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Suisun Bay ~ 2012-2013
Image Date ~ 9/2/2012 ~ Google Earth ~ from 1544 ft. above sea level
(l to r) Ponchatoula, Kawishiwi, Hassayampa
June 2013
Photo - Capt. Pat Moloney - Former Master/Captain USNS Hassayampa (T-AO
145)
(click on above photo for a larger
viewing)
(rear to foreground) Ponchatoula, Kawishiwi, Hassayampa
July 2013
Photos - Marion Herman - Former USS Hassayampa (AO-145) shipmate
(click on each photo for a larger
viewing of each)
ROW "G" - Captain Patrick Moloney refers to these three ships as "OUR GIRLS."
(rear to foreground) Ponchatoula, Kawishiwi, Hassayampa
Photo showing Mike Mike McCullough on the left of photo panorama
Photos - Mike McCullough - Naval Photographer
August 13, 2013
Patrick A. Moloney, former Master
USNS Hassayampa (T-AO 145)
April 1984 - December 1988
Relief Master
July 1991
Currently, Master
National Liberty Ship Memorial
S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien
docked at Pier 45, Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California
(S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien often tours the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet)
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In 1994 the O'Brien, on its eighth voyage, (the previous seven were during WWII) steamed through the Golden Gate, down the west coast, through the Panama Canal, and across the Atlantic to England and France, where the O'Brien and its crew (a volunteer crew of veteran WWII-era sailors and a few cadets from the California Maritime
Academy) participated in the 50th Anniversary of Operation Overlord, the allied invasion at Normandy |
"Remembering the bay's Naval history before it floats away"
By Ashleyanne Krigbaum ~ KALW ~ Local Public Radio ~ 91.7 FM in San Francisco
March 6, 2013
http://www.kalw.org/post/remembering-bays-naval-history-it-floats-away
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