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USS Helena – Stories From The Book, pt. 11

Part 11 – We have no idea how, but we manage to have a major piece of our sonar gear fall off the ship.  We joke that it was somebody from the Russian ship.  It does make for an exciting few...
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USS Helena – Stories from the book, pt. 10

Part Ten – We are still in Curacao, a Russian freighter was docked on the same pier as us – who thought that would work?  A couple brave soles mustered the courage to visit the Russian...
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USS Helena – Stories from the book, pt. 9

Part Nine – On our way around to Pearl we expected to stop at all kinds of great places.  We did not expect Curacao.  It’s a lot like a studio movie lot.  If you are on the pier where...
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USS Helena – Stories from the book, pt. 8

Part eight – Understandably, any fire is bad.  But a fire on a Submarine is VERY bad.  And, if that fire is in the area of the boat that helps us know where we are…well, you get the...
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