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Jan 082014
Dec 312013
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Dec 312013
DD886 Conservation Plan Draft (click on above to view)
Dec 312013
Tuesday, 1 January 1946 Moored to the BRINKLEY BASS on our starboard side, The USS KEARNY on our port does ride. At Pier Dog Six Charleston Navy Yard, The O.D. does think he is quite a bard. Fresh water and salt, electricity and steam, Are services given this Navy team. Com. Six Nav. Dist. is [Read more…]
Dec 312013
The Gearing class Destroyer in a FRAM configuration allows for various usage of the ship to benefit and generate revenue to a museum. As can be seen by the photos taken aboard our sister ship, USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr DD 850, the sky is the limit for the educational and tourism benefit that these ships [Read more…]
Dec 202013
John Hanscom 6 photos and narrative “This was a great deployment. The seas were so bad that upon arrival seven of the eight destroyers in DESDIV 1 went into the Yokosuka dry-docks for hull cracks. These photos were all taken during the Orleck WESPAC tour departing San Diego on 14 Jan. and returning 16 [Read more…]
Dec 142013
I am not certain how many of you know or know of Richard (Rich) Angelini. First of all, he is a young man who is the nephew of USS ORLECK sailor Gary Angelini (October 1972-March 73). Rich is also a Trustee on the Board of Directors of Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA (where [Read more…]