Modern warships don't have a very deep draft (the portion below the waterline). The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence has a high superstructure and a light draft, and in a wind from the side she has trouble answering her helm. I have experienced this in Vancouver Bay BC. on our way home from Seattle. We had a beam wind from port and with the starboard propeller deep and the port propeller shallow she wouldn't turn rite or left. Because of the angle of heel she was carrying.
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