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"The so called "Captain" of the Korean ferry hopefully will get what he deserves, both in this life, and in the one to come. On the flip side of the coin is a story of incredible bravery and acceptance of responsibility. A young female crew member,…"
"try re arming with an ammo ship and a oiler to port and the oiler loses steering.re-armed the uss enterprise when we had a fire in the resistor house.a couple of destroyers lost steering nothing but fun,fun,fun.like it was yesterday only 50 years…"
"Been there,done that many times,but always woke up the ole man& let him worry about it."
"Richard,
Mattaponi was a converted tanker, single screw. Unfortunately, once during early morning refueling, carrier to port, DD to starboard, officers and crew lost their bearings and we collided. I was navigating at the time. "
Mattaponi was a converted tanker, single screw. Unfortunately, once during early morning refueling, carrier to port, DD to starboard, officers and crew lost their bearings and we collided. I was navigating at the time. "
"Richard, Thanks very much for your warm welcome and the pic of ships pushing that berg out of the channel. How well I recall the incident, though I might have been off Glacier at the time. I see you served on Navasota, an oiler. Prior to Glacier…"
"Thanks very much. Glad to be amongst good people!
John Barell"
John Barell"
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thank john the Navasota was my first ship out of shore duty I went aboard as a e-3 and through I knew everything first night we had night fuel ops boy was I scared. I retired as a storekeeper what was your mos.
welcome john I see you made a couple of cruses to deep freeze I was on the USS BURTON ISLAND operation deep freeze 63-64 were you with us pushing the ice berg out of the channel also there is a deep freeze page you might want to see
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