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At random: "I don't know why we have to be down here on this hold down exercise(at the 60th hour). Hell, I went through this on the Thresher (SS 200) during WW ll with a Nip Sea Going Tug hooked onto our screw guards, trying to lift our butts out of the water. They didn't get us then, and these Tin Cans (ours) ain't going to get us now." -- "Hambone" Hamilton SD1 (SS). "Hambone" made 13 war patrols on USS Remora, SS-487, uttered these words in July 1957 during a hold down exercise off Kobe Japan.
The Parche Sail
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crystal
Posted 2007-10-31 8:16 AM (#8756)


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Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula)		Subject: The Parche Sail

Some, but not all, have learned that when the USS Parche was cut up into wee tiny pieces in order that no reverse engineering could take place, they had first removed the sail intact.  The sail is now a permanent monument to this top honors sub at the brand new Puget Sound Naval Museum just outside of the main gate to the shipyard here at Bremerton.  Here's a pix of her placement several months back.





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crystal
Posted 2007-10-31 8:18 AM (#8757 - in reply to #8756)


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Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula)		Subject: As She Looks Now

And here is the finished project of our most decorated sub in history!



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PaulR
Posted 2007-10-31 9:09 AM (#8758 - in reply to #8757)


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Location: Hopewell Junction NY		Subject: RE: As She Looks Now

If only that sail could talk....
Pete
Posted 2007-10-31 11:20 AM (#8763 - in reply to #8758)


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Location: Edina. MN		Subject: RE: As She Looks Now

Paul,
If it could and did talk, it would have to kill you.


edited a typo


Edited by Pete 2007-10-31 11:21 AM
PaulR
Posted 2007-10-31 11:37 AM (#8764 - in reply to #8763)


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Location: Hopewell Junction NY		Subject: RE: As She Looks Now

I can imagine it would have to. BUT, I could get some NTINS beforehand.
Runner485
Posted 2007-10-31 3:28 PM (#8771 - in reply to #8756)


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Location: New Jersey		Subject: RE: The Parche Sail

crystal - 2007-10-31 8:16 AM

Some, but not all, have learned that when the USS Parche was cut up into wee tiny pieces in order that no reverse engineering could take place, they had first removed the sail intact. The sail is now a permanent monument to this top honors sub at the brand new Puget Sound Naval Museum just outside of the main gate to the shipyard here at Bremerton. Here's a pix of her placement several months back.



I wonder if any of her crew was able to get one of those wee tiny pieces as a momento....
TSpoon
Posted 2007-10-31 8:11 PM (#8780 - in reply to #8756)
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Subject: RE: The Parche Sail

I would hope so. The Balao sail, my qual boat, sits at NavSea in Washington , DC and has since 1963. A few years back they moved her to Norfolk to refurbish the age and Gary Walker was able to acquire an 18 inch piece of that old teak deck from the bridge. Talk about memories.

T.Spoon, DBF
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