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USSVI — Blueback Base Newsletter Blueback Base, P.O. Box 1887 Portland, Oregon — June 2011 # 207 Clackamas, OR 97015-1887 The Creed of the USSVI is Not to Forget our Purpose…… “To perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who gave their lives in the pursuit of duties while serving their country. That their dedication, deeds, and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of motivation toward greater accomplishments, Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America and its Constitution.” BASE MEETINGS... FORWARD BATTERY BASE COMMANDER— Executive Board Will Meet: Ray Lough 360-573-4274 [email protected] Thursday, 9 June 2011 VICE COMMANDER— VFW Post #4248 Gary Webb 503-632-6259 7118 S.E. Fern — Portland, OR SECRETARY— Dave Vrooman 503-262-8211 1730 TREASURER— Collie Collins 503-254-6750 Blueback Base Meeting: CHAPLAIN— Thursday, 9 June 2011 Scott Duncan 503-667-0728 CHIEF OF THE BOAT— VFW Post #4248 Stu Crosby 503-390-1451 7118 S.E. Fern — Portland, OR WAYS AND MEANS CHAIRMAN— 1900 Mike LaPan 503-655-7797 MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN— Bar-B-Q prior to the June Meeting! Gary Thrall 503-659-1917 PUBLICITY AND SOCIAL CHAIRMAN— Gary Schultz, Jr. 503-666-6125 BYLAWS CHAIRMAN— Chris Stafford 503-632-4535 SMALL STORES BOSS— Sandy Musa 503-387-5055 RUSTEE T — Fred Carneau 503-654-0451 SANITARY EDITOR— Dave Vrooman 503-466-0379 [email protected] NOMINATION COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN— Scott Duncan 503-667-0728 May Meeting Minutes 2 Eternal Patrol 5 PAST BASE COMMANDER— Dues Table 2 Support our Troops 6 Chuck Nelson 360-694-5069 HISTORIAN, EDITOR OF JOKES IN POOR This Month in Submarine History 3 Lost Boats — June 6 TASTE, EDITOR ON DEMAND, POC, AND ALL AROUND GOOD GUY Base Commander’s Corner 3 WWII Submarine Located 6 — Bob Walters 503-284-8693 Fair Market Rent 4 Did You Know — Buy a Brick for the Albacore 4 SQ 7 From the Crew — Vietnam Memorial 7 Proud Dad 5 Memorial Day Pictures 8-9 Soooooo Sad 5 Best in the Atlantic 10 Navy Chief vs. Marine Gunny 5 The Lighter Side 10 VENTING SANITARY Inboard — June 2011 — Page 1 VENTING SANITARY Inboard — June 2011 — Page 2 (LeRoy has been elected as Commander of the Blueback Base Barbel Base in Yuma AZ.) Gary Schultz volun- Meeting Minutes teered to replace him. 12 May 2011 Tim Smart and Larry Johnson will coordinate dis- tributing The American Submariner to local VA hospitals and clinics. You can bring your read 1900—Meeting was called to order by Base Commander, Ray copies to the meetings if you want to donate Lough. them. Invocation — Ray Lough. 50/50—$32 won by “Collie” Collins. Pledge of Allegiance led — Ray Lough. Arlo Gatchel won the SubVets WWII Plaque. Moment of Silence for Lost Shipmates Good of the Order: Reading of the USSVI purpose and creed — Ray Ron Darkes reported that there is an all Navy Lough American Legion Post that is in danger of dis- banding. If you are interested in joining this Tolling of the lost boats for January — Mike Post contact Ron. LaPan and Chris Stafford. Bill Bryan reports that 4 boxes were sent to Af- Introductions — All. ghanistan last month, thanks to your donations. April meeting minutes approved. Keep ‘em coming. Secretary report (E-Board Minutes — Dave Bob Sumner reported that Ed Pleming has been Vrooman. moved to a nursing home. Treasurer report — Collie Collins. Money mailed Bob Walters needs a plumber. to Scholarship Fund. Don’t forget—Hot dogs and hamburgers grilled by Base Commander: Les and Ray at the June meeting. $5.00 per per- Danny Fong is responding to treatment and would son. The wives will provide the fix in's love to have visitors. Contact Ray for details. Benediction — Arlo Gatchel BZ to Larry Johnson for “extra” in helping with 1952—Meeting adjourned. projects. Sailing List — 34 hands aboard: Bryan, Jr.; Car- The base will take part in the Bald Eagle Festival neau; Collins, Collie; Corbett; Crosby; Curtis; Days in Cathlamet, WA on 16 July. The trailer Darkes; Dennis; Fitzgerald; Gatchel; Hager; will be there to ride on. They are planning on Hudson; Jackson; Johnson, Larry; LaPan; Lee; feeding us after the parade so we need an accu- Lough; Musa, Bill; Nelson; Sayler; Schultz; rate count of the number of members that will be Seel; Smart; Smith; Soderback; Stafford; Stowe; there. Contact Ray Lough if you are planning to Sumner; Tzevelekos; Vick; Vrooman; Walters; attend, ASAP. Webb; and Guest Casto. Old Business: Respectfully submitted th Molalla 4 of July Parade. A motion was made, Dave Vrooman, Base Secretary seconded and passed that the base would partici- pate in the parade in Molalla this year. Details will be finalized at the June meeting. USSVI DUES The Base will participate in the Memorial Day ANNUAL NATIONAL BASE celebration at Veteran’s Park in Beaverton on 30 May. The starting time is 1100, but it is recom- 1 Yr. $20.00 $15.00 mended that you get there early as parking is a 3 Yr. pre-pay $55.00 $15.00 / Yr. problem. We will conduct a tolling of the boats 5 Yr. pre-pay $90.00 $15.00 / Yr. at the conclusion of the program. We need to finalize the location for this year’s LIFE NATIONAL BASE Christmas Party at the June meeting. If you < Age 45 $500.00 $300.00 have a suggestion, bring it to that meeting. Var- Ages 46-55 Yrs. $400.00 $250.00 ious locations have been suggested. Gary Webb Ages 56-65 Yrs. $300.00 $200.00 is looking into an Oregon City location, near Clackamette Park. Ages 66-75 Yrs. $200.00 $150.00 New Business: Ages 76 + $100.00 $50.00 LeRoy Vick has resigned a base Social Chairman In addition to the above there is a $7.00 one time fee for new base members to pay for a nametag. VENTING SANITARY Inboard — June 2011 — Page 3 THIS MONTH IN SUBMARINE HISTORY — The Hunt for Red October) snagged a tow cable attached to the tug Barcona, pulling it under and killing one of its sail- June… ors. The tug sank in 2,400 feet of water 10 miles southwest 28 June 1917 — the Submarine Force U. S. Pacific Fleet of Long Beach. 2 days later en route to San Diego, CA (SUBPAC) was established. (after filming wrapped) she became entangled in the net of 20 June 1921 — USS G-1 / USS Seal (SS-19½) was sunk as the fishing boat Fortuna. No injuries were reported and a target in Narragansett Bay, RI, just north of Taylor's Point. damage to the net was estimated at $2,000. She was towed back to Narragansett Bay by USS Grebe (AM- 6 June 2002 — USS Portsmouth (SSN-707) sank the target 43) in May 1921; the minesweeper made eight experimental ex-USS Okinawa (LPH-3) during a COMSUBPAC SINK- depth charge attacks on G-1 while she lay off Taylor's Point. EX [SINKEX or Sink Exercise is a US military term for the Damaged and flooded by those explosions, the battered sub- test of a weapons system usually involving a torpedo or mis- marine settled to the bottom in 90 feet of water. Several at- sile attack of an unmanned target ship] off the southern coast tempts to raise her failed and the wreck was officially aban- of California in 2,020 fathoms of water. After being hit by doned. G-1 Seal is anomalously numbered SS-19½ because several Maverick missiles, Harpoon missiles, and general- by the time SS-19 D-3 Salmon and SS-20 F-1 Carp were as- purpose bombs, she was finally sunk by a Mk 48 torpedo signed submarine numbers Seal had been decommissioned. fired by the Portsmouth. [NOTE: G-1 was the first contract the Lake Torpedo Boat 9 June 2005 — CDR Slade Deville Cutter, 93, the U.S. Na- Company secured from the United States Government, but the contract's requirements were among the most severe ever re- val Academy athletic icon who later amassed one of the quired of a shipbuilder. The Company did not receive any great World War II combat records as a submariner com- payment on account during her construction and her required manding USS Seahorse (SS-304), died at Ginger Cove re- performances had never been approached by any other sub- tirement community in Annapolis. He had Parkinson's dis- marine in the world. G-1 met and exceeded those require- ease. “College football players should forget the game the ments and introduced several innovations. In addition to a moment it is over,” Capt. Cutter once said. Still, he will be pair of fixed torpedo tubes in the bow that required the vessel remembered for his sporting efforts as much as the far more herself to be trained, G-1 carried four torpedo tubes in a mount on her deck that could be trained in the same manner dangerous work he completed during the war, exploits that as a deck gun on a surface vessel while the boat was sub- earned him four awards of the Navy Cross and two awards merged, thus allowing a “broadside” shot of one or more tor- of the Silver Star. The Navy Cross is the second highest pedoes.] decoration given for valor, only the Medal of Honor surpass- 8 June 1943 — USS Rasher (SS-269) commissioned at Man- es it. [NOTE: His biographer, Carl Lavo, described Cutter itowoc Shipbuilding Co, Manitowoc, WI. as having an abrasive style 12 June 1958 — USS Ulua (SS-428) struck from the Naval with superior officers, Vessel Register; after use as a test hull to gather research data which may well have cost on new weapon and submarine design at Norfolk, VA, from him selection for promotion 1951to 1958, and sold for scrap to Portsmouth Salvage Com- to rear admiral.