Here is a photo of the ship I drove up the Columbia River in 1966... I'm surprised I remembered her name. It's an old WW2 Liberty Ship.
SS Lucille Bloomfield
Posted on 05/09/2011 7:29:27 PM PDT by decimon
I lived in Anchorage and Eagle River for 8 years. I probably would have freaked if I’d experienced a major earthquake. I lived on the fairly gently sloped side of a mountain, though, so I think we’d have fared pretty well. Two things I never want to face: a tornado and a big earthquake.
I don’t remember who all was there, but I was stationed on the CGC Resolute in Astoria. I don’t recall if it was 89 or not, but one year we were sitting there dockside, in civvies getting ready to bug out on liberty when a DDG (I don’t recall which one) comes scooting up the river headed for the Rose fest. There we were on the foc’sle... standing around, when somebody got the bright idea, just for s#!ts and giggles, to man up the 3” gun... which we did... and trained it on the DDG, and slowly tracked it as it approached.
Big mistake. The DDG replied to our s#!ts and giggles... suddenly a big blue (inert, training) missile comes shooting up into their forward launcher... the launcher then spins around and locks right square on us, and tracked, as they cruised on by.
We immediately conceded the point— and pointed the gun up and brought it back to center. Apparently word got back to the Captain... he wasn’t amused. :-)
Here is a photo of the ship I drove up the Columbia River in 1966... I'm surprised I remembered her name. It's an old WW2 Liberty Ship.
SS Lucille Bloomfield
No really... :-)
Liberty ship? woah. :-)
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