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- POD - SSBN 620
The USS JOHN ADAMS (SSBN 620) website at coldwarboats.org has been launched, and already has a handful of photos, a Commissioning Brochure from 1964, a brochure from the inactivation in 1988, and Deck Logs from 1964 and 1965.
The site is ready for fitting out - all it needs is your submissions of photos, stories, and artifacts. It can be found here: https://coldwarboats.org/the-boat-620/uss-john-adams-ssbn-620/quarterdeck-620
John Adams was a Lafayette-class submarine, and boasted an impressive service career during the Cold War.
If you have photos, stories, or artifacts related to the 620, reach out to me until we get a Site Lead volunteered! I'll make sure it gets on the 620 site. If you're planning a John Adams reunion, again, let me know. The new 620 website has a reunion function already built in that will let you organize, promote, and keep track of attendees and events.
All John Adams shipmates are invited to make the USS JOHN ADAMS (SSN 665) site on Cold War Boats their new on-line home.
Welcome Aboard!
https://coldwarboats.org/the-boat-620/uss-john-adams-ssbn-620/quarterdeck-620
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - SSN 571
The USS NAUTILUS (SSN 571) Welcome Aboard - Nautilus Museum Brochure is available at SSN 571 >> THE LOGROOM >> ARCHIVES >> SHIP'S BROCHURES.
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - SSN 571
The USS NAUTILUS (SSN 571) Change of Command Brochure - COs Griggs & Cockfield - JAN 1970 is available at SSN 571 >> THE LOGROOM >> ARCHIVES >> SHIP'S BROCHURES.
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - SSN 571
The USS NAUTILUS (SSN 571) Decommissioning Brochure is available at SSN 571 >> THE LOGROOM >> ARCHIVES >> SHIP'S BROCHURES.
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - SSN 592
The USS SNOOK (SSN 592) website is back, and it's about time!
Dennis Donegan, an ELT on board the Snook back in 81-82, recently reached out to me at coldwarboats,org. He sent a handfull of photographs of the 592 that he said came from an old Snook website that was lost when the shipmate that managed the site shipped his oars.
Read more: USS SNOOK (SSN 592) Site Established on Cold War Boats!
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - Fleet
The mission statement of the Cold War Boats Association includes preserving the history of Cold War submarines and there is a great deal that goes into making that available to our members. The coldwarboats.org website is the primary repository of every Cold War boat related artifact we are able to get our hands on.
This includes commendation letters for the command, command-related correspondence, crew publications, cruise books, physical memorabilia, newspaper articles and clippings, training aid booklets (TABs) where no longer classified, qualification related materials like qual cards and training aids, ship’s brochures published for significant events, envelopes and cachets related to the ship’s post office, recordings of sounds of the boat, watch-bills, and pretty much anything else remotely related to a Cold War Boat.
Where do these items come from? I’m glad you asked. Our main source of these artifacts come you, our registered members. You can upload your photos, scans, and pdfs quickly and easily for preservation on the coldwarboats.org website.
Others are gifted to us by family members of shipmates on Eternal Patrol, and we use our admittedly limited funds to purchase other collectibles as they become available.
Which brings us to our titular topic for today. We have accumulated hundreds of ship’s brochures: keel layings, christenings, launchings, commissioning, change of command, welcome aboard brochures, inactivations, and decommissioning. Our Historical Archivest, Caitlin Downhour, invests a great deal of time scanning these documents so we can post them in the appropriate command’s Logroom Archives under Ship’s Brochures.
Currently we have posted 184 brochures, mostly from fast-attacks and boomers, smoke boat brochures being few and far between.
These include:
- Keel Laying: 1
- Christening: 3
- Launching: 19
- Commissioning: 44
- Welcome Aboard: 50
- Change of Command: 10
- Inactivation: 36
- Decommissioning: 21
To access all of these Brochures, you must be registered and logged in, though a selection are available for public viewing by non-registered guests. You can find them in your command’s Logroom >> Archives >> Ship’s Brochures.
All of them are indexed under Homeport >> Collections by various types, as well.
If you have collected any of these, and would like to preserve and share them with your shipmates and their families, please contact me for details. You can scan and upload them at your convenience, email me digit images, or arrange to send the documents themselves, insured and transported at no expense to you - we will scan them and return them to you promptly.
Don’t let these valuable pieces of Cold War submarine history be lost or hidden. Your name will appear on the website with every item you contribute, and your sponsorship tag will identify you as a Contributor.
Be a part of preserving our legacy.
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- Brad Williamson
- POD - Fleet
Reason One – Contact a Shipmate - This is one of the three primary missions at Cold War Boats - CONNECT. We have established a central point for locating shipmates and being located that protects your privacy, and that of those you reach out to.
It means that both of you have to be registered, so it follows that “Get Registered and Spread the Word” is our ‘connecting’ mantra. We have almost 12,000 names, which sounds like a lot until you realize there may have been more than 500,000 shipmates that served on Cold War Boats between 1946 and 1991.
You can contact other registered shipmates with the click of a mouse. Log in to coldwarboats.org, locate your shipmate on the Master Personnel Roster or any boat’s Master Sailing List, choose Send PM (Private Message) if you want to keep your email address private, or choose Email to, well, send an email, with your email address. Their contact info remains private until they choose to share it with you.
Looking at the calendar this morning, I discovered that I qualify as antique, being older than 50 and just a smidgen this side of 70. You don’t need me to remind you that days are short for all of us. Join us at Cold War Boats, reach out and connect, and never have to say “I regret not reconnecting sooner…”
There is not a moment to lose.
