Possible site in Long Beach

The Long Beach area is another location the Navy Support Museum could be located. Near the Queen Mary Memorial is a small mooring area that could be used for the Oiler USS Kawishiwi AO-146. At the bow of Queen Mary is a Soviet Submarine. If that submarine can be located there, why couldn't our oiler. See: LONG BEACH AREA

Five Councils now in museum study

Five councils will now be studying a proposal to create a museum on the main land for the navy support ships. They are Alameda, Blueback Submarine, Santa Barbara, Long Beach and Hawaii. The Navy Supply Corps and Navy League D.C. office also will receive thoughts on the subject. Even a comment about proposal has been posted on the USNI Blog under Kitty Hawk: http://blog.usni.org/

The Navy Oiler has been
the dominate image on The Bluejackets’ Manual

A forth council has offered help in creating a NAVY SUPPORT MUSEUM. It is the Santa Barbara council. Right now they are engaged in the commissioning of USS Stockdale in April 2009.

Navy League Councils Study Oilers

Three councils will be studying a proposal to create a museum on the main land for the navy oiler ships. They are Alameda, Blueback Submarine and Hawaii. The Navy Supply Corps and Navy League D.C. office also will receive thoughts on the subject. You can view status page at: http://navy.memorieshop.com/Bremerton/Support-REQUEST.html

Native American NAMED RIVERS

600 years ago Native Americans enjoyed the clean waters of our nations rivers. They also utilized black thick liquids for health remedies. In other parts of the world this black liquid was called oil. Soon settlers came to north america and started to use this native oil and even drilled deep to establish our nations first oil wells. As years passed this oil was refined into an oil that produced heat in our nations ships, turning water into steam to power our ships. World war times made it necessary to carry this oil in special ships and transfer the needed oil to surface war ships while they were moving far out at sea. These ships were plentiful and it seemed they produced rivers of oil out to sea. They were not called tankers, they were called oilers. It became standard for the navy to name these oilers after rivers that Native American's named.
SEE: http://navy.memorieshop.com/Support-Ships/Rivers.html

Kawishiwi Commander

View bio of our 61-62 commander Joe Vasey now living in Hawaii at http://navy.memorieshop.com/Vasey/index.html Joe gave an interesting interview about John McCain