Midway (CV 41) - Naval Cruise Book

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i Ship, up and down the metal trame back and forth along the decks until you telt as it the entire ship were going to collapse on the drydock's floor. But the revitalization continued. Bulkheads were ripped out, new equipment was installed, tons of paint were chipped oft and new applied, More than 600 yard repair requests were ac- complished, 70,000 man days were expended by yard workers, and at least an equal number more by the ship's torce. S5 million was spent. The hangar deck was a veritable warehouse at every imaginable kind ot machinery, old, rusted, beaten boxes of electrical gear lay in dismembered pieces next to rows ot shiny, sparkling, new computers. Meanwhile hundreds of men received train- ing at school in San Diego or Treasure Island Others left the ship for long periods ot leave l 1 I W . X - at al' 'L- -W5 , ic 4 i 'noi Q 'v s, k . J fl AA... b ' , . ,x N v I 5 S ' . . K 4 . - r, I. I A gt., L 5' n-J' 1 -als 9uq,,h U Q-13.1 if 'ff 4 Nr 4,7 If XV? mils... 1. A-. 'Q ,-,maxi ' ' i Tu' 07+ ' i , fli- 'Q I f Iwi. 1' X. ' K. 4-.,4 '-1? wf '7- jim x in .I ,IA Qin 1 Within weeks an airplane will some- how be catapulted from that flight deck. 27

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- '-RISE 'mi . is A I T2 :Q I.'f1g5i -...IO ,Tl I l 1 l ,def fd:--e ll1Olf i0fT1lll8S MOHy xsprg disclqofged of ffons- ferred, and each day brougef load ol boots who we-'Q by man-hungry divisions. Ne.. in as department heads. Ca: relieved Captain Mini as Commanding Qffjcer and Commander Kenneth E. Gullea- Commander Jenkins as Execui nother replacement GUlCl4ly assimilated commanders moved n Qalph W. Cousins ae took over from E Qiflcer, Then on the 25th ol July the wofer and Hgh flowed in, and the Midway lioctea out of drydockl Observers and yard superintendenfs began walldhroughs, checks and tests, tying up loose ends. Finally on the 25th ot Au ust Q , superheated steam from the boilers once more surged through the turbines turning the four main shafts rotating gleaming new screws, and the new Midway steamed under the Golden Gate into the Pqcific for sea trials. Q 4 W-af 'Tim' if 'i ,gi 5? ,fm- f,-ya General Quarters was a daily, and sometimes nightly event, during which the ship ran the long gamut of Competitive Exercises. The flight deck crew practices emergency pro- in cedures with a scrapped, incredibly old AD. E