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Don Gentry

Posted 2009-06-22 9:33 PM (#27920)

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Subject: Nice opening photo...

... on this new (to me) website: http://afrog617.ning.com/

Ric

Posted 2009-06-22 9:50 PM (#27921 - in reply to #27920)

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Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map.

Subject: RE: Nice opening photo...

...damn that looks cold.. I remember Groton winters in the shipyard.. yuck!

Donald L. Johnson

Posted 2009-06-22 10:11 PM (#27923 - in reply to #27920)

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Location: Visalia, Ca.

Subject: RE: Nice opening photo...

Brrrrr!

My last patrol on Monroe Blue was an ERP in the dock at Holy Loch.

It was October/November, so we didn't have snow yet, but at night the wind coming down from the Highlands cut through the dock like a freight train, and it was colder than a Wican's posterior on Halloween!

And no, I won't tell you how I know about Wican's posteriors..... not on a public board, anyway!

Ralph Luther

Posted 2009-06-23 1:52 AM (#27928 - in reply to #27920)

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Location: Summerville, SC

Subject: RE: Nice opening photo...

One patrol on the 617 and two on the 626. Quite an experience. I'm glad I got to see how it was back then.

Tom McNulty

Posted 2009-06-23 5:56 AM (#27932 - in reply to #27921)

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Subject: RE: Nice opening photo...

Yup, those mid watches on deck during the EB overhauls was a bear in the Winter. The space heater they put in the wood guard shacks could melt Lead. They were good to heat the Hostess Fried Pies though. The worst I remember was a 25 below zero night with a not so slight breeze wafting in from Long Island Sound. Those were some quick rounds that night.

Chew

Posted 2009-06-23 6:13 AM (#27933 - in reply to #27921)

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Location: No. CA

Subject: RE: Nice opening photo...

Ric - 2009-06-22 9:50 PM

...damn that looks cold.. I remember Groton winters in the shipyard.. yuck!

One look at that and I started having flashbacks to a winter in Portsmouth NH on the AJ. I was from New England but the cold kicked my butt. The best part was missile shots in Florida.

Bon

Flapper

Posted 2009-06-23 6:51 PM (#27950 - in reply to #27920)

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Location: Tucson AZ

Subject: RE: Nice opening photo...

Ah yes! Winter in the yards in either Portsmouth or Groton was a ton of fun. One point of interest: note how every frame is indicated by a lack of snow - in between the frames, insulation keeps heat in and cold out, but the frame itself conducts enough heat from the interior to melt the snow at that point.

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