[Milsurplus] buncha RBOs on board USS Tenessee 1943

[Hubert Miller]

What about Liberty ships; does anyone know, based on the evidence of the remaining two ? 
What about troop ships, ca. WWII ? I was told by an ex ship's electrician, one in the captain's quarters
and one or more in the radio shack, no doubt for piping to the troop decks. But I don't know if that 
is correct info. 
In my early years, I crossed the Atlantic twice, with my parents, on MSTS ships. Sick as a dog all the way.
I recall the pounding noise, said by my father to be when the screws came out of the water on the rough 
crossing. But I don't know if that was the cause.  One day the BBC was piped into the lounge. It must 
have been on 12 or 15 MHz because I remember the high rate of flutter. I didn't understand the Brit
accent, that plus the short-wave effect and I hardly got a word, certainly not the sense of the talk or 
play or whatever it was.

( Since then, I have been told and have read, that the job many of us romanticize, ship radio operator,
is really the road to hell, destroying one's real life ashore. ) 
-Hue Miller