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Ken Johns ⚓️

@deckape.bsky.social
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Landlocked sailor hoping to get back to sea. I grew up in Albuquerque and I consider it my hometown. I really miss the Pacific Northwest though. Big hearted fella.

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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Me, a coast guard veteran and merchant mariner, reading posts about rust on a ship and struggling not to reply. But really though, it’s a ship and it’s at sea.
White guy wearing black watch cap, black jacket and blue paint covered coveralls on red bow of ship sailing into Elizabeth l, NJ
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The times I have had Jesus in my life
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Annie vs the turkeys at puget sound goat rescue. Annie had never defeated the turkeys
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Full moon with cranes on the USNS Gilliland. Jacksonville 2012. Top 10 favorite picture I’ve taken.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Large crane hooks painted yellow for “safety” surrounded by rusty cloverleaf lashing points on the grey deck of the USNS Gilliland in Jacksonville Florida in 2012.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Go Hawks!
With my late wife on the field 2013. Im standing behind a beautiful woman with my arms around her waist on the Seahawks field Coolest forklift ever. Green forklift with Seahawks and Sounders logos
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
My late wife Leana’s Ganesh tattoo. She was half Indian and quarter Ukrainian and Romanian and very beautiful. Merry Christmas
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Crows 🐦‍⬛ Egyptian and Sri Lankan
Egyptian crow Suez Canal Sri Lankan crows Colombo Sri Lanka
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Duck butt
Duck dabbling in Balboa Park San Diego
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Seagull on old ferry slip Port Townsend Washington 2004
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The duality of a car carrier
Sherman tank on flatbed inside a car carrier shipGreen English Bristol sports car in a car carrier on a flatbed. This and the tank went from Europe to the US. Both of them are very expensive
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Ship doors
Yellow steel ship door with red fire extinguisher placards. Bullhead is white with black stenciling next to door listing where the door leads to.Inside of ship door painted yellow with stenciling reading DOG ALL DOGS KEEP RAIN OUT. Dogs are locks on exterior doors, they are the angled pieces on six parts of the door. The red rod is a dogging handle used to ensure water tightness
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Worked on this car carrier in Northern Europe then took it to Baltimore in January 2022 and got minor frostbite from line handling. Then we went to Charleston and it was sixty four degrees and I felt like I was in the tropics.
Stern of blue ship with mooring lines coming off aft mooring deck to shore text is HONOR on top line WILMINGTON DE on second line
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Ah man I love this picture I took in Fells Point Baltimore
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Me directing cranes to send containers ashore that had Johns Hopkins equipment in them. I had no idea Johns Hopkins did military contracting before this. Fells Point Baltimore
White husky guy with glasses short brown hair and a neon green high visibility vest and black clothesHusky white guy wearing a white hard hat green high visibility vest giving hand signals to crane operator White shipping container being lowered onto flatbed semi truck on narrow dock
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Brian and Dio with the USNS Gordon and USNS Gilliland behind them in Fells Point Baltimore
Two sailors Brian and Dio standing on a dock with two large gray ships behind them
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Filipino Dio behind the wheel of a Kawasaki mule white guy brian in the back seat Dio short guy in front of Brian tall guy on the deck of a gray ship in the snow. Dio the short guy is wearing ludicrously huge goggles Dio the Filipino guy in a ships passageway wearing big sunglasses
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Going to Baltimore post for awhile. Dio calling for a cab in Dundalk
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I was thinking about working on ships in Baltimore and searched my Google Photos for video and these pretty much sum up my Baltimore experience.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Jake cutting it up on the turntables. PE in full effect! Late entry #caturday
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Tanker discourse had me looking for my pictures when I was working on the Florida Voyager, a Chevron ship. I did not like working for Chevron. I did get to see the beautiful Columbia River going to Portland, OR. Also saw the retired space shuttle over LA (ship in red box) which was pretty cool.
Bow and forward main deck of tanker ship. Main deck is painted red. Ship is on Columbia River between Washington and Oregon. Trees and coastline on the port side of shipStern of tanker on Columbia River shoreline in background Space shuttle attached to 747 jet over Southern California beach with chase aircraft. Two ships in red box indicating where I was when they flew over in 2012
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Seeing news of the tanker seizure and as a coast guard veteran that also spent 20 years in the merchant marine I am once again enjoying learning about maritime law here on Bluesky
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
My ratings of Star Trek movies: The one with the whales is ok
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
EXCLUSIVE: unreleased Danzig video just dropped
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
One of my favorite Ramones songs performed by the Supersuckers and some random guy youtu.be/9I4GKFkwQJU?...
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Supersuckers & Eddie Vedder "I Believe in Miracles"
YouTube video by Acetate Records
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I’m not sure how I feel about the new Wendy’s slogan. MISFORTUNE AWAITS LUCKY YOU. #albuquerque #4th #misfortune
Wendy’s sign MISFORTUNE AWAITS LUCKY YOU seen on 4th St in Albuquerque
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I’m not sure how I feel about the new Wendy’s slogan. MISFORTUNE AWAITS LUCKY YOU. #albuquerque #4th #misfortune
Wendy’s sign MISFORTUNE AWAITS LUCKY YOU seen on 4th St in Albuquerque
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I’m thinking of changing careers. I’m thinking I may like to scrutinize the catch and bedevil the most grizzled fisherman.
Iron chef guy scrutinizing the catch. Japanese man looking at fish.Japanese chef bedeviling grizzled fishermen about their catch.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
EXCLUSIVE: unreleased Danzig video just dropped
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Unreleased Beastie Boys Intergalactic video just dropped
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Eating something named death by chocolate for the 900th time and thinking this time it’s going to happen
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
My niece came in from Las Vegas today to visit and brought me some new fellas to add to my Kaiju and robot army
From left to right Hedora the smog monster Ultraman Tiga and original Ultraman My kaiju and robot army
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I’m not a movie knower but I’m a bit of a comics knower and I just watched Spielberg’s War of the Worlds for maybe the fourth time and realized the whole cellar and surrounding scenes looked like a 50s EC comic
Tom Cruise walking through a scene that has the garish colors of a 50s EC comic book bright greens and reds
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Non cat-owner: How can you let your cat.... Me: Let me stop you right there.
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The Battle of the Atlantic was brutal. 36,200 sailors/36,000 merchant seamen killed and 3,500 merchant vessels/175 warships/741 Coastal Command aircraft lost in anti-submarine sorties. #WW2 #HISTORY
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
youtu.be/rIKKPQZllOc?...
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The Saints ('73 - '78) Know your product Hi-res video HQ audio Ed Kuepper
YouTube video by Ed Kuepper
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Tfw your ship is going to scrap and you get two days in a four star hotel in Singapore and a flight home on a mostly empty plane.
Sailors on the stern of a launch boat going into Singapore looking very happy and having fun.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I worked with Romy, a Filipino sailor, on the APL Agate. I asked him to teach me some Tagalog and he taught me a phrase that were supposed to be a greeting. Went ashore with him in Singapore and we went to the Filipino mall and turns out the greeting he taught me was show me your panties. Fucker
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Being unemployed and broke I can’t afford a streaming sports package to watch hockey but I found out I have the NHRA channel for free. It makes me very happy to see these vintage drag races. These are from Pomona, CA where I was born.
Top fuel drag racing cars. The yellow car is Don “The Snake” Prudhomme.Drag racer in his car.DRAG RACING!Speedway ladies. Two blonde women in short dresses
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
My favorite way to annoy my late wife was when we’d watch movies or tv shows and people would be firing guns or have a gunfight in a small enclosed space and I’d say they’re deaf now. They all have tinnitus now.
Terminator 2 Arnie firing a shotgun in an elevator.Die With a Vengeance. Bruce firing multiple rounds in an elevator
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas and happy holidays from Sikh Santa!
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
This is one of my most favorite pictures of myself. Talking to one of the three girls that were brought into the goat rescue the day before and were quarantined. I was cleaning out their pen
Taking a break cleaning out her pen and chatting with this sweet lady goat at the goat rescue.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Run run Rudolph…run! Oh no it’s to late
Baby Jake murdering a Rudolph toy.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Christmas in Louisiana on the Shughart. My wife sent me a Merchant Marine hoodie. I wore this hoodie in a local grocery store. The cashier asked me what’s the difference between the merchant marine and the regular marines. I said the US marines kill people on purpose and we kill them on accident
Me standing in front of a Christmas tree on a ship in Louisiana wearing the merchant marine hoodie my wife sent me
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Christmas Eve in Rota Spain 2007. So fun seeing all the families together in a tapas bar late at night. Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa. The kids the grandkids and the dog. I really want the Spanish way of life.
A line of scooters parked down the block in Rota Spain on Christmas Eve 2007
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Christmas at sea. I think this was in Baltimore. The week leading up to Christmas pretty fragrant boughs in my message box. Christmas Day do not bother me
Christmas boughs in my message box. Beautiful and fragrant. White board says merry Christmas The note I put on my door for Christmas Day I’m sleeping in. I’m alive and will be on the radio. DO BOT KNOCK - Bosun
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Christmas at sea. On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me A fozzy pez dispenser and an ersatz Christmas tree
A Fozzy the bear from muppets pez dispenser and a felt Christmas tree ornament my late wife sent me. On my desk on a ship in Baltimore
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Ship doors
Yellow painted steel ship door. Stenciled dog all dogs keep rain out. Dogs are basically locks on ships doors The only ship I’ve ever worked with yellow doors (caution paint) was the USNS Martin. This is the door to the CBRD washdown station
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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I haven’t been on the Veteran’s Administration website for awhile. I tried to log in Thursday, your password is wrong. Reset password. We sent an authentication text to your phone number. I don’t have that phone number anymore. You can only change it by deleting your account and making a new one.
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