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USS Kamehameha (SSBN 642) Crew List
The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Kamehameha (SSBN 642). Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. If you also served aboard and you remember one of the people below you can click on the name to send an email to the respective sailor. Would you like to have such a crew list on your website?
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There are 359 crew members registered for the USS Kamehameha (SSBN 642).
Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm – 1968 | 1969 – 1972 | 1973 – 1976 | 1977 – 1980 | 1981 – 1984 | 1985 – 1989 | 1990 – 1994 | 1995 – now
| Name | Rank/Rate | Period | Division | Remarks/Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvey, Tim | LT | Feb 1985 – Feb 1988 | M | Made 2 patrols from Holy Loch, the second abbreviated due to lack of fuel, then took her into the yards at PNSY. M Div guys were some of the best I've ever worked with. |
| May, Robert | MM1(SS) | Feb 12, 1985 – Oct 29, 1989 | M-Div | Great times in Scotland and Portsmouth (shipyard). I often think of the many wonder friends that I made while aboard the Kam. I hope life is treating you all as wonderful as I have been blessed. |
| Hoskins, Brad | MMCS | Mar 1985 – Jul 1991 | A Gang | Had a blast on the Kamfish! Lots of good memories and met many of good people. IMUA!!!!! |
| Cortell, James (Brutus) | ETCS/SS | Jul 1985 – Aug 1986 | Nav/Ops | Sixth and last Ship Great Guys made my last year and last two patrols enjoyable Retired now back in hometown Sacramento, CA in the phone book |
| Maines, James | MM1 | Sep 1985 – Jun 1989 | Aux | |
| Colgan, Mark | MM2/SS | Sep 15, 1985 – Jul 26, 1989 | A-Gang | Some of the best memories of my life. Hard to believe it's been 33 years since I left the Kam! Sad to hear about all the shipmates we have lost to date!! Hope everyone is doing ok. |
| Hedden, Brent (Hedbone) | MM3 | Oct 10, 1985 – Oct 9, 1990 | A-Gang | Looking back over all of my commands, the KAM was the tightest crew I have every been associated with! These guys were the best! Even the "wet" crew were a decent bunch... I can still see Captain Jacobi running around with his stopwatc |
| Harris, Frank | ET2(SS) | Oct 18, 1985 – May 6, 1989 | RC | Man did we have a softball team or what!! |
| Chandler, Robert "Bob" | EM1/SS | Dec 1985 – Mar 1991 | E | Blue [dry] crew prior to shipyards; took the boat through the yards, then Gold crew coming out. Fun things done in Holy Loch, extended time in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Port Canaveral. |
| Difusco, Joseph (Vinnie) | STSSN(SS) | Dec 1985 – Nov 1988 | Sonar/deck (HM striker) | Such a scared little boy. Thanks for looking out for me, guys! Miss you all! |
| Pendleton, James | FTBC(SS) | Dec 1985 – Mar 1986 | FTB | Completed my first Poseidon Patrol TAD to the Blue Crew; As a new CPO, I was very cocky, I needed a reality check and humbling experience, thank you all for halfway night - LOL |
| Margetts, Phil | ET2(SS) | 1986 – 1990 | RC | Most of the time at PSNY. All 3 rounds of sea trials. 'Muscle Duck' Comire, 'refueling division', yardbirds trying to burn up the boat with weld soaking heaters, bomb scare in drydock. Oh, and blasting Greenpeace with firehoses. |
| Hollingsworth, Jon | MM2 | Mar 1986 – Jun 1987 | L | Some good and some bad memories. The ship herself was great but I had some conflicts with a few M-Div folks that didn't like that I had arrived with a surface warfare patch on my shirt. Big mistake. |
| Storey, James | FTB2 | Apr 1986 – Nov 1992 | Weapons | Gosh I had a great time with you guys. Met the love of my life in Portsmouth and still married 19 years later. |
| Banasiak, Dwayne | MT2 | May 1986 – Jan 1989 | Missile | Great Experience |
| Spor, Fred | ET1 | Dec 1986 – Aug 1989 | Reactor Controls | |
| Fredrickson, Art | STSCS(SS) | Dec 1986 – Aug 1990 | Sonar | It was cold in PNSY shipyard but we had a great time. Great crew, great parties. |
| Johnson, Robert | EM1(SS) | Dec 17, 1986 – Oct 13, 1991 | Electrical | Lots of memories from the yards and Scotland. |
| McDowell, Greg | FTB2(ss) | 1987 – 1992 | Weapons | Nothing like seeing a ship completely torn apart in the yards, then going to sea on it. Doing the DASO in Florida was one of the best things in my life. IMUA |
| Hoovler, Paul | MT2 | Jan 1, 1987 – Jul 10, 1991 | MT | |
| Deneui, Steve | MM2 | Jan 4, 1987 – Apr 19, 1991 | Came aboard at the beginning of refueling overhaul at Portsmouth Navel Shipyard. Scheduled to be a 18 month refueling thaty stretched into a 3 year ordeal. I subsequently went on three patrols, the last one was during desert storm. | |
| McComiskey, MacK | TM3 | Apr 1987 – Jan 1991 | TM | Looks like I left just before all the real adventure. But it was either get orders or my LPO was gonna have a weapons accident. |
| Migliore, Charles | MM2(SS) | Dec 30, 1987 – Sep 5, 1991 | RL | Refuel, Daso, a few patrols out of holy loch. IMUA |
| Lynn, Marker | STS2/ss | 1988 – 1992 | Sonar | |
| Kenderdine, Dan | EM2 | Jan 1, 1988 – Sep 10, 1991 | Ahh the good old days! I am starting to forget the bad things. | |
| Dalton, Bryon | MM2(SS) | Apr 1988 – Oct 1989 | M | PNSY was not a nice place, especially when going through a refueling overhaul. I have many fond memories of the boat/crew. Crab & lobster fishing off the living barge with Brian, Shawn Sommerkamp, Dave Sangid, Dean Welshans, Dave Santana, & othe |
| Shoemaker, Jeff | EM1 | Jun 1988 – Jun 1992 | Electrical | Never thought I'd sign up on a site like this. Seems like so many days all I thought about was getting off that old can. |
| Agnew, Patrick | ICC (SS) | Jun 1988 – May 1993 | IC | Reported aboard as IC1(SS), for Gold crew, end of refueling overhaul, Last C3 DASO Launch, 2 BOOMER patrols. Advanced to ICC (SS), conversion shipyard to SSN. Great CO and and crew. |
| Simmons, Eric | ET2(SS) | Oct 1988 – Jul 1993 | NAVET | |
| Ackermann, Bill | MMCS | Dec 1988 – Jun 1991 | M Div | |
| Sommerkamp, Shawn | MM2 | 1989 – 1992 | MM2 | |
| Samms, Jeff (Skillet) | MM3 | 1989 – 1992 | A-Gang | Memories! Got qualified, getting DOC to bondo a lost filling in one of my teeth with an emergency dental kit, using a wool blanket during angles and dangles from the mess decks to torpedo room ... Oh yeah, barge fishing & playing 8 ball-LOL |
| Moore, Ron/ronald | IC/3 | 1989 – 1992 | IC | I still have dreams about that (edit.)Some of the best days where there. We all carry a piece of those days. Never more alive till you're living on the edge. And whether we want to admitt it, it was the edge. Glad i did. |
| Cox, Thomas | MM3 | 1989 – 1992 | A-Gang | Good times my friends good times |
| Secrest, Shayne | MS3 | 1989 – 1993 | supply | |
Riddle, Bob  | Ic3 | 1989 – 1996 | Ic | Getting the crew together with fb. Come find us there. Two sites with lots of pics and memories. |
| Bennett, Wesley | EM1 | Jan 11, 1989 – Jun 20, 1992 | Nuke Electrician | I agree Frank, we had an awsome softball team. If anyone else from this time frame remembers me, look me up. |
| Riddle, Robert | IC3 | Mar 1989 – May 1994 | IC | From New hampshire Shipyard, through trials, last ever C3 missile launch, missile load(and following unload), Puerto Rico, Panama Canal, Mare Island Shipyard and on to Hawaii. Shellback and Order of the Ditch |
| McAloon, Dan | MS2/SS | May 1989 – 1991 | Supply | |
| Hitt, Billy | E5/IC DIV | May 29, 1989 – 1992 | IC | |
| Gardner, Richard(Dick) | MM2/SS | Jun 1989 – Jun 1993 | A-GANG | best time of my life.....thanks guys......i love that old boat....WTFGF! |
| Reeves, Timothy | MM1(SS) | Jul 1989 – May 11, 1992 | RL | |
| Hall, Warren (Doc) | HM1 | Aug 1989 – Jan 1992 | Medical | I miss everyone except the COB |
| Tower, Craig | FTBC | Dec 1989 – Oct 31, 1993 | Missile Fire Control / Deck | Saw the end of one life and the beginning of the next. Many good times and mistakes. |
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