Your Stories are Needed
All right everyone … Here is your chance to contribute and have your stories published in an upcoming book. I have been asked by one of our veteran’s organizations here in my community to help write a book consisting of stories from crew members of various ships and commands. The stories can be true events or they can be those famous “sea stories” we all know and love so well. What they want is for sailors from the past to contribute their versions of stories “as they remember them”. I have…
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She had an entire hold that was refrigerated, allowing us to carry parishable food stuffs.
Her hull boasted a Hurricane Bow, which kept the Bridge Lookouts a bit dryer during the North Atlantic Crossings.
I learned a great deal about Seamanship during my tour with Rigel, everything from the wenches to the Utility boats were state of the art.
We made six Med trips during my tour aboard, and the Ports of Call were equally an experience.