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1 Sun November 15 2009 - 13:10:11 Fullname: Allen Fertig Rate/Rank: RM1 Email: allenfertig@verizon.net Where are your from?: Palmyra, Pa. Comments: Served on board 1966-1967 2 Fri September 04 2009 - 00:57:08 Fullname: Elwin Longnion Rate/Rank: Petty Officer, 3rd Class Email: brenda524@sbcglobal.net Where are your from?: Beaumont,Texas Comments: I served on the ship from 1964-1966. Would love to hear from the old shipmates. 3 Fri September 04 2009 - 00:55:24 Fullname: Elwin Longnion Rate/Rank: Petty Officer, 3rd Class Email: brenda524@sbcglobal.net Where are your from?: Texas Comments: I served on the ship from 1964-1966. Would love to hear from the old shipmates. 4 Sun March 16 2008 - 14:20:47 Fullname: Kenneth Carl Breisch Rate/Rank: EN3 Email: pitchmt@webtv.net Where are your from?: Hazleton, Pa. 18202 Comments: 5 Wed February 20 2008 - 01:31:43 Fullname: Michael Byrne Rate/Rank: SN Email: mbyrne13@twcny.rr.com Where are your from?: Camillus New York Comments: I served on the Sagacity from 1959 to 1961 and would like to contact others from that time period. 6 Mon August 20 2007 - 20:23:10 Fullname: Hugh Roberts Rate/Rank: EM2 Email: hbmustang@charter.net Where are your from?: Richmond Illinois Comments: Served on board from 1965 - 1968 7 Sun August 05 2007 - 23:40:07 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 8 Fri June 22 2007 - 02:03:24 Fullname: Gary R. Bowler Rate/Rank: EN2 Email: gary@grbowler.com Where are your from?: Ontario, NY Comments: Was aboard a Sagacity from 1966 to 1969. From ENFN to EN2. EN2 Danny Roberts , EN1 Paul Roberts, John Famalary & Jack Kimberlin were also in the engine room crew. 9 Mon February 26 2007 - 14:08:31 Fullname: Travis E. Short Rate/Rank: LCDR USN RET Email: tshortsr@aol.com Where are your from?: Reliance, TN Comments: Member of commissioning crew as RM3; served January - September 1955 10 Mon May 29 2006 - 23:43:41 Fullname: Robert Lippencott Rate/Rank: EN 2 Email: lippencott216@verizon.net Where are your from?: Bergen County, NJ Comments: 1 2
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