USS Clifton Sprague FFG-16

Gift from the CO…

Tin Can Sailor Contingency with the CO

Haze gray and underway once again…

Squared away

Forecastle

Leap frog

Riding wet

Riding the waves

Bridge, looking aft

Boatswains Locker

One Armed Bandit

Vertical launcher Arm

Through the bullnose on a timer

Cockpit, Helm, lee Helm all in one..

Old Sailors never grow up..

Pilot House

USS Ainsworth, Bridge

A lost art, skivvy wavers.

20mm phalanx, 6000 rounds per minute

20mm loaded up

Ammo feed for phalanx

Business end of the Phalanx

FF 1090, USS Ainsworth

Fire Control Radar

76 mm

76mm Gun Room and magazine

Inside the 76mm gun house

Throught the breach and down the barrel

76mm rapid fire

Water Cooled and cleaned, 76mm

Sunset at Sea on a navy warship

Main Passageway

AN SQS 56

F-16 diving in mock attack

F-16 flyby

Coming in

Touchdown, lamps on deck

“I have the Con” The skipper let me Con the ship

Man Overboard Drill

All back Full

Burning up the .50 caliber..

Chow Line, Galley pass thru

Mess Deck

After Steering

After steering

Upper deck, starboard side looking aft

Hanger bay

Engineering space

Main Engine Control

Main Engine housing

Main Engine, GE LM 2500

Reefer Deck

Engineman explaining system

JP5 Filter system

Propeller shaft

Pilot Boat

Moran Tugs

capstain

Getting the lines over

FFG-16 tied up and secure