training with US Army, a fantastic country & people.

[@barraindymacneil6256]

I had a friend that was on the USS San Jose (also a replenishment ship). Every time they supplied another ship, which was often, the played 'Do you know the way to San Jose?' By the end of a six month deployment to the Med, he said the first thing he wanted to do was find Dionne Warwick and punch her in the mouth.

[@thomasheer825]

Well that was something, bet the locals were busting out laughing, actually this shanty was written in the late 60's but it is great. One unit I rode in the 70's while a spook rider had their refueling breakaway as "What do you do with a drunken sailor". Well it fits.

[@bruceringrose7539]

It's not a work shanty. It might be considered a fo'c'sle shanty, but that is a poorly defined term and widely considered to be not relevant.

[@thomasheer825]

@@bruceringrose7539 /come on this splitting heers, sorry I just had to do it as my name is pronounced hair. Know a bunch of shanty's that can never be uttered in mixed company.

[@bruceringrose7539]

I don't doubt that you do! lol The problem is, the standard form for a shanty is call & response, even fo'c'sle shanties generally exhibited that form, but to a lesser degree as the need for the work rhythm was obviously less. So, just as I should not describe "Rule Britannia" as a shanty, this song should not be referred to as a shanty. It is a great maritime folk song, written by Stan Rogers and released in 1976. As you said, I'm sure the folks in Halifax loved it! Visited Halifax years ago, wonderful city, love the Maritimes, excellent music!!!

[@cjjenson8212]

I love that song. It's still a staple to kareoke at any club we go to!

[@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis]

I guess the fact that they could get away with this stunt shows that Halifax is indeed the friendliest harbour.

[@liveoakgaming5967]

It's a song by a prominent Canadian Folk Singer (sadly dead) who was from the area. I don't see why they would be mad either way, except that they did not play Stan Roger's recording, but a cover of the song.

[@Liz-sn1mm]

We Canadians can take a joke from our friends ❤😊

[@nurmaybooba]

I love that song and this was great

[@sethk1698]

Takes my breath away for some reason, I love it.

[@irishmike4914]

Me moms maiden name is Barrett and when she listened to the song she laughed her butt off. To make an 85 yr old Irish woman laugh out loud is rare

[@PandaXs1]

"hey remember that song where one of our ships totally wrecked one of yours???"

[@georgfelis]

First heard this song at KC RenFest sung by the Jolly Rogers. Amazing group, wonderful song.

[@rogerscott9332]

That's freaking awesome!

[@Bezanie]

Awesome! I wish I was there!

[@davidobrien2541]

That's a good choice. Honorable mention would have gone to "Farewell to Nova Scotia."

[@fabbels314]

"Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax Pier" hahahaha great!!!

[@solarnaut]

Oh, the year was 1778 How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now Well a letter of marque came from the king To the scummiest vessel I've ever seen God damn them all! I was told We'd sail the seas for American gold We'd fire no gun, shed no tear But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now For twenty brave men all fishermen who Would make up for the Antelope's crew God damn them all! I was told We'd sail the seas for American gold We'd fire no gun, shed no tear But I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett's Privateers. . .

[@eatabagofdicks6500]

A great navy, cheekily saluting a fine east coast city, I’m sure those sailors have good memories from Barrington street, or is it ave?

[@tizzimah7374]

I served on an AE for 4 years. We had great liberty liberty ports because as a floating bomb, we were always scheduled into places where the rest of the fleet was NOT.

[@margaretadler6162]

I served on an ammunition ship in 70-72 USS SURIBACHI AE21 we worked hard and played hard ! Good times for a young man! SAM Neal

[@tizzimah7374]

@@margaretadler6162 Nice! I was on the Butte, stationed at Earle. In the late 1980s, it was just Butte, Suribachi, and Nitro.

[@stephenenglebright]

One the sea salt gets in the blood, some of it never leaves you. Never made a port of call in Halifax. Been darn near everywhere else though.. I was a Radarman (today called an OI Specialist) back in the 60s and 70s and mostly served on USN Destroyers, also called tin cans. Fair winds and following seas, shipmates!

[@mdcoomer67]

We talked the OOD into letting us play Jane's Addiction on a breakaway once. I think that might have been the last time we got to pick a tune!

[@mysticm1736]

I love this song this is great 😂

[@shanefaulkner8586]

They tried to show some respect and fucked it up. That should of been the voice of Stan Rogers.

[@robertmatch6550]

Well done! I have sung that song on a Halifax Pier. God bless Halifax, Canada, and the memory of Stan Rogers.

[@robertgotschall1246]

Love that song.

[@ianboyd4097]

Love this tune I think about my grandfather

[@UFOtter]

Idk why, my brain is imagining this as a perk jingle from CoD Zombies, just the ships enter combat or leave/enter port and they play a snippet from a song XD, especially the "Shed No Tears!" part really drives the jingle effect for me

[@seanthomas8864]

And the ship in the song gets blown to bits by an American Naval ship!

[@matth523]

To catch her took the Antelope two whole days..

[@billsdubious]

No Sean, the yankee lay low down with gold....it was an unimpressive but armed merchantman. But less unimpressive than the hapless sloop Antelope.

[@seanthomas8864]

Bill...gotcha. That makes sense, but it didn't occur to me.

[@e.hellbrand9707]

@@seanthomas8864 Actually the antelope gets blown to bits. the american ship was just laden with gold. but well armed and with a trained crew

[@4nadv243]

@@billsdubious Hello Bill, you just showed those watching how to politely correct someone's error. Good job.

[@elkabong6429]

That’s pretty cool! Imagine if a buncha sailors had been on deck actually belting that out!

[@TacticalTorc]

Warning to Canadians; don’t try it again lol

[@harleyokeefe5193]

Try what again?

[@ta33370]

@@harleyokeefe5193 The song is about privateers under the British Crown sailing out of Halifax and attempting to loot and steal an American ship and getting sent to the bottom because they were in a decrepit sloop that had far less cannons. With all crew but the narrator dying, and the narrator's legs being torn off by the ropes that held the mainsail, leaving him to sing the song on a Halifax pier as a double-amputee. It was made in the 70's by a Canadian as a folk song referencing Halifax's history of hosting British Privateers around the time of the American Revolution.

[@harleyokeefe5193]

@@ta33370 ah I see, thank you for the information, seem very well informed.

[@thehistoadian]

Would of been the best opertunity to play "Farewell to Nova Scotia" lol

[@connorbrennan501]

Gotta love the American Navy

[@davecrupel2817]

Damn good choice boys! Fair winds and following seas!

[@Del-Canada]

Hell yeah! Halifax representing here!

[@kurtengel4652]

that is an awesome sound system

[@kevinstreeter6943]

My ship would play "I am your captain/Closer to home" by Grand Funk Railroad when we came to our homeport.

[@TheDocAfro]

That is not a USN ship, it is the US Military Sealift Command ship. They're federal civilian operated ships that port in Military harbors and service USN ships. However....When out to sea, USN ships when breaking away from ships like this, will play music over the 1MC on their break away from the ship once they are don receiving supplies. Favorite song that they played and I thank my CO for allowing this, because EVERYONE laughed, was Ludacris's "Move Bitch" the story behind that was that another USN ship was on the other side of her and they had did everything to piss us off and the CO so the CO played this as our break away when we finished before them.

[@BrokVoekler]

This song is funny because it's about a canadian pirate ship getting rekked by a US ship

[@Tommy1977777]

this is excellent in every way. That Captain should be promoted beyond his peers.

[@Not_SoIrish]

That was epic.

[@eddiev3052]

That's actually Military Sealift Command and not the Navy.

[@jamess3395]

(?) America will remember that.

[@soulofastro]

but MSC is part of the USN?

[@EdgarStyles1234]

@Anne Burrill its the bloody canadian naval anthem you knob

[@MountainDewIdaho]

@@EdgarStyles1234 isn’t the Naval March their anthem?

[@EdgarStyles1234]

@@MountainDewIdaho it's unofficially one of their songs.

[@robotslug]

10/10 captain right there!

[@haramanggapuja]

I was in USN bootcamp in San Diego back 1968. One of the guys in the chow line behind me was a Canadian who'd signed up in the USN for four years service. Never got a clear reason why. Since then I've been aboard Portuguese, German, British & Argentine ships, some official, some as a civilian. The language, the uniform, all that may be different from fleet to fleet but we're all shipmates every day.

[@greymagic857]

I love this so much

[@rayjennings3637]

You almost expect the crew on deck dancing a horn-pipe!

[@0IIIIII]

Next time they should play a marathon of the Trailer Park Boys

[@alan-sk7ky]

Snniiffff, sniff. Smell that Randy, can you smell it?

[@gibbsm]

Haul in the jib before it gets covered in shit.

[@robertg.2111]

I've been out of that harbour so many time, silent and "standing at ease"... Obviously wearing a Canadian uniform. We only seem to do cool stuff when we go in or out of somewhere else. We do however pull a lot of pranks before departure, best one I've seen was a Canadian flag painted on the side of an American ship. The deed was hidden by the fact that we were tied to the ship, not the pier... Hidden, until we left :)

[@afcgeo882]

That ship ended up being used for target practice, so all’s well.

[@carlmanvers5009]

That's brilliant.

[@elyeliza8287]

i feel bad that i find this so funny :))

[@JimmyEatDirt]

I wanna buy a large boat just to play that song on full blast

[@railgap]

Whoa! You know someone's immortal when...

[@Thebighanzi808]

That’s a pretty impressive PA system

[@teamdeer5117]

For anyone wondering what type of ship this is: It's an USN Dry Cargo / Ammunition Ship // The name is unknown and there seems to be no number on the bow.

[@connorjones5512]

assignment understood

[@e.hellbrand9707]

i mean it's a song about a ship getting Wrecked by a US ship carrying gold. and the ship only had 1 survivor. so I'd say it's fitting

[@xz3693]

Yeah, that's why they played it. This wasn't a random song on shuffle

[@nickfajen7778]

Classy move!

[@americathefree3708]

God Bless Our Troops!

[@afweath05]

Could have also played Canada's "Rush" "Fly By night" with the line "the ship isn't coming so I can't just pretend"

[@PMMM9]

Fantastic

[@DocRigel]

They always play cool music during break away after a underway replenishment.

[@pmsteamrailroading]

I’m sure Stan Rogers would be smiling.

[@Shmerpy]

Damn right he would be.

[@yolobathsalts]

I'm actually really upset they didn't play dear old stans version what the fuck is this