[AT] Christmas Trees and Ships Plank Project nowLibertyShips-Jerry

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Wed Dec 7 21:25:30 PST 2005


If you have Google Earth and want to see where the JFK and Big E call home 
search for Naval Station, VA.  When it comes up on screen and zooms in 
you'll see the words Sewells Point.  The boats are right there.  Two of them 
were in port when the satellite photo was taken.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Rhodes" <jlrhod at alltel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Christmas Trees and Ships Plank Project 
nowLibertyShips-Jerry


> Well normal running was 100 to 500 ft, working to 1300+ , in a real good
> storm you may feel it at 500 ft but very little. When was you in? I was in
> 55' to 75' with 10 yrs in subs, last 2yrs in Mobil Tech Support Group, 
> that
> was why I was on the JFK, she had hyd problems (80% down time) with 
> weapons
> handling system, two of us were TAD (Temp Assigned Duty) to help the ships
> crew get it working right, we were not to lay a hand on anything, just
> advise, hehe ya, right, they had 121 people in the dept when we got there,
> we recommanded cutting back to 55 and had them in school for 40 days (10
> hrs/day 6 days a week) not one man had ant idea what hyds was..o well it 
> was
> a job..sorry for the rambling..
> Jerry NW Ohio
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> nowLibertyShips -Jerry
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>>         Jerry,
>>
>>         Ha !,     Guess that make sense.   Back in my day it would have
> been
>> CMM.
>>
>>         By the way,  how deep would you need to go to not feel the waves
> like
>> a regular
>>         ship also the rolling ???
>>
>>         Ted
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