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1 Wed June 17 2009 - 15:57:20 Fullname: Onesimo Cordova Rate/Rank: RM2 Email: thecordovas374@msn.com Where are your from?: Colorado Comments: From 1956 to 1959 I served on the MSOs Enhance, Persistent, the MSC Widgeon (MSC208) and the MSO Pluck. 2 Fri March 13 2009 - 21:24:36 Fullname: PAUL F CASHION Rate/Rank: STOREKEEPER 2ND CLASS Email: VA HOSPITAL LIVERMOORE CA Where are your from?: DENVER COLO Comments: SERVED ABOARD USS LUCID MSO 458 1967 THRU 1969 DIVISION PO FOR SUPPLY DEPT. CAPTIAN GUN MOUNT 51. SUPPY OFFFICER ENSIGN , LATER LTJG BINGHAM LAST SAW IN DENVER COLO [ATTORNEY] COMMANDER FIELDS,WAS CAPTIAN. HOME PORT LONG BEACH CALIF. 3 Mon May 19 2008 - 04:04:44 Fullname: Benny W Bankston Rate/Rank: E3 Email: LAbayouwitch@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Baton Rouge, Louisiana Comments: My wifes email, I don't do computers. Would like to hear from any Lucid sailers, esp from 1961-1966. 4 Tue February 05 2008 - 16:18:04 Fullname: Francis (Fritz) Driedric Rate/Rank: SKC Email: GIALSC@BELLSOUTH.NET Where are your from?: jACKSONVILLE fLORIDA Comments: I'm a plank owner on the Lucid when she was put in commission 0n may of 1955. Her 1st captain was John Graham. I took her through underway trng and rode her to the west coast to Long Beach Ca. instill 1957 and was discharged and reenlisted and retired with 27 years service. I was a deck seaman when I was aboard her and worked under BM1 CLARK . I remember my experience's and don't regret any of them. I still have the original commissioning introduction and crews list from those years 5 Sun August 05 2007 - 22:47:26 Fullname: W. W. "Mike" Warren Rate/Rank: EN2 Email: usslucid@usslucid.org Where are your from?: Bradford Island, California Comments: Members of the minesweeping community; The Lucid MSO-458 Foundation was formed by a group of minesweeper crewmen who served aboard US Navy MSO's. MSO's are a class of wooden hull oceangoing minesweepers that are now decommissioned and fading from public memory. The group has obtained the USS Lucid MSO-458 and has her docked at Bradford Island, California. Work has begun! The organization is restoring her and a public museum is established. The MSO is a little known and poorly documented, extremely interesting facet of Naval history. The USS Lucid Museum is dedicated to telling the story of the minesweeping men and their wooden ships, the last all wooden US Naval ships, to navigate the oceans. We will be telling the stories of Mine Recovery and UDT teams, Floating Pigs, Hammer Boxes, Magtails, Aluminum Engines and Towed Sonar. The little known stories of Contact, Magnetic and Acoustic minesweeping as well as the mystery of Magnetic Countermeasures will be told through the displays, narratives and museum media. Typhoons, tiny ships and ice-clad superstructures are only a small part of the "Wooden Ships and Iron Men" story. From sweeping the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam, observing the final Nuclear blasts on Johnston Island to sweeping the Persian Gulf, "Where the Fleet Goes, We've Been" will be clearly illustrated. Since there is no other Naval Museum that even attempts to tell the story of the MSO the USS Lucid is an important and living detail of US Naval History. First, Lucid must undergo a restoration. Previous civilian owners for commercial use have modified her. She needs hull repairs and painting and re-outfitting to be brought back to her former Naval dignity and glory. The Lucid MSO-458 Foundation has a workforce of planners, engineers and volunteer manpower who are vested and committed to this grand and worthy project. Bringing her to life is a large financial undertaking. We’re looking for tax-exempt gifts from the Military Industrial sector and individuals to help with this extremely valuable endeavor. Of course, all donors will be properly and prominently acknowledged aboard the vessel. Your donation will help preserve this vital part of Naval History. Please join us in telling the MSO story by sending a tax-exempt gift to Lucid MSO-458 Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit foundation through our website. http://www.usslucid.org 6 Thu June 21 2007 - 19:37:56 Fullname: felix j. antero Rate/Rank: em1 Email: felixantero@sbcglobal.net Where are your from?: torrance, california Comments: i came aboard the lucid in december 1967 and went on patrol aboard her in da nang vietnam. we came back in november 1967 then got out in january 1968. my engineering officer was ltjg david isaacson. there was enc stare, en1 fleming, bm1 criscola, en1 simpson, dc1 chad en2 golden, em2 palsgraf, rd1 moran so1 gardner. 7 Sun April 29 2007 - 00:56:43 Fullname: Scott A. Bromaghim Rate/Rank: RM2 Email: sbromaghim@wi.rr.com Where are your from?: Onboard from 1966 to 1969 Comments: Transferred from USS Illusive MS0448 in 1966, two WestPac cruses. Captains: Frick, Peterson, Fields. I will always remember the smell of JP5 from the fuel bladder on the fantail and the two weeks it took to get to Pearl. 8 Sat March 31 2007 - 18:55:57 Fullname: Daniel Martin Sweeney Rate/Rank: Email: imsweeney7777@aol.com Where are your from?: Chicago,Illinois Comments: 9 Wed December 20 2006 - 00:34:21 Fullname: James P. Brown Rate/Rank: QM3 Email: jimbrown@bellsouth.net Where are your from?: originally PA Comments: was a QM3 from commissioning until 07/56 10 Mon April 24 2006 - 15:31:24 Fullname: Robert Scott Dickinson Rate/Rank: LTJG Email: rsdickinson@erols.com Where are your from?: Alexandria, VA Comments: Served as Engineer and NAV OPS from 1961 through 1963. COs were Zumwalt, Peterson, and Backstrum. Commodore was "Wild Bill" Stedley. I remember stiking down the fuel cell, weathering a Typhoon during my second WESTPAC (ending up out of position by 100 miles), nearly running out of fuel between Guam and Midway, and a 50-mile walk race around-around-around the main deck. 1 2
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