[Milsurplus] Re: surplus ships fleet

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On 2/22/06, C Whitaker <whitaker at pa.net> wrote:
> de WB2CPN
>
> I'm sure that a lot of the contracts with manufacturers during
> WWII included  provisos that covered the disposition of the
> equipment at the end of the war.  I know that on Enewetok
> some heavy equipment was pushed out on the reef at low tide,
> then the valve and other covers were removed.

One of my professors told stories of this kind of thing after the war
ended. New flight jackets piled up and burned, new Hallicrafters
receivers dumped on a runway and run over by a bulldozer. Another old
timer from the Pacific told me about pushing aircraft off a steep
cliff into the ocean with a 'dozer, and off ships at sea by hand.
Wasn't too many years back I saw photos of tanks being shoved off a
barge with a large bucket loader.  Now, there's something you want to
be careful doing.

A few years back I was offered in on a deal for a ship being refitted.
Gear being removed was Collins S-Line stuff along with T-368, R-390*
and a "room full of tubes and spares". I was told the Collins gear was
part of a MARS station. Was too rich for my blood at the time, so I
opted out. But it did surprise me that this stuff was still floating
around out there. Maybe it was a mothballed ship being put back into
service, I'll have to ask the fellow when he gets back from sailing in
the Caribbean.

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ