Smith, Kathy Bergren
The FSS is not directly based on the US Military Sealift Commnd’s T-AKE dry cargo ships designed in the late 1990s but there are significant similarities in their size and basic layout. Notably the superstructure aft and a large central clearway opening onto pre-staging areas midships on ...
Newport, Rhode Island was a very nautical town. Besides the Navy presence there were large harbors for boats and yachts. One of my favorite pastimes when on liberty was wandering up and down the docks of the various boat harbors and gazing at the vast collection of boats. People who take ...
Consider the many other classes included 544 PT Boats, and some 82,266 landing craft built during the war! Every vessel required binoculars. The excitement needed to be shared with those who have helped to keep Company Seven around for well more than three decades, and so we elected to ...