I use this report often to encourage others to make their history part of the collected knowledge on the net. I provided email to those men to get in contact, 21+ years after the day.Īs much as this has been a story of heroism (LT Ray Everts) and professionalism (far too many to name), it has been a tale of the power of the internet and blogging on getting multiple inputs, some directed, others because they searched for the term “USS BONEFISH FIRE” and arrived on one of the posts to date. A few days later, a BONEFISH survivor commented it may well have been him and his two shipmates. Since the post last year, a BM from CARR left a question as to who he may have pulled into the whaleboat that day. Those people who were there have eluded me to date, but I will keep looking for men who have first hand knowledge of the last part of the rescue of the hull. I had hoped this year I would have reports gathered from those who were left, at sea, to salvage and recover the BONEFISH, adrift and holding firefighting water and the three crewmen who did not escape. comments and posts at several of the submariner’s blogs also, have clues and comments. Not all of the reconstructed story even resides here. So have others, who have, across the least three years, provided insights, personal accounts and supporting documentation of the events leading up to and including this horrible day at sea for the crew of the submarine, three of which did not survive. I pecked the first part of my collected recollection of this story, provided by my shipmates of the USS CARR (FFG-52) 3 years ago.
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