Trying to Gas Up - at Sea

[Bill Jolliff]

Thought you might enjoy looking at some pictures from back in the day.

I have many old 8mm movies that I'm converting to digital. With that, Snapshots can be made from the movie footage. As you can see, they are definitely not HD (High Def) but viewable.

Below are some Snapshots of refueling at sea while I was on the USS Allagash AO-97, a fleet oiler, aka - tanker that's basically a sea going gas station.

We were attempting to refuel that destroyer, tin can in Navy jargon, the USS Abbot DD-629. Probably in the late summer of 1957 somewhere in the North Atlantic.

Higher up, better minds decided to refuel some other day when conditions were better. As in the 5th picture that's more typical.

Those were the days. I remember them well. All good.









This what it should look like . . .



This is what we look like, our sister ship- the USS Pawcatuck AO-108