USS Bashaw

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July, 1972.</b></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="671"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="671" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 188 ><NOBR><div> <B>I reported aboard the USS Bashaw March, 1969. I was a sonarman STS2SS. The boat</b></div> <div> <B>was in the process of being fitted for a 9 month west pac cruise. We left San Diego</b></div> <div> <B>July, 1969 and ran on the surface all the way to Pearl Harbor where we were to load</b></div> <div> <B>final stores and weapons. We were to only be in Pearl a couple of days.  About a week</b></div> <div> <B>later we got the word that President Nixon had started his big military cutback, and since</b></div> <div> <B>the Bashaw was one of the oldest, if not the oldest, diesel boats left in the fleet, we were</b></div> <div> <B>ordered back state side to Mare Island to be decommissioned. Our Captain, Don Walsh,</b></div> <div> <B>who I believe was a maverick, on the way back to Mare Island ran the boat through every</b></div> <div> <B>kind of drill, deep dive, emergency blow, battle stations, & etc. to give the old lady one</b></div> <div> <B>more fling! She did the jig in fine fashion!!!</b></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="671"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="671" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="671"><div> <B>I was part of the crew left with her during the decommissioning. It was a sad time for us left</b></div> <div> <B>behind for this task. We stripped her of all her useable parts. She was then put into moth</b></div> <div> <B>balls until she was laid to rest at the bottom of the Pacific.</b></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></U></b></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> </b><IMG SRC="3d0c3160.jpg" border=0 width="451" height="22" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="679" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 260 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="291d5ce0.jpg" border=0 width="213" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Underway to Pearl Harbor In 1969</b></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="71"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="260" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="71" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER><NOBR><bR> <div> <IMG SRC="292d5ce0.jpg" border=0 width="213" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Give Us 'Peace'!</b></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="296"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="296" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="71" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="296"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="296" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 231 WIDTH="296"><div> <IMG SRC="28f9fce0.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Picture Thru the Periscope</b></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="231" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="71" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="294d5ce0.jpg" border=0 width="213" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B> </b><B>But We Don't Have A Plank, Sir!!!</b></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="296"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="296" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="71" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="296"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="296" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 232 ><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="295d5ce0.jpg" border=0 width="213" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>Me and Mitch Magness</b></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="232" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="71" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="296e2ce0.jpg" border=0 width="226" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>Mitch & Me Clowning Around</b></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="296"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="296" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="71" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="296"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="296" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 289 WIDTH="296"><div> <B><IMG SRC="290bfce0.jpg" border=0 width="191" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>Sign on Conning Tower Says 'For Sale'! After Told We Were to Head to Mare Island to Decommission Our Gray Lady</b></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="289" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="71" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="296"><div> <B> </b><B><IMG SRC="297e4ce0.jpg" border=0 width="228" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>Mitch Got His Dolphins On His Chest & His A**!!! </b></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="296"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="23" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="296" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="23" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="71" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="296"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="23" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="296" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 232 WIDTH="669"><div> <B><IMG SRC="35e06ce0.jpg" border=0 width="262" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>The 6 of Us Got Our FBM Dolphins Awarded</b></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="296"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="296" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="71" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="296"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="296" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 312 ><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="3cec4fa0.jpg" border=0 width="452" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>USS Bashaw SSK/AGSS. Taken Sometime In the Early '50s.</b></div> <div> <B>It Was Between '52 and '53 That She Underwent Conversion</b></div> <div> <B>to an Antisubmarine Submarine and Reclassified SSK241</b></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="296"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="296" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="71" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="296"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="296" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 248 ><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="60352df0.jpg" border=0 width="594" height="223" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <div> <B>A Direct Hit By an American Torpedo During WWII</b></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE>              </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="184" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFCC66" BORDERCOLORDARK="#CC0033" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 33 WIDTH="172"><div> <A HREF="http://www.rddesigns.com/ww2/ww2sinkings.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.rddesigns.com/ww2/ww2sinkings"><U><B>WORLD WAR II SINKINGS by Ric Hedman</b></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> </b></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3d0c3160.jpg" border=0 width="451" height="22" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="677" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 58 WIDTH="671"><div> <B>Please Visit the USS Bashaw Web Home Page For All the Memories and Tall Stories From the Men Who Proudly Served on Her During World War II, the Cold War & Up to Decommissioning!</b></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="671"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="671" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></b></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="148" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFCC66" BORDERCOLORDARK="#CC0033" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="136"><div> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/bashawss241/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.geocities.com/bashawss241/"><U><B>USS Bashaw</b></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3d0c3160.jpg" border=0 width="451" height="22" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="148" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFCC66" BORDERCOLORDARK="#CC0033" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Submarine Pictures"><U><B>Submarine Pictures</b></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></b></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="148" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFCC66" BORDERCOLORDARK="#CC0033" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Up Periscope"><U><B>Back to Up Periscope</b></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE = "JavaScript">  </SCRIPT>  </div> <div>   <center> <a href="http://mars.guestworld.com/wgb/wgbsign.dbm?owner=davesisson">Sign My Guestbook</a> <a href="http://www.guestworld.com"><img src="http://www.guestworld.com/gif/GuestWorldbutton.gif" height="31" width="87" align="absmiddle" border="0" alt="Guestbook by GuestWorld"></a> <a href="http://mars.guestworld.com/wgb/wgbview.dbm?owner=davesisson">View My Guestbook</a> </center>   </div> <div>   <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var sc_project=438122; var sc_partition=2; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/free_hit_counter.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://c3.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=438122&java=0" alt="free hit counter" border="0"></a> </noscript>   </div> <bR> <bR> <div>                                                  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>