Fifty years ago
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Topic: Fifty years ago
Posted By: Flapper
Subject: Fifty years ago
Date Posted: 01 May 2020 at 2:54pm
Sub squadron 4, about 50 years ago, courtesy https://www.facebook.com/donald.donofrio?fref=gs&__tn__=%2Cd%2AF%2AF-R&eid=ARClrSMC9qg9FixXpOHQDeVNtiSQB2EwYfibknwtTpQSJYRWKHyJnhU4ilaa-xSmqm-7NIiJC6tWCvbv&tn-str=%2AF&dti=44252456736&hc_location=group_dialog" rel="nofollow - Donald Donofrio https://www.facebook.com/groups/44252456736/?ref=gs&tn-str=%2AF&fref=gs&dti=44252456736&hc_location=group_dialog" rel="nofollow - USS Seahorse (SSN-669) Facebook group. ------------- ET1ss Nuke; 1962 - 1973. SSN-588, CVA-63, SSBN-629 BLUE, SSN-669 PLANKOWNER, FICPAC |
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Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 01 May 2020 at 3:04pm
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Bob, More like 35-40 years. I Commissioned Frank Cable as Repair Boss at the end of 1979.My Parking Spot is the vacant spot just to the left when entering the pier... lol |
Posted By: Rontini599
Date Posted: 01 May 2020 at 4:29pm
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The Mendel Rivers was commissioned in 1975. That is 45 years ago. I think Flapper is closer. ------------- My heroes wear dog tags, not shoulder pads |
Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 01 May 2020 at 4:40pm
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As I said, Frank Cable was Commissioned in late 1979 - that makes her just over 40 years old. She went thru Shakedown in 1980 and I was in fact Repair then and the following year also. I never saw some of these boats and never had some of these boats at the pier. This has to be after 1982 - I'll stick to 35-40 years. |
Posted By: GaryKC
Date Posted: 01 May 2020 at 8:38pm
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I was on the Thomas Jefferson for her 36th and final patrol in the Atlantic which lasted from 31 January to 22 March 1974. She left for Mare Island in June 1974. Makes one wonder if all the boats are correctly named in the photo. A better copy of image http://www.colineoconnell.com/images/FCAS40.jpg" rel="nofollow - http://www.colineoconnell.com/images/FCAS40.jpg ------------- SS484 SS426 SSBN618 Joined this BBS: May 25 2007 Website http://www.usstusk.com" rel="nofollow - USS Tusk SS 426 |
Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 02 May 2020 at 9:20am
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Looking at Bonefish: "That employment continued until 8 June 1982, when Bonefish departed San Diego on her way to the east coast. She transited the Panama Canal on 23 June and arrived in Naval Station Charleston, South Carolina, her new home port, on 6 July. On 11 August the submarine put to sea to participate in NATO exercises in the North Atlantic. "At the end of those operations, she visited Hamburg, West Germany, and Portsmouth, England, before returning to Charleston on 9 October. Normal operations out of Charleston occupied Bonefish for the remainder of 1982 and during the first three weeks of 1983. On 25 January, the submarine commenced a 14-month overhaul at the Charleston Naval Shipyard" If that is Bonefish, the picture was likely taken between October of 1982 and the end of 1982. Just over 37 years ago. |
Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Date Posted: 02 May 2020 at 5:14pm
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Flapper, if that is an original photo, doesn't it have the usual stamp on the back with the warning that it is not to be released? Some of the ones I have, have the date there with the warning. ------------- Walt, Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed. |
Posted By: Flapper
Date Posted: 03 May 2020 at 6:08pm
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The info I had on era was 'late 70s or early 80s' - I figured memories from folks there at the time would define a closer 'when'. I wasn't wrong, lol. ------------- ET1ss Nuke; 1962 - 1973. SSN-588, CVA-63, SSBN-629 BLUE, SSN-669 PLANKOWNER, FICPAC |