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Last one! Thanks for your time!

Another pic

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Great Lakes Bulletin article

Hey all,
I found some notes about all this that I made back then but had completely forgotten about & an article my late Mom got from a local newspaper! She must've wrote a letter to them, to get the article? Article appears in the July 14, 1989 issue of the Great Lakes Bulletin. I did a online ...

Ok, thanks MattM
Do you know if Fred is still with us?

I'm still looking for any other info for that voyage we made?
Does anybody know about the cargo we delivered?
Any former workers from the training academy here?
Any old pilots that might remember us?
I was there, but long time ago, too many ...

I was a crewmember on the "saltie" M/V Dock Express Texas, a small heavy lift vessel that sailed the lakes once!
During the summer of 1989, we loaded a GL-47 Gas Training Turbine Facility in Pasagoula, MS & brought it to the Great Lakes Naval Training Academy in Waukegan.
I remember we anchored off ...