Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in
:

"I picked up the AD-24

Sorry. AD-24 was the hull number painted on both sides of the bow so the
Israeli gunboats would know what they were shooting at (in 1967) if we
got in range, which we didn't.

Actually it said D24. You were supposed to know it was an "Auxiliary"
ship from it's nearly total lack of guns and electronics. The only way
we scared anyone is if we were about to run them down. We could throw
stuff at them over the side, I suppose.

AD = Destroyer Tender (a floating shipyard to fix destroyers up a fiord
was the idea). 24, the 24th in a short line of such ships, started at
the end of WW2 and never completed....left sitting on the quay until
Korea when they completed her in 1952...Why was never understood. Maybe
it was to get her out of the way to build another boat.

We even have a webpage from one of my shipmates in the Glades
Association:
http://home.att.net/~brisbane-adams/

Adams was in the DASH antisub helo program they hid on Glades over my
shop...(c; I saw it fly, briefly, ONCE....a total boondoggle.


Larry
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