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Holy Loch in the1980s |
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Me (Joe Mendonca) between the main engines. |
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Santa visited me while on the ERUL mid watch on Christmas. |
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Taking a turbidity test on main condensate on one of my first ERLL watches in spring of 1984. |
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Finally getting my dolphins from Capt. Krom 11 JAN 1985 in the mess deck. |
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Fire drill aft. EMCS Starling and it appears to be Rick Hurley getting ready in the Reactor Tunnel. About 1984. |
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Moose from A-Div visiting in ERLL. Probably to clean the drain pump strainers. It was a dirty job. |
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Blue crew on the flight to Holy Loch.
Webmasters challenge: How many crew members can you identify? So far I can identify on the left side: Rick Hurley, Gordon MacDonald, Andy Spivey, Gary Novosel (back) and Hoague (ET) and Tom Kmeicik (ELT). On the right side: Joe Dietrich, Kevin McMahon, Lameleza, LT Pettibone (standing leaning on right) Greg Pancerev (back center) Dennis Walker (mouth open and tongue out.)
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Another of the same. |
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Lt. "Boomer Bob" Robert Hughes MPA (M-Div officer). |
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Tom Knight and Boomer Bob on the flyover. |
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This is a Gold crew picture in Sonar. That's all I know |
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This is another Gold crew picture. I don't know who that is at the Ballast Control Panel. |
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Gold crew returning to Holy Loch. |
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Another photo of Gold crew returning to port. |
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Steve Byerly coming to relieve me in ERLL. |
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Joel Craft in ERLL (Main seawater bay). 1985 |
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EM2 Mark Putnam soaking up some gammas in the tunnel. I guess he didn't notice those signs behind him. It's my fault since I asked him to pose for me. |
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MM1 Lee Thompson between the main engines. |
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Seaman Schultz at the offcrew barracks in Groton, CT. |
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Me and Tom Knight in front of the evaporator. |
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Preparing for Halfway night in the mess deck. Greg Pancerev is in the corner on the right. Spring of 1984 |
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Another Halfway night mess deck photo. Spring of 1984 |
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The Halfway night MC's Julian Metzger (EM) and Rex Merrick (EM). Spring of 1984 |
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Doing mess duty. That's Moose in the back. I don't know the other sailor's name. |
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Old glory flying at the stern. A couple of tugs can be seen in the background. |
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This is the LCM "Mike boat" aka liberty launch which was the shuttle that we grew so familiar with riding her back and forth to shore. |