@@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
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 🤣
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.
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.
@@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 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.
@@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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ryzLe-pRxTo.html
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
@@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?
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!
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!"
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
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!
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
@@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
@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
Stan Rogers was great, but I like The Real McKenzies version the best. It has a very primal sound to it that resonates with salt of the earth type people. Other versions IMO sound like they are trying to turn it into an Irish ditty or try too hard to make it sound more "elegant". This is not an elegant song or meant to be one. The rough and off-key singing The Real McKenzies instead of hurting it actually make it better...at least to the ears of people that want to listen to a folk song and not a ball room song.
@@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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 /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.
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!!!
@@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.
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!
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
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.
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!
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.