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Everglades Last Run Shipbreaking Yard in Alang India
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Link to Other Great AD24 & AV7 Web Sites SOMTHING NEW Old 8MM film of the Glades in Naples & Underway December 1968 Click On Link Click on Reel Above Down load 15 Sec Note Icon lower left corner of screen once it is loded Click On it . Speakers On Yes |
USS EVERGLADES AD-24 The USS EVERGLADES (AD-24) was named after the U.S. National Park Everglades of Florida and is the first US. Navy ship to bear that name. The keel was laid on 2 January 1945 at the Todd shipyard, San Pedro, California and completed 23 May 1946. Decommissioned August 1970 in Charleston , South Carolina. Click on Link to your left for additional details and List of Commanding Officers.
Combined Tender Association Reunion
The Combined Tender Association next Reunion will be in San Antonio Tx. September 26th Through 30th 2022
We will be Staying at the Holiday-Inn on the Riverwalk There will be River Cruise and Tours and more. Our Hospitality Room is just out the door from the RiverWalk. + 3 Blocks from the Alamo + 4.5 Blocks to the River Center Mall The Inn is located on the RiverWalk 217 N. St. Mary's Street - For Reservations Call
- Full American Breakfast buffet is available $25.50 But has been discounted to $10 each for all crew members and Guest - Hotel is located 8 Miles or about 20 min from the Airport. I Think the Taxi Ride would run around $25 Uber less and Shuttlefare.com less than $20 We are looking for local Host to provide help & guidance Last Updated On 06/19/2022
The Attached Link is the Complete Association Reunion Document This will be updated as needed The current Dates Are: May & July 2021 Click on Page you want to read Below (Enjoy)
Gary Adams at: AD24History@att.net or 415-467-6284
Past 2 years of News Letters have been posted to
LINK to www.combinedtenderassociation.org
Preface by Webster Wilson Former Everglades Crew Member. {From Everglades to Razorblades} The
Everglades is not a ship that distinguished itself by winning battles, sinking ships, or spearheading
invasions. Its claim to immortality is in the quality of the men who competently fulfilled its mission of
keeping destroyers afloat and in good repair. For those competent men, service on the Everglades has
proved to be a high point in their naval careers, both in the quality of service they were able to provide
and in the comradeship they were all a part of, and which continues even today. Their memories are of a
job well done, of a mission fulfilled. Those who manned the Everglades were a cross-section of America
Society, except that there were no women (besides a few smuggled aboard), no felons (at least, not
many), and no geniuses (although half the crew talked as if they were, and the other half secretly knew
they were.) One characteristic we all had in common - we were all liars. We were all sailors. Some of us
excuse our lying (is that too harsh a word - maybe ?exaggerators? is better) on old age, some blame it on
a troubled youth, and some of us know that we?re psychopaths. I point out this tendency we sailors have
so that we can?t be accused (or sued) of any malice in that we put down in the following pages. Also it is
my intention to update this ?history? as new facts come to light (or are manufactured.) And, finally I?d
like to make it clear that I don?t attest to the accuracy of anything published in this web page, as most of
it was told to me by fellow crew members and started with ?this is no shxx
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From The Scrap Books of fellow shipmates: Denny Marble has provided one of the first Color Underway Photos of the Everglades taken as we
The Moon over Charleston piers taken Christmas Eve 1968 from the helicopter deck . Note: This is ward wining Photograph in San Matao County Art Feasible Check out other Charleston Photos Click on Page.
Bill Smith Provided the photo obviously of himself standing by the aft 5 inch gun. When I reported aboard in April 1968 the 5" had been removed and the FT & DASH workshop was added in 1963. The DASH hanger and flight deck was above the shops.. The Everglades AD24 in Naples Med Moored at Sunset late February 1957. Note she still has 5 inch astern and there are at least two Destroyers on her Port side. Photo taking by Carl K. Lunde from the deck of the USS John W. Weeks DD701. Thanks Carl. If you wish to contribute please address your Photos, Sea Stories and Copies or Originals of Everglades memorabilia to AD24History@att.net Also Please put AD-24 or Everglades in subject title. Thanks from Gary Adams Crewmember and ships historian. |
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