Welcome aboard the web site of the    

USS BETELGEUSE

AK (FBM) 260

REUNION ASSOCIATION

Goose ship patch new "The Goose"Goose ship patch old

SS Columbia Victory 1944 - 1951
USS Betelgeuse AK260 1952 - 1974
The Goose entering Hampton Roads VA.

  

  

 


WELCOME ABOARD!

Your help (comments, information, photos,etc. ) would be greatly appreciated.

If this is your first trip here or you haven't been here in awhile please go to the Crew List and check the information we have on you. Send me an email with any corrections, deletions, additions, etc.  Got some information on a shipmate that's NOT listed? What are you waiting for? Email it to us!


If you have visted this web site before, you should use the REFRESH on each page as you may be viewing the page in your computer cache/memory and may not be seeing any updated information.

 

2009 Assocation Officers

President - Dale Powell
Vice President - Dale Shepperd
Secretary/Treasurer - Arthur Miller
Chaplin - Bobby Cribb
Internet - Elmer Brown

2010 Reunion

Our next reunion will be April 22-25, 2010.
See reunion news for details.

Guest Book

Hope you can take time to sign our guest book. A great way to let your shipmates know what has happened to you since leaving the Betelgeuse, view what others have posted and a source to renew contacts.

 

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Recent Updates:

July 2009
Added link for Honor Flight network.
Added new photos.

June 2009
New Contacts:
Gary Monday 68-71
David Miller 64-67
New email for Ray Madsen
Deceased shipmate - Warren Layer 05/2009

April 2009
New contact
Jack Whittaker 65-68

March 2009
New contact
Henry D. Jones Jr. 67-68
Updated reunion news
New email for Henry Hixson
Deceased shipmate - Henderson Gore  12/2003
Deceased shipmate - Russell Van Blair  03/2009

Febuary 2009
Deceased Shipmate - Melvin Allen Tollison Jr.  12/1971
New email for Ray Riedel

January 2009
New contacts
Don Kimble 58-59
Richard Lawwell 65-67
Micheal Leder 67-68
New email for Larry Brown

November 2008
Deceased Shipmate - Jerry Stucky 11/12/2008
New email for James Taylor
New Contact - Jimmy G. Miller 67-71

August 2008
New Contacts
Bill Baity  61-62
Rod Huggins  67-68
Jerry Phillips  65-66
Jerry Smith  59-60
New email for Rick Lance & Tom Lilly

June 2008
Added info about Lt. Phillip Armstrong.
(see photo section)