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Sharkey

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Kayak Cafe. One of the few dog "beaches". It's mostly rock but Daisy needed to swim and we wanted to test out the SUP.
 
jeffro

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My old boat, haze gray and underway. It was decommissioned in 2004, I was aboard in 1980, Engine room..


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Mad Mac

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jeffro said:
My old boat, haze gray and underway. It was decommissioned in 2004, I was aboard in 1980, Engine room..


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Was this the USS Bridge, the last of four U.S. Navy Supply-class fast combat support ships to leave commissioned service for the Military Sealift Command?
 
jeffro

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Mad Mac said:
Was this the USS Bridge, the last of four U.S. Navy Supply-class fast combat support ships to leave commissioned service for the Military Sealift Command?
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Hi Mad Mac, You are correct on the fast Combat Support ship, this is the USS Sacramento. we were based out of Bremerton Washinton, along with a sister ship (can't remember its name at the moment). They were supposed to be Battleships but WWII ended so they converted them to the fast combat role.

I always understood there were two sister ships on the east coast and I assume the USS Bridge was one of them.. cool. Do you know the name of the other east coast ship ?
 
Mad Mac

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jeffro said:
Hi Mad Mac, You are correct on the fast Combat Support ship, this is the USS Sacramento. we were based out of Bremerton Washinton, along with a sister ship (can't remember its name at the moment). They were supposed to be Battleships but WWII ended so they converted them to the fast combat role.

I always understood there were two sister ships on the east coast and I assume the USS Bridge was one of them.. cool. Do you know the name of the other east coast ship ?
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I only know what I can Google. A Google of similar images took me to the USS Bridge and this web site. http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2004/july/bridge.htm

But when I Googled USS Sacramento, the information was a little different but shared some things in common. Your Sacramento was quite the speedboat. Must have been because you were in the engine compartment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sacramento_(AOE-1)
 
jeffro

jeffro

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Mad Mac said:
I only know what I can Google. A Google of similar images took me to the USS Bridge and this web site. http://www.msc.navy.mil/sealift/2004/july/bridge.htm

But when I Googled USS Sacramento, the information was a little different but shared some things in common. Your Sacramento was quite the speedboat. Must have been because you were in the engine compartment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sacramento_(AOE-1)
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I used to look for info years back, but I haven't in awhile.

The SAC's motto was if I remember "WE CAN DO" I remember several times I was ordered to open the 25 knot valve. We had some Captains that believed we could be there, and we usually were...:) I worked in the best engine room, AFT, no officers and everyone was "cool"

Its funny you say that, I kinda have a heavy foot. :D EDIT = I jokingly call my jeep Silver Bullet, Ok, So I'm a dork, its a metallic silver billet Jeep in color :D


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