photos 1970s

These are photos taken in the 1970's on the KEY or during off-crew times. They are thumbnails so you can click on them for a full size image. If you have some pics to share, send them to Russ at ssbn657@comcast.net.

Angles & Dangles 1971 Harry Baker is standing straight, the boat is heading down.	Launch Operations Station Wayne Roske, Russ Christie, David Hall at launcher.	Blue Nose Night 1970 blue crew Jim Belew, Ron Shouse, Russ Christie, Dave Kearney, A-ganger?
Ship's weathervane Panama Canal 1972 Marlin McDougall MT2. We had to wake him to go topside for the cookout. He was thrilled:-)	Topside Line 6 Russ Christie- center, A-weps Fred Clayton on right	Panama Canal transit 1972. USS Edison is in the background. They made us clear the decks for the picture. Someone forgot to tell the Edison crew. This picture is in the 1974/75 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships.
l to r: Dave Kearney, Russ Christie, Gary Storm 1971 starboard aft missile middle level.	Dave Kearney, Vebber at Launcher during drill - 1971	l to r: Bob Rude, Jim Belew, Ron Shouse at Launcher 1971
Looks like Bob Rude and Dave Kearney at Launcher 1971	l to r: Jim Belew, Bob Rude, Dave Kearney at Launcher 1971	Clyde Lewis at Launcher 1971
l to r: Ken McCracken, Clyde Lewis, Dan Miller at Launcher 1970	Danny Miller in torpedo room 1970 - Submitted by Ron Shouse	l to r: Ken McCracken, Clyde Lewis, Ron Shouse at Launcher 1970
Ron Shouse in torpedo room where he belonged - permanently.	Ron Shouse in torpedo room berthing area.	Tom Cruise? No - just Shouse again.
Lounge rats - 1970	Missile Compartment berthing - with Playboy magazine on the bottom rack.	Re-enlistment ceremony in Key off-crew office 1972. l to r: XO Richardson, Capt Bump, Russ Christie, A-Weps Fred Clayton, Weps Ron Kimmel, Chief Windsor -COB.
Holy Lock 1970/71 submitted by Gary Youngwirth. Dry dock in the background	Next to the tender in Holy Lock 1970/71/ Looks like Mike Pomarez on duty.	Key passing Ft Sumter in Charleston, SC
Harry Baker at Launcher - November 1972 according to calendar in background	Harry Baker - Panama Canal Lock #2. Cookout was underway in background	Jim Belew, Russ Christie and Dave Kearney, 1971- haircuts
Torpedo Room gang Blue 1971 back to front, l to r: TM1 Ray, Danny Miller, Gary Storm, Roger LaBarre, Ron Shouse, Jack Tasony	Ron Shouse Blue Nose 1971	Clyde Lewis in Scotland
Vaughn "Skippy" Stahl SK blue crew 1971	Can't remember name, blue crew 1971 in Scotland	Dan "Mole" Mullen 74/75ish
Refueling stop at the Azores in 1970. Submitted by Bil Hole.	Casino night on patrol 1970	New Year's party 1970. CO Yarger pops a bottle of champagne.
Champagne for everyone - hic	CO Yarger and XO Harner toast the New Year with the crew on patrol 1970. Submitted by Bil Hole.	Capt Yarger toasting, XO Harner still pouring. Messcook Stan behind Capt Yarger, toasting. CS3 Gregg Snell to the right of XO Harner with somebody's cup partially hiding his face.
Rick Stiger standing topside watch 1973. Swim Call 1973		Ron Shouse cleaning the crapper after his golden flapper - 1973. Submitted by Rick Stiger
Capt Bump taking the plunge during swim call in 1973	Nice picture of CO Bump topside 1973	Joe DePasquale mess cooking - the hardest job on the boat - bar none.
Men overboard! - No just swim call again.	Ron Shouse during swim call - or maybe sleepwalking - 1973	Chief Nordahl is standing straight as we take a 10degree up angle. Notice the level of the bug juice on the counter.
10 degree down angle in the galley. Notice the angle of the hanging cooking utensils on the bulkhead and (I think) Gregg Snell (left) hanging on to whatever's on the stove	Topside lookout	Panama Canal 1972 - Bremerton Bound
Gus Peterson in 1971. Read about him in Eternal Patrol	Gus Peterson and Tom Courtien Sept 12, 1971 in Rota at BBQ	Mike Robertson and Tom Courtien at Launcher in 1971.
Gus Peterson and "Coz"	1971 Rota barbeque during Gold Crew quarantine for Larry Cole's death. Weps Off Lt Tom Broderick center with beard.	RM2 Tom Anderson in torpedo room where he bunked and worked part time. Only radioman I know of that slept in the torpedo room.
1973 Cape Kennedy DASO. Telemetry mast up. Gold Crew. Submitted by Greg Weber.	Greg Weber 1973 on patrol, NAV Center	Greg Weber next to the Simon Lake in Rota early 70's.
NAV Center. SIMS on left side looking aft	Greg Weber heading to the slop shoot. Phil Crump topside watch.	Weber getting dolphins from CO Forsythe in 1971
Half way night spring 1974 Gold	Promotions on patrol in fall 1974 Gold crew - CDR Beard, XO, Weber, Engineer LCDR Jones, Steve Roche	Half Way Night spring 1974 Gold submitted by Steve Roche
Chief Peterson and Chief Harris - COB	CO Beard and more...	CO Beard gives Steve Roche a Keyman award for pulling the crapper valve when sanitary 1 was being blown.


	Spill drill?

IC Roche in IC Alley in ULOPS	CO Beard and Chief Peterson	Carroll Coon in center. Read about him in Eternal Patrol.
Key tied up at Lambert's Point DEPERMing Staion, Norfolk 1974	Key tied up at Lambert's Point DEPERMing Staion, Norfolk 1974	Key at the Norfolk DEPERM pier
Key leaving Charleston for Port Canaveral, FL - COB Harris topside. Taken by Bob Sminkey 1974. Picture taken from the Machinery 1 hatch.	The second picture of the decks awash go with the first picture I sent labeled Key leaving Charleston for Canaveral. I remember the Captain Beard yelling down to the COB to get below NOW! They were having a problem with one of the line locker bolts. I was stationed at the Mach 1 hatch ready to shut it if a big roller came across the deck. It was actually funny. The COB forgot to undo his harness from the deck traveler track and was halfway down the hatch when he realized what he had done. By the time he got back up on deck and unhooked, and back down the hatch, we took on a lot of water down the hatch. We all had a lot of water to clean up in Mach 1. What great fun we had!	From Ron Shouse: Mike Holden was STS3 (ss) we were roommates one off crew. He went to sonar C school while we went to the yard and I believe he may have been transferred back to the Key Gold while it was in Charleston . I remember he was in Charleston while I was an instructor at Sub School . His daughter was born on Ashley Phosphate Road while rushing to the Charleston Hospital , and he and his wife Debbie named her Ashley Phosphate Holden. It really looks like Mike and the picture is in Sonar ! I would bet it is him ! I believe I have some other pictures of him somewhere to compare against, beard and all.
MT 2 Skip Masker becoming an MT1. Charleston, SC 1975 from CDR Hastie	Middle Level Missile by ELT Shack, Medical and Supply.	Warren Bennett and Mike Robinson at Launcher 10/71 Gold Crew
Key in floating drydock in early 1971 in Holy Lock.	Key in Rota in late 1971 next to tender.	FTG2 Richard Andis in the torpedo room.
MMC Mike Turner Gold A-gang	MTC Joe Wright sorting the re-issue of cracker jack suits with COB Len Reneau, Bob Bethel and QMC John Troia.	DC Meeting. Chief Turner with QM2 Jeff Walter sitting on right rear. Don Lennex on right, Ethan Slee, Marty Weaver and Mac McDonald
CO George Mensch and Richard Tojek	Richard Andis, COB Len Reneau Gold Crew with midshipman on planes. 1978	Cape Canaveral just prior to first Trident launch. 1978
Trip to Halifax 78/79	Trip to Halifax 78/79	XO LCDR Jack Johnston at door on right, MCM Jay Bloom on left, Skip Singer kneeling, LT Douglass MPA on right. ET1 Steve Crannell on phones, Jay Wells was next to phone talker but not shown.
First Trident I being loaded.	Looks like the loading of the first Trident I missile into the Key.	Topside - open missile hatch. Note the markings on the hatch.
AMR1 looking aft. Those are MG sets, and its spill time. I see a dosimeter on the starboard MG set and a plastic cleanup bag taped there.	Pre launch of first Trident I missile. Click Identified above for more details.	Midshipmen coming aboard for tour and short cruise between first and second Trident launch.
Key lookouts - Don Lennex and Ron Bowden leaving port in late 1970's.	Mark Zgela A-Div Gold Crew at the BCP in late 1970s.	Leaving Weapons Station in Charleston, SC.
Left is AWEPS LT Pittman, in skirt is Jerry Peterson. At right is LT Straight. Performing a half way night skit.	See picture to the left for details	See left most picture for details.
Midshipman is Mark Swarthout who I found on Nov 18, 2006 on the internet. He mentioned the Key on his personal web site so I e-mailed him and ask if he was in any of the pictures of midshipmen	Left side is Dave Sparks, Right side with fork is Don Lennex, Mark Paul is looking down. Roger Kulavich is on the left of Don Lennex, the guy with the fork in his mouth.	Larry Hildebran, Terry Gulczynski, Brian Hubert, Don Galedo Gold Crew line handlers 1978
Joe Wright Diving officer, Marty Weaver by ladder, Don Lennex on planes with beard.	Gold Crew fixing problem in reactor compartment. Roger Barnes looking in bag.	Alfonso FTG3 on Gold Crew 1978
Line Handlers - Gold Crew 1978/79	Looks like Halifax harbor but could be Annapolis	Line handlers Gold Crew 1978/79
USS Stanley being torpedoed by the Key during an exercise in 1976ish. Sent by Tim Brooks	Chris Moffett & Larry Kielion topside during MK48 certs in 76.	Qm2 Tim Brooks - blue crew - on flying bridge during MK48 certs in Bahamas.
Gary Furst getting some sun during MK 48 certification in Bahamas	Gene Hunt in luxurious crew berthing on Key.	QM2 Tim Brooks airing out the armpits after running out of deodorant.
Wonderful liberty beach in Bahamas during MK 48 certs. The sign reads: Swim at own risk. Shark season in progress. Notice the crowd.	Talk about luxury, berthing on tender for sub crews. At least Tim Brooks did not have far to go...to go.	Dennis Pyne, cook on the Key now deceased, and LarryKeilion
Tim Brooks ready for R&R. Did we really ever dress like that?	Steve Melton, Quartermaster and horse lover. Note the Key plaque on the wall.	Ward Room set for dinner circa 1979
USS Canopus- Go to Sea Stories to read about the fire on the Canopus when Key was along side	Richard Andis, FTG1 76 - 80 Gold. Richard found this site in Jan of 2007 and recognized this picture. Says it looks more like his 20 year old son now.	Looks like Billy Plucket.
Captain Bump about to take a dip. 1974	NY Senator Moynihan cake. He visited the Key after first Trident launch. Len Reneau - COB - I gave the senator a tour of the boat. At the Li-Br Plant he said the boat was real shiny. He was a 2nd class BM in WW2. That's about the only thing I remember about him. I believe we were at the cape at the time.	Officer in corner is Lt Douglass, also Richard Tojek facing camera. ET1 Steve Crannell on left.
Capt Mench wanted it up. It was the second battle E of 5 in a row.	Launcher area in late 1970s.	Jim Belew and Dave Kearney give Russ Christie a haircut in 1971.
Darrel Tate & Mike Saucier Panama Canal 1972	Supply officer Howard Richardson III and SKC Bennji Evans - Gold Crew 1974.	Robert Yager ca 1971
Capt Beard is in the center of this picture in the back.	The guy with his hand on his head is Dave Fuller MM2, ELT - about 1974	Swim Call in 1977.
Ron Marchand in sunglasses getting a "slider" during swim call in 1977	TM Roger Wagner is under the planes on shark duty during 77 swim call.	Jim Belew and Ron Shouse circa 73/74
RM2 Priece Rich getting his dolphins from CO Beard in 1974	2nd from left is RM Priece Rich, MT Marlin McDougall (shaking the Co's hand) both making E5 from CO Bump during Overhaul #1 in Bremerton 1972	2nd from left is RM Priece Rich, far right is MT Marlin McDougall both making E5 from CO Bump during Overhaul #1 in Bremerton 1972
Topside lookout	Priece Rich on bus to Charleston Airport at start of patrol cycle 1976	RM2 Priece Rich Topside in 1976 probably during sea trials.
Captain Percy Beard - Gold Crew 1974	ETCS(SS) Weich. 1974 - on Eternal Patrol	Tim Brooks - waiting for a bus?
FTG2(SS) Terry Asher	IC2(SS) Paschall	IC1(SS) Carroll Coon (Liberty Bus from site 2) - on eternal patrol
MM2(SS) Dalriphal (spelling incorrect)	OlsonMM2(SS)	MM2(SS) Kevin Donahue
MM2(SS) Rodrego Barnes and IC2(SS) Phil Carson	BrandonMM2(SS) Thayer (back), MMCS(SS) Gus Peterson (middle) , and ET1(SS) Wallace (front)	MM3(SS) Brandon
MM3(SS) Bryant (1975)	MS2(SS) Thayer and MS1(SS) Rimando (sitting front)	PN3(SU) McConnell
QM2(SS) John Carroll	QM3(SS) Chapman and IC2(SS) Scullion.	QMSN(SS) Joe Gann and SN(SU) Kenyon.
RM3(SS) Keith answering the question "Which finger doesn't hurt?"	STS2(SS) Bradshaw	STS3(SU) Pink.
Priece Rich found this picture of himself in the WHO? photo area taken in 1974 during halfway night celebrations on patrol.	Guy with the camera is Chuck Tremaine, circa 1974 Gold Crew.	(left to right) MM3(SS) Gary Bryant, MM2(SS) John Callison, QM3(SS) James Chapman (in Rota) 1974
	CO Hastie and Ken Davidson Key Blue 1976	Ken Davidson
	Ken Davidson	Tim Brooks in center
Ever wonder what the backup was in the event we couldn't launch the missiles?	Ken Davidson in Nav Center	Ken Davidson and DAN McRae - Don't ask - don't tell.
	Bill Furlong, Ken Davidson and Connie Baisemorein center in Nav	James Cortell "BRUTUS"
Tim Brooks on right		Ken Davidson
Dan McRae	Ken Davidson in Nav Center	Ron Newton
Connie Baisemore - Nav center 1974ish	James Toth

Several of the photos on this page were found by YN Jeff Buss during the second Key Overhaul. Here is the story of how he found them.

Jeff Buss sent us the 50 photos below which he found on the Key. We need your help in identifying the people, places and events taking place. Here is the e-mail accompanying the photos: