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Originally Posted by RustyBattleship
Sorry guys. But when that picture was taken she had just been towed in from Bremerton as was at the South end of Pier Echo. But as soon as we installed a wide gangway aboard her, about 200 yardbirds stormed aboard her and started work on chipping paint, marking up access cuts, inventoring wood decking that needed replacement, hooking up shore power, running fire hoses to strategic locations, etc.
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I ruled out Pier E because a person can go on top of Bldg 303 or 318 and use a zoom lens to take a similiar picture instead of the hassle of getting a crane there. The only crane operational in that area was the one with the huge rubber tires and it was rarely used. Also, in the upper right hand corner of the picture, there is something out there, maybe some small barge or floats and since Pier E extends well past Pier 1, that stuff would be floating out in the middle of nowhere. If that stuff in the corner of the picture was part of the crane, I still stand by the Pier 1 comment. Lastly, if it was on the south end of E, the picture would have had to have been taken very early in the morning. Riggers, crane operator and photog on south end of Pier E very early in the morning?
Unfortunately I spent 2 months on a staging crew in 1991 (when my shop work got slow) and I know how long it takes to put up staging, and the amount of staging shown took a couple of days from start to finish. The staging people won't carry staging pipes, clamps or wood boards on board the ship, they require it to be lifted on board in an open tray. There's even staging around the optics, or whatever you call them, on the main gun.
As I remember, the ship came in very late in the day and I wasn't going to hang around after work to see it come in. I was working on Pier 3 on a CG and throughout the day, every time I came off the ship I'd look to see if it was in. The Misery came in during the morning to Pier E, west side and I had my little green Misery badge, #957 and went aboard as soon as the brows were put on.
The only way you're going to convince me of the location of this picture is if you can show the rest of the picture with the "Mole" in the background