USS Charles F.
Adams  DDG-2

The following request was made by Jake Fryer. Please reply to him via email if you can supply some information about this.

• "The reason I am E Mailing is Dave Myerly has recieved a request from the Daughter of former Adams ctrew member Cristopher Lemon (FTM1), According to information I have he was a plank owner on the Adams and was transfered in the period 1961/ 1964. Information supplied by Shipmate Lemon's mother to his daughter was that shipmate Lemon died in combat as result of duty on board a ship being hit by enemy fire or by accident on board.(Vietnam)."

I've added a Video Clip section under the "Photos" section.

Below are a few thumbnails of the new Jacksonville Naval Ship Museum store, contributed by ACVA Vice President Jim Aldrich. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger version.

Goldsborough (DDG-20) Association President Pat Taylor sent a summary of the Jacksonville event to his association members and has given me permission to reprint it on this site. For an unbiased account of the event, click on this link. Note that the text is not formatted.

The photo below has been floating around since the beginning of attemtps to save the Adams. Does anyone know the location of the original photo? If so, PLEASE contact me, we would really like to use this photo at future ACVA events. Thank you.

I've had several respond to this request for help, but many of those responses are way over my head because they refer to exterior features of the Adams that I'm not familiar with (I was a storekeeper - my "world" was below decks). So I've decided to try one of the functions of this account that I've never used before - a forum. To access it, click on View my Message Forum. And please be patient while I learn how to manage this.

Also feel free to use the forum for any other discussions you wish to have with fellow former crewmembers. Just keep it clean, this is a family site. Sorry about the ads but they want to charge me extra to remove them.

The DDG-2 Email List is what I use to get important and breaking news out ASAP to former Adams Crewmen and anyone else who wants to be on the list. I was a bit skeptical about how it would go over back when I started it, but it has turned out to be quite popular; I currently have over 240 people signed up (and it's growing daily). I'd like to point out that these are people who asked to be on the list, NOT names and addresses I hijacked.

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The biggest problem I am running into with the list is bad or nonfunctional email addresses. If I receive an application which has a bad address (or if I get a message kicked back when I send out a mailing), I have no way of advising you of the problem. I always send out an acknowledgement when someone signs on to the list - if you don't get that within a few days of your submission, assume you sent me a bad address or your ISP won't let me send a message to you and try again.

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