Hunley (AS 31) - Naval Cruise Book

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Our offspring have been schooled our sailors have been married our dead have been buried our lives have been altered and we have left far more than months or years in that tiny thumb of the Clyde which for us has been home and harbor The heather four times has dyed the hills with a purple coat The skirl of the pipes have echoed through the glens the sheep have been sheared. We have said our goodbyes to friends and helloes to their reliefs. We have laughed and cried given birth worried and wondered in villages like Sandbank Blairmore Strone Innellan and in towns like Dunoon, Greenock and Gourock And now it is done From a place which long ago reflected the hope of a man for peace on earth we sail having invested three years in preserving that peace Looking back which sometimes is the best view the sleepless nights, the prolonged separations the frustrations the angers all blend into a modified acceptance of what had to be a human mission made worthwhile by human sweat For never has a submarine missed her departure date, and never has a job remained unfinished The glory is long gone the task has been one of tired muscle and tired brain which is the reward of all men dedicated to something really worth while Three and a half years and some l2O refits in the book make the mark. Another chapter is written in the chronicle of the Holy Loch A place, a people a memory a mission this is the story of the HUNLEY and the Holy Loch A story never to be forgotten by those who lived it - and a story long to be remembered by a grateful nation As we came, so we go, but with so much more. To Hunter's Quay, hard to starboard and home we go, with Hold acquaintance never forgotu. 1 I ' 1 I 1 I . . . . O I - n I I I a I I ' ' I I I I n ' ' I I I I I ' l 0 0 g . . . K I O - . . . . . I I I I I . . . . . . . . . . . - - . . . . I . . . O . . l I . . . . I . . . . I 1 ' - . I I . Q i lt

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