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  Welcome to the SSBN 657

USS FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

Crew Home Page

This web site is dedicated to the men of the Key and their families, and to the 41 for Freedom FBM submarines, anyone else just would not understand.  As George Orwell wrote: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."  The Crew List of the Key contains the names of those men.

Key surfacing from emergency blow drill.  Picture taken from the USS Pulaski. and provided  by RM 1 Pat King.  Picture was taken by ET1 Peter Bentivegna of the 633 - now on eternal patrol.

    Key News   

July 2009 - New Key shipmates added in July 2009. McKiney, George P 68 - 71.  Check crew list for details.

June 2009 - New Key shipmates added in June 2009.  Brzezinski, Scott 74 - 78; DeRyke, Mark 82 - 86; Halscheid, Ronald 71 - 72.  Check Crew List for details.

June 24, 2009 - All of the video tape segments of the Key in 1987/ 88 are now digitized and online. If you reduce your video viewer screen size, it greatly improves the image quality.  Now head back to sea the easy way by clicking here:  Key Videos

June 5, 2009 - Scroll down to see the Key Picture of the Week.  "NASCAR on the Key?"

Key Picture of the Week - a picture is selected from the Key photo area and featured here each week.

 

During patrol many events were dreamed up to help pass the time.  This event looks like it would have been a lot of fun.  Each entry had to make a self-powered car.  Here is shown the NAVET entry in the Car Race. It was powered by the Captain's Cassette Player motor built by Norman Russell.  

 

 

 

 

 

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REUNION 2010

The next reunion of the crew of the KEY will be held in Milwaukee, WI - May 19 - 22, 2010.  

 

That's all the news that's fit to print.  We are always adding new material so check in often.  Below most of the section links on the left side of the page is the date that section was last updated.  Check there to see if anything has been added since your last visit.  This is your site so please contribute content where ever you can.  Send your material to ssbn657@comcast.net.

 

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