Bryce Canyon (AD 36) - Naval Cruise Book

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'L..a- Eh om kan pm, It is a rare sight to see a Destroyer Tender alongside an Aircraft Carrier. As a matter of fact, no one here knows whether it has ever happened before. ' Recently, however, at Subic Bay, in the Philippines, USS BRYCE CANYON QAD-365 wrote a new page in Western Pacific history by going alongside USS ORISKANY QCVA -341. The event was occasioned by a serious fire which had broken out in ORISKANY while operating off the Vietnam coast. As soon as the ships were moored together, BRYCE CANYON'S repair personnel swarmed aboard the carrier, and commenced around- the-clock operations. First on the agenda was the immediate recharging of some 107, CO2 fire extinguishers, which had been used in fighting the blaze. At the end of six days, all repair work was completed, Every one of the seventy ventilation and heating systems, as well as all electric motors in the damaged area had been checked out and restored to order. During this period, working parties from the tender had also pitched in with ORISKANY sailors and personnel from SRF Subic, in cleaning up the fire and smoke damaged areas to make them habitable. Elsewhere aboard the tender, skilled technicians worked on countless other jobs not immediately associated with the fire damage, giving the carrier a tender availability the likes of which she had never seen. On conclusion of work, BRYCE CANYON'S modern electronic accounting machine installation tallied the results of her 6-day eEort. In all, a total of 6, 019 manhours had been expended, the equivalent of a two week availability for four destroyers. As both ships got underway at the crack of dawn on the sixth day, ORISKANY sent the following visual mes- sage to the tender: Your outstanding service and voluntary assistance in removing our scars is greatly ap- preciated. 'The willingness to work and your speed and efficiency helped u.s leave Subic Bay in outstanding shape for our transit home, Well done to all men aboard BRYCE CANYON! ' ' gggyq, -'

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A pnouo eomnmo In the years following the Korean Con- flict, the Destroyer Tender has become increasingly important as a repair facil- ity, Because of her mobility, the tender can readily be dispatched to ships Of the line thus eliminating the necessity of re- moving the ships to distance shore facil- ities. With her repair methods constant- ly improving, the tender has ventured into repair fields originally considered only for larger shore establishments. Prime examples of this advancement is BRYCE CANYON FREQUENT REBAR- RELING OF GUN MOUNTS and her unusual assistance to the fire-crippled aircraft carrier USS ORISKANY. The bulky tender has become a famil- iar sight to Navymen throughout the world. When did this service begin? What ship of the line first carried AD onto the seas ? The first ship repair facility was the USS BLACK HAWK QAD- 91. Assigned as a tender and flagship to the Mine Force, BLACK HAWK departed in June 1918, to take station at Inverness, Scotland. She returned to New York, in November 1919, and served as flagship and tender for the Atlantic Fleet destroy- ers in reserve at Philadelphia. After the installment of a torpedo workshop and other equipment, she was designated a destroyer tender QAD-91 in November 1920, and reported as flagship of the Operative Squadron, Destroyers Flotillas Atlantic Fleet. She served mainly in Carribean and Panamanian waters until June 1922, when she left New Port via Suez Canal for the Asiatic Squadron, BLACK HAWK remained in the Far East for twenty years, during which she tend- ed ships of Destroyer Squadron FIVE and TWENTY-NINE, Q The BLACK HAWK served ships until 20 May 1946, when she headed home and decommissioning on 15fAugust 1946, the Reason lion the tenoen ,. KK' If Uss DIXIE QAD-14D Uss PRAIRIE QAD-151 Uss CASCADE QAD-161 Uss PIEDMONT QAD-171 Uss SIERRA QAD-18D Uss YOSEMJTE QAD-191 Uss ARCADIA QAD-231 Uss EVERCLADES QAD-241 Uss FRCNTIER QAD-25J Uss GRAND CANYON QAD-zsy Uss ISLE RCYALE QAD-291 Uss SHENANDOAH QAD-261 Uss TIDEWATER QAD-31D Uss YELLOWSTONE QAD-27,

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