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**He Who Shall Not Be Named** · 11-25-2012, 06:24 PM

Another great Paul Freas 'voice'.

David

**Von Hilde** · 11-26-2012, 12:31 PM

Besides Disneys stuff, Paul Frees was Boris in Rocky and Bullwinkle, another favorite villian of mine. Tons of commercials. He probbably did over 100 voices , everything from DD to the froot loops bird. His younger days he looked like Howdy Doodie's Buffalo Bob Smith. I dont think he was a bubble chaser tho.

**Peter W** · 11-26-2012, 01:50 PM

Hello all

Jin class submerging. What I don't get and I am sure Mark will back me up here is that when I have done searches for this class in particular this one didn't come up but did come up on a completely unlikely search ?!?

And 2 Resolution class Subs awaiting disposal.

Peter.

**He Who Shall Not Be Named** · 11-26-2012, 03:48 PM

Originally posted by Von Hilde

Besides Disneys stuff, Paul Frees was Boris in Rocky and Bullwinkle, another favorite villian of mine. Tons of commercials. He probbably did over 100 voices , everything from DD to the froot loops bird. His younger days he looked like Howdy Doodie's Buffalo Bob Smith. I dont think he was a bubble chaser tho.

... and the 'voice of doom' on many a George Pal flick. What a set of pipes!

David

**Von Hilde** · 11-27-2012, 08:44 AM

One day the weapons officer looked in the forward torpedo room and said." Look!, if you guys dont have anything to do today but lollygag around and play acey deucy all day, I have a little something to keep yall occupied."

**He Who Shall Not Be Named** · 11-27-2012, 11:00 AM

Squadron told us to put the Brasso away because one of the boats had a breech-door blow out during a water-slug: the wall thickness on all that boats doors had been so severally reduced after decades of polishing that in some spots they were cardboard thin.

Polishing all that brass-work in the Room was the other reason TM's had such big forearms

David

**Von Hilde** · 11-28-2012, 06:54 AM

Popeye must have been a TM. Brasso was some good stuff, that damn Neverdull cottonball crap is what gave ya mussels, shipmate. Check out the pool table light on the overhead in the Bowfins tube picture. That isnt standard operational equipment.

**Von Hilde** · 11-30-2012, 08:11 AM

Was looking at some old pictures of Naval Station Key West and found this picture of the Sea Poacher with a blimp. The caption said it was a refueling, but I doubted that, since old subs normally don't carry any spare cans of 100/130 Avgas so with a little checking, I found the real story behind the pics. During ASW maneuvers, the airship got too low to the water and dipped the gondola, bending the props, and rendering it stranded The sub then attached a tow line and took it back to key west. It took 30 hours, July 10-11 1952

**He Who Shall Not Be Named** · 11-30-2012, 09:37 AM

Neat! Good chatch. Any pictures of the barge and pier where they tied us up at Gitmo? What a dump!

David

**Von Hilde** · 11-30-2012, 06:06 PM

two things I liked about gitmo (1) the EM club by the airdale side, and (b)departures.
The barracks barges- lovely accommodation - 5 star hotels.

Here's one right out of the yard back in 44, in warpaint. The one I saw in Gitmo was in a little worse for ware. The ones we had at sea-float in Viet Nam were "fixed up" armor-plated with sandbags and a helo deck topside with some serious AA protection, including a couple WWII twin 40mm Bofors

**He Who Shall Not Be Named** · 11-30-2012, 07:16 PM

Good catch

**Von Hilde** · 12-01-2012, 11:43 AM

Heres one I could have picked up and converted it to an excursion yacht/dinner cruise vessel. NAWC @ Key West had it for an diesel electric ASW target for awhile, a few years back. There was an effort to save it for a memorial, by a few people, but didnt raise the suficent capital to buy it. USS Trout SS
566 , was given to Iran when the Sha was running things. Then it was returned to the US and given to the Weapons center down here, till the cost of operation deemed it for salvage. After the NAWC got rid of her, she was towed to Phillie to the yard for dispersal, then towed to Brownsville. It was chopped up in Texas.