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Bill Lee Story Collection (432 stories)
Bill Lee
Bill Lee
2015
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A COLLECTION OF “SEA STORIES”
by Bill Lee
Including Tales of Newport News Shipbuilding’s Apprentice School, the Shipyard’s Products and its People; the Virginia Peninsula, Numerous Maritime-Related Subjects, and even some unrelated articles because the author found them of interest
With almost thirty years of service at Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), he was an apprentice, a designer, a test engineer and an engineering manager; not to mention his most interesting of all titles there – A4W Mock- Up King.
This collection contains a hodge-podge of other stories covering a wide variety of unrelated subjects. Many of the stories are oriented about some aspect of Newport News Shipbuilding and include the following that are related to NR and nuclear powered ships:
When Nuclear Power Was Flying High - Story about the history of nuclear powered aircraft.
When NNI Topped'em All - Story about NNS getting in to Commercial Nuclear Power Plants
Under the North Pole ... Almost - Fascinating story about the attempt to take a submarine under the North Pole ice in 1931. The ship's name coincidentally was NAUTILUS.
Turbinia - Story about the Parson's turbine, the first modern bladed steam turbine and the ship it was put in.
The Other Philadelphia Experiment - The story in much more detail about the Philadelphia Uranium enrichment facility (separately discussed on the NR History page)
The Impossible Took a Little Time - The story of refueling all 8 ENTERPRISE reactors and doing complete overhaul in just EIGHT months in 1964-1965.
The Admiral & Me - The story of Bill Lee's interactions with Rickover.
Personal Encounters with Mr. Ed - Stories about Edward J. Campbell (1928-2010) President and CEO of Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) from 1979-1991.
NR-1 - 14 pages of stories about NR-1 design and operation.
Memories of Main Navy - Detailed description of Main Navy building, Naval Reactors offices there, and interaction with NR.
Lead Pipes - Stories about Naval Nuclear unofficial terminology
First Nuclear Decade at NNS - Stories about Newport News Nuclear work from 1952 - 1961.
Extracting ENTERPRISE Experiences - 11 pages of ENTERPRISE stories.
Critical Items Letter - Description of the NR critical items letters process (from Shipbuilder perspective)
CHARLOTTE Commissioning Committee - Description of commissioning process and CHARLOTTE.
An Engineer's Engineer - Tribute to Howard Marks (NRHQ 1950 - 1972).
A Shipbuilder's Field Trip - Description of shock testing and shock hardening for NIMITZ.
A complete list of available Bill Lee Stories available here
30.pdf
38TH EVACUATION HOSPITAL.pdf
A - Advertising chromolithograph - circa 1948.pdf
A - a ghost story.pdf
A - BOURDELLE - all-american artist.pdf
A BOY, A DOG, A BUSY TIME.pdf
A BRIEF BRUSH WITH AVIATION IMMORTALITY.pdf
A CHRISTMAS TREE-DITION.pdf
A Civil War What If.pdf
Acoustic Mirrors.pdf
ACTA NON VERBA.pdf
A Daring Rescue.pdf
A FAMILY OF SHIPBUILDERS.pdf
A FIELD TRIP TO HADES.pdf
A Ghost Story.pdf
Air Mail - Via Sea!.pdf
A LESSON FOR MR.GIBBS.pdf
A LIFTING EXPERIENCE.pdf
American Battle Cruisers.pdf
AMERICAN MARINER.pdf
American Star - trips & treasures.pdf
AMERICA_S ADMIRAL - BIBILOGRAPHY.pdf
America_s Admiral.pdf
America_s Admiral with author info.pdf
AMERICA_s Air Ports.pdf
AMERICA_s Bridge Wings.pdf
AMERICA_s Chief Engineer.pdf
AMERICA_s Christmas Gift.pdf
America_s Clown.pdf
AMERICA_s Designing Women.pdf
America_s First Aircraft Carrier Sorties.pdf
America_s First Atomic Admiral.pdf
AMERICA_s First Transatlantic Voyage.pdf
AMERICA_s First War Bride.pdf
AMERICA_s Kennels - old.pdf
AMERICA_s Kennels.pdf
AMERICA_s Marvelous Magnetrons.pdf
AMERICA_s Miss.pdf
AMERICA_s Model.pdf
AMERICA_s Movie Premiere.pdf
AMERICA_s Ominous Prophesy.pdf
AMERICA_s Sculptures.pdf
AMERICA_s Spies.pdf
AMERICA_s Steel-LIned Foxhole.pdf
America_s Zodiac Sign Sculptures.pdf
AMERICA...the Exquisite.pdf
AMERICA Towing Tank Model.pdf
A mishap at sea.pdf
A MOST UNUSUAL CARRIER MEMORIAL.pdf
A MOST UNUSUAL CARRIER MEMORIAL - updated 2011.pdf
A MOST UNUSUAL CARRIER MEMORIAL - updated 2019.pdf
An Engineer_s Engineer.pdf
AN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.pdf
Another AMERICA.pdf
Another NN Shipyard.pdf
AN UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE.pdf
APPRENTICE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION_s First President.pdf
APPRENTICE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION_s oldest member.pdf
Apprentice School Student Handbook.pdf
APPRENTICES TAKE A STAND w postscript.pdf
A - RADIO ROOM RECOLLECTIONS.pdf
ARCTIC ADVENTURE.pdf
Art Deco Vessels.pdf
A Seafarer_s Salute.pdf
A SHIPBUILDER_S FIELD TRIP.pdf
A Sikorsky Named Yorktown.pdf
A SNOWY SMALL WORLD SEQUEL.pdf
A SPARE PARTS SEA STORY.pdf
A Survivor_s Story.pdf
A Tale of Two Colliers.pdf
A Tale of Two Hoffmanns.pdf
A - TC Skinner, America_s Artist.pdf
AUGUST 31, 1939.pdf
AVC-1.pdf
AVG-4.pdf
A VILLAGE PLANNED.pdf
A well-rounded warship design.pdf
A WEST POINT Christmas Story.pdf
A WEST POINT Pampered Pet.pdf
A WWI Hero Remembered.pdf
BAD ANGEL.pdf
Bad Day at Mars Bluff.pdf
Banana Boats of NNS.pdf
BAND UNIT #22.pdf
Battleship Bulldog.pdf
BAYCHIMO - Arctic Ghost Ship.pdf
Best Damn Waver in the Fleet.pdf
BETTY LYNN.pdf
bill_lee_stories_list.txt
BILL RAMSEY.pdf
BILLY FISKE.pdf
BINGHAMTON - NNS Hull #49.pdf
BIRTHING BABY FLATTOPS.pdf
BITTERSWEET ROMANCE OF SHIPBUILDING.pdf
BONNIE and the BOMBE.pdf
BROADCASTING BANALITIES.pdf
Buckroe Beach Park.pdf
Bud Ackerman Remembers.pdf
Builders_ Park.pdf
Bus #1.pdf
Buxton Hospital.pdf
CALYPSO.pdf
CAM Ships.pdf
CHARLOTTE Commissioning Committee.pdf
Charlotte_s Mint.pdf
CHARLOTTE_S NAVY YARD.pdf
Christmas 1943.pdf
Christmas 1964.pdf
Clandestine Projects.pdf
Commemorating NA & NNS CV.pdf
Concrete Battleship.pdf
CRADLE OF VICTORY.pdf
Crigler_s Cabins.pdf
Critical Items Letter.pdf
Crockett Park.pdf
Curtiss Flying School.pdf
Davids & Golith.pdf
D DAY at A School.pdf
D-Day Memories - one year later.pdf
D-Day.pdf
DEAK PARSONS.pdf
DELIBERATE DITCHING IN THE JAMES.pdf
Demise of the DIXIE ARROW.pdf
DESIGNERS_ LEGACY.pdf
Designing Women.pdf
DESMOND THOMAS DOSS.pdf
DESTINATION BRUNSWICK.pdf
Docking the UNITED STATES.pdf
Dodge Watercars.pdf
DORNIER DO X.pdf
DOROTHY_s Namesake.pdf
Double Bottom Initiation.pdf
Dr. Annie.pdf
Duck Tape.pdf
DUMB...Like a Fox.pdf
Eagle Patrol Boats.pdf
EPIDEMIC AT SEA.pdf
ESCAPE FROM SINGAPORE.pdf
Extracting ENTERPRISE Experiences.pdf
FAKE FUNNELS.pdf
Father Joe & Big Ben.pdf
Father of the LST.pdf
FINE GOODS.pdf
FIRE FIGHTING FOLLIES.pdf
First Across.pdf
First nuclear decade at NNS.pdf
First US Navy Warships.pdf
Flights of Fantasy.pdf
Flying Officer Trigg.pdf
FRANKLIN BUCHANAN.pdf
From Steam to Sail.pdf
George _n Judy.pdf
GIVE A LITTLE CREDIT TO THE NAVY.pdf
GLANCING ASTERN_ FULL SPEED AHEAD.pdf
GRAF ZEPPELIN - combined new file.pdf
GRAF ZEPPELIN (CV-1).pdf
GRAF ZEPPELIN (CV-1).pdf
HAITI_s HISTORIC HELPING HAND.pdf
HAROLD JOHNSON.pdf
HIKITIA.pdf
Hilton Happy Days.pdf
HILTON VILLAGE FIRE DEPARTMENT history - condensed.pdf
HILTON VILLAGE FIRE DEPARTMENT history.pdf
HISTORIC HILTON VILLAGE.pdf
HMAS PING WO.pdf
HMS Conqueror.pdf
HMS MENESTHEUS.pdf
Home Where They Belong.pdf
HOSPITAL SHIP SOLACE.pdf
HOWARD_s MOUNTAIN.pdf
HUNTINGTON - NNS Hull #356.pdf
HWAH JANG_s Bold Undertaking.pdf
HYBRID CVs.pdf
I-400 Last Voyage.pdf
ICE CREAM BY THE GALLON.pdf
Institution in Transition.pdf
In The Garden (1).pdf
ISLAND EVOLUTION.pdf
ITS TOUGH BEING GREEN.pdf
Jame River Shipbuilding Company.pdf
JAMES ADAMS FLOATING THEATRE.pdf
JANE WILKES.pdf
Johnny Crowell.pdf
JOSEPH HENRY - ONE OF A KIND.pdf
Jumbo.pdf
June 15th - 70 Years Ago.pdf
K-25.pdf
Kilroy Was Here.pdf
Kiptopeke_s Concrete Carcasses.pdf
L-8 Blimp Mystery.pdf
Lacey - AMERICA_s Miss.pdf
Lancaster Eagle.pdf
LAST OF THE DREADNAUGHTS.pdf
la Surcouf.pdf
Laurence Eastman.pdf
LEAD PIPES.pdf
Libertys_ Ladies.pdf
LOOKING ASTERN.pdf
LST Test Facility.pdf
Lucky Lindy.pdf
MARCUS RITGER - photographer for the queen.pdf
Mariners_ Museum Memories.pdf
Marko...the Remarkable.pdf
McCormack_s Pipe Dream.pdf
MC Name Game.pdf
Medway Queen - Heroine of Dunkirk.pdf
Memorial Day, 1980.pdf
Memories of Grand Mother Jones - June 2008.pdf
MEMORIES OF MAIN NAVY.pdf
Merchant Unterseeboots.pdf
MIDSHIPMENS MONETARY MISSION.pdf
MISTER GORDON HAS THE WATCH.pdf
Moe Berg.pdf
Monitor ARKANSAS.pdf
MONITOR_s Bells.pdf
Monk White.pdf
MY SOPHIA SUMMERS.pdf
NAMELESS...BUT NUMBERED.pdf
NAVAL SHIPBUILDING ON THE JAMES.pdf
NC Military Institute.pdf
Newport News Cruiser Day.pdf
NEWSPAPERING ON 25TH STREET.pdf
NNI TOPS _EM ALL.pdf
NN-Norfolk Ferries.pdf
NNS_ Most Improbable Aircraft Carriers.pdf
NNS MUSEUM SHIPS.pdf
NNS UNUSED HULL NUMBERS.pdf
NNS YACHTS.pdf
NOMADIC.pdf
NO MAN LEFT BEHIND.pdf
Not Your Typical Teenage Experience.pdf
NR-1.pdf
NS SAVANNAH Mural.pdf
NS SAVANNAH.pdf
Nuclear Locomotives.pdf
NUCLEAR NOSTALGIA.pdf
October 21, 1937.pdf
Odyssey of the Willie D condensed.pdf
Odyssey of the Willie D.pdf
Old Point Comfort Hotels.pdf
ONE CEREBRAL QUARTERBACK.pdf
OPERATION CHARIOT.pdf
Operation PLUTO.pdf
Original James River Bridge.pdf
OUR OTHER INVALUABLE APPRENTICESHIP.pdf
Over Half a Lifetime Ago.pdf
PADDLEWHEEL AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.pdf
Parke Rouse.pdf
PASSAGE TO MILNE BAY.pdf
PASSING OF A PLANK OWNER.pdf
PATOKA.pdf
Paul Hennings.pdf
PAUL HOPKINS TALBOT.pdf
Personal Encounters with Mr. Ed.pdf
Pierre Bourdelle - All-American Artist.pdf
PLANK OWNERS PARADE - Lavin.pdf
Pop_s Favorite Stories.pdf
PRINZESSIN VICTORIA LUISE.pdf
Prinz Eugen.pdf
PYKRETE.pdf
Q Ships of Newport News.pdf
RADIO CALL SIGNS.pdf
Ralph W. Cousins.pdf
RalphW.Cousins.pdf
RAYDIST-jl.pdf
RAYDIST.pdf
readme.txt
Recollections of a River Rat.pdf
RECYCLED BATTLESHIPS.pdf
RED SAND SEA FORT.pdf
REMEMBERING AND HONORING THE USS WEST POINT.pdf
REMEMBERING DICK BAINS.pdf
REMEMBERING DICK BROAD.pdf
REMEMBERING FELIX BLEDSOE 1919-2003.pdf
REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR.pdf
REMINISIN.pdf
Restoring AMERICA.pdf
REVELATIONS OF A MOVIE THEATRE USHER.pdf
RICHARD HENRY LEE.pdf
Rifles on Rails.pdf
River Gunboat SAN PABLO.pdf
ROLLOUT ROULETTE.pdf
Roseland Manor.pdf
Rosenwald Schools.pdf
ROSE_S STORY.pdf
Safeguarding America_s Treasures.pdf
SAILORS SPY STORY.pdf
SAILS, SEA-ICE & SCIENCE.pdf
Scuttled Supercarrier.pdf
SEA SCOUT SHIP 110.pdf
SeismicExplanations.pdf
SEVENTY YEARS AGO.pdf
Sgt Younger.pdf
Sheldrake - AMERICA_s First Born.pdf
SHIPBUILDING 101 @ 30k feet.pdf
Shipbuilding on Shooters_ Island.pdf
SHIP IN THE DESERT.pdf
Ship of Miracles.pdf
Ships Named Newport News.pdf
Ship Sponsors of NN.pdf
SHIPS VS. BOATS.pdf
Shipyard Apartments.pdf
Shipyard_s Speculative Successes.pdf
Shipyard_s Speculative Success.pdf
Shot From Guns.pdf
Singapore Survivor - twice.pdf
SIXTY FIVE YEARS AGO.pdf
SIXTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.pdf
Sliding to the Sea.pdf
SMOKY JOE.pdf
SOLACE FOR THE SUFFERING.pdf
SPY SHIPS.pdf
SS America - an abbreviated history.pdf
SS AMERICA Library dedication report.pdf
SSK-3.pdf
SS MEDINA.pdf
STEAMBOAT ARABIA.pdf
STURGIS (MH- 1A).pdf
Sub-builder Sunk & Saved.pdf
Sub_s Unique Journey.pdf
SUDAN.pdf
SURFING GUIDELINES.pdf
Symbolic Last Response - HFS.pdf
TDR-1.pdf
The 2nd London Blitz.pdf
The 42nd General Hospital at sea.pdf
THE Admiral & me.pdf
The APPRENTICE EXPERIENCE.pdf
THE APPRENTICE SCHOOL SEAL.pdf
THE BACK RIVER LIGHT.pdf
The Ballad of Whitey Mack.pdf
The Battle of Pier 2.pdf
The Berlin Candy Bomber.pdf
The Biggest Dog-Gone Sea Story Ever.pdf
The Birth of The Blues.pdf
THE BITTERSWEET ROMANCE OF SHIPBUILDING.pdf
The Building of AMERICA.pdf
THE COLONY INN.pdf
The Commodore_s Burgee.pdf
The DAPHNE Disaster.pdf
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED.pdf
The First WEST POINT and AMERICA.pdf
The Floating Hospital.pdf
THE GALLAGHER CONNECTION.pdf
The Good Neighbor Fleet.pdf
THE GOOD REUBEN JAMES.pdf
The Haders - and their house.pdf
THE HAT.pdf
THE HERO OF MAKASSAR STRAIT.pdf
The Hershberger Award.pdf
THE HILTON VILLAGE FIRE DEPARTMENT history.pdf
THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF WESLEY CHAPEL.pdf
THE HONDA POINT DISASTER.pdf
The Hoppin_ Saga.pdf
THE HUNTINGTON SCHOOL.pdf
The Iconic Flexible Flyer.pdf
THE IMPOSSIBLE TOOK A LITTLE TIME.pdf
THE KALAMITY CLASS.pdf
The LANCASTER Eagle.pdf
THE LIBERTY SHIPS of WWII.pdf
The Lion that Soared.pdf
THE MAKING OF A MUSEUM.pdf
THE MIRACLE OF HICKORY.pdf
THE ODYSSEY OF DD-579.pdf
THE ORIGINAL OAK RIDGE BOYS.pdf
The Other Borglum.pdf
THE OTHER PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT.pdf
The Perils of Penniman.pdf
The Roma Tragedy.pdf
THE SAGINAW SAGA.pdf
THE SEA MOSQUITO.pdf
The Shell Plant.pdf
THE SHIP THAT SAVED NNS.pdf
THE SLIPPERLY STORY OF WD FORTY.pdf
THE TABB_s CREEK IRREGULARS.pdf
The Type XXI Elektroboot.pdf
The Village Beautiful.pdf
THE VILLAGE OF WESLEY CHAPEL.pdf
THE WOODCUT ARTIST OF HILTON VILLAGE.pdf
The Yacht America.pdf
The Yacht Club Boys.pdf
The Yoho Tradition.pdf
Tickling the Dragon_s Tail.pdf
Titanic_s Apprentices.pdf
To Cap It All Off.pdf
Towing Tank Model.pdf
Towing Tank Tales.pdf
Transcontinential Air Mail Route.pdf
TRENCH 94.pdf
Trippin to 1948 Olympics.pdf
TURBINIA.pdf
Twin Tidewater Tragedies.pdf
TWO SISTERS...TWO SAGAS.pdf
UNDER THE GOLDEN GATE.pdf
UNDER THE HOUSE ADVENTURES.pdf
Under the North Pole...Almost.pdf
Update - SS Medina.pdf
USS AVC-1.pdf
USS HOGA.pdf
USS NASHVILLE.pdf
USS RANGER CV-4 .pdf
USS RECRUIT.pdf
USS SAN MARCOS.pdf
USS STRINGHAM.pdf
USS TICONDEROGA (CV-14).pdf
USS VESTAL.pdf
V-E Day.pdf
VIRGINIA SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION.pdf
Wartime Robinson Crusoe.pdf
WATERBORNE AIRCRAFT REPAIR FACILITIES.pdf
WCVFD History - Final.pdf
WCVFD HISTORY.pdf
We Shall Build Good Ships.pdf
We Shall DESIGN Good Ships.pdf
Wesley Chapel History, with artwork.pdf
WEST POINT FAMOUS PASSENGER.pdf
West Point History.pdf
WEST POINT MEETS NEPTUNUS REX.pdf
WEST POINT_s First Skipper.pdf
WEST POINT_s Major Mission of Mercy.pdf
WGH History.pdf
When Agnes Went to War.pdf
WHEN NNI TOPPED _EM ALL.pdf
WHEN NUCLEAR POWER WAS FLYING HIGH.pdf
White Jacket.pdf
Wings Over Water.pdf
WITH THE EYE OF A DRAFTSMAN.pdf
WITNESS FOR THE PERSECUTION.pdf
Wooden White Elephants.pdf
WP - A FEW GOOD MEN.pdf
WP - AMERICA_s Steel Foxhole.pdf
YES VIRGINIA.pdf