Benner (DD 807) - Naval Cruise Book

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Yr A DIVISIO lst, W 5 as M Z 'Y QV xr, Xl eg! is Boiler Tenders: First Row: Kennedy, Forbes, Eckleberry, Mullen, Brumsickle, Glenn, Hager. Second Row: Blackwell, Wood, Barrigear, Schoonover, Nichols, Brown, Jenkins. i -air Another happy group Too hot for shirts down here Boilermen on U.S. Naval warships date back to 1814, when the Navy ordered. a harbor defense vessel of 2,475 tons built for New York Harbor. This first steam war vessel was produced by Robert Fulton named the Demolog0S, and her BT's claimed the envious record of having steamed 53 miles in just eight hours and tvxgenty minutes. Today's steam plants are far more efhcient, and the men that man them must be more experienced. Boilermen are among the hardest working men on the ship, and must certainly be the best insulated to Stand the heat of the fire- rooms while underway. Many of the topside personnel marvel about how do those snipes live down in those holcS3 it's hot enough to cook an eggu. But they stood it, and manufactured the steam that turned the screws, ran the galley laundry scullery, and kept us 'warm Cmost of the timej during our cold winter in WESTPAC. So next time one Of thiem Cgmes out of his 11019, trailing black footprints and fin er r' t b l' t g p in s, e a ittle more tolerant, wont you?

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DIVISIO R Division: Front Row: Jordan, Kirchman, Nye, Phelps, Sivits, Northcott, Clark, Phillips, Stroo, Halpin. Second Row: Boswell, Haley, Taylor, Anderson, Wiggins, Moore, Thomas, Crawford, Stark. RH Division personnel were by necessity the do-it-yourself experts of the cruise. Composed of Ship Fitters, Electricians, Enginemen, Machinery Repairmen, Damage Controlmen, and Inter-Communications men, they were called on daily for a perplexing variety of jobs. Repair the garbage grinder Qagainj, fix the main ship's generator, un-clog the pantry's drain, get up the dress-ship lights before sunset, get them down by sunrise, fix the lMC so the Word can be passed, manufacture this, repair that .... the list Was endless. They kept the many pieces of auxiliary equipment going so that the many necessities of shipboard life could be maintained. Next time something happens to go out of commission, don't worry about it, don't try to fix it yourself, just pick up your phone and dial R . X! , Lots of knobs to clean Waiting for liberty