USS MOINESTER FF-1097, while homeported Norfolk, VA ~ early'85
3 original sea-stories

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Welcome to the Mickey-Moe Homepage, while MickeyMoe was our affectionate name for our ship, and this is my un-offical personal webpage, OUR Ship was a VERY serious ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) ship that protected Everybody East of the Rockies from a Nuclear Attack launched by Soviet submarines in the Atlantic during our nowhere cruises always searching them out! As a deterrent for the "Detente", our ship went beyond its duty in diligence with many hours, days, and months maintaining an alert patrol against the Ultimate Threat.

More info now that after 25 years ago AND soon after also the collapse of the Soviet Union is to be no longer anything Top Secret about OUR Vigilance, this website will hopefully bring together the Fine Sailors that wish to remember instead of forget as we were told to do, Our silent glory in a Job well done protecting the USA serving during the Cold War.
If you served aboard the Moinester at anytime, please email me at DKDixon@dancom.US
I served aboard 80-85 as QM3 to QM1 Dixon.
I don't have many snapshot photos of the crew, and almost none of myself since the few I got were taken by me.
Scan and send me any photos you may have with permission to post.

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ET2 Hughes has sent to me 67 photos !! Thanks Dale !
Enjoy!! the ET2 Hughes Photo Gallery

HT2 Hagger has sent to me 26 photos !! Thanks Brad !
Enjoy!! the HT2 Hagger Photo Gallery
ALSO, if you have some good non-profit Links about our Ship or Crews, email me to add here:

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Destroyers Escort Sailors Association :
http://www.DESAUSA.org

Voluntary Ship Rosters at HullNumber :
http://www.hullnumber.com/FF-1097

Voluntary Ship Rosters at NavySite :
http://www.navysite.de/ff/ff1097.htm
(Warning: Set your POP-UP blocker to MAX for this site)
Select the period (sorted by reporting year): precomm till 1983 | 1984 till decomm

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HomePort Norfolk
Top of page

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DeckGangFantail. Mid-Atlantic

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After over 20-25 years later, I've decided to write a few short episodes from my 5 years aboard my ship, mainly as to help recollect my memories, for others a brief reminder of the Early 80's ASW duty underway:

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You may download my recent creative writing projects brief sea-stories here:

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BeachDreams.pdf

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Sub-Hungry.pdf

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EasterBunny.pdf

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PLEASE Consider JOINING the Destroyers Escort Sailors Association: http://www.DESAUSA.org as Surviving Sailors from WWII, Korea, Vietnam,
AND the Cold War that share our Navy Experince on similair Ship size and Style with reunions, stories, and Pride.
Comments are welcome!! Email your stories! JOIN DESA! for $20 you'll get a newspaper 5-6 times a year about OUR ships and what our DESA veterans are doing that make us Proud!
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ My ship's motto was "Mare Est Vita Mea"
"The Sea is My Life"

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SOLD to EGYTIAN NAVY as
Rasheed (F962)

USS Moinester (FF-1097) Career (US) Ordered: August 25, 1966 Builder: Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana Laid down: 25 August 1972 Launched: 12 May 1973 Acquired: October 17, 1974 Commissioned: November 2, 1974 Decommissioned: July 28, 1994 Status: Sold to Egypt, renamed Rasheed (F962) General characteristics Displacement: 3,011 tons (3,877 full load) Length: 438 ft (133.5 m) Beam: 46 ft 9 in (14.25 m) Draught: 24 ft 9 in (7.6 m) Propulsion: 2 × CE 1200psi boilers 1 Westinghouse geared turbine 1 shaft, 35,000 SHP (26 MW) Speed: over 27 knots Complement: 18 officers, 267 enlisted Sensors and processing systems: AN/SPS-40 Air Search Radar AN/SPS-67 Surface Search Radar AN/SQS-26 Sonar AN/SQR-18 Towed array sonar system Mk68 Gun Fire Control System Electronic warfare and decoys: AN/SLQ-32 Electronics Warfare System Armament: one Mk-16 8 cell missile launcher for ASROC and Harpoon missiles one Mk-42 5-inch/54 caliber gun Mark 46 torpedoes from four single tube launchers) Aircraft carried: one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter Motto: Mare est vita Mea The Sea is My Life ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~

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Robert William Moinester
Lieutenant (junior grade)
HUE DETACHMENT, NAVSUPACT DANANG, USNAVFORV
United States Navy
15 July 1943 - 31 January 1968
Lynbrook, New York
Panel 36E Line 025 

Robert Moinester Vietnam Wall virtual page

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