REFUELING AT SEA
photo courtesy Bill Cook, ET2 USS Tidewater 1962-1965 USS Tidewater refueling

ere is another view of the Tidewater refueling on its way back from the Med in 1965. The ship at the left is a supply/fuel ship. There is danger in this photo as a hose is hanging suspended from a guy wire strung between the Tidewater and the supply ship. The helmsmen of both ships had to steer a true course so that the hose would remain suspended above the water and not snap or get deep-sixed. The ship in the center is a destroyer, one of several in our flotilla headed for Norfolk.

Just another event-filled day at sea in the life of sailor in the Atlantic fleet.

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