Photos of younger Navy days: 

 

                                 USS Robert H. McCard DD 822, Charleston, S.C., November 1960

 

I used this photo on the back cover of the paperback, and the back inside cover of the hardback of my novel BLACK OIL CHIEF, USN.  I did not want my name on this photo because the primary purpose is to show the BURNER BARREL that I was inserting in a burner on the saturated side of an "M-type" boiler, because burner barrels, "saturated side" and M-type boilers are mentioned repeatedly in the first quarter of the novel.

 

I recall that me and Paul G. Blaizdell (Paul, if you run across this, e-mail me, huh? Let me know what you have been up to all these years) were taking photos in the forward fireroom on the McCard.  Here's another one of us, holding a burner barrel without the tip nut and nozzle on the end of the barrel. Maybe I should have used this photo instead of the one above:

 

 

This one is on the upper level, same fire room:

 

 

 

 

This one in Athens, Greece, "Mr. Navy" at the Acropolis (did I mis-spell this) on my first Med Cruise:

 

 

USS Robert H. McCard DD 822 @ sea, circa 1961?  In front of Mount 53 aft

 

Home on leave early 60s. Pictured is (left) Travis Morgan, who was in the Army, my mother, then myself.

 

1967 or there about. Newport, Rhode Island

 

 

And while I'm thinking about it, consider buying my book, BLACK OIL CHIEF, USN.  It was taken from years of experience aboard ships and the sea:

                                              

                                            

                                                   

 Thanks. I would appreciate any feedback on the novel, good or bad.