[Diver Dave]

Here's a pic from Christmas 1965 aboard ship in Subic Bay, PI.

While working in the Pipe Shop, we made a candy cane out of 3" steel pipe, attached a sign, "Season's Greetings from 56A" and welded it to the deck in our shop.

A few sailors came back aboard the ship after drinkin a few too many "San Magu's", knocked the candy cane down and hauled it up to Officer's Country and left it on a table in the Ward Room.

Some guys just had no sense of humor. We had to go retrieve it and it then went back into the pipe rack. It would later be used to fabricate a section of fuel piping for some tin can in the fleet with the red and white stripes still showing.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Merry Christmas, Dave, and thanks for sharing your Christmas story aboard ship. That is one cool, and giant, candy cane. You sailors did a good job. Would love to have seen/heard the reaction to the stripes when it got to the tin can.

[amom]

Great Christmas story Diver Dave.

It would later be used to fabricate a section of fuel piping for some tin can in the fleet with the red and white stripes still showing.

I can just imagine!