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Yosemite Ship Saga

Yosemite Ship Saga – Part 1

by | Aug 14, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 13, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 12, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 11, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 10, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 9, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 8, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 7, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 6, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 5, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 4, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 3, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 2, 2017 | , ,

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

by | Aug 1, 2017 | , ,

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

USS Emory S. Land Video Tour

USS Emory S. Land Video Tour

by | Jun 4, 2023 | ,

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,...

Jim Jewell’s Sea Stories

Jim Jewell’s Sea Stories

by | Jun 4, 2023 | ,

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...

Converting the Busy Lady to a Tech School

Converting the Busy Lady to a Tech School

by | Apr 22, 2023 | , , ,

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

Danny Brooks’ Story

by | Mar 8, 2023 | , ,

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

Albert Seguin’s Story

by | Feb 23, 2023 | ,

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

Bill Krug’s Story

by | Feb 19, 2023 | , , ,

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

Rear Admiral Deborah A. Loewer Story

by | Jan 11, 2023 | , ,

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....

Vincent Diomede’s Story

Vincent Diomede’s Story

by | Oct 28, 2022 | , ,

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...

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