Santa Fe (CL 60) - Naval Cruise Book

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? it E 4 Q l 1 5 Q I 2 sl X, .l 'z 1 4 1 1 1 l l' 1 l 1 l l 1 l 1,1 :.l l l l 1 1 H F 4 l 1 1 1 i 1 1 'l l 1 l ,1 1 1 Q 1 1 1 'l 1 I 1 During the war Radio I was a husy place. Heavy trajc kept 35 operators working heller than 60 hours per man per week. Radio II, localed in the after superstructure, is lransmitfer room and headquarfers of lhe malerial mainlenance gang. The mimeograph machine in lhe prinl shop seldom slaps its grinding out J news, forms, and crders for lhe entire ship. If 138 l l V Y I r 1 -V .1 :ff ,.1fMJ','rff,?l:s V1 ,V lf' . 1 11 fi - f fl 1, ' . rf l' '1' ,k'.,1i!l 1, X ,tif .,.,..M L,1,.,1 xv! ,LLL and 17 transmitters, all of which may be in use at the same time. Two of these receivers and two transmitters are in Radio Three, a' well-protected emergency station deep within the ship's armor belt. The Signal Bridge, with a complement of about 20 signalmen and strikers, is the main communications center during combat. Recognition, aircraft identification and all forms of signalling are major duties. Tn charge is the Signal Officer, or Bridge CWO, who also controls the tactical maneuvering voice radio CTBSJ, has charge of current tactical publications and op-plans, and coordinates Radio Central and the navigation bridge. Besides their own office in Radio One, the Communica- tion Department has control over two others. The Captain's Oflice and its personnel, under the cognizance of the Ship's Clerk, handle almost all incoming and outgoing official mail, process ofiicers' records, and route Navy bulletins, circulars, letters, orders, memos, and supple- ments. The Executive Officer's Office is one of the busiest on the ship, particularly since demobilization work began. It does almost everything except light off the boilers and get the ship underway-and it generally publishes the orders for both those events. The newest job assigned to Communications is the management of the City Desk -the Public Information Oflice. Here newshawks turn out stories for home town papers, write material for the Santa Fe Chief, and organize the daily Sentinel. But the Chief and the Sentinel are a small task compared to the Plan of the Day, memorandums, results of inspections, ofiice forms, copies of alnavs, and engineering charts, all of which are turned out by the printers. The battle cry of the C Division's postal clerks is A bag l of mail in every portf, The SANTA FE's post oflice, a stateside rig in miniature, averages 750 incoming and well , over 2000 outgoing letters daily. Communications may Q receive many momentous dispatches, but none more it important to the morale of the ship than these. A ,L Off ffl-I , ,, he 1 in s 3 X X s 'N silo?-L y . . , XXX Z I Whenever mail comes. ahoard the pos! o-gfce is a popular spot,for the ilem mos! desired hy the crew is a letferfrom home. l . - . -I:-WM, Y ll' f V- 7' 'W' Aii' ' 'f ' ot:-. 1 . .. . . ,,,, -- ... ,. .. ...N . ,

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THEIR TASK IS TO GET THE SHIP THERE AND BRING HER BACK AGAIN EAT, the smell of oil, and the hum of machinery are the lot of the Engineers, who make up approxi- mately one-hfth of the ship's complement. It is not an easy job being part of this department, for there are many times when the individual must make decisions and act on his own responsibility. Hard work, sweat, heat, and cramped quarters are ever prevalent, but the men carry on, remembering that their Work is so vital that if it were interrupted the functions of the entire ship would suffer or would stop completely. The Engineering Department consists of four divisions -Auxiliary, Boiler, Electrical, and Main Engine-each dependent in some manner on the other. The Auxiliary On 17 ffanuary 1945, in flze South China Sea, the SANTA FE marked the K--ve , X t , ., . . . 7 t Lzeulemmt Commander Ralph H Packer USN Erzgzneerzn O fy' llze SANTA FE kept lzer operatzng durzng the war yeirxlfwr A earner of the log room where the En gzneerx holdforlh and keep the yea men busy on reports logs and mzzelzznery izzstarv l l l l 140