Coast Guard pictures

[Crazy Horse]

That's not aft steering......where are the A-gang guys? Were are the rags for all the oil??

[vftb]

That's not aft steering......where are the A-gang guys? Were are the rags for all the oil??

  Hrrmph; Coast Guard 

[vftb]

To be honest with you, that picture that Ron showed must have come straight out of the yard or something.  We were clean, but not that clean.

[BuoyJumper]

Hans here's a couple more photos of the BLACKHAW for you and Stan.  The first one she's in Pearl in 1964 and notice she's still got her 3-inch in the gun tub.  The second was taken when she was in San Francisco before she was replaced by the BUTTONWOOD.  For those of you who don't know, before she was decommissioned on 26 February 1993, BLACKHAW made a brief appearance in the beginning of the 1990 movie "The Hunt for Red October" escorting Red October out into the open sea she can be seen to the right of the sub.   

I guess you would have to say BLACKHAW came to a fitting end serving her country even in death when in May of 1997, following scrapping, BLACKHAW was turned over to the U.S. Navy.  The USS Grasp (ARS 51) towed BLACKHAW (19-31 May 1997) to Puerto Rico where she was used as a target and sunk by the USS George Washington (CVN-73) battle group.c 

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[vftb]

Neat stuff Ron; can't wait for your website to come up.  Looks like you've got a lot of stuff many of us haven't seen.   

[BuoyJumper]

HANS, ANY OF THESE PICS BRING BACK SOME MEMORIES FOR YA?   

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[BuoyJumper]

HOW BOUT SOME OF THESE PHOTOS ... BET YA SPENT A LITTLE TIME ON THIS PART OF THE BOAT.

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[vftb]

HANS, ANY OF THESE PICS BRING BACK SOME MEMORIES FOR YA?   

  Yep, they sure do.  We were set up a little different for the tropical running; i.e. the captains chair was on the wing of the bridge, not in the wheelhouse:

This kind of kept the bridge with a little more open feeling.  The chart table was right behind the wheel.  The chart room was right behind the bridge; spent lots of time in there updating the Notice to Mariners.  You might have caught on another thread that while in port I got to do all of the updating cause I wasn't worth a **** at painting    I took lots and lots of pictures, but not any of the inside of the bridge; guess I spent too much time there  ???

[vftb]

You gotta love those old brass wheels; ours was completely done in laquered fancy work 

[BuoyJumper]

You gotta love those old brass wheels; ours was completely done in laquered fancy work 

"done in lacquered fancy work" Ya mean like this on the Papaw?  Bet you and Stan recognize the other photos too.

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[vftb]

All looks familiar.  I seem to remember that the center tables on the messdeck ran parallel to the stbd. bulkhead on the Blackhaw.  I remember sitting at the tables with BMCM Monts and a couple of other guys one night when a large (very) wave picked us up and dropped us on the stbd. side blowing water in through the secured ports.  I mean these ports were battened down secure but we hit with such force that the water just sprayed in around the seals.  Funny the memories a simple picture can bring back.  The South China Sea could get real nasty around typhoon season.

Yep, and the wheel looks a whole lot like ours did.  Wonder if they pulled stuff like that off before they sank her.  It would be a real shame if they didn't.

[BuoyJumper]

So your Mess Deck was laid out more like the Woodrush WLB-407?

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[vftb]

There ya go; that's much closer.  No tv though.  We did do movies on the fantail; the lazarette was there and that's where we kept the San Miguel 

[BuoyJumper]

While one eighties are my specialty I have quite a few photos of other units too.  When I was a kid on my Dad's 40-foot Matthews I dreamed of being the coxswain on one of these.  The old steel-hulled 40's were a damn good boat. 

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[kekojones123]

Here are my old ships...........

where are these pictures? i didn't see any.