Category Archives: Members

Bush/Gorbechov Summit 1989

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Shipyard Toulon, France

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Collision Nov. 22, 1975

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DLG in the early 60’s from ST1 Ken Wray

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Belknap Early Years

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Shipmate Links

Want to spice up your Bar-B-Que? Our shipmate, Bill Staley, has winning Cook-off products.

Check out Shipmate Bill Race’s winery

Check out Sam Bowers Restaurant

Want to read a good book while the author, (Tage Wright, a fellow shipmate), donates 50% of his profits to the Wounded Warriers Project? Check out “The Armageddon” by Tage Wright on the Books by Shipmates Page

Shipmate submissions

from Ross Hatch – WW2 Hero laid to rest without a shred of publicity – Shameful!
from 1964 Plankowner Jim Gensch – “I was a Sailor”
from Jim Farrow & Jeff Sand – “The Navy”
from Dick Lemon Ode To Sailors Everywhere
1967 poem – RDC Brenner’s Christmas in Nam
added 05/24/2009 – Stephen Cook’s Poem
added 12/17/2012 – Jim Griffitt’s OLD SAILORS POEM
added 12/22/2012 – A Sailor’s Christmas – poem located by Jerry Mullins
from Dick Shafer –  Why I Attend Navy Reunions
from Jim Farrow – Shipmates

Links of Interest

FAVORITE LINKS

If any of you are interested in building your own BELKNAP kit, there are three sites which offer an option:

· www.badshipmodels.com – A 68” version 1/98 scale model

Model plans for USS Belknap

These links are well worth looking at, especially for those with idle fingers and grandkids who want to see the beauty of our BELKNAP!
MORE LINKS:

Government Office Locator

At Sea Aboard the Zumwalt

Where is the last USS Arizona Big Gun. The state of Arizona has it. See the Memorial Video

The USS FREEDOM LCS-1 Deployed 2 years early! (added 2-26-2010)

USS Rowan DD782 – The last night battle action-Haiphong 1971

NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER Online Library of Selected Images: Pearl Harbor See one of our nation’s defining moments. Pause and reflect on the events of that fateful day in 1941 which awakened the ‘sleeping tiger’.

Remembering Pearl Harbor, an excellent resource, detailing events with photos.

“Before you go” A Tribute to World War 2 Veterans

USS Slater DE766 (The Last DE afloat in the U.S.A.) A floating Museum ship with a wealth of information on-line for new and old Sailors. Please visit the site!

Military.com

Naval Historical Center

NavSource Naval History

The United States Navy

MilitaryTimes dot com

US Navy Cruiser Sailors Association

HC7 SeaDevils

Belknap Crew List at navysite.de

Belknap History at navysite.de

The Goat Locker  CPO Website

Together We Served  Navy Veteran Locator Site