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U.S.S. Green Bay (PG-101)
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The commissioning ceremony took place in Boston Naval Shipyard on Friday 5 December, 1969.
It was a bit cold. In fact, I remember next to nothing about the commissioning ceremony other than the fact that it seemed a bit nippy to be standing around outside in the wind. Everything was equally new and confusing for that nineteen year old WV hillbilly away from home for the first time (more or less).
Two things do stick in my memory about our stay in the Boston yard. One was the fact that the harbor was so polluted that when a crewmember fell overboard he was rushed to a hospital for observation. Second was the U.S.S. Green Bay pulled up out of the water on the marine railway. She looked quite impressive sitting up there out of the water on blocks.
Why, you might wonder, did a brand new ship need to be pulled ashore? Guess someone was concerned about the effect of the crab pots and line that we tangled with up in the Nova Scotia harbor. Some concern about damage to the screws or shaft? Fortuately for the pride of the new US Navy crew, the civilians were still under control of the ship at the time.
The trip to the yard through the north Atlantic was interesting in other ways, such as ice. Lots of ice. Thick ice on everything. Made me glad that I was in engineering rather than on deck chipping it away!
Oddly, I went off active duty exactly three years to the day after the U.S.S. Green Bay was commissioned. Boston Naval Shipyard left the Navy a couple of years after I did.
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