A gauge boards for one of the 10 diesel powerplants aboard USS Nereus.
In the aft engine room on USS Nereus
Breaker panel with a hand-written note in the Aft Engine Room on Nereus.
Two of the remaining bunks in a berthing area. USS Nereus.
Dyna-Wash Washing Macine in the laundry room. USS Nereus.
Head, USS Nereus.
Berthing area, USS Nereus.
Huge chain in cosmoline in one of the machine shops, USS Nereus.
Machine shop, USS Nereus.
Orange grinder, USS Nereus.
A machine right out of the industrial revolution. USS Nereus.
Giganic spot-welder on USS Nereus.
Hatch to the Aft Engine Room USS Nereus.
Charlie Brown and the gang, compressor room, USS Nereus.
Distilling plant boiler blower controls, USS Nereus.
I believe this was a decompression chamber, USS Nereus.
Telephone, USS Nereus.
Tom Horsfall removing a maker's plate from an Allis-Chalmers DC Motor.
Control room for the forward engine room on USS Nereus.
Detail of some of the controls in the control room USS Nereus.
A curious device. USS Nereus.
Aah, it's a torpedo gyro mechanism adjusting stand...that's what I thought. USS Nereus.
This is where it was located. USS Nereus.
USS Mispillion's foremast.
Pressure gauge on the deck of USS Mispillion.
Fuel transfer line gantry, USS Mispillion.
I believe this is the side of the forward house on USS Hassayampa.
Tank access on USS Hassayampa
Bow of USS Hassayampa
Looking aft down the starboard side of USS Hassayampa.
Deck machinery, USS Mispillion.
The bow of the Hughes Mining Barge
The ever-smaller rows of ships at SBRF. The crane barge pulls up to the ex-Exxon Gettysburg.
Looking forward on the main deck of USS Mispillion.
I went back over to USS Nereus, because I forgot my hard hat there. This is the upper 5" gun mount.
...and the lower 5" gun mount.
Nereus's bow.
I believe this is looking forward at the starboard, aft corner of USS Hassayampa's forward house.
Starboard side of USS Mispillion's forward house, showing the "San Miguel Express" logos, and the signal shack.
Starboard side of USS Mispillion's forward house, showing the "San Miguel Express" logos, and the signal shack. Not the tattered remains of the wing awning.
Looking aft down USS Mispillion. The USS Hassayampa is on the left, and the Hughes Mining Barge on the right.
USS Mispillion's signal shack.
USS Mispillion's bow.
USS Mispillion's signal shack
The "San Miguel Express", USS Mispillion.
MARAD workers sweeping paint chips on the USS Kawishiwi to keep the enviro-nazis happy. Your tax dollars at work.
USS Mispillion's flag bag.
USS Hassayampa's rear gantry and rear house.
USS Mispillion's bow
Looking out from the USS Mispillion we see the USS Hassayampa, USS Kawishiwi, USS Ponchatula and USS Nereus.
USS Mispillion's signal shack again.
Signalmen on duty, USS Mispillion
The raided drawers of USS Mispillion's signal shack.
The raided drawers of USS Mispillion's signal shack....doors closed to reveal the art work.
Tattered remains of USS Mispillion's wing awning.
USS Mispillion rudder angle indicator.
San Miguel Express again.
Bridge, looking starboard to port, USS Mispillion.
CO's chair, bridge, USS Mispillion.
Bridge, looking port to starboard, USS Mispillion.
Tank deck, USS Mispillion.
Diesel Generator, USS Mispillion.
Emergency diesel gen, USS Mispillion.
Antennas and other items piled up inside USS Mispillion.
HUGE chain in cosmoline, on a pallet, USS Mispillion.
CO2 cylinder racks, USS Mispillion.
Sea Shadow inside the Hughes Mining Barge.
Looking forward inside the HMB.
Gantry beneath the Sea Shadow.
Forward end of one of Sea Shadow's pontoons.
Returning to the dock after a day's scavenging.
One of the largest rows of ships left at SBRF...old steam-powered break-bulk ships, mostly.
The ex-President Tyler of the American Presidents Line. She was a hybridized breakbulk, container, passenger ship. Very beautiful lines, but a dreadfully unsuccessful ship, in terms of turning a profit.
