photo
courtesy Bill Cook, ET2 USS Tidewater 1962-1965
Pier 17 was the USS
Tidewater's home at Destroyer & Submarine
Piers (D & S) in Norfolk. Here was where we
did our work. Destroyers and sometimes Cruisers
would tie up alongside AD31, throw a gangplank
across the gap between the ships and we'd hike,
sometime 3 or 4 destroyers deep to work on a
radar antenna or in an engineroom. The Tidewater
crew did major repairs on destroyers home ported
in Norfolk. If it could be done without going to
drydock, the Tidewater or one of her sister
tenders were assigned the work. They were busy
days for the crews of 500+ sailors aboard these
tenders.
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