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Neal you may know about this already,but to the rest of you within reach of Galveston the Cavalla is going to be loading some fish!!
http://messdeck.com/Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1655 Anyone who wants to help, please contact John McMichael, curator and SWP manager at macm@airmail.net . Last edited by Onkel Neal; 02-15-07 at 11:28 PM. Reason: added contact details |
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KEWL!!
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Good post, anyone in the Houston-Galveston area, come on down to Seawolf Park. The date is Feb 24 (Sat). How many of you can say you loaded a Mark 14 torpedo onboard a WWII submarine? Now is your chance to do it!
Neal Seawolf Park directions and map USS CAVALLA Website: www.cavalla.org ![]()
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I will be there! I'm even trying to recruit my dad who served on the Skate (SSN-578) in the early '70s to come down with me.
I've emailed for more info on whats exactly involved. Anyone else whos going to be there, send me a PM! Looking forward to it! One question though....can we go sink some Marus with the eels we load? ![]()
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I thought, hey if someone falls overboard I'm a pretty good swimmer, I can help them, right? Not exactly what the COB had in mind. I found out the hard way that the job of a ships swimmer was to row out to the practice torpedo's after we fired them. Then tie a line in the nose for purposes of retrieving said torpedo and saving the US Navy a lot of money in not having to send out a special boat to do this for us. The COB explained the job to me, a young 19 year old naive seaman, after we fired a practice torpedo off the coast of California somewhere near San Clemente Island. We surface and the topside torpedo retrevival party reports topside. The boat held the record at 15 minutes from time of surfacing till the time the fish was back onboard. I managed to break the record for the longest time it ever took on that beauitful summer day in the Pacific Ocean. I got into the little yellow rubber raft with a line tied to the raft and a line tied around my waist and I rowed my little raft to the practice torpedo rising and falling like a bouy with the wrll marked pointy end up. I get to the fish in about ten minutes, but the darn thing won't stand still ... it goes up and me in my little raft go down. Everyone is yelling at me on the deck ... the captain is yelling at me from the bridge ... the scene starts to get comical. I get the line through the bull nose and wham the boat goes down and the line slips out, everyone is yelling, so I left the saftey of the little raft and grab the fish by the nose and hog tie it like a calf roper. Fall back into the water, grab the raft and by that time they are hauling the fish back in. I didn't have enough strength to row back to the boat, so they had to pull me back razing me of course on the way. You learn in a hurry what volunteer means when it doesn't work out the way you thought it would ... I was very careful the rest of my time in the service not to willingly volunteer for anything again. ![]()
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will we be allowed to load a real warhead torpedo and will we be allowed to fire up her engines and set to sea for a few weeks??, it would be good to sink a ship or two on purpose
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I work just across the bay from her at the Coast Guard base, I'll for sure be there, thanks for the posting!!
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I am beginning to wish I was selling tickets!!Just wish I could be there!
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I'll be there !!
Yeah right.:rotfl:
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I'll try to be there. My son usually has track meets on Saturday but I'll check the schedule again.
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