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| At random: In 1921, a United States submarine, the R-14, having run out of fuel at sea while looking for the missing tug USS Conestoga, rigged sails from blankets and hammocks sewn together. Bunk frames were used for yardarms and booms. The torpedo loading king post for a fore mast, the torpedo loading boom for a mizzen mast and the telescoping radio mast, for the main mast. The R-14 sailed 100 miles in five days to the port of Hilo, T.H. at a speed of two knots. It has been reported in March 2016 that the Conestoga has been located 3 miles off Southeast Farallon Island, probably sinking with-in a day of leaving port. All hands lost. |
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COMSUBBBS Posts: 2671 Location: New Jersey | Subject: RE: 57 years nsr Sewer Pipe Snipe - 2017-12-11 9:36 AM Now don't be doing anything to celebrate that would embarrass the rest of us on the board! Don't worry about that Walt, my days of embarrassing folks like that are long gone...  | ||
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| Subject: RE: 57 years nsr CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Especially to your wife for putting up with you over those 57+ years.  | |||
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Master and Commander Posts: 1322 Location: Oxnard, CA | Subject: RE: 57 years nsr Runner485 - 2017-12-11 2:13 PM Don't worry about that Walt, my days of embarrassing folks like that are long gone... No they aren't, Joe. Once a submariner, always a submariner.  Edited by JrKrup, Skimmer 2017-12-11 10:55 AM | ||
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COMSUBBBS Posts: 2974 Location: Liverpool, England | Subject: RE: 57 years nsr Joe, Congratulations to you both on reaching a most remarkable milestone in the marriage stakes. A few years back my old submarine mate, Jim Bellew, and his wife Elsie, celebrated their fifty year mark with a big Diamond Wedding Anniversary party put on by their family. Bobby Calder, another submariner, designed and made a beautiful illuminated trophy that included a couple of real diamonds in its display with an etched message to a pair of diamonds as a gift from Merseyside Submariners branch. Their daughter, Sharon, who had served 9 years as a Wren in the Royal Navy looked at it and said, "Pair of diamonds, my arse. You should have seen them in the taxi coming here, they were fighting like cat and dog all the way." LOL, But I'm quite sure this never happened at your celebration. Good luck and many more anniversaries to you and your good lady. Pedro | ||
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