Norton Sound (AVM 1) - Naval Cruise Book

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rounding the One of the more memorable days of the cruise for many of us was 17 August. This day was clear and calm-and cold. We were at the southern-most point in our travels, with Latitude of 550 59' South and Longitude 670 12' West. For this was the Horn: bleak, rugged, and rocky. This stretch of water is seldom traversed these days, since the Panama Canal has rendered it obsolete. We of the U.S.S. NORTON SOUND should look back, for a moment, to consider those who have rounded the Horn before us-the pioneers. It is customary to award the honor of its discovery to a Hollander, one Captain Willem Cornelis Schouten. In 1616, on the twenty-ninth day of January, the ship UNITY rounded Cape Horn, the first ship to sail across the lower land of America through an open sea. They called the cape, Cape Horn, agfter the home port of the ship. This town of Hoorn, in Holland, was also home to many of the members of the crew. . For this was the greatest of all private exploring voyages. In that era the powerful Dutch East India Company controlled the only then-known passages to India and the East: the Strait of Magellan and the Cape of Good Hope. Other trading companies were barred from use of these waters. One Isaac Le Maire, as the leader of a group, planned to find a new way. He and a few others, including Captain Schouten, subscribed the necessary capital, and Schouten outfitted the two ships with which the cruise was begun. These were the UNITY, of 360 tons burthen and with a sixty-five man crew, and the HOORN, tonnage 110, and a crew of twenty-two. It is unfortunate to note that the HOORN was lost while being breamed. This ship was beached, and fires were lighted to burn off the accumulated grass and weeds. The fire soon burned beyond control, however, as the grass was very dry. Whatever was salvaged was taken aboard the UNITY-for her own use, or for trade. The crew members of the HOORN were also taken aboard and made comfortable. We find ourselves in different circumstances in today's ships. Constructed primarily of steel, in- stead of wood, ours are, of course, much larger and faster. We should note, though, that we, too, were on a voyage of discovery, as were those Hollanders, 342 years ago. Our mission of research and dis- covery is noted elsewhere.

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our first Contact The first ship We had seen in 23 days was a destroyer escort, U.S.S. COURTNEY CDE-10215. Since the only sight since leaving Port Hueneme, aside from Water, had been the cold and forbidding rocky tip of South America, this DE looked good to us. It brought official mail, that was Welcome, and new movies, which were more so. That's one of the tankers from the Task Group on the right, the U.S.S. NEOSHO QAO-1435. The island in the background is one of the Ascension group. 5 OOO, OOO, 000, OOO pound ice cube No one really knows Wh t 't ' h d. B ' - - - . . real iceberg inany of us haild eveviiyesgeiii. Thgtpzlictwvii gaqweltllbbigh Stiht thas mommg' It was -the .flrlft other e1ght-nlnths, about, Was underwater. ' g ' as qul e Small by Compamson' t e