Ramblings From the Editor!



 

 

Shipmates:

Ah well, another month, another late newsletter!

The trouble with doing the Spinax website and newsletter is that there are no new kids coming up to take over the task of webmaster! No budding young non-quals or serious minded young ET's to assume the duties as I get older!

Maybe we can revise the Spinax spirit in the younger generations! Put the thrill of the dive into eager young hearts; the pride of dolphins into willing young minds!

Grandsons, heck, even granddaughters could be turned into honorary Torpedomen, Enginemen, and even electricians! Shoot, some of the party  hearty kids could even become honorary officers!

If we all contributed a little, we could buy an old Russian submarine and convert it into a Spinax look-alike! Or maybe we could get a bunch of Alaskan pipeline and rig it up like a submarine.

 

Other ideas could be:
An "online" submarine. We (I) could put together a website that would include all of the working parts of a sub, from computer generated torpedo tubes, Captain's stateroom, and conning tower, to an authentic looking no. #2 sanitary tank! Not sure how to do the odors however!

A submarine simulator game is another idea! We could buy a bunch of WWII German submarine games and substitute Spinax in the title! We could run the kids through their paces say for 100 hours or so to qualify, and have a big dolphin presentation ceremony at our reunions (fake dolphins of course)!!

Or, lastly, we could just jam them all in a van and roll it back and forth while spraying it with a fireman's hose. Of course we would have to leave them in there for a couple of weeks to develop the proper "odor!!"

Any other ideas will be welcomed, and will become the sole property of the Editor of this rag! Photos cannot be returned!!

Pecos

 

Reunion
News

 

To the crew:

If you have made your reservations for the reunion, please let us know so we can start listing who's coming!!!

Contact:  Terry Whitcar
whitecar@iag.net

 


Many thanks to this months "Booster Club" supporters (the ones I can remember)

Darrall "Sage" Ramsden

Pecos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Changes of address, phone numbers and emails. If anyone has a change let me know  ralarsen@comcast.net

New email address:

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Crewmembers on Eternal Patrol:

Charles Libby passed away June 14, 2007
- From son Brian Libby
(read note)!

Joseph F. McGowan passed away March 13, 2007
The USS Pittsburgh provided a burial at sea!
-From wife Joan!

"Blow all main ballast, valiant crew. We're surfacing in God's country!"


Links:

The "Guppy" Submarine
Hey, the Russians have a Tommy Cox!

The Meaning of Memorial Day

Message From the 52
The Skimmer Navy
Amazing WWII Japanese Submarines
Russia's Smallest Submarine
Test Diving a Personal Submarine
Cold War Submarine Memorial
Silent Service - Brothers of the Phin!
Hellenic Submarine Command Video

Poem by a TIRU sailor
USS Blueback tour
Fast Attacks and Boomers in the Cold War
\ Torpedo Alley - A free game
USS Nautilus Museum
Commander Submarine Force
WWII Submarine Veterans - Links
USS Wahoo anecdotes
Naval Links
60 Years Later, a World War II Submarine May Finally Come Home

Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy - Submarine Fleet