John Thomason (DD 760) - Naval Cruise Book

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Q B Division, secretly known as Spider Di vision , did a tremendous job during the last WestPao cruise. Working around the clock, they always had the THOMASON ready to steam. I I 1 I I n I 3 5 I

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U-3 gym. :fr H .Mp ,, . ' Q, - M- . as - ,5 ','r..0 WM. -..-MW v-. 'I 13 1'-be ' 4..,: 5' 433-1 2 E 532. x 11- f Q r. X , ,I Ai. .X Wwx V One of the few times when we were ap- prehensive about getting underway was right before the start of the cruise. The BT's had just acid-cleaned two boilers and scrubbed out the other two. They were tested out dur- ing our dependents' cruise, and it turned out that we had some soap suds in our plant from cleaning residues. The suds gave us no real problem, however, and we steamed to Pearl Harbor without incident. So, even though we had some difficulty at the start, THOMASON began a practically perfect steaming record. Although the cruise was marked by one suc- cess after another for the BT's, their fin- est hour was in Sasebo, Japan. Because we were on 12-hour standby there, the BT's could only shut down two boilers at a time for maintenance. They nonetheless man- aged to carry out a complete annual boiler inspection. They discovered one major dis- crepancy in the course of the examination, but corrected it after 72 straight hours of work. Thus, the THOMASON left Sasebo the way she left every port P- with all four boilers up and ready to go. AgaLlaL ' - - f ---