U.S.S. Green Bay (PG-101)
Commissioning:

Wallet Cards & Certificates

U.S.S. Green Bay Home

The Crew

Program

Stuff

Sturgeon Bay & Green Bay

Wallet Cards

Public Relations Tour

HS Tolmi
P-229

Green Bay Museum

Sea Stories

Overview
Plank Owner Stuff
- Card
- Certificate
Honorary Crewmember Card
Honorary Airdale Card
Great Laker Card

Overview

Miscellaneous weird wallet cards related to the U.S.S. Green Bay. As with everything else, I believe there were more than what is pictured here, but they have been lost or destroyed.

The wallet cards are kinda ratty because they spent a lot of time in wallets. Not a healthy environment.

Plank Owner Stuff

A plank owner is someone who was officially attached to a ship when the ship went into commission. Tradition has it that a plank owner owns one plank from the ship. When a plank owner is detached from the ship, he/she has the right to take the plank. So says tradition.

I failed to get my aluminum plank when I was detached from the U.S.S. Green Bay. The U.S.S. Green Bay was decommissioned. I again failed to get my plank. If the former U.S.S. Green Bay is ever scraped (no! not that!), I want my plank.

Card


Plank Owners Card, Front (520KB)	Plank Owners Card, Back (311KB)
Courtesy Tiffany Publishing Company, Norfolk, VA

Certificate

Each member of the commissioning crew received one of these:

Plank Owner's Certificate (410K)

Courtesy Tiffany Publishing Company, Norfolk, VA

I recently started learning about copyright law and have become concerned about displaying this particular graphic or allowing it or other higher resolution versions to be downloaded. I am trying to get permission from the copyright holder, Tiffany Publishing Company of Norfolk, VA.

Honorary Crewmember Card

Honorary Crewmember Card (319KB)

Honorary Airdale Card

For high speed cruising the ship was powered by a GE 7LM1500-PE102 gas turbine. This is the same engine as the J79 that powered several models of the Phantom jet, but with a power turbine in place of the thruster section. As an engineer, I got to play with the gas turbine a little (a very little).

We ALL had the joy of being lulled to sleep by the mellow SHRIEKING of the gas turbine from time to time, as the ship pounded through the water at speeds "in excess of 45 knots." Ya gotta be pretty darned tired to fall asleep with a jet engine feet from your head, and only a quarter inch of aluminum between you and the SHRIEKING engine. Dang! My wife wonders why I am hard of hearing.