William M Wood (DDR 715) - Naval Cruise Book

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PEED RUN 1 in the year fifty-nine 0Ilf'?80gz:'do5e?p3il6rs, all four, on the line The building up gtegm, to give her the gun we mem preparations, for o full power run fglkiggousekeepmgu ligmts were shining so bright Things were easy to find, If you had v. flashlight The chief Engineer was both flustersd and terse cause the moms ugroat speed run was about to commence Tae observers were stationed, the scene was :ull set Everyone was so busy, there was no time to fret boilers were panting, to meet the great need gg they two-blockedtiae throttle , to give her more speed Then over the gqur-.wk box, from the bridge, come a. wail ' ' ' fx ll me 5-,re running down wind, rig the jib and moinseil We rm them both up, to the starboard yardann We figured their help, wouldn't do us no hz.-.nn We cut thru the water at a hell of a. pace md it 11911 all the aspects of rx thrilling drug race we pggged up the others as they watched with c, frown They checked to insure that they weren't backing down At thirty-three knots , we were cruising z-.long :nd the men were all happy, that nothing went wrong Wg-ly up on the Mast, they looked for some room to run up our symbol , .1 battered old broom Success, it was ours, and words flooded the wire Congrats from the STEINAKER, another broom flyer ComDesDiv SIXTY-TWO also added his praise Mississenewa too, gave our spirits a raise Well now that it's over, we are ell feeling good That another WELL IDNE X, belongs to the VDOD D0 you renanber the legend of 31 knot BURKE 7 Well, we nick-naned our skipper Old 33 knot PERKHZ X ,ob 3 N i ,AVPPLL N if ,-7 'Q lag ' V ,f,u 1, X, EU ,i XX n 3 ,ii ,A I, 17' x, k 4 H E 3 g ee k ' no RX i x X 5 4, xl EX nl N,.,,, f ,,, -X f,: x, ' 'f . , rf Mo...,,. --f' A do Q Q Q r e F-f f ' ' fe , . me ,oo X , sf mg ,iff 5 ...-- r, 3 vqnvevi 1 no, x.-A ,M ,. -f M I We We 'A nl, ....,,. - .- X. e xl v . ,313 A M . - -g-, ff

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