[SOC] Beer Slobs

[David Ring]

Incidentally, it was the trip that "Marine Electric" was scheduled to be
taken out of service.  Truly a "last ship" for some.  There is a great book
"Until the Sea Shall Free Them" that was written about the SOS and the later
history making USCG Marine Casualty Board.

73
DR

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:56 AM, David Ring <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:

> And then again, there is the mysterious "33" on the back label of "Rolling
> Rock" a very light but excellent tasting lager from Latrobe, PA.  Was it the
> end of Prohibition?  A way to say "all my love" without the mushiness of
> "88" as some have suggested?
>
> The last transmission of Radio Officer Albion Lane from the sinking "Marine
> Electric" call sign WOOH in 1983 was "33".  Al had a wonderful signal and I
> used to listen to him in the mornings coming up and down the coast from VA
> to MA (they were a coal carrier for the Massachusetts Electric generation
> plant in SE Coast of Massachusetts.   He would call either USCG VA or USCG
> MA with his WX observation messages with a great fist on a hand key and nice
> crisp modulated cw (mcw).   He was the last to die before the two or three
> survivors were rescued by USCG in a terrible storm off of VA coast.
>
> 73
> DR