The USS Hancock CVA-19 (the 1998-99 cyber space configuration, fleet call sign 'Jake's Yankee Station) has began a lengthy and well deserved dry dock period at the B. G. Microsoft Naval Preservation Ship Yard. The mission of the shipyard is to re-configure the USS Hancock to inhance her mission capabilities. That mission is to take former Hancock crewmembers Boldly Where No Sailor has gone Before!
The recent deployment of the Hancock went through uncharted waters. The only navigational devices available to the ship, and future crewmembers, were the memories of one particular crewmember, Jake Jaccard. Seaman Jaccard was virtually a one-man crew. A Yeoman by rating, seaman Jake took the Con, manned the Helm and chart house, and stood fireroom and boiler room watches, in order to keep the Hanna underway
and on course. Jake's primary mission was to preserve his place in time aboard the Hancock during the early Nineteen-sixties. The Seaman proudly maneuvered his ship searching for the unknown. One night on a dark and lonely Bridge watch, Jake's eye caught the faint glimmer of lights on the horizon. Not knowing if Pri-fly was manned, he donned his sound powered phone set and requested Angel one to be launched! After a few quiet and suspenseful moments, Angel One reported.
"Angel One to Jake's Yankee Station, We have sighted and recovered numerous old USS Hancock sailors!" "They have been set adrift for decades and request permission to come aboard. Over."
"Yankee Station to Angels One, permission granted." "I will render honors on the flight deck and pipe them aboard."
The Yeoman quickly realized, after recovering Hancock sailors who served on her from launching to decommissioning, the cyber space class USS Hancock would need to be re-fitted to better perform her future mission.
At the time of this release, the USS Hancock CVA-19 rests. Her boiler rooms quite, steering engines disengaged, navigational charts stowed away, radar and communication gear silent. Not Unlike other ships in port, it is Leave time for many crewmembers. Summer vacations and backyard outings or home improvement projects now occupy the Hancock's cyber space crew. However, the ship's company and air group will soon be taking short and periodic leave of their daily personal lives and returning to the decks, compartments, and passage ways of the Ghostly Hanna. One ghostly sailor mentioned, after disembarking the ghostly Hanna earlier in the year: " I was thrilled and honored to once again become a part of and contribute to the adventure of sailing back to the past aboard this ship!! However, I must find a way to physically stand behind the helm; gaze out of the bridge windows and stand over a Dead reckoning tracer, with chart in place. Yes, I know the Hanna is physically put to rest! But maybe she has a sister still around??" (See related
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