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Topic: Adm. Carl Seiberlich Passed Away
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micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 04-18-2006 07:25 AM
   
Today's Washington Post has the obituary (page B6) of Adm. Carl Seiberlich who commanded the USS Hornet for the recoveries of both Apollo 11 and Apollo 12. He died March 24 of coronary artery disease.Adm. Seiberlich spoke to a group of Space Unit members at the NAPEX stamp show in DC last year. A personable, fascinating man with some great stories of the recoveries, and a fascinating career in addition to the recoveries. He will be missed. [This message has been edited by micropooz (edited April 18, 2006).] |
LT Scott Schneeweis
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posted 04-18-2006 08:02 AM
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Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 04-18-2006 10:27 AM
Here is a link to a recent article about Admiral Carl Seiberlich:
http://www.salamonie.homestead.com/Tab_article1.html Here is the Collect Space thread to the report on the Space Unit meeting which featured Admiral Seiberlich:
http://collectspace.com/ubb/Forum20/HTML/000161.html And the link to the USS Hornet Museum website picturing Admiral Seiberlich During Apollo XI and XII:
http://www.uss-hornet.org/splash/bio-seiberlich.html [This message has been edited by Astro Bill (edited April 18, 2006).] |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 04-18-2006 02:26 PM
R.I.P. Admiral......I remember you well when you were Captain of the Hornet.You were a good officer and more importantly, a very good man. |
spaceman1953
Member Posts: 953
From: South Bend, IN
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 04-19-2006 05:30 PM
.This is sad news. Of the very few recovery ship captains I tried to get autographs of, Seiberlich signed VERY fast and was most gracious. |
KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1012
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 04-19-2006 07:34 PM
Had he to do it all over again he'd still be a Navy man, he says, recalling that when the Army came to him, they said, "Join the Army kid, and you get to eat out of your helmet; and the Navy came to me and said, join the Navy, kid, and you get to set at a table." "I told them, 'I'll be one of them!'" And for more than 40 rewarding years, he was. Officer. Gentleman. R.I.P. . |
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