The Wackiest Ship in the Army (film)

The Wackiest Ship in the Army is a 1961 CinemaScope comedydrama war film starring Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson, and Chips Rafferty. It was filmed at Pearl Harbor and Kauai.

Crandall tries to refuse this dubious command, but Hanson and Crandalls former sailing buddy Lt. Commander Vandewater John Lund wear down his resistance. Vandewater points out Crandalls poor fitness report and advises that, if he doesnt take this command, hell never get another. Hanson takes Crandall out drinking with some of the men so hell feel guilty about abandoning them.The Echo barely makes it out of the harbor, sailing straight into a storm. When it arrives in Port Moresby, New Guinea, Crandall is supposed to train a replacement to deliver a coastwatcher named Patterson Chips Rafferty to a location only a shallowdraft vessel can reach. However, the replacement Richard Anderson strikes Crandall as stiffnecked and unqualified to handle this kind of mission, so he takes the ship out under his own command to deliver Patterson. ........

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