Image Library: Pictures taken during my time on the Ramsey
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Original artwork. It represents Ramsey at the end of her career. | 
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GM3 Kevin Hill on Mount 51. Taken on our approach to Pattaya Beach, Thailand in March of 1987. |
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Gun Plot was a favorite hangout for Roving Patrol watchstanders who weren't properly standing watch. This one was FC2 Michael Jeter... | 
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...and FC2 Perry Parrish... |
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...and FC2 Ron Holt. You can see that plot got crowded fast. During gun ops, there would be as many as 12 people working here. | ||
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The plans on the Specifications page plus waaaay too much free time equals the Ramsey in 1-256 scale |  |
The hull is pine, and everything else is brass. I stopped work on it when I found myself folding tiny brass scuppers one evening. |
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The Mk.1-A Ford Rangekeeper (no not that Ford, the Ford Instrument Co.). It took six people to operate, but it could put the bullets exactly where you wanted them. | 
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Another view of the Mk.1-A |
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Sunset in Subic Bay, from the Mk.56 Gun Director platform. | 
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Ramsey buries her nose in the arctic in January of 1987 during WestPac '87. |
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A clean sweep! The Mk.56 director shows off it's broom after we aced our NGFS qualifications at San Clemente in 1986. | 
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Ramsey hosts a Kaman SH-2F Sea-Sprite LAMPS (Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System) helicopter. |
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A look at the flight deck and hangar. | 
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A look at Bill Bradley (FC2). |
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Crossing the line. | 
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Half of the Gun Plot Crew. FC3 Baker and FC2 Hallstrom. |
| All pictures unless otherwise noted, were created by and are property of Bill Bradley. | |||