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At random: Interests in submarines extends to royalty and presidents. The King of England and the King and Queen of Spain are among those who have made submerged cruises in submarines. As a result of a trip in an early United States submarine, President "Teddy" Roosevelt ordered extra compensation for personnel serving in the "Silent Service." President Harry Truman made a 440 foot dive in a captured German submarine. The first President to cruise aboard a nuclear submarine was President Eisenhower who rode the USS SEAWOLF out of Newport, Rhode Island on September 26, 1957.

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GaryKC

Posted 2009-10-07 4:11 PM (#31385)

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Location: Kansas City Missouri

Subject: DWD (Diesel Work Detail)

Going to a boat reunion is great, old sailors send photos showing hard working young men in the Med in 1960.
Does anyone recall what could be in those chrome boxes?

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TSpoon

Posted 2009-10-07 4:18 PM (#31386 - in reply to #31385)

Great Sage of the Sea

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Subject: RE: DWD (Diesel Work Detail)

Coffee, Sugar, and Flour if my memory serves me. They would have been stored out board the engines.

T.Spoon, DBF

crystal

Posted 2009-10-07 4:43 PM (#31387 - in reply to #31385)

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Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula)

Subject: RE: DWD (Diesel Work Detail)

Yep, Tim is right, coffee, flour etc... Probably on deck (empty) for some "pot shot" exercises later... Back in those days, I had been known to trade off those 20 lb. tin cans of coffee (X.O in the pipe line) to the yard birds to get all kinds of extra work done on the sub, up to and including such "non-submarine" jobs as silver plating a bicycle frame that we had "appropriated (read: freed) while in the yards at Portsmouth, VA on the USS Sea Lion visiting from Key West, FL... Those coffee cans and frozen boxes of steaks were the cumshaw of the day (too bad, a thing of the past)... GREAT picture!!!

Edited by crystal 2009-10-07 4:45 PM

fortyrod

Posted 2009-10-07 5:53 PM (#31389 - in reply to #31385)

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Subject: RE: DWD (Diesel Work Detail)

As I recall Cumshaw and theft was about the only way we got anything in the yard. All the money was going to the nukes in the late 60's early 70's

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