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Dick Lewis 102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers web site Courtesy Ron Schwab, RMCS, USN, Ret. |
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Dick Lewis 102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers web site Courtesy Sam McCrow |
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Dick Lewis 102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers web site Courtesy Ron Schwab, RMCS, USN, Ret. |
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c. October 1955. Post-commissioning shakedown off San Diego. Note original MSO configuration with short stack and boom for handling motor whaleboat. In march 1956 Long Beach Naval Shipyard removed boom and installed Wellin davit for launching motor whaleboat. |
Dick Lewis 102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers web site Courtesy Stan Cochran |
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c. mid-1958. Off San Diego |
Dick Lewis 102 Minesweepers (MSO) Oceangoing Minesweepers web site Courtesy Stan Cochran |
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c. fall 1989. Esteem, Conquest (MSO 488)and Enhance (MSO 437) inport at Basrac Shipyard, Bahrain towards the end of Operation Earnest Will.
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Tom Womble, LCDR, USNR |
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c. fall 1989. Basrac Shipyard Drydock, Bahrain. |
Tom Womble, LCDR, USNR |
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c. fall 1989. Basrac Shipyard worker repairs deck on port side O1 level |
Tom Womble, LCDR, USNR |
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c. fall 1989. LT Dave Bruin, Esteem's Chief Engineer. Basrac Shipyard. |
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c. Winter 1989. Esteem's Wardroom. LCDR Steve Johnson (CO), LT Russ Harris (XO), LT Dave Bruin (Chief Engineer), ENS Wes Spence (Deck), ENS Tom Womble (Supply), LTJG Pete Petrucione (Operations), ENS Steve Powell (Communications), on port side of Pilot House while ship was inport Basrac Shipyard, Bahrain. |
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c. Winter 1989. LT Dave Bruin, LTJG Pete Petrucione, ENS Wes Spence in the Wardroom after hours. |
Tom Womble, LCDR, USNR |
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c. Winter 1989. LTJG Pete Petrucione enjoys a humorous tape on an off duty night in the Arabian Gulf. |
Tom Womble, LCDR, USNR |
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c. Winter 1989. Port propeller, in dry dock, Basrac Shipyard, Bahrain. |
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c. Winter 1989. Starboard quarter, in dry dock, Basrac Shipyard, Bahrain. |
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c. Winter 1989. Stern view, in dry dock, Basrac Shipyard,
Bahrain. |
Tom Womble, LCDR, USNR |
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c. November 1989. Esteem, Enhance (MSO 437) and Conquest (MSO 488) in the Arabian Gulf |
Tom Womble, LCDR, USNR |
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c. April 1990. Esteem, Enhance and Conquest return to Seattle aboard the Super Servant 3 from the Arabian gulf. This apparently was the first multiship lift for the Navy. |
Tom Womble, LCDR, USNR |
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c. April 1990. Esteem, Enhance and
Conquest return to Seattle aboard the Super Servant 3 from the Arabian gulf. |
Tom Womble, LCDR, USNR |
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c. Summer 1990. Pilot House of Esteem while in a maintenance period at Lake Union Drydock Company, Seattle, WA. |
Tom Womble, LCDR, USNR |
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c. fall 1990. Open bridge. Lake Union Drydock Co, Seattle, WA. |
Tom Womble, LCDR, USNR |