uss-edsall:

gruene-teufel:

No matter how many times I read it in books on naval history it still unnerves me when I see an author describe ships that aren’t good at withstanding heavy seas as “wet”.

The author in this book just described the Pensacola-class light cruisers as “some of the wettest ships” in the US Navy. I don’t like it.

another way of describing it is ‘big submarines’. HMS Hood, for example, was called the Royal Navy’s biggest submarine.