Photograph Courtesy George Arthur USS Dynamic MSO-432 (1962-1965)

USS Dynamic MSO-432 and the USS Persistent MSO-491
Guam 1962

Photograph Courtesy George Arthur USS Dynamic MSO-432 (1962-1965)

The Implicit and the Dynamic both with the original configuration 40mm bow gun
and unpainted wooden deck. Long Beach Naval Station 1962.

Photograph Courtesy of George Authur USS Dynamic MSO-432 (1962-1965)

Photograph Courtesy George Arthur USS Dynamic MSO-432 (1962-1965)

Wave breaking over the bow of the Dynamic. 

A picture of water breaking over a ship's bow can never capture the true realism of the
act. Only an image taken from another vessel can vividly show the bow plowing into a wall
of water at a height greater than the bow. The wave then lifts the bow upward trapping and 
throwing water on the ship's superstructure.

Ask any mine sweep sailor about bow waves and he will tell you the time the bow kicked
water up to the Pilot House (where this picture was taken from) or at times onto the Bridge. 
He will tell you the deck where he stood was jerked upward and threw him backward
 into a bulkhead or a table or down a ladder or out of his bunk. 

As the wave passed under the keel, the ship's bow slid down the front side of the
wave causing the propellers to came out of the water and the shaft RPMs to
accelerate. The sailors on watch in the engine room frequently adjusted shaft RPMs
to prevent engine damage.

Photograph Courtesy George Arthur USS Dynamic MSO-432 (1962-1965)

Photograph Courtesy George Arthur USS Dynamic MSO-432 (1962-1965)

The Bridge of the Dynamic showing the Captain's chair, engine guages, two gyroscope
repeaters, voice tube to the Pilot House, and a radar screen repeater.