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"1. Russian AGI's (MOMA class, Alpinst Class, etc.) never had 3" guns. "

In any event, since the crappy 20mm mount that had been "jury rigged" to the top of the superstructure couldn't be LOWERED to effectively shoot anything less than perhaps a quarter mile away...we were SCREWED....had the Russkis actually caught up with us.

I couldn't SEE their markings on the radar on the particular day we were being "dogged"...I'm just going by what I was "told" by someone else that was there at the time.

I must have hallucinated the two F-4 Phantoms that were scrambled from Hickam as well...you know...too much time at sea and all that.

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Our 3-lunger STEAM powered rig was NO threat to the Russkis either when it came to top "speed"....which was theoretically all of 16 knots, downhill with a tailwind...IF you were willing to blow the safety valves. We hit 77 rpm one night when the prop popped out of the ocean due to a "rogue wave"...nearly shook me out of my rack...thought the whole rustbucket was gonnna shake apart.

[They ALSO had a nasty habit of snapping in two, just forward of the super structure.]

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"2. The USS Pueblo wasn't a Liberty class ship. "

I never SAID it was...!!!

The USS Granville S. Hall, YAG-40 and it's sister ship, the USS George Eastman, YAG-39 were, however....which, I believe is what I DID say...

They were the two last remaining Liberty Hulls in the Navy at the time they were used in Above-Ground Nuclear Tests...AND...at-sea testing of Bio-Chemical Weapons.

http://www1.va.gov/SHAD/

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/testing/test-operation-castle_1954-04-14.htm

www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/atmosphr/ustests.html

www.dtra.mil/newsservices/fact_sheets/display.cfm?fs=ntpr_wigwam

Now, mind you, I only spent ONE year on the Granny, so no doubt you've got better sources.

While you're nit picking, I WOULD be revealing if you can tell me if EITHER of those vessels is still afoat...it would nice of you as long as you're pontificating....oops...I mean correcting me.

THANKS...!!!

There are conflicting reports about the Granny...and rumor has it that the Eastman was either sold for scrap or went on for use by some South American company.