A Few Items from the January Meeting

Here are a few items of interest from the January meeting.

2011 Holland Club:

The Seattle Base Holland Club inductees for 2011 are: Joe Berry, Dick Gonzales, Robert Lange, Don Ross, and Don Ulmer.

Joe, Dick, and Don Ulmer were at the January meeting to pick up their certificate and patch, they also shared a few stories from their time in the Navy.

The Holland Club is for USSVI members that have been designated "Qualified in Submarines" for fifty years or more. The Holland Club was named after John Philip Holland an engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the U.S. Navy.

January Program:

USS H-1 from the pigboats.com website

 Ric Hedman gave a great presentation about William Delamain, a submariner who died during the grounding of the USS H-1 in 1920. Ric researched the Delamain's life and service with James Haas, who had been looking for more information about Delamain for his hometown American Legion when he came across Ric's website. The program also included a history of USS H-1 and a pictorial tour of an H class submarine.

Ric has posted William Delamain's story on PigBoats.com, along with information and pictures of the H class submarines.

Thanks to Ric for sharing this story with all of us.

Good of the Order Notes:

Good Search
Would you like to help USSVI and the USSVI Charitable Fund without any cost to yourself? You can do that by using Good Search as your search engine an entering USSVI or USSVCF as your organization of choice.

Good Search is a Search engine like Yahoo or Google, with a major difference. Every time you use the site to do a search, they make a note of the organization you've chosen. Every December Good Search sends a check to that organization with the amount sent based on the number of searches done through Good Search. Good Search is a Yahoo service.

All you need do is go to the Good Search page (http://www.goodsearch.com), then make it one of your favorites. Once you have located the site you will see a block that asks: “WHO DO YOU GOODSEARCH FOR?” Just type “USSVI” or “USSVCF”, click VERIFY and we are in business. You are getting the information you are looking for and Submarine Veterans is receiving a donation. It doesn’t get any easier than that.

You can also use the Good Shop service on the website and your selected organization will receive a percentage of the purchase as a donation. They have thousands of reputable merchants in the program including, WalMart, Sears, Target, Office Depot, Staples, Lowes, and on and on.

Be sure to pass the information about this service on to your family and friends to get them to sign up too.

Plankowner Ring
The Mount Vernon Police are circulating a note saying they have recovered a Plankowner ring (a silver ring with a blue stone) from the USS Ohio (SSBN 728). If you know someone that might be the owner, please have them contact the Mount Vernon Police.