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October 2023 Newsletter
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2024 Reunion Agenda
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Signup for the 2024 Reunion
2024 USS Yosemite Association Annual Reunion When: 24 April 2024 – 27 April 2024 Where: Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick (Airport) Address: 801 Greenwich Ave., Warwick, Rhode Island 02886 To signup today, click on 2024 Reunion Signup
2024 Reunion Reminder
Our coming 2024 USS Yosemite Reunion will be held in Rhode Island. This is just a Quick Reminder about our 2024 Reunion on April 24, 2024Rhode Island is a change of venue for us. We usually have our reunions in the southeast or southwest. The USS Yosemite Association...
2024 USS Yosemite Reunion Update
The Hotel is beautiful, just renovated during COVID. I looked at all the rooms that we would have for our events. In all cases, the rooms are bigger and better than the rooms of our previous Reunion in Jacksonville. I was particularly impressed with the room for our...
2024 Reunion is for All Sailors that Served on the “Busy Lady”
Our 2024 Reunion is open to all Navy veterans who previously served onboard the "Busy Lady" that don't have an Association Membership. This is a first for our Association, so you can try our Reunion out and have fun! I just talked with Bill Krug, the USS Yosemite...
Yosemite Ship Saga
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 1
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. The entire Yosemite Ship Saga story was captured and presented...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 2
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. First Chance To Board The Yosemite The next time I went to the...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 3
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Time Was Near For Commissioning Soon, additional crew reported...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 4
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Seasick As the Yosemite steamed south, we passed the rugged...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 5
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Pearl Harbor We hadn't been out to sea but a couple of hours...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 6
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Last Visit With the USS Swordfish On one of my liberties, I...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 7
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. On To Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands The time had...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 8
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Liberty On the Atoll We had liberty on one of the islands that...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 9
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Ice, Solid Gold There were two enemies in the South Pacific;...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 10
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Dysentery Hits The Yosemite One of the things you have to...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 11
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Shaft Alley The "A" division had to help out in a number of...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 12
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. We left our hero at Christmas aboard the Yosemite. A time when...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 13
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. Our hero has almost come full circle now that the USS Yosemite...
Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 14
Yosemite Ship Saga - Blog Article by Dick Wibom, MM2/c This article originally appeared on our previous USS Yosemite Association website. It's now republished for your reading pleasure on our new website. This a 14-part sage, click on Yosemite Ship Sage to read the...
Sea Stories
Gilbert “Smokey” Honermann Passed May 2023
Gilbert B. "Smokey" Honermann passed away Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023, peacefully at The Homestead of Rochester, with family by his side from COVID complications/Lewy-Body dementia. Gilbert Honermann was born March 21, 1935, in Adrian, MN, the son of William and Susan...
David John Livingston Passed Away
I was fortunate to have the ability through David's daughter to send him things I had from USS Yosemite before he became sick. He was clearly a great man and a Yosemite Plank Owner. I have included some pictures. We will all miss him. Bill Krug III Here's David John...
Jim Jewell’s Sea Stories
Read Jim Jewell's Most Current Work Published by him, Piecemeal. Jim has a different approach to telling stories. He is publishing his latest work as multiple-chapters stories on his website. Just a quick warning these sea stories are not for the faint of heart, the...
C.C. Kimball Story
C.C.Kimball was assigned to the USS Yosemite after training for the Opticalman (OM) rating (1975) through 1978.
USS Emory S. Land Video Tour
USS Emory S. Land (AS-39) is a United States Navy submarine tender and the lead ship of her class. She was named for Admiral Emory S. Land. The ship provides food, electricity, water, consumables, spare parts, medical, dental, disbursing, mail, legal services,...
Converting the Busy Lady to a Tech School
On January 27, 1994, the USS Yosemite was decommissioned. At that time, a proposal was floating around to make the ship a technical school in New York City. Was the proposal rejected, or was this just a story? I researched the Internet to determine if the story was...
Danny Brooks’ Story
Went to boot camp in Orlando, FL. September 1974, finished boot camp November 1974, received orders to the USS Constellation CVA - 64, took a couple of weeks leave, then reported to my 1st ship in San Diego, California at North Island Naval station. It was very late...
Albert Seguin’s Story
My naval career started on July 28, 1944; I was sent to Sampson, New York for recruit training. After twelve weeks of boot camp, I took a one-week leave. I returned to Sampson and was then was shipped on a troop train to San Diego, California. Upon arrival there, I...
Bill Krug’s Story
I was an old fellow when I was aboard with over 22 years of service (91-93), but there were a lot of much younger sailors, some just beginning their Naval Service. This is of course, why we have been trying to focus on the Jacksonville area to gain some of the later...
Rear Admiral Deborah A. Loewer Story
Jim Jewell's "Steel Decks and Glass Ceilings – A Navy Officer's Memoir" describes the first assignment of women for shipboard duty on the USS Yosemite. One of those women officers was Lieutenant Deborah A. Loewer, that achieved a long and successful Naval career....
Steel Decks and Glass Ceilings
A new book by Jim Jewell about the USS Yosemite from 1983 through 1984 as the first Navy ship with women sailors and officers aboard to spend extended time at sea.
Vincent Diomede’s Story
Nineteen-Part Video of the USNM Interview with Vincent Diomede The story of United States Navy Veteran, Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Vincent Diomede was presented on July 2022 on the United States Navy Memorial website as the featured article of the month. We didn't...
USS Yosemite Unofficial Insignia
Yosemite Sam is the traditional mascot of the US Navy ship that bears his name. In 1979, Warner Brother Studios gave permission to reproduce Yosemite Sam's likeness for the USS Yosemite use.
Our mission is to keep the memory of the USS Yosemite AD-19 alive.
Ship’s Store Products
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USS Yosemite Tote Bag
$11.00
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USS Yosemite Seal Car Magnet
$13.00
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USS Yosemite Officer's Black Hat
$18.00
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USS Yosemite Chief's Hat
$18.00
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USS Yosemite Official Seal
$13.00
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USS Yosemite Windbreaker Jacket
$55.00 – $60.00
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USS Yosemite Navy Hoodie
$40.00
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USS Yosemite AD-19 Shoulder Patch
$7.00
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USS Yosemite Golf Shirts
$30.00 – $35.00
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USS Yosemite Hat Pin
$9.00
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USS Yosemite AD-19 Officer's Shoulder
$10.00
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USS Yosemite 50 Years Patch
$14.00
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USS Yosemite Challenge Coin
$8.00
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USS Yosemite Association T-Shirts
$20.00 – $28.00
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USS Yosemite Ships Silhouette Hat
$18.00
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