The Implicit carried a complement of six officers and seventy enlisted personnel

My favorite sunset picture

Lt Larry Huber on the bridge of the Implicit berthed in Da Nang February 1969. The bridge cover
has been removed in preparation of Mine Division 91 sweeping live mines in the Gulf of Tonkin off
the coast of North Vietnam. The Commodore of Mine Division 91, Commander Murland Searight, 
wrote the offical account of the mission published in the  "United States Naval Institute
Proceedings" January 1970.

Click here  sweeping live mines  to read Commander Searight's report.
 

Sunrise over the South China Sea

Shipmate shadows in the Implicit’s wake.  The photographer is on the left.

This section of the fuel oil transfer pipe was the cause of the Implicit’s January 1968
forward engine room fire. Fuel oil sprayed from the smaller line in the center of the pipe,
 shown here crimped, onto the hot coils of the salt water distillation unit which caused
a massive fire ball to ignite.

The fire ball, looking for oxygen, raced up the ladder through the boiler room into the
starboard passageway and slammed into the galley serving line. The life of the fire
was short and burnt itself out in the starboard passageway.

The intense heat from the fire ball melted the lens covers on the overhead lights in the
forward engine room which left blackened lumps of plastic molded onto the kilowatt
generators. The Plexiglas drop down windows on the galley serving line were melted into
a surreal scene of hardened strings of blackened plastic. The canvas draw curtains,
still hanging on their rods, were melted into small twisted clumps.

Three crewmen were injured and the Implicit was out of action for a month.

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