Before transferring to X Division I stood some helm watches. One night we were cruising at 30 knots plus and I was given the order to make a Left Flank turn, wow, for a split second I thought at this speed but I did as ordered and the ship took a 40 plus degree list as we made the turn. Captain Spencer came out of his ward room and was screaming in my ear, what the hell are you doing. I could hardly speak and said following orders Sir! He went directly to the conning officer and went up one side and down the other. I guess at 45 degrees we would have went over and as you know she was a top heavy narrow beam ship. It seems that sick bay was quite busy that night caring for many injuries to crew members. The order was give to me because one of the bridge wing look outs say a ship in front of us and we made the turn to avoid cutting the ship in half. I never heard another word about the ensodent but remember it as if it were yesterday.