United States Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 58 Association

NMCB 58 Archives

Introduction and Acknowledgements

Welcome to the Association’s History Archives Version 2.1 compiled for presentation at our Tenth Annual Reunion at San Antonio, Texas, April 2013.

We have assembled many publications and documents which taken together provide perspective on the commissioned service of NMCB 58 during the Vietnam War and its predecessor, the 58th NCB during World War II.

This Version 2.1 of our Archives is significantly more comprehensive than our first version benefiting greatly from more of our shipmates’ personal collections solicited at past Reunions and an opportunity to excavate many documents from the official NAVFAC archives at the new Port Hueneme Seabee Museum.

We owe a huge debt of gratitude and acknowledgement for the significant contributions of many individuals and organizations of our Navy’s extended Seabee family for the information contained in these Archives. Our principal sources are the official NAVFAC Archives at Port Hueneme, California; the CEC/Seabee Museum Foundation headquartered at Gulfport, Mississippi; and, the Seabee Museum and Memorial Park at Davisville, Rhode Island. Much of the general Seabee history documents come indirectly from the Department of the Navy’s Naval Historical Center in Washington, DC. And, of course, a great deal of information comes from the 58th Naval Construction Battalion association records and publications.

In the Table of Contents you will find links to all our Cruise Books, Deployment Completion Reports and annual Command Histories. We believe we have all the Skippers’ Familygrams and all (but maybe one) of our Blaze Newsletters. There are sample Operation Orders and Operation Reports from our four Seabee Teams and some items relating to our homeport periods at Davisville, Rhode Island. Fair warning to the reader: all these documents were scanned from available paper copies of the originals. Quality varies so you may need to work with your computer’s viewing options to get the most readable results.

We hope you enjoy perusing the Archives and perhaps will find them useful in telling your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and anybody else who cares, exactly what grandpa did during his war.

Dean Schofield
Battalion Historian
April 2013