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Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:58 pm
by Jan K
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 7:03 pm
by Tom Nic
How cool is that?!?
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:06 am
by Jan K
Relatives of Japanese soldiers who died on Attu during the World War II visited the memorial
on Engineer Hill. Japanese government chartered airplane from Anchorage for the one day visit.
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:26 am
by Jan K
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 5:20 am
by Jan K
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:15 pm
by Jan K
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 8:30 pm
by Jan K
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 3:37 pm
by Jan K
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:49 pm
by Jan K
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:52 pm
by Jan K
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 6:39 pm
by Jan K
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 1:22 pm
by renoun
I just found a restored
film about Attu from 1943 that might be interesting to anyone who has followed this thread.
Once the sea star situation is better understood perhaps
Jan will post some more.
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:13 pm
by Jan K
Thanks for the "Report from the Aleutians"
That chain of islands still occupies a special place in my memory bank
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 2:40 pm
by underwaterathlete
LOVE LOVE LOVE this!
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:59 am
by Jan K
It has been a long time since I posted on my Memory line.
I just found on internet that Egabrag III, which was ship which carried me across the Pacific Ocean and was a part of my life for twelve years ended on the beach of Kamchatka peninsula. After it was sold to Alaskan fishing company in 1992, it worked out of Kodiak and then sold to a Russian company and continued in the fishery industry until storm and negligence ended finished off illustrious career. :(
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:04 am
by oldsalt
Jan: I understand. I saw one of my ships, which I served on for 5 years, as a rotting hulk in Fiji. I watched online as another was sunk as a target by the Australian Air Force. That one was newly constructed when I reported aboard and we were enormously proud of it. Beyond just being your home at the time, your ship carries you across seas, carries you through many hazards, and supplies you with your shipmates. The end is much like a dying friend.
-Curt
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 10:14 am
by Tangfish
I have only spent a few weeks at a time on particular boats, and even I get attached to them in those short times. I can only imagine what it's like for you, Jan, or as Curt says - spending that much time on a vessel. It is like parting ways with a dear friend, I'm sure. We are all dependents on the sea.
You honor the Egabrag III, Jan. Because of you we all know a little of her story, her journeys.
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 9:34 am
by Jan K
Maybe the attachment to boats/ships to some of us has to do that differs so much from our life on shore. Once the lines are cast off for long period of time, it is our home, our work place, and becomes a small world of its own. And if the experience is pleasant, memories are treasured. As Curt said when the ship becomes a hulk of rust or rut, we feel the loss, even if it is only a tool to cross body of water,
"The end is much like a dying friend".
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:26 pm
by Jan K
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:42 pm
by Norris
After reading this ENTIRE thread I also feel a loss for these two ships...
RIP
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:30 pm
by Jan K
It has been a while since I posted on my memory line.
I just found U-tube video somebody posted about the underwater habitat we put down in a quarry and I was a support diver on the last ewxperiment called Permon 4 back in 1967. Use your wild imagination and picture what it looked like, before the rust took over.
I am surprised that it is still watertight !
click on the link for the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WykoSJ45KDM
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 12:46 am
by bradmond
Very interesting..thank you for sharing it with us.
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 7:38 pm
by Jan K
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 8:17 pm
by Furnari
Thanks, Jan- I was hoping there was more to your story, and I was happy to see this entry today...
Re: Down the memory line
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2020 9:17 am
by Jan K