Dad told me a story about the early days on the sub chaser SC513. In Hawaii the ship was ordered to patrol the waters around the big island looking for Japanese subs, his newly appointed captain directed them out of the breakwaters and to lower the sonar pipe and for Dad to begin scanning, later as they came back to port the captain failed to account for the tides and in passing through the channel they ran the sonar gear aground and broke off the pipe. They were taking in sea water right in the channel. That put them in dry dock for repairs. 

I believe Dad met his subchaser(just constructed in the northeast), in Long Beach, CA after it transited the Panama Canal on it’s way out into the Pacific. As they needed to stop in the San Francisco Bay on their route they approached the Bay Area and the Golden Gate (after dark) and wanting to avoid the closing of the gates that protected the harbor from submarine penetration, they were unsure about where to make their entry; Dad said that he had to point the way-in for his captain, who was supposed to be the one navigating.  The next morning he said that the newspaper headlined that “somebody had sneaked through the Golden Gate passage,” overnight.

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Samuel Moore Gault

July 21, 1922 – September 20, 2018

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