Belleau Wood (CVL 24) - Naval Cruise Book

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TOP ROW: S. M. Cann, E. V. Rosenthal, S. Frye, M. T. Enright, D. G. Hanson. D. D. Condon, H. L. Kendall. MIDDLE ROW: R. G. Kennedy, L. Reedy, J. Harper, W. J. Foran, J. F. Gaughan, Ens. VV. W. Baines, Lt. G. Creyke, G. D. Morrison, R. B. Martin, F. Klayda, D. W. Welsh. BOTTOM ROW: R. L. Jones, W. Dcniston, J. P. Mahoney, P. J. Bower, A.T. Trujillo, H. Ferguson, J. D. Baker. The Navigation Department is one of the ship conf trol departments, the other being the Engineering Def partment. lt can be said that the Engineers give the ship mof tion, and the members of the Navigation Department give direction to the motion. The Navigator, the head of the department, is im' mediately responsible for keeping the Captain informed of the ship's position and, when the ship is operating singly, for determining and recommending to the Cap' tain the track to be followed, noting aids and hazards to navigation. This is one of the smaller departments or divisions on the ship in number of personnel, consisting of but twenty men: quartermasters, quartermaster strikers, two ship's buglers, and a yeoman. For hundreds of years the sextant has The smile can mean only one thing- The Navigator- been used to determine ships' positions quarterrnaster plots course to Uncle Sugar Lt.fCmdr. R. E. Patterson

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.6-,- NSW. .Kiwi 1 UIVIQIU As general rcpairmcn R Division members turn to at all hours of the day and night to unstop a drain, repair a leak in a tire main, weld a broken brace or damaged catwalk, or seal a light leak which is betraying the ship on a dark night. Wheiiex'er a plane makes a nosefover landing there usually are several planks on the flight deck for the carpenters to replace. During Ceneral Quarters the First Lieutenant an sistants are in Central Station and are responsible for mendf d his asf ing and controlling damage occurring in battle. They are in constant communication with the bridge and other parts of the ship. This station is a maze of controls, including telef phone switchboards, fire signal boards for all magazines, conf trols for flooding these magazines, and a few instruments of navigation such as the main gyro compass. Battle stations of R Division men are the repair lockers, each of which has a squavvkfbox connected with Central Station and the other repair lockers. Damage is reported to Central Station which notifies the nearest repair lockers and directs the firefighting and damage repair by the repair locker parties. The following members of the Division were detached before the group picture was taken: OFFICERS: Cmdr. R. R. Lyons, Lt. T. L. Horner, Lt. H. Kaye, Bosn. S. J. Le- narski, Lt. G. W. McFetridge. MEN: Bivin O. Abbott, NVilliam P. Ahern, NVesley L. Arwood, Charles R. Bal- lard, Linwood R. Barlow, Thomas B. Barnes, Sidney S. Basinger, Burl T. Bates, George Blankenship, Melvin F. Bullock, YVilliam M. Cagenek, William A Cargile, Joseph Carlucci, Joseph H. Cascarino, Armand E. Blanchette, Wesley C. Brady, William E. Chadwick, Clarence V. Clark, Jr., Everett F. Coers, James M. Collins. James B. Cowart, Sr., Albert C. Cox, Cincent J. Cupuwich, Peter Delliquanti, James W. Dodd, Michael G. Fannick, Laverne S. Farncomb, Frank C. Forsyth, Frederick J. Fox, Fred K. Frantz, Horace G. Freeman, Robert D. Gale, Thomas J. Gallagher, Anthony Gambelli, Charles H Gartner Lawrence J Gill N . . , . ey, as- cienzio M. A. Grande, Robert D. Guyer, Sandy G. Halbedier, Douglas Hill, Thomas? Hilo J I H if . s n, ames . u man. C. C. Hughes, NValter E. Jaques, Martin J. Jarosz, Louis J. Johnell, Jr., Arthur W. Johnston, William S. Jones, Walter J. Kazerierski, Russel E. Kelley, Gerald P. Keagh, George M. Kennedy, David M. Kingery, James P. Koisa, Philip Lanza, George F. Lawrence, John W. Laycock, Thomas A. Littlejohn, Jr., Clyde A. Lucore, Otto E. Mangless, Frank D. Man- ning, Edmund J. Markt, Jr., George J. Mainick, Clarence C. Martel, Melvin E. Mess, Jared C. Millan, Samuel NV. Miller, Jr., Milton E Missman, Carleton H. Moffit, Horison O. Moore, Joseph Myzykowski, Louis Gi Nanio, Bruce A Nave, Arie O el K th P ' ' p aar, enne ayton, Edward C. Pawlowski, Raymond E. Parnell. Wilfred C. Riley, Carl Rodatto, Lyman A. Shelton, John J. Skelton, Peter S. Smerno, Cecil Smith, Sidney Sommer, Stanley J Swiecki Howard B Swing, Eugene F. Taylor, William O. Terrill, Anthony Pi Versage, William Ward fhomas F. Weaver, Charles S. West, Herbert A.NVigg'ins, Myron D. WVright, l The Boatsiuairfs Locker Cruise boxes and storage cabinets are turned out daily in the Carpenter Shop Sliipftter Shop blaeksmitl1s forge a piece of round stock One of the jive repair lockers located stratef igirally Lliroicglmut tlie ship for damage control l7l

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D IVI S I U The Assistant Navigator is the Division Cfiicer. First, to all land lubbers, a quartermaster in the Navy is not in charge of storerooms, refrigeration, or issue of underf sides stand watches. However assisting the Oflicer offthef Deck as a quartermaster of the watch is the most imporf tant job. We keep a watch notebook in which we record course and speed changes, routine reports, temperatures of the magaf zines, fuel and water consumption, weather conditions, engineering data and unusual occurrences. From this note' book the Ofiicer of the Deck gets his information for writing the smooth log. The quartermaster on watch also keeps the zigzag plans and steaming data board up to date supplies lights for the pelorus, a flashlight or a stadimeter for the Gfiicerfof thef Deck, and keeps the conning bridge in a tidy condition. The steaming data board referred to is located on the bridge and carries information on who the guide ship is, the base course N L C3 C, . wear. And secondly, to you salts , we do a few things be' , , 3 3 and speed, cruising disposition, formation axis, time of sun' rise and sunset, time of moonrise and moonset, direction and force of wind, and miscellaneous facts of importance. And it is the quartermaster of the watch who stalks around in the wee hours of the morning with a flashlight waking up the watchfstanders' reliefs. But the one detail of our daily work which has higher value than any other is performed by the strikers in the divif sion. All the credit in the world to those who have conf tinually kept gear in the Auxiliary Chart House for our inf dispensable CfOfFfFfEfE ! The following members of the Division were detached before the group picture was taken: OFFICERS: Lt. tjgb T. E. Hackett, Lt. fjgl C. W. Meshier, Ens. R. E. Burgin. MEN: Charles R. Bagrlin, Donald E. Bourane, George M. Branton, Lawrence H. Canfield, Jr., Donald D. Condon, John M. DeFusco, Edward P. Fiocco. Raymond E ' F n Albert S Gillian lack R Hai ei John F Gau han, . Fox, William J. ora , . , - - 'D '. - 3 Thomas F. Hill, Albert D. Imperati, Martin R. Jankoski, Jr., John J. Johnston, Frank Klayda, Jr., Alfred J. Laime, Jr., Richard W. LaLonde, Richard P. Lane, Elwood F. Littlejohn, James P. Mahoney, William G. Marandola, Robert D. Ma- son, Charles R. Nugent, Harris L. Pair, Warren G. Price, Maxwell H. Robb, Theodore W. Thannhauser, William H. Turner, Vaughn C. Watson. Colors Steaming close alongside a tartlqer requires great skill on the part of the lielrnsman Quarterniasrer on watch checks the cllidudc on the conning bridge 173