Wedderburn (DD 684) - Naval Cruise Book

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,, E GI El-BRING DEPART Few people would have trouble recognizing LT. Thomas, department head of the Engineering Department, or his assistants, LTJG Collins and Ens. Drache, What constitutes the greatest mystery are all their men who can be seen at the most unexpected times emerging from deep within the hidden recesses of WEDDERBURN'S power plant. Operations steered the way, Weapons made sure we looked good and Shgt straight when we got there, and Supply fed us enough to keep the inner man united to the outer man. However, the Engineers kept us the steamingest, and fastest, Best Destroyer on station. The Steamer was properly tended in her engine room so when the call went down to turn out those knots, the fantail was throwing a wake before the second callbell sounded. In charge of her sixty-thousand horses are the Machinist Mates. Keeping those turbines going is a rough job, grimy, and as any one who had to hang clothes in the hole during the laundry disaster, knows almost unbearably hot. To keep the turbines spinning takes steam, and lots of it. The Boiler Technicians kept the home fires burning, and really cooked up a storm. Even when we lost a boiler, they still kept us going, always ready, ALWAYS steaming. What the MM's and BT's can't fix, the men of R Division fthe Frantic Fixersy CAN DO, To keep the gyro running and the phone talkers talking, the IC men are forever putting in newlines and junction boxes. They also show some pretty old Flicks and it was only the big men in the Shipfitter gang that was able to keep the Electricians from turning off the power when the IC men showed two pre-World War ll movies in a row. Even the First Class were slightly disturbed at the prospect of losing their ten o'clock movie, their lunch movie. the early afternoon matinee, the supper movie, and the sleepy time special! The good Lord spared us any serious mishaps, but if trouble was near, so were the Damage Controlmen. Then there are those brave and determined Enginemen who came to fume in what everyone knows was a fixed fiasco between the Galloping Gig and the Wild Whaler , If all this were not enough, the Engineers proved what metal men' and S11iDGS are made of, by completely tearing down the evaporators and rebuilding them while the Steamer kept her appointed rounds. JT iw WW' ,. If f 'W Q t ff t'f- 7f?'ff ,t,,i' an 1 Q ieiiif' 9 , . wb! 'Wi ' A ,ff 'i' ,Z fix A , , SQi,F'..23-'if

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