HOMEPORT

Fast Attacks

Boomers

Smoke Boats

Logistics

Visitors Log
images/slideshows-fleet/slideshow-ssn680/slideshow-ssn680-07.jpg
images/slideshows-fleet/slideshow-ss-template/ss-525-02.jpg
Visit the Shipmate Galleries - Post your own photos, videos, & pdfs.

Fleet Visitors Log

Sign the Log and Leave a Comment!

The USS WILLIAM H. BATES (SSN 680) sits pierside in Diego Garcia, B.I.O.T. circa 1983.
The USS WILLIAM H. BATES (SSN 680) sits pierside in Diego Garcia, B.I.O.T. circa 1983.

 

Welcome to the Cold War Boats Association and website. Feel free to take a look around, and leave a comment here to let us know you stopped by, and what you liked (or didn't like!).

If you'd like to see more, you are invited to register for full access to the site, which includes thousands of photographs and sea stories from the men who served on submarines during the Cold War between 1947 and 1992.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact your Site Lead or a member of the Staff using the CONTACT US link in the Watch, Quarter, and Station Bill on the starboard side of every page.

In the meantime, the smoking lamp is lit, so grab a cup of joe and relax as you wander around and experience what it was like to serve on one of the most sophisticated submarines dedicated to bringing an end to the Cold War. 

Don't forget to leave a comment! 

 

Brad Williamson - Lead Administrator

 

My comments Subscribe RSS
Community Builder Avatar
Thomas Mich
Reset password failure
I tried to reset my password on the 11th of January. The link worked in generating a new password and mailed to my registered email. When Di tried to login with that past, it triggered a danger/wrong password message. The password sequence included capital a “I” character that may be triggering the challenged.
0
Community Builder Avatar
Brad Williamson
I will move this thread to a Help Request ticket when I get a minute so i can track it there.
-1
Community Builder Avatar
Brad Williamson
It appears that the password reset worked as it shows that you recently logged in. Did you do anything else but retry your login with the new password?
Under certain circumstances - a failed login followed by a password reset, for example, a login attempt will show that error message, usually because the cookie created in your browser has not yet expired, so it shows a credential conflict.
No worries - simply attempting to log in again will usually resolve it.
Thanks for noting it - it's on my list of things to explore and resolve - number 1082 or thereabouts. <grin>
0
Community Builder Avatar
Thomas Mich
Replying to threads
Thanks guys, I’ll try this again probably tomorrow.
0
Community Builder Avatar
Lee Johnson
Web Site and Profile Assistance
Outstanding job Brad! Thanks for setting this up for our future reviews of memories and for assisting quickly to any glitches we encounter.
1
Community Builder Avatar
David Whitehouse
My time on subs
I served on the USS George Washington SSBN/SSN 598G. On my first patrol (the last gold crew patrol) in 1981, we hit and sank the Japanese freighter, Nisho Maru. I stayed with the boat through decommissioning . I then after MM C school and a few weeks on Groton Ct. shore patrol I went to the USS Andrew Jackson SSBN 519 and made 2 patrols before leaving the navy in 1987.
1
Community Builder Avatar
A. C. 'Dean' Macris
Last edited on 06.10.2022 10:04 by A. C. 'Dean' Macris
Moral Revenge authors interview
Visit www.theauthorsshow.com October 6, Channel 7 to listen to Tim Mazza's interview regarding Moral Revenge. book cover image.jpg
1
Community Builder Avatar
Ray Haines
Thanks Brad
Brad,
Thank you so much for all you do. Always in our thoughts and prayers buddy!
2
Community Builder Avatar
Chuck Phillippe
Outstanding!
Great work Brad!, as usual an outstanding accomplishment!
3
Community Builder Avatar
Thomas Mich
Ship's Public Affairs
This site is a great accomplishment. I look forward to other warriors to check in and register. I will be down in central America (Guatemala) to pickup a 42 foot sailboat I bought. One of the bucket list items that still remains is navigating the Panama Canal. The sailboat is in Rio Dulce (Caribbean side) and my crew and I will transit in December. I will be completing a refit in Pensacola, FL first to complete US Coast Guard EPA regulations.
2
Load more comments
You don`t have permission to comment here!
Share the good stuff, shipmate!
0
Shares

 

 

 

Our shipmate has passed on before us.

Whether by enemy action, the remorseless sea, or the ravages of time and age,
we must accept that God has called you to where we cannot yet follow.

We commend your body to the deep, and your soul to God Almighty.

May God grant you fair winds and following seas.

 

Godspeed, shipmate.

 

We will miss you...

 

 

 

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another...

"No man is an island, entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

John Donne

Meditation XVII
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.
Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.
1572 - 1631

 

 

OPSEC Policy

The Cold War Boats Association prohibits the posting of Classified material on the the coldwarboats.org website.

Any documents, photographs, audio or video recordings, or artifacts that are currently considered Classified are not permitted, and will be removed.

Any information that could compromise the operational security of active duty personnel, commissioned ships, or their missions is not permitted, and will be removed.

Access to personally identifiable information (PII) of active-duty service members or information related to the crews of submarines currently in full or limited commission is restricted to administrators only.

Full details of the Cold War Boats Association's Security Policy can be found at: www.coldwarboats.org/security.

Questions and concerns should be directed to the Security Manager at security@coldwarboats.org.

Copyright Information

 
 
© 2026 Brad Williamson
and/or the
Cold War Boats Association
or respective image owners
 
All Rights Reserved
 
Permission is granted for not-for-profit reproduction
of text and images under the condition that
the coldwarboats.org watermark is retained,
all attribution as to owner and source is included,
and additionally, when republished electronically, a link to is provided.
 
 

Privacy Policy

The Cold War Boats Association is committed to protecting your personally identifiable information (PII). 

This information, your PII,  includes your email, your street address, your phone number(s), your personal records (such as a DD-214) and various other related information.

Your PII will never be shared, given, sold, or rented. It will not be accessible by others, except by administrators or moderators of the www.coldwarboats.org website as necessary in the performance of their duties.

Your use of the www.coldwarboats.org website is your acknowledgement that these limitations are understood.

Full details of the Cold War Boats Association's Privacy Policy can be found at: www.coldwarboats.org/privacy.

Questions and concerns should be directed to the Privacy Manager at privacy@coldwarboats.org.

0
Shares