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Kirchgessner, Edwin Pete, TMC USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Everett, WA
Last Address Snohomish, WA
Date of Passing Nov 15, 2012
Location of Interment Buried at Sea - N/A, Pacific Ocean
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
Edwin rejoined his wife on November 15, 2012. He was born in Everett on May 14, 1920. He enjoyed 92 years of an exciting and full life.
He graduated from Everett High School in 1938 and went on to spend 20 years in the US Navy, 16 of them on submarines, including four years on submarines during WWII in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He worked at Sumner Iron Works until retirement at age 62. He and his wife spent the next 20 some years traveling the country in a motor home.
His wife Betty died in November 2010.
His ashes will be taken to sea on a Trident submarine and consigned to the deep through a torpedo tube somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
Other Comments:
Service number: 3858047
Submarine war patrols: USS Blackfish (SS-221) - 1st through 8th
Launched: 27 May 1939
Commissioned: 25 April 1940
Decommissioned: 15 June 1982
Struck: 15 June 1982
Honors and
awards: 5 battle stars for Korean War service
Fate: sold for scrapping
General characteristics
Displacement: 9,450 tons
Length: 530 ft 6 in (161.70 m)
Beam: 73 ft 3 in (22.33 m)
Draught: 24 ft 5 in (7.44 m)
Propulsion: Steam
Speed: 18 kts
Complement: 1262
Armament: 4 x 5"/38 calHull number AD-14
