15 April 2011
NEWSLETTER

 

CALENDARS

If you are looking for additional 16 month calendars,
you can purchase these calendars for $6.00, including postage.
Checks or money orders need to be made payable to the USS Wisconsin Association
and mailed to, PO BOX 227 Marion, MS 3942.

This offer is available to non members also.

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Please keep your email address up to date with LaDonna
even if you don’t want it posted online.
Please contact LaDonna Bradshaw, bb64members@aol.com. Or (601) 693-4614
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NAUTICUS NEWS

Nauticus is in the processes of purchasing one of the Wisconsin’s Whaleboats.

This is the BB-64 Whaleboat that Mentor, Ohio had purchased in 2000 and completely restored to working condition.

They recommissioned this boat on July 14, 2001 at a beautiful ceremony attended by city officials, local citizens and 31 former crewmembers. Our website has the complete story of this Whaleboat.  Click here to read the story and see the photos.

 

NAVAL TERM ORIGINS

 

Sent in by Tom Bradshaw

Chewing the Fat
"God made the vittles, but the devil made the cook," was a popular saying used by seafaring men in the last century when salted beef was staple diet aboard ship. This tough cured beef, suitable only for long voyages when nothing else was as cheap or would keep as well, required prolonged chewing to make it edible. Men often chewed one chunk for hours, just as if it were chewing gum and referred to this practice as "chewing the fat.".

 

If any of you have interesting stories about your time aboard the Wisconsin, please share them with us.

Email them to me at Dombb64@ptd.net

 

 

One additional reminder, our ship’s birthday is tomorrow, April 16.
 She will be 67 years young.  Happy Birthday, Mama


 

PLEASE REMEMBER TO INCLUDE IN YOUR PRAYERS,
OUR SICK AND DEPARTED SHIPMATES AND THEIR FAMILIES.
FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS