Jason (AR 8) - Naval Cruise Book

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P V Background, fitting flight deck lumber - Foreground, welding deck plating Several.other longitudinal bulkheads were straightened and numerous shrapnel holes throughout the island structure were patched. It was necessary to replace all of the doors, ventilation ducts, piping and several thousand feet of multi-conductor cable which had been destroyed in the area. lfwenty-four hundred square feet of fibrous glass insulation were renewed in the air office, ready rooms and the overhead of the hangar deck in the damaged area. During the availability of the HANCOCK, the JASON shops fabricated the required material, and assisted in installing armored bulkheads and protected ports around the hangar deck control station. The HANCOCK remained alongside the JASON thirteen days and the end of this time cleared the sides ready for duty in the forward battle area. In a later battle action, in which the HANCOCK was hit with a Kamikaze, a.fire raged in the hangar deck. After controlling the fire, the damage control officer stated that the armored bulkhead around the hangar deck control station remained intact and was a deciding factor in enabling control to handle the fire expeditiously. Background, stud welding flight deck planking - Foreground, welding tie-down channel , .511 ,. t C,,,, ,t 15 45' fh- -ge fab ' L Twenty-one --n.d..2.. I1 I

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COLORADO fBB-lbl leshlp ' Q :hi Ulithi Har The UQSHC. COTORQDS Jnggvso damage Caused by the Crash of a Ja bor and anchored near the Amid-Feb1rE'larYla?li5StI?uck ai frame 80 and was deflected over the side of Egagiplodei Selow the waterline near frame 60. The plane in its Crash qemol Sn-51 caliber guns and badly damaged a 40mm gun. Bulkheads if oisimateiaand the adjacent area were badly distorted. A fire burned the dec p an ing et th ort side of the forecastle and damaged 1,500 feet of fire 0 . Zgbigd 8ThZnundZr5ater explosion opened a seam in the blister near the water frame 60. Repair operations commenced on 20 February 1945. All damaged b u nd the burned deck planking was replaced. The 5 guns and casemates were repaired a . 40mm-gun, located directly above the 5U guns, were completely rewlred. The difficult job was removing and installing the two 5U guns. The only nn available in the area was a small floating crane commonly known as a Mary A of the rough sea and the relative movement between the small crarmzand the C0 handling of the heavy' lifts 'was both. dangerous and difficult to control. I necessary to construct a landing platform outboard the gun mounts and accurate r was essential to line up the guns in order to insert them in casemates. The weight of each gun lift was eleven tons. Secondly, the only guns available in the area at the time were for use with Vickers fire control system. Since the COLORADO was equipped with the General system, it was necessary to modify both of the replacement guns accordingly. It also necessary to replace the wooden bases and tcm drill and. fit them to guns. These guns had been on their foundation better than twenty years. It necessary to apply approximately 100 tons pressure with hydraulic jacks plus sledging to push the hold-down bolts through the gun base rings. The new base having smaller holes in the flange than the original necessitated re-machining all holding-down bolts. The auxiliary train and elevation gears were salvaged damaged guns and rebuilt. 'The train and elevation receivers and indicators repaired and reinstalled. New telescope holders were cast by the JAsoN's foundry machined to replace the damaged ones. From To Info COLORADO A COMSERON JASON: SATISFACT csv COMPIE ADVERSE CONDITIONS RESU MATERIAL Upon completion of repairs to her damage, E the Co manding Officer of the U,S,3, COLORADO sent the following despatch: 19425656 MARCH 1945 io. TIO 1 N OF WORK OR COLORADO BY JASON UNDER LTING wow RECEIPT or NON-STANDAHD AND URGENT I . ., WORK ow ormm vsssins is APPRECIATED X