My Boat

[Brother Bob]

[Seabee74]

My boat. Soon anyway. I check in at Stennis, MS in Oct. It is nice when you PCS and you don't have to move. Special Boat Team is only about 20 minutes from the Seabee base in Gulfport.

[Dookiebutt]

I would like to have one of those rigs on my boat as well.

[Brother Bob]

Used to shoot clay's off the helo deck. We went into the Arctic Circle in July of 78. That's where I received my "Blue-Nose" certificate. The sun was up 24 hours a day. Really screwed with our heads. Didn't know when to be sleepy, hungry, or when to crap! Is it midnight or noon????? LOL!

[Big Dog]

My little 420 feet of heaven - the USS Ainsworth, FF0190. She's a Knox-class Antisubmarine Warfare Frigate, smaller than modern destroyers but larger than the WWII tincans. One 5"54 main gun, four ASW torpedoe tubes, an ASROC/Harpoon 8-cell box launcher. After our deployment we were given the 20mm Phalanx gun unit for anti-missile defence. We embarked one LAMPS III helo, the Kaman Seasprite - about the size of a Huey.
220 souls aboard. I was in OE Division as an Electronic Tech.
We were homeported in Norva, and sailed the Atlantic, the Carribean and the MED/IO on our long cruise. I tell people I basically got paid for doing "Carribean Cruises" for three years!

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[privateer]

Here is a pict of my boat, sounds like Big Dog and I cruised some of the same waters, I just didnt get the nice tan

[Brother Bob]

I belonged to Sub Group 6, Charleston, SC. I remember the U.S.S. Orion tied up one pier away. She was a sub tender. I got to go on boomers and fast-attacks to do work on. I was sub qualified with a secret clearance. They moved Sub Group 6 to Kings Bay, Georgia. I got in touch with two of my shipmates through Military.com. Might just want to check it out fella's.

[littlejoe872]

Here's my ship. I was a Reactor Mechanical operator on the GW from 1992 to 1996. Went on 2 Med deployments, and 4 trips to the Persian Gulf.

[MrsS]

The pics bring back memories for me when I was a child..and would go to the base to tour my father's destroyer....nice pics folks!

[GlockMeister]

I can't imagine the monthly payment you have to make for those boats? lol

Seriously though BB, is that the one, or one of the ones you were stationed on while in the Navy?

[Cyrille]

My ships were The U.S.S Canberra CAG 2 1960-63 and the U.S.S. Hyman, a DD 742 based in New Orleans. 1963 until discharge in 1965. Both ships are now decommissioned.

[Brother Bob]

Originally Posted by GlockMeister

I can't imagine the monthly payment you have to make for those boats? lol

Seriously though BB, is that the one, or one of the ones you were stationed on while in the Navy?

That was my boat. The U.S.S. Compass Island. I spent most of three years on her. I worked with Sperry Ran and Rockwell International on the sonar equipment for the Trident sub that was in prototype at the time. She was a navigational research vessel.

[Paul T]

When I get back off the road Ill show some of mine when I find them.
USS Capodanno FF1093
Uss Thorn DD 988
Uss Thomas S Gates (plank owner)
Uss Nitro AE 23

[wunhunglo]

Here's mine, 356,000 tons deadweight, holding 2 million barrels of crude oil, currently sitting in the sun off west Africa, pining for my return.


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[troy2000]

Originally Posted by Cyrille

My ships were The U.S.S Canberra CAG 2 1960-63 and the U.S.S. Hyman, a DD 742 based in New Orleans. 1963 until discharge in 1965. Both ships are now decommissioned.

I remember hearing a story about the Canberra, years ago. someone told me that when it went out for trials, the first two missiles it fired fizzled out and splashed, and the third one did a u-turn, came back and crushed the liberty wagon.

It's been close to 40 years since I heard the tale, and I don't really remember the details. Do you know if anything like that really happened? Or if they had the Boston and the Canberra mixed up?

[Cyrille]

It's been 45 years 4 months since I left the Canberra, in Norfolk VA. and you say you heard the story close to forty years ago. It may have happed when she was stationed on the west coast. It certinly didn't happen when I served aboard her. But to answer your question; no I haven't any knowledge of the incident.

[Palladin8]

I don't know how you guys did it. My grandfather used to tell me stories of having to share a bunk with someone. Would come back from 12 hour duty and the bunk would still be hot from the last guy. He told me he caught crabs from when the guy was on liberty. No Thank you!!!!!!! That's why I served in the Army. I have alot of respect for guys who could spend that long out to sea with hundreds of other guys. Not my cup of tea but glad there are people who love it.

[Brother Bob]

Originally Posted by Palladin8

I don't know how you guys did it. My grandfather used to tell me stories of having to share a bunk with someone. Would come back from 12 hour duty and the bunk would still be hot from the last guy. He told me he caught crabs from when the guy was on liberty. No Thank you!!!!!!! That's why I served in the Army. I have alot of respect for guys who could spend that long out to sea with hundreds of other guys. Not my cup of tea but glad there are people who love it.

I didn't share a rack with anybody. We had U shaped cubicles with our racks stacked three high. The senior enlisted got their choice of racks, usually the bottom. I made E-5 just before I got out, but I always had a bottom rack. I did some of my best sleeping when at sea. That gentle rocking motion was great! I haven't slept that sound, since I got out! LOL!

[Deersniper]

I bet crabs on a sub would be even worse.

[Seabeescotty]

I only served on a ship during a thirty day det. It was the USS Ranger, and I don't have any pics on the computer. She has been saved from the torch, and will become another floating museum. We used other carriers for refueling, and I "trapped" on the Enterprise, Coral Sea, Constellation, and even the Hancock once. For those who don't know, a "trap" is a carrier landing, and a "cat" is a launch from the flight deck, by way of the catapult. It's kinda like a scary carnival ride, but more hair-raising, because of all the things that can go wrong. I earned the privilege to wear a centurion patch, which signifies 100 or more cats and traps. This was before they allowed me to transfer to the 'Bees, since it had been promised to me four years earlier. All I had to do was reup!!!