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| Feb. 2008
This page is undergoing a complete overhaul. Many links are now dead. Each of those duds will have a Google search done to see if a new URL exists some place on the internet for each defunct website. If no new URL for a dead link can be found then that link will be deleted. This process takes time. So each time you return here you will gradually see improvements until all links and info are fully functional. |
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Picture accompanied awards given by Squadron Image courtesy of Ray Plumlee |
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Just one of many stories about life in the Loch |
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Also TAKE A TOUR OF DUNOON (1999 Photos) |
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Also from COB Scott's page: 20 Holy Loch images from the 1960s |
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The Last of the 41 Two articles copied from ComSubPac Press Releases June 2001 The King Returns! USS KAMEHAMEHA SSN-642 returns from final deployment August 2001 Submarine named for Hawaiian Royalty Inactivates |
Sail of USS BANCROFT SSBN-643 US Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia Full size image BANCROFT SAIL EXHIBIT KINGS BAY SUBMARINE BASE |
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LIFE MAGAZINE COVER March 1963 JPEG IMAGE SIZE 35KB |
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(And climbing) Taken by crewmembers assigned to the USS James Monroe SSBN-622: A Lafayette class Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarin e stationed in Charleston, SC and operating out of Holy Loch, Scotland. Photos made available by JEckard@InfoAve.net |
DASO off Cape Kennedy, Florida James E. Mitchell 1971.57 Oil on canvas An A-3 Polaris fired from USS WOODROW WILSON SSBN-624 on October 15, 1969 with USS LOWERY DD-770 and USS OBSERVATION ISLAND AG-154 in background. More images such as this may be accessed HERE |
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See Don Gentry's SubmarineSailor.com Boat Home Pages |
PATRIOTS POINT, SC |
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Reprint from Ric Hedman's Saga Of The Submarine |
DEVELOPMENT OF FLEET BALLISTIC MISSILE SUBMARINES Information assembled by B.R.Barbee MMCS(SS) USN(Ret) |
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SSBN-616 Lafayette-Class United States Nuclear Forces |
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the 1967 official USN movie FORTY-ONE FOR FREEDOM? You can order it HERE Lots of great shots of launchings, construction, and training Just type 41 For Freedom in their "search box". Just passing along info. I have nofinancial interest in it |
That two of the Forty-One are being used as moored training vessels? SAM RAYBURN (Now designated MTS-1) - via the NVR DANIEL WEBSTER (Now designated MTS-2)- via the NVR |
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A recent page on the two MTS vessels is found HEREThe images and page are done by B.R.BARBEE MMCS(SS) USN(Ret) |
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He has patches too! |
via the Naval Vessel Registry |
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An exhibition presented by 2000 National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution |
That the status of all Forty-One can be found via the NAVAL VESSEL REGISTRY (aka the NVR)? |
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Gunner Beckley's Story More on PRE-FBM MISSILE BOATS via G.D.Adrian |
George Washington Class James Madison Class Ethan Allen Class Benjamin Franklin Class Lafayette Class |
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by ADM Richard W. Mies |
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pre-FBM Guided Missile Submarines |
by Keith McCall |
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Pacific Northwest Submarine Heritage Assoc. aka PNSHA With information about the Deterrent Park Project, a memorial to the original "41 For Freedom". Much more HERE about the Deterrent Park in Bangor, Washington |
The Pacific North West Submarine Heritage Association was established in June of 1997 with the mission to "...install a sense of pride and discovery in the Submarine Force of today, celebrate it's heritage, and educate for tomorrow." |
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FROM: IC1(SS)
Walter R. Garrett Ret. jane@cyberhighway.net
I was on the Carver during new const. and commissioning June 15 1966. Stayed until Oct. 1968. On the Blue crew we had two father and son combinations:
I think that is hard to beat. That was my first boomer and I really liked my tour on it. We had an outstanding full 4 striper for Captain, R.D. Donavan, and an outstanding crew too. |