Belleau Wood (CVL 24) - Naval Cruise Book

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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

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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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