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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.

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Ric

Posted 2008-04-06 8:09 AM (#14697)

Plankowner

Posts: 9165

Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map.

Subject: ....so......, What did you......

...swipe off the boat when you left her?

I took the department plankowner plaque. Two of them in fact!

Ric

Tom McNulty

Posted 2008-04-06 8:37 AM (#14700 - in reply to #14697)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1455

Subject: RE: ....so......, What did you......

Is there a statute of limitations to worry about? I'm not saying I did it but some Snap On tools, foul weather gear, Navy blankets, stainless steel missile tube plaque, and a few other minor things that I saw leaving the boat when she went into the yard overhaul.

steamboat

Posted 2008-04-06 2:41 PM (#14713 - in reply to #14697)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1814

Location: Boydton, Virginia

Subject: RE: ....so......, What did you......

1000 rounds of .45 ammo to accompany the .45 pistol I bought thru Gov. civilian marksmanship program. They were all in my seabag and aboard plane when I was discharged in '64! Different times then!!!
Steamboat sends

John Bay

Posted 2008-04-06 3:29 PM (#14714 - in reply to #14697)

Old Salt

Posts: 359

Location: Saco, Maine

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Sunday colors and commissioning pennant, and one rawhide mallet that used to hang in AMR2. I could not resist the fact that it had the name Garland Mfg. Co., Saco, Maine on it. It is in the bottom drawer in my filing cabinet.

Garland is still alive and well and still makes those mallets.

woody99

Posted 2008-04-06 3:38 PM (#14715 - in reply to #14697)

Mess cooking

Posts: 7

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

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When the Spikefish was de-commed in 1963, I had just arrived from Subschool, and Was working in the Engine rooms stripping them down....I thought that clock was kind of cool, and stashed it so I could pick it up later....only trouble was I didn't do a good enough job of 'stashing' and some one beet me to it....

One nice thing they did for all the de-com crew. The tender took all the bronze bowls out of the fuel-oil, and lube oil purifiers, from both engine rooms, and melted them down to make bronze ships emblems...I still have it over the workbench in my garage

When I left the James Madison to get out in '69 I tooka foul weather jacket, and the piping book I used while qualifying...

Edited by woody99 2008-04-06 3:40 PM

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