Monday, February 11, 2008

Welcome veterans, sailors and passengers of The USS General Harry Taylor or The USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg as The Gen. Harry Taylor became known in later life.  The Vandenberg Project is in search of photographs and other memorabilia from your time at sea.  We want to hear your stories as well. You can share here, in this blog or at www.bigshipwrecks.com.

6 comments:

wnygrl585 said...
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Anonymous said...

i served on the vandenberg from july to december of 1969. spent some time off the coast of the kamchatka penninsula. i was ship`s company, an electrician, so i had no idea what all that telemetry stuff was. kind of suprised to see the old girl was still afloat.
hugh whiting

Anonymous said...

My dad, Larry Webb, was a crewmember on her first sailing to New Guinea; earned his Shellback. If he were still alive, I know I'd see his "near" chuckle hearing the ships fate.
Interesting that she transported Hungarian, after the revolution. My wife is Hungarian. Now he's snickering...
May she serve well.
DJ Webb

Unknown said...

In 1956, the year I was born, I made my first Atlantic crossing on the USNS General Harry Taylor, departing from Bremerhaven and arriving in Brooklyn. My mother was bringing me home from Paris, where my father was stationed as a soldier in the US Army. Of course, I have no memory of the voyage, but my mother remembers sharing a cabin with other Army wives, watching movies onboard, and most of all, seeing the Statue of Liberty from the ship.

thinggtwoo said...

My husband's Mother's family traveled from Austria to New Orleans, LA on the USNS Taylor in October of 1950 - I am hoping to find more information about their voyage!

wnygrl585 said...

I was passenger on the Hoyt. Came over in oct 1950 with my mom at the age of 3 from Bremmerhaven De