L Y Spear (AS 36) - Naval Cruise Book

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Memoriam AGUSTIN TUAZON GUIAO, JR. ENSIGN, SUPPLY CORPS, USNR 2 JULY 1950 - 4 MAY 1980 JEFFREY LYNN SELLERS MOULDER, FIREMAN APPRENTICE, USN 2 NOVEMBER 1959 - 22 MAY 1980 AS THE SUN RISES IN THE MORNING, WE THINK OF IT AS JUST ANOTHER DAY. BUT IN SOMEONE ' S EYES A TEAR IS SHED. IN SOMEONE ' S HEART THERE IS SORROW. GOD HAS CHOSEN TWO MORE SOULS TO ENTER INTO HIS SPLENDID KINGDOM, TO JOIN HIM IN ETERNAL PEACE. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM AS VIBRANT, YOUNG MEN WHO LIVED LIFE TO THE FULLEST, ONLY TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THOSE WITH WHOM THEY WORKED AND LIVED. FORGOTTEN DREAMS . . . FORGOTTEN HOPES . . . THAT WILL LINGER IN OUR MINDS AS LONG AS WE REMEMBER THEM. BY PATI SCHNEIDER

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USS L. Y. SPEAR (AS-36) INDIAN OCEAN DEPLOYMENT 31 MARCH - 12 AUGUST 1980

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LAWRENCE YORK SPEAR BORN: OCT OBER 18 0 - DIED: SEPTEMBER 1950 Born in Warren, Ohio, Mr. Spear pursued his interest in ship construct Naval Academy graduating second in the Class of 1890. After serving in the Fleet, early in his career he applied for, and was Corps. He then received special training in Marine Engineering and Naval Archi Mr. Spear was with several shipbuilding yards through the U.S. before tendent of Construction and Repair at the Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethtow It was there that Mr. Spear supervised, for the Navy, the construction for the Navy - five Holland Class subs. In 1902 he resigned his Commission as a Lieutenant, for a position wit Working his way up, he served as President of the company for five years, dency to become Chairman of the Board. His sixteen year military service and forty-eight years with Electric tributed greatly in the construction of the early submarine from a smal l sophisticated undersea systems of today. In May of 1965 construction began on CSS L. Y. SPEAR in honor of Mr. death. L ' SS E. Y. SPEAR TECHNICAL DATA ion when he entered the U.S. selected for the Construction tecture. he was assigned as Superin- n, New Jersey, of the first submarines built h the Electric Boat Company. , only to relinquish the Presi- Boat Company together con- perilous craft into the ultra- Spear, fifteen years after his OVERALL LENC.J II HI M DRAET (FULL LOAD) DISPEAt 1 MINI (FULL LOAD) FUEL OIL ( APA II V DIESEL OIL CAPACITY SHAFT HORSEPOWER (FULL) n|| i I RPM SPEED (SUSI MM l SHIP ' S CREW QUARTERS 643 FEET, 8 IN III v 85 III I 24 FEET, 8 IN HI S. 22,640 TO s. 6,117 [ ONS. US IONS. 20,000 150 18 KNOTS. 1,348 (96 01 I l IKS. 1,252 ENLISTED)