Midway (CV 41) - Naval Cruise Book

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HUNTER'S POINT Late at night on The 24th of MGY, with ph, assistance of long lines of men at the end of mcnnu guide lines, several tugs pushed the Midwqy from her berth alongside the pier at Hunter's Poimimo Drydoclq QA which had been filled with water ll, previous afternoon. Carefully the huge ship was positioned so that, as the calssons were pug into place and the water evacuated, the ship'5 keel Slowly settled exactly in place on top ot long row, ot wooden and concrete keel blocks, which would Support 62,000 tons of steel for the next lwo months. Within an hour the ship sat squarelyon the blocks pushing downward with a pressured 15 tons per square foot. Yard workers scampefel around the bottom of the drydock in the pre-down halflight seizing the unfortunate fish that had been trapped inside. During June and July, the Midway swarmed wit- yard birds , whose iob was to renew the shipi lite. Noise was the predominant fact of shipbooi: routine-e -the stentorian blasts, grinds, bangs, pounds and smashes of countless drills, scrapers, chipperi and other percussion instruments, a ubiquitous unrelenting noise that reverberated throughout lli fs. 05

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