U.S.S. MT. KATMAI AE 16: 1969-1973: What??? Hong Kong Again?



Thursday, October 19, 2006

What??? Hong Kong Again?


I mean after all you can only go to Hong Kong so many times, we had been there 5 times already and the last time the British authorities made us anchor clear out by Green Island which is out by the half sunken rusting shell of the Queen Mary.

The reason we had Nukes on board and ships with nukes were not allowed inside Hong Kong Harbor and it was almost a one hour boat trip in but that's where we were and as it turns out, we had a pretty good time.

We had a crew of women come aboard to paint the ship. Where else in the world can you paint an entire ship for left over food from the Galley. And since I was Galley Captain, I made sure that the ladies had all of the leftovers they wanted. Turns out, they would take all of our scraps and fat and other items that growing American boys wont eat and make it into some of the best Chinese food I had ever eaten.

The other benefit...Some of those young Chinese ladies would sleep with you just to be safe....Of course we had to go down to the boats to be serviced so to speak, but I know of one officer who had one or two ladies up to his cabin for the night...I mean after all, aren't Officers considered officers and Gentlemen and above such things...yeah right...

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