USS Los Alamos Tour 1989
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- A narrated 14 minute video tour of the USS Los Alamos in Holy Loch Scotland, produced by Frank Gosselin in 1989. The video points out the changes that were made to the Dry Dock's engineering spaces during a major shipyard overhaul that year.
A wonderful duty station I reported on board in 1962 five days after I finished high school and spent two years as a crane operator. When I left the Navy I became an airline pilot and flew many trips from ORD to GLA and London. Flying over Argyle and Dunoon was great and gives a much different View then from the Holy Loch. Operating the cranes was much like flying without ever leaving the dry dock. The people were wonderful the scenery fantastic and Blacks of Dunoon bakery was the best. I have gone back many times on vacation and find the lack of the car ferry directly into Dunoon sad. The dock was scrapped after it was towed home. This video is a great memory and it is amazing how the dock was upgraded after I left.
Not scrapped. Supposedly still operating as a drydock in Brownsville, Texas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_(AFDB-7)
@@valdiviacchi it's true. Of all the boomers and tenders the only thing that remains is the Dock!
I was on board the Dry Dock in 74, I was HT and also operated the cranes, Wesley Owensbee was my signalman. Leroy Holcomb, David Gadsden, Wally Walrath, Sam ?, Rico, Speedy Gonzales. Many many others we all had the time of our lives. The births were always covered in blasting dust and grit until they changed to water blasting or hydro blasting in late 74.
73-74 Never saw the Dry Dock look so clean, Good memories ,
It was always covered in blasting grit and dust every where in 1974, then we started water blasting with a huge Cat Pump called a hydro blaster.
@@harrellmorlan6817 Can't remember if they had them before I left or not. To many years have past, I left the end of October 74, but your right the dock was always covered in grit & dust, when I checked into my next duty station, the first thing they told was I needed new working uniforms, I would never be able to past morning inspection with the condition of my clothes. LOL From Dry Dock to Destroyer Escort what a change.
Thank you Frank for sharing this video, it sure brings back old memories mostly good lol.
I believe we worked on two of these pontoons in 1989 when I first started with Detyens shipyards back in the 89-or the early 90’s. Was quite a job, we had brought the pontoons down to bare walls, and rebuilt from there. Then they were towed back to Scotland.
A lot of changes in only a few years after I left. The change to electric heat and removing the boilers was something I never knew until just now. I was onboard April 83 to November 85. Worked in all 4 engine rooms at one time or another. Thanks for the memories!
Spent a little time in AFDB-7 while getting our battery changed out aboard Ethan Allen, SSBN-608, in the late '60s. Never got to saw the interior of the dry dock except for an MG set room. Great tour!
Docked in her aboard 620G in 88. Hard sledding back then, but it was a good dock.
I was on the Los Alamos from 1974 to 1976. I worked in Dog E/R (we never called it Delta back then) except on duty days when I operated the Starboard Crane. Lots of changes from then to 1989.
Was crane signalman , was stationed there Oct .1979 thru June ,1981
wow some great footage.
Not Marlene Brown,her Husband Carl j Brown I Was assigned to AFDB-7 1963 to 65 Deck Department, my first duty station out of Bootcamp I ran Boats and operated Gantry Cranes Retired Master Chief Boatswain.
Thanks.. I never went INTO the dock. Hell being topside was scary enough for me. Looks as tight as a submarine.
+Pete Orthmann I was there in 77-78, this is very clean compared to what we worked in. I was in "D" section engine room, running generators, pumps, compressors, etc. It was not as tight as a sub, those things made me claustrophobic! I spent a lot of free time topside in the cranes or on the tugs. I would do it again anytime!
My first two refits on Lewis & Clark ("M" Division!) were at Holy Loch in '78. USS Los Alamos was an impressive sight. I see in the Wiki page that it had its own crew of about 150? What was its total installed electrical generation capacity?
Early 70s maybe late 60s uss wasp visited the river Clyde just off Gourock Scotland I was lucky enough to get a guided tour of the wasp which the US navy gave to local people but I can't remember the date ? Anyone know the wasp was a massive aircraft carrier
I was assigned to the dry dock September 77 for 2 years , my 1st command of which I enjoyed immensely and will never forget. My rating was boiler technician. My question ; what happened to the four 125 psi auxiliary fire tube boilers, of which my responsibility laid , that provided hotel services to the dry dock?
The Dry Dock was upgraded in the late 1980's to 550KW Generators to handle electric heat throughout the dock. The boilers and steam systems were eliminated.
@@frankgosselin6075 Thanks Frank , Steven Franklin here in Chicago. Thanks for the info on the once on-board boilers , they were my puppies. And thanks for great efforts you put into that footage of the dry dock virtual reality tour. It brought back such rich vivid memories of the comradery that I had with my shipmates at my 1st command.
Thanks Frank.. .
Hi Frank, remember me? Terry Feenstra. Nice video.
I remember you Terry!
Holy fuck dude ! The USA Los Alamos AFDB-7 was turned into the fucking USA Enterprise. Running up and down those stairs stripped 66 pounds off me and replaced it with sinew and muscle. My first set of Crackerjack's looked fucking hot on me.