Ed Bolen's Ashland Photographs
Ed Bolen ET1 1953-56
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Here's the first sea plane being loaded aboard USS Ashland at Bermuda. The color of this slide was awful, so here it is in B&W.
This picture was taken the afternoon we arrived at the Portsmouth Ship Yard, Kitery, ME, on Armed Forces Day, 1956? The ship was opened for visitors after some of the crew was allowed Liberty. The Gunners weren't arround to notice this scene!
It's the infamous cable barge returning to the well deck after unloading it's cargo between the beach and the RC4.
Here's the Cable Layer involved with the Ashland and the Cable Barge in
Kitery, ME. This was May, 1956.
Ashland entering the drydock in 1955 or 1956. Jimmie says it is the Keystone Drydock in Philadelphia, 1955. Ed says it is Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock, Baltimore, early 1956. Note the man wearing his coat. Those on the dock are in "blues". Comments please.
While the Ashland was at the Portsmouth Ship Yard in Kittery, ME to pick up the cable barge, we had the opportunity to observe the Albacore, the experimental
submarine that was the predecessor of the nuclear boats.
This page updated January 17, 2001
