Looking for info on antique

Comments: I am looking for some info on something I got from my deceased grandmother. I have a brass 12 inch by 6 cylinder with a screw on top. It says ss burlington on it and looks maybe to be a flare or distress kit. It has a tag on the side of it and says coston distess kit. Just looking for some info.

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PF Bisbee Information

Comments: I was on the Bisbee from August 1950 until April 1951. I remember that we blew up a mine when we were Harbor Entrance Control Vessell at Wonson, was probably November or early December 1950. We left Wonson dragging anchor when they lost the port and then we went to Hungnam until just before Christmas 1950. After Inchon landing we went to Sasebo for repairs and then to Manilla where I left for the states in May 1951

Paul Burket

Keywords: PF-46 Bisbee 1951

PF 51, Burlington

Comments: I thought we got the sonar dome knocked off when we were practicing with the hedgehogs. They went off sooner than we the officers thought, our chart was measuring in meters, they figured it was fathoms. Did notcount the rounds we fired back at them in Wonson. How about the trip up to "Songin" when we dropped of the ROK marines behind North Korean lines, early 52.

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I know a PF-51 crew member

Comments: I'm a friend of Jim Kramer, a crew member on PF-51 during the Korean War. He told me about his time on the ship. The part I remember best is his saying that it appeared as if the Russians kept cattle on the ship from the shape it was in while being refurbished.

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Information

Comments: Looking for sailors on the Uss bengington 1950-1951

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PF Bisbee Information

Comments: I am looking for information on the date the USS Bisbee encountered a large Chinese mine, in the shipping lanes between Japan and the Phillipines. It was approximately the week that America invaded Korea, in 1951. I am needing specific or general dates. Thank you.

Keywords: PF46 Bisbee, 1951

Comments: I remember sitting in Wonsan Harbor when a quartermaster read the blinkers comeing from a DD. Suposedly the message said, "If you remember how you got there, back out the same way. You are in an unswept mine field." True or not??? I don' know but I sure started praying.

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Scared s---less

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Sasebo dry dock

Comments: We were towing a sampan that looked suspicious. It broke up from the speed. Heck we could do 17 knots if we got the wind at our back. After trying to sink it with 40MM, Hand grenades etc (couldn't hit the stupid thing)We backed up and rammed the Damn thing. That tore off the sonar dome so we spent some time in Sasebo Yea gojueachi. You talk about Mchales navy. we wrote the book.

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PF's during Korea 1951-52

Comments: I served on the USS Bisbee PF-46 from 1951/August until she was decommissioned, then went to the USS Burlington PF-51, I served on her till decommissioning and remember training part of a Thai crew and always thought that was where she went but now find out she went to Colombia, same as the Bisbee. I have many fond memories of PF duty, the comment about the main battery brings back memories in Wonsan harbor where upon recieving counter battery fire we replied with 272 rounds in 3 minutes with the shells landing anywhere from 500 or so feet from shore to 1500 feet up the mountain, not much for accuracy but we did burn the paint off all three 3" 50's. Could go on and on but better not

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Burlington Shipmates Search

Comments: To any sailors of the USS Burlington;

I am searching for any former sailors of the Burlington who served aboard the ship in 1950,51. I am doing this for my father, Richard Creek, who at the time was from Eagle Grove, Iowa. Please contact me at my e-mail address if you can help. It would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Richard Creek, Jr.

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USS BURLINGTON

Comments: USS BURLINGTON, JAMES DAUGHERTY,

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