Stories of Historical Signigicance Stories about USS Ray contributed by former crew members.
Stories are unedited email.
I will only make changes when I believe the information is classified. During commissioning cruise shakedown, we wound up having to spend a few nights at NAS Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. But the harbor water was clean and full of fish, so half the crew wound up getting smashed the first night and swimming off the stern, where the duty section was fishing for sharks. The O-gang went to their club and got all ticked off cause the flyboys treated visiting submariners like slime that came ashore somehow. The chiefs repaired to the very nice NAS goat locker and more or less stayed out of trouble the first night.