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The ships displayed on the two covers below
are of those that were moored in Suisun Bay, California in
2010.
A couple of them became ship memorials. The remaining have been recycled into scrap steel, as depicted by the lower cover image. The scrap is melted down and formed in steel coils or bars that can be molded into shapes usable in our very needed new structures.
RECYCLING our NAVY
AUXILIARY SHIPS
Thousands upon
thousands of our sailors served on ships that supported the fighting,
firing warships on the seas around the world and they enjoyed it. They
never forget it. They were "HELPING" our battles to be won. But, just
like the sailors aboard the warships, many were hurt, mortally wounded
or lost overboard. Auxiliary ships were
there to provide fuel, ammunition, food, ship repairs, even towing
service to move a warship ship out of harms
way if it had lost power. Many replenishment ships had doctors and
hospitals to take care of the wounded when larger ships with hospitals
were not close by. When these sailors
who served aboard auxiliary ships, see those ships being towed to
recycling yards, they are interested but they are are
not happy. They know that there is no memorial museum to even display
their "TYPE" of ship, let alone just their ship. I hope this book will
display some memory for the veterans. I hope it will at least show them
that the steel of their ship will be put to good use. The book will
include descriptions of at least 22 AUXILIARY ships plus the Liberty
and Victory ships. It will include several interesting "LAST VOYAGE To
The Recycle Yard" reports that I have created on the web. It will
include descriptions of recycle yards and scrap reforming factories. EL CAPITAN wanted to serve in the
navy. He bought the USS YMS-328
about the same size as a tug.
Revised:
August 15, 2013 |
