Memory album of US Navy years aboard The U.S.S. Howard W. Gilmore (AS-16) in Key West, FL (& Pascagoula, MS)
We have received email from some of you and it's hard to put names with faces after all these years. If you would like your photo and name in this album, please email it to us and we will put you in!!
Date(s): 1969 to 1972. Album by MAX. Photos by Gerry&MaryMaxwell. 1 - 37 of 37 Total. 296 Visits.
enlarge 28KB, 419x267 1 USSHowardWGilmoreAS16 Charleston, SC, 1967 Thanks to Eldon Brown for his USS Gilmore home page and this picture of the Gilmore. USS Howard W. Gilmore Home Page
enlarge 23KB, 410x413 2 Midships - Key West - 1972
enlarge 24KB, 410x410 3 Key West - 1972 That yellow van was the runabout the Animals used when doing repairs. Anybody recognize the two men in the foreground? I don't remember.
enlarge 27KB, 456x465 5 Key West - 1972 This is me and Bill Pierce boarding ship after a lunch break.
enlarge 29KB, 458x461 6 Key West - 1972 This is the bow of the Gilmore with visitors taking a tour.
enlarge 28KB, 458x461 7 Key West - 1972 This is the front gun turret on the Gilmore - that's me, guiding a tour.
enlarge 37KB, 367x408 8 Public Works Bldg - KeyWest 72 This building was right across from where the Gilmore was tied to the pier. Our 1966 Ford Galaxie.
enlarge 34KB, 441x448 9 Open deck, outside the foundry Background: a fuel barge alongside the ship. This picture was taken of me to send back home.
enlarge 19KB, 254x344 10 The gangplank at the Gilmore This is me and a friend we called "Ski" -- Dan Uzarski!
enlarge 21KB, 394x407 11 Gilmore Foundry This is Wayne Williams, Chief Mac and Bill Pierce (left to right).
enlarge 24KB, 401x411 12 Gilmore Foundry This is me and Wayne Williams. We are igniting a carbon-rod arcing rock furnace.
enlarge 21KB, 389x402 13 Gilmore Foundry I am throwing salt into the furnace to stabilize the arc.
enlarge 19KB, 394x412 14 Floor Molds in the Foundry We used these for making billets, which are solid cylindrical-shaped pieces of metal, sent to the machine shop.
enlarge 21KB, 393x410 15 A Core in the Foundry This is inserted to make the billets hollow.
enlarge 19KB, 393x410 16 Floor Molds in the Foundry Foreground: the drag - bottom part of the mold. Behind that: the entire mold, ready to pour.
enlarge 15KB, 395x410 17 Cores in the Foundry These are made of sand, and this is what they look like before they are put together. They are so large, they have to be made in pieces which are glued together.
enlarge 26KB, 612x401 18 Working in the Gilmore Foundry Bill and I are getting a ladle full of molten bronze as Chief Sam supervises.
enlarge 23KB, 663x434 19 Working in the Gilmore Foundry Bill and I are filling the molds with molten bronze.
enlarge 25KB, 679x440 20 Working in the Gilmore Foundry Bill and I are getting a ladle full of molten bronze while Chief Sam supervises.
enlarge 15KB, 264x404 21 Rocking arc furnace in Foundry This furnace was out of date and was replaced when the ship was dry-docked in Mobile and Pascacoula, in 1972, before the Gilmore went to Italy.
enlarge 17KB, 259x401 22 Arc coming out of the furnace This is what the furnace looked like when it was melting metal....the arc illuminated the smoke as it escaped.
enlarge 8KB, 292x223 23 In my rack aboard the Gilmore This photo was taken by Twig (E.B.Wiggins) to send home to my fiance.
enlarge 17KB, 402x420 24 Shipmates - 1971 This is Twig (Earl Bruce Wiggins) and Keebler (Wayne Fleming) and "Chris" I think. I'm kind of hidden behind Twig.
enlarge 20KB, 395x410 25 "Animal Locker" I'm way in the back, peeking over the top... then Stiles, Twig and Smitty (L to R). The three down in front were in the repair division, but I can't remember their names.
enlarge 24KB, 488x385 26 April 1, 1971 - Rate Ceremony I'm on the left: this was when I made 3rd class; Sam is to my left: this was when he made Chief.
enlarge 16KB, 267x379 27 CHIEF SAM - CPO J.B. Syamken Chief Sam was a good guy to work for. He died of a heart attack, the day after he retired from the Navy.
enlarge 13KB, 255x348 28 On Leave - August 1971 Mary (my wife, then fiance) took this picture of me at O'Hare in Chicago, in my dress gabardines.
enlarge 50KB, 410x410 29 IsleOfPinesTrCt - Gautier,MS NEW 1972 Pinto w/ Mississippi license plates - Purchased in Pascagoula,MS for $1900.00.
enlarge 115KB, 1601x767 30 GilmorePierNovember Photos from Walt Darnall
enlarge 81KB, 781x788 31 GuyNamedChristopher Photo from Walt Darnall
enlarge 73KB, 708x934 32 HelodeckApril69 Photo from Walt Darnall - L-R: Dickie Darnall, Mike Smith, & Twig Wiggins - Steaming to San Juan, Puerto Rico
enlarge 94KB, 648x1041 33 MardiGras72 Photo from Walt Darnall - L-R: Dickie Darnall, Dan Uzarski, & Ron Weber... this was a comic photo.
enlarge 69KB, 554x821 34 RonWeber Photo from Walt Darnall
enlarge 21KB, 414x419 35 "Twig" Wiggins Helping get ready for a party at our home in Key West.
enlarge 20KB, 416x419 36 TwigNotSmiling At our home in Key West
enlarge 159KB, 1634x854 37 Walt'sCarWreck Photos from Walt Darnall
