We are soliciting photos to build into slideshows that we can watch in the hospitality room and banquet room. If you have any you can loan or give us, please see the RAYcontacts page and tell us what you can do. We can scan and return hardcopy photos. If you can remember "who's who", jot the names on the back. If you have some pictures or videos that are already in digital media, send them to webmaster@rayunion.net

You can download pictures from these slideshows as follows.
1. Select the Slideshow. Find the picture you want in the thumbnails.
2. Left-click on the thumbnail to get the full-size picture.
3. Right-click on the picture and select "Save Image As …"
4. Tell your machine where to save it.

Here is a link that takes you to the Pictures part of Don Shelton's old web page. Some of these didn't make the transfer to this web-site.

Jeff Schwarz, Bob Mhoon, Owen McCoy & others pictures of the Launch Brochure, the Commissioning Brochure, some Newspaper articles and the Commissioning Ceremony and a few from the Commissioning Party (1966-67).

Here you can scan John Jones's pictures from the old Don Shelton website.

First CO Capt (later Rear Admiral) Al Kelln pictures - mainly post-Navy activities.

Tom Clarke's pictures of RAY sailors in the 60's.

"Archived" per Don Shelton. Some are hard to view because they had to be stretched. Probably shot by Don in the Early 70's.
Please help identify the people by frame number.

Randy Stringer's pictures are here.

Pictures from Bo (JJ) Jeffers, who served on USS Ray from 1974 to 1977.

Dan Marks' 1977-1978 New Years Eve party pictures.

Captain Buzz Galbraith sent in some nice photos.

Daniel Fuqua's pictures from Ice-Ex 1986 - great pictures.

Joe White's pictures - 1987/1988 Northern Run, 1989/1990 Med Run, 2011 Bench Dedication.

Paul Joyce sent in some great pictures.

^NEW! Pictures from Mark Hunt, who served on USS Ray from 1974 to 1978.^NEW!

Miscellaneous pictures here - the onesy-twosy's from various places.

This is the Ship Recycling Program (PSNS) taken by Don back when.

2005 RAYunion (Kings Bay, GA.) photos, thanks to Harry Collins & Bo (JJ) Jeffers.

Pictures from the 2010 RAYunion in Charleston, SC, by Marks, Carlson and others.

Pictures from the 2014 RAYunion at The After Battery from Dan Marks' old website. The 2014 RAYunion was held in Charleston, SC.

Pictures from the 2017 RAYunion in Norfolk, VA.

Pictures from the 2022 RAYunion in Mobile, AL.

Virgil Block's SCORPION Material.

Each of these links includes a slideshow button. In addition to the individual slideshows, the button below is a single slideshow that merges the entire collection of photos on this website. It is generally in chronological order from the commissioning of the USS Ray, through decommissioning, salvage, and all the subsequent RAYunions. THIS IS OVER 2,600 PHOTOS! It is a VERY large file, approximately 1.7 gigabytes, and thus will take considerable time to download, depending on available bandwidth. The envisioned purpose of such a large slideshow is to run in the background in the Hospitality Suite. The slideshow runs for approximately 3.6 hours and loops back to the beginning upon completion. The slideshow can be stopped by pressing the "Esc" key.

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ENJOY!