Maury (AGS 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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aa ms' RSX? a fi , as if, 2' , ' ax ., X sz.: Qfwm, Q X Q x 4 Q 1 , 4 S xg , X K Qi YQ Q X y ENS JAMES A. HORNER Division Officer and Damage Control Assistant R DIVI IO R Division, the division of repair, has managed over the past year to complete over 800 job orders along with its regular maintenance responsibilities. This work has covered Carpentry, Damage Control, Shipfitting, Machine Shop repairs, Diesel Engines, and last but not least, Onans. There has also been the diesel oil and aviation gas fueling responsibilities. These reached their peak when the helicopter had to be refueled with half gallon jars. The Shipfitter's Shop completed many jobs, the largest of which was the removing, cleaning, and replacing of some twenty 6 inch fire main valves. Of course, during this time, other maintenance work had to be accomplished. One of the more important jobs was welding a bicycle to the forward No. 1 hold bulkhead --so it wouldn't be'a missle hazard! The Boat and Machine Shops have also kept themselves very busy preparing the ship's boats and especially, the soundboats for the Colombian Survey. And to round off the years achievements, the Carpentry Shop, along with its wood work, has been armed with a new and more realistic Damage Control device - the Smoke Bomb! In a never ending effort to improve the fire fighting capabilities aboard this ship, they have, without warning, set these bombs off in various compart- ments to test the crew's reactions to fires. The reaction has been excellent. - 1st row - Robertson Bell Vo ' .. ' . ' 9 gt, B 1 T . lM111er, Slmgen, Cummingsai ey, upper, Walker, Reed, Alexander, Schmelzer, Miller, Haberstitch, 2 d . ' . . 3nd row Smith, Mazon, Rowe, Bailey, Hennington, Dunkerley, Stugard r row - Partolan, Guilmette, Miller, Arsenault, Smith, Moser, Mb Henry, Mogchella Not Shown - Stewart, Caraway

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ENS STEVEN F. CUNNINGHAMy Division Officer and Communications Officer OC DIVISIO The maintenance of reliable, secure and rapid external communications is never an easy task, but it may be said that during this cruise it has been no less than hectic. All ran smoothly until we reached our remote survey area and discovered that normal channels of Fleet Communi- cations were beyond our reception. As a result, we have employed means which have been out of general use for over five years.'With a reversion to the old CW system, MAURY Radiomen were given a good workout in methods only lightly covered in their schooling. It is commendable that this challenge was met with fine performances and we have maintained our link with the Fleet and with those Commands interested in MAURY's survey mission. Conditions have been frustrating, but similar conditions are becoming standard operating procedure for MAURY communications personnel because of the remote areas into which our surveys often take us. The duties of our Aerographic Unit have been extremely productive this cruise. There is little or no data issued for the South American area to aid in the daily fore- casting of local weather conditions. So it has been that the nickname weather guessers has been their watchword However, the data collected and relayed to our Fleet Weather Facilities as a result of the many sounding balloon launches will become a basis for very valuable climatological atlases. Our data output here will probably double the amount of similar information collected for this area in the past. serif , Q , ssnmsqi sl lst row ' Binns, Henderson 2nd row - Sokol, Schmidt, Quesnel Not shown: Sullivan, Roberts, Ryan, Morton OaDe11 Laure ,,fel,Wi ,,.c. li iii Willis, . ,mm-51