Early US SWATH vessel name ???

Thanks. I'm already registered.

 

I missed this thread earlier. I only replied to it because my uncle, Al Dinsenbacher, worked as an engineer for the US Navy, specializing in twin hull structural designs and SWATHs in particular. Al recently passed and my aunt gave me this memento of his T-AGOS days, saying, when she did : "Nobody else I could give it to would even know what it is". LOL.

 

That name is familiar, maybe from my senior design (I read a lot of papers) or the work we (MINS OE) did for SURTASS recovery on T-AGOS. We needed to modify the underdeck structure.

 

Al worked at DTMB/DTRC/NSWC-CD etc (the place has had a lot of names..like most naval engineering activities)for his entire career, retiring in the early 90s.

 

I'd enjoy a long cool drink and chat with him until the wee hours for sure ...
Oh..not forgetting you as well Bill

 

That would be about the right dates (late 89 to 91 ? 92 ?), we took the work as fill in for the new hires. Maybe I was in a meeting with him about the back deck, there were several of them. Anyway, sorry for you loss, but those sure were the fun days of Navy RDT&E.

 

Much like my Lider and Tenaz T-Shirts.
Apart from the t-shirt the jaws drop and...what's that?

Echo JEH's sentiments, sorry to hear about your loss.

 

Thanks for the sentiments. And indeed...those were interesting and fun times. We have not built a scale model or any other testcraft for the "regular" Navy since 2008. Prior, we built some amazing toys for Carderock and ONR.