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1 Sat August 29 2009 - 12:45:33 Fullname: Ron Babineau Rate/Rank: RM3 Email: ronb1349@aol.com Where are your from?: Lynn, MA Comments: Onboard 68-70 mostly ... Brandi, I served with your dad, Doug. Good Boat, very good crew .... 2 Sun July 05 2009 - 02:14:58 Fullname: Brandi M. Ambrose Rate/Rank: Email: B7whyne72@aol.com Where are your from?: Georgia Comments: My daddy, Douglas C. Ambrose, served on this ship 3 Fri March 06 2009 - 20:47:30 Fullname: Clayton Ramon Griffin Rate/Rank: Commander, USN Ret Email: griffinr5@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Valdosta, Georgia Comments: Served as Ops Boss June 1962-June 1964 4 Sat July 05 2008 - 00:33:19 Fullname: Lester H. Wilkinson Rate/Rank: BM 3 Email: ljwilk@gmail.com Where are your from?: Chattanooga, Tn. Comments: I served aboard the USS Nimble MSO 459 in 1961,1962. 5 Sun August 05 2007 - 22:48:26 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 Sat January 07 2006 - 10:19:59 Fullname: Douglas Tiffany Rate/Rank: Sonar/E6 Email: sebzebra9er@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Presently live in Weatherford, Tx Comments: Was aboard the Nimble from 1956 through 1960. Rode her through two European cruises - North Sea and Med. Great crew aboard her. She was a great little ship and like all of the MSO's performed a big job. 7 Thu November 24 2005 - 03:18:23 Fullname: John R. Coburn Rate/Rank: SM3 Email: canopus_i94@yahoo.com Where are your from?: Port Huron, Mich Comments: Golly Gee!, At 63, I still miss the Venture and Nimble, plus the 3 cans I was on, and I even miss the USS Chandeleur (AV-10). Would like to hear from any shipmates that might remember me.
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