Captain "Skip" Crawford

April 9, 1930....
The Bare Beginnings

1936, Summer.....
Memorial Hospital

1937.....
Encounters With Nature, 

1938 My Meeting With A
Big, (Bigger Than Me)
Black Cougar.

1940 Age 10. Horses, Horses, Horses And Other Animals,

1943, Late Summer.

1944, A New Species of Turtles?

1944 and 1945 8th & 9th grade.

1945. The tale of a Wunderkind
Horse

1945-46-47
TALK ABOUT BEING TRUSTED!

1946 The Start Of My Navy Career.

1947 Passing The Physical.

1950 Trip to Saufley Field

1951 My Junior Year. .
THE GREAT MACHINE THAT HEALED

1952 YEAR ???

1952 Collision? On 9/24

1952  How about my longest watch?

1952 Live Mine

1952 Always Stop The Ship Before Disembarking

1952. July, What did we do before there were stars?

1952 Bucket of Steam

1952 The Drunken Lt. JG

1952 Stopping In 600 FT.

1952 Fall, The Ships Bugler

1952 Christmas

1953 My Career as a submariner.

1953 The Great Battleship Race.

1953 The Mountain Will Come To Mohammed

1953 Rio De Janero

1953 Copenhagen, Denmark

1953 The Day Of The Dolphins

1954 The Great Poker Game

1954 The Man Who Had It All

1954 Saving The
U.S.S. New Jersey

My Time With The 5th. Division
"Fire At The Smoke"

1954 Ship Under Full Sail

1954-1955
The Hurricane Refueling Rig.

1960's

1968 The Lure Of It All

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Skip once said this quotation ran through
his mind many times while at sea standing watch in the middle of the ocean, I think it only fitting that we record it here to commemorate his passing.
We will all miss you Skip,
You were an inspiration to all who knew you.








"Fair winds and following seas "Skip"and long may your big jib draw!"



Francis "Skipper"Crawford Jr.
1930-2010
Skip's Bio
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."
USS Wisconsin BB 64
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