This is Lipan shipmate Nils Pearson standing next to a sign  
which is hung on Lipan's fantail and reads: "DANGER

Radiological contamination in salt water systems and

connections".  Lipan participated in the Eniewetok Atoll

Thermo-nuclear Test and Nils was a crewmember during

that operation. Ever since then he's had a glowing

personality. You can read Nils' remarks about the operation

in the Website's History section for the decade of the 1950's.

On the left is what Nils calls a full color photo but its been in his closet so long that its kinda faded.  Its taken while Lipan was at the submarine base at Pearl Harbor in either 1952 or 1953.

Here's Lipan pulling into Dog Easy Docks at Pearl Harbor in September of 1952.  She's about ten years old and looking good.  Dog Easy was the Phonetic Alphabet (at that time) for DE.

On the left we have L to R Roy McKenzie from MO & Nils Pearson on Lipan's bow in the Navy Yards Pearl Harbor July1952 on Sunday just before going to church. Nils wrote back then that Roy wanted to be a race car driver.  I thought they wore different uniforms because they went to different churches but Nils says that Roy had just come aboard..  You newer guys will note the Manila Right-laid Line instead of the Double-Braided Nylon used in later years for mooring lines.

On the right is a photo of  Lipan taken from the Bullnose at the tip of the bow.  They used dark canvas for the dodgers around the gunmount and the flying bridge unlike the white vinyl of later years.  Note the vertical drum forward of the anchor windlass.  Nils (who is waving from the starboard bridge wing) says it was called a bollard and was used for mooring and occasional moving of massive floating objects.  The device was removed by the time I boarded Lipan in 1966 but it resembles the much larger Warping Capstan located on the fantail.

Party Time

L to R is

Harding,

Carson,

Swanson,

Nils Pearson,

Clancy,

Palmer,

Slattery, &

Franks.

(sounds like a law firm)
Ship's Party at the old Pearl Harbor EM Club on Kamehameha Highway January 17, 1953.