Welcome aboard the web site of the
USS BETELGEUSE
AK (FBM) 260
REUNION ASSOCIATION
"The
Goose"
SS Columbia Victory
1944 - 1951
USS Betelgeuse AK260 1952 - 1974
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 you are trouble
viewing updated information you should use the REFRESH on your browser
as you may be
viewing the page in your computer cache/memory and may not be seeing
the updated information.

Memorial marker placed in
the Charleston Naval Base Memorial 2011
2016 Assocation Officers
President - Richard Lawell
Vice President - Robert Stadler
Secretary/Treasurer - Arthur Miller
Chaplin - Jay Ebreth
Internet -
Elmer Brown
Ship's Historian - Bob Scannell
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.

Recent
Updates:
I would like to give a special recognition to Dennis Ward for his
support of the web site.
October 222
Deceased shipmate - Salvator Knight Feb. 16,2022
New contact - Lt. Neil Wright - 68-71
July 2022
Added photos of David Nabozny at Charleston Naval Memorial
New contact - Rene Lamy 1961-68
Deceased shipmate - Bill Chiappi - EMCM/SS - May 25,2022
Febuary 2022
Update Emial address for Dennis Ward
New Contact - David Nabozny 60-64
Deceased Shipmate - John Hill EM3 - November 1999
August, 2021
Updated email for Rodney Shanon
June 2020
New crew contact - Robert Torres
April 2020
Deceased Shipmate James Balzanna April, 21 2020
New on crews list - No contact - David Waters 55-57ish
June 2019
Deceased Shipmate - Bob Scannell - June 1. 2019
New contact - Steven Matthews EM2 69-71
March 2019
Deceased Shipmate - Arthur Miller - March 7, 2019
Reunion news update
Deceased Shipmate - Richard Risk - December, 2017
Deceased Shipmate - Rich Medaska - December, 2013
December 2018
Added to photos-Ship's Bell in Milto PA church
and the Goose in mothball.
November 2018
Updated links page
New contact JB Lamonte =1968
New contacts - Johnslim & Tom Buchholz - 65-67
New contact - Richard Williams 70-71
New contact - Michell Lieberman 62-63
New contact - Terry Desilrt - 66-68
New contact - Anthony Lee Turner ( Tex ) 1967
Deceased shipmate - Pau Winter -June, 2018
Setember 2018
Deceased Shipmate BOBBY CRIBB - Augustt 29, 2018
October, 2016
Email address change - Paul Knapp
September, 2016
Deceased Shipmate - Jimmy Miller Sept 26. 2016
New shipmate listing - John Beach 56-58
August 2016
Email address - Roy Johnson 64-67
Email address - Barry Mcfarland 60-62
June 2016
Email address change - William West
March 2016
Deceased Shipmate - Don Kraker March 6, 2012
December 2015
2016 Reunion planning.
See reunion news for details
November, 2015
Email Address change - Jay Ebreth
New contact - Bobby Worth 58-60
New contact - Bruce Tucker 63-64
Deceased Shipmate - Hilton Logue - April 4, 2015
Deceased Shipmate - James Trotter - May 16, 2015
Deceased Shipmate - Henry Varnadore - Nov 11, 2015
Febuary 2015
Deceased Shipmate - George Smith - January 20, 2015
Email address changed - Walter Tucker
January 2015
2015 reunion details.
Added photo - April1962 Holy Loch.
December, 2014
Deceased Shipmate - Charles Auten - June or July 2014
Added photo- Remembering Holy Loch article with photos.
November, 2014
Deceased Shipmate - Alonzo ( Lonnie ) DeCell - Febuary 20, 2014
James Deforest Nelson - XO 1955 - May 5, 1961
August, 2014
Deceased Shipmate - Harold Glasure - July 25, 2013
July. 2014
New Contact - Joseph Summa 59*61
Email changes
Tom McGuire 63-65
Jim Keil 67-68