Mispillion (AO 105) - Naval Cruise Book

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The first swim may have found the bodies a little out of condition but not altogether shapeless. Many new and revolutionary diving forms were given a premier showing from the make-shift spring board and the boat booms lsee upper and lower rightl. The Pacific is somewhat larger than the, 'Ol swimmin' hole ,but our first swim call under the hot Formo- san sun was no less cooling and re- freshing than kwere the dips in the days of yore. All hands not on watch turned out and enioyed a re-living of their care-tree younger days.

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Q . .. No beach on the Mispnllnon, so all the beach-boys were forced to line the rails to see the water without getting wet. Our first swim call brought out a new fashion of swim-suit-and such a variety of styles, both legiti- mate and improvised . . . The Jacob's ladder was hard on feet, so some sailors climbed back aboard hand over hand up a line.