Not many sea stories to tell on a Yard Tug, but it was good duty.  We would have to eat chow at the Base Mess Hall unless we could scrounge up enough food that we didn’t have to.  Usually about two or three times a week we would go down the docks and bum chow from the subs. You guys were pretty good to us.

As you can see in the pictures, we were assisting the Gilmore. The Bushnell and the Gilmore would rotate about every 6 months; in fact we would call them building 15 &16. Our tugs worked a lot with the Coast Guard. I was an ENFN on the Tug. There were 3 tugs, two YTB’s and 1 YTL.  There were two small boats and an Admiral’s Barge. They were used primarily by Special Services for fishing trips on the weekends for the “brass.”  As a snipe I could go anytime I wanted to because they had to have at least 1 snipe on board. Occasionally we would get to fish also.