Sent in by an ex US Merchant Marines Radio Officer of the Overseas Dinny, a ham enthusiast, presently an electronics technician (Better known to ham friends as K3SXA) e-mail : jimf@iname.com or k3sxa@qsl.net
On board the "Overseas Dinny/KYMW " 1968-1969 (Maritime Overseas Corp.)
I did an assignment in '68-69 on a Rust Bucket Named Overseas Dinny. She was the ex Waterman SS vessel built in 1943 as the SS Warrior. She was C-2 type cargo vessel. My room leaked badly as I found out in a Typhoon off Yap in the Western Pacific one night!
My time on the "Dinny" was not the best. There was no Air-conditioning at all on this old ship. The ship had more cockroaches than on any other ship in my career and the food was lousy. 
We Loaded Bombs for the War in Viet Nam at a Godforsaken place called Sunny Point, NC, proceeded thru the Panama canal then on to Guam. The bombs we carried were unfused 250 and 500 pounders I think. The ship's captain was a old Dane named Harold Rasmussen. After spending several days unloading at Guam a typhoon approached forcing us to get underway. We found while were were in the midst of riding out that storm that the remaining cargo had not been stowed properly. As the seas built up we could hear the bombs rolling around down in the cargo hold. You can bet I had the old rosary beads out that night
Quo Vadis ... where do you want to go??!!
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