USS Diodon (SS-349) WestPac 1967
By: James R. Santos 
on Diodon - TMSN(SG) to TM3(SS)

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Here is SKSN(SS) Don Gaddis approaching, in Hong Kong

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Updated 03 Jan 2001 from info given by TM2(SS) Jay D. Mack, crew of '67 & '68

R&R in Hong Kong, B.C.C. is over, and we are about to depart - and experience the fire and flooding at sea on the 2 starboard engine exhausts you see here. in this photo. 

Don is approaching me, answering me that he will snap my picture.  He is holding a multi-purpose wrench used on deck fittings, etc.  He later made SK3(SS) while I was aboard.

Note the following in this photo:

  • Just aft of the Sail, the open After Battery Hatch

  • Closer to us, the open After Engine Room Hatch

  • The Aft Emergency Marker Buoy, also welded in place, just like the forward one

  • The Safety Rail, running from aft of the sail, around the After Engine Room Hatch, and towards the Stern

  • The two starboard (right side) engines are running, warming up (one in Fwd Engine Room, one in Aft Engine Room)

  • The fiberglass clamshells have ended and the teak decking has re-began

  • Just at the bottom center of this photo you can see that After Torpedo Room Torpedo Loading Hatch deck cover

Next, I turn you around to the stern and me.