Sea Stories from Sailors of
the
Plymouth Rock
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Gerald Holden, YN2 tells about the time when the whole Amphibious fleet had the job of sinking a ship in live maneuvers. A ship was towed in the Atlantic near Cuba and we all in single file to the port side fired on the USS Cony, a World War II tincan and sank her. It took quite a few rounds in that baby before it went down. I tried to get some equipment off the USS Cony when it was tied up at the pier, but they had armed to the teeth Marines who were ordered to sheet if anyone boarded her. Lots of equipment went to the bottom of the Atlantic with her.
A news article from the "Gator" copied by Gerald R. Borden about the Carribean Ready Group involved in clean up operations after Hurricane Inez, sometime in 1966.
Paul Mohawk reports about the ship that hit the "Rock" while in the Caribbean. "After taking the photo, I crawled the hatch down into the M Division compartment and proceeded to take a nap. I was almost asleep when I felt the ship being hit and heard the noise. It felt and sounded like a couple of 3" 50s going off. When the ship hit us, it wiped out the starboard after gun mount and dented the outer shill of the ship near the gun mount. The "Rock" Shipfitters and DC men did a lot of repairing enroute back to the States. All those aboard received a Navy commendation fort their extra efforts in this accident." NOTE: Check out the 1960-69 Photos Page, Paul has sent us a number of pictures.
The following newspaper article of was submitted by Lee Pridemore from his collection of memorabilia about life aboard the Plymouth Rock. Click here to open the article
Help: I need sea stories from sailors like you who served aboard the USS Plymouth Rock. If you have a story you wish to share e-mail me at billinp@metrocast.net
Date this Page Last Updated
08/15/2005
