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29 Years ago this week - USS Bonefish

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Topic: 29 Years ago this week - USS Bonefish

Posted By: gerry
Subject: 29 Years ago this week - USS Bonefish
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2017 at 10:50am

29 years ago last Monday, we lost 3 shipmates and the USS Bonefish. I was underway for ORSE on Simon Bolivar when we got the report - XO had it looped continuously on the ship's entertainment system.

Picture of the evac: https://i.redd.it/knxwxruptzty.jpg" rel="nofollow - https://i.redd.it/knxwxruptzty.jpg

JAG report: http://www.jag.navy.mil/library/investigations/FIRE%20ON%20USS%20BONEFISH%2024%20APR%2088.pdf" rel="nofollow - http://www.jag.navy.mil/library/investigations/FIRE%20ON%20USS%20BONEFISH%2024%20APR%2088.pdf

Edit: 29 years, not 19... very embarrassing, sorry!

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MT2/SS
USS Simon Bolivar - SSBN 641 (B)
USS Henry M. Jackson - SSBN 730 (B)
USSVI - Wyoming Base

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Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2017 at 4:27pm

Ashamed to say I didn't even remember the incident. It did occur after I left the service, but that isn't an excuse.

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Walt,
Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed.

Posted By: Bgurls
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2017 at 9:53pm

I was overhaul engineer in BONEFISH ('76-'78). Soon after reporting I asked the Fuel King how they take on fuel. "Well, you open this valve and that valve and close the other valve over there......." and so it went. The hardest part of the job was writing something called procedures. Came back as XO a few years later and things were a little better.......except for the 7 1/2 month WESTPAC (we burned up a main motor enroute Hong Kong to Subic and spent a month and a half in Subic getting it fixed).

As far as the BONEFISH fire, anybody allowing operation with a 50k DC ground needs their head examined.

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SSR269,SS580(CO),SS582(XO),SSBN634,SSBN619,AS18(XO),SUBASE PH(XO),SUBSCHOOL(XO),SUBPAC(FLAG SEC),PERS42(DETAILER), CSS1(Chief Staff Officer)DAV(Life Member)VFW(Life Member)