Welcome to the USS Caiman (SS-323) Association Web site.

If you, your husband or father served aboard the USS Caiman as a qualified crew member or officer you are invited to join the USS Caiman Association, a non-profit veterans association. Re-new old friendships and restore old memories from a special time in our lives by attending our biennial Reunions. Join our Association and receive a copy of our Master Sailing List with contact information of all shipmates that we have been able to verify and/or contact.

Our reunion planners have really got it down. Our latest Reunion was held in May of 2008 in Branson, Missouri where we had over 100 shipmates and their guests for a total of over 200 for three days. It was a fabulous success. You can read all about it in our News section of the website. In 2006 we held our second reunion in Flagstaff with 217 in attendance and in 2004, at our first reunion, we had 180 in Colorado Springs. The next Reunion will be in Reno, Nevada in 2010. See the Reunion page for more details.

So join our close knit community tour our web site and plan to attend our next reunion. To join our association head over to our Join page, and bring up the Join Form, print it out and send it in.

We need your help to find our shipmates. We have put together a Sailing List of Caiman shipmates that we have contact information on and a Lost List of Caiman shipmates that we have yet to find. These lists were put together from many sources, including official Navy records, various related websites and the memories and records of shipmates we have found. Take a look at our Lost List and if you have any information on anyone on the list, like what corner of the world we should look, please let us know at fc-crew[at]flamincaiman.org..

Please be sure to fill out the Contact Information form. This will allow us to add or update your information on our Sailing List. A lot of us have moved or changed email addresses, phone numbers etc. Don't worry about your contact info getting out on the web. The info from the form is emailed only to one person that is putting the master list together and then it's wiped off the server. If your email address has changed, go to our email change page. If any other contact info has changed like your mailing address or phone number, please fill in the Contact Information form again.

We have set up a mass email program so we can get announcements out to everyone when we have some new information. If you would like to be included, you have to subscribe to the mail list yourself. We can't put you on it. You can add or remove your name and email address on this list by visiting our Mail List page. Note, that if your email address changes, you will have to come back to the Mail List page and enter your new email address.

Smitty maintains the Master Sailing List and Lost List. We update the public version of the Sailing List periodically. You can get the public version of the Sailing List and the Lost List right here. The Sailing List is a big file, so those of you with a dial up connection can go have a cup of coffee or two. You can also request the Master Sailing List if you are a member of the Association.

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Please complete our Contact Information Form to get on our Master Sailing List. Click here.