Subject: Glover
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998
From: Mike McCormack
To: Mark Roberts 

Steve Gottleib, an old shipmate of mine steered me to your page on the
Glover (originally hull # DE-1042). I was on board from early September
1966 to March or April 1970 (went to do a destroyer officers school
gunnery cruise on the Norris DD-859). Got off an FTG-2. 

Plus I did an anti-submarine exercise on another DE-1040 class (the name
and hull number escape me at the moment - I think it was the McDonald)
during February 1967. That’s where the ship took a super-wave over the
bow (I had just come off lookout at that time and was messenger on the
bridge) breaking the ASROC launcher locking pin. When trying to pull the
pod back down level with a line to the capstan the line pulled the block right
out of the deck and it hit one of the guys standing there. One of the
Gunners mates had set the brake or something. They took him off by
helicopter to the Randolph, who we were working with at the time. 

I was also the Glover’s un-official photographer and have a ton of photos
from our escapades in the Caribbean and Bahamas Ops areas as well as
those quieter times in Dry Dock #4 - South Boston, Charlestown and
Newport. 



Any interest in specific items? Bow dome - pump jet alongside
refueling from the Randolph - Playboy bunnies in Marblehead??? 



Mike McCormack