Harold Simmons

Interview Outline

  • 01:02   Can you give us a brief overview of your life sine you graduated?
  • 02:21   “The first ship I was on”… S.S. Earlham Victory
  • 05:39   Navy experience, 1953-1960 
  • 11:48   Career after the Navy, 1960-1965
  • 12:53   Back to sea, then recruited by Sea-Land
  • 20:55   “I sailed on many different kinds of ships”
  • 22:11   Proudest Achievement: Salvaging a grounded ship in Manila Bay
  • 24:57   S.S. Mayaguez, captured by Khmer Rouge in 1975
  • 28:15   Beauregard ship arrested in Saigon