Hamul (AD 20) - Naval Cruise Book

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manuel mcbrine -' able bodied. seaman g XXX, WWW-'Hub ' I 61 1, X Tb On a day dark and cold . y A 0 from out of the hold f D crawled a creature X52 tg- quite hard to describe McBrine is me name and the sea is me game, N 'fill I've been known by Q some to imbibe i 1' X V g ' I dozed off, l'm told -X., 4 in the number two hold, X-. ,,77f twas the summer of lllillld , , X. hp, nineteen four oh il H. blillifasi' . ' ' 'US' now awoke and find I am broke, mx so aweigh the anchors 4 I All ,E 3' II and fo West Pac we'll go A .'i.lllL ll,llllli... ff '.dllll'f1!Ulll l l :3 E g 1,f N i 42: figaiisr. MLLIAM5 The only real plank owner aboard the Hamul is not a member of the United States Navy. ln addition to having more time aboard than any other man, he also has existed as a stowaway longer than any other person in history. McBrine is now completing his seventeenth year in this capacity. McBrine was not always a Stowaway. He served for many years as an able bodied seaman in the U.S. Merchant Marine. ln fact, it was in this capacity that he first boarded this ship in l94O. At the beginning of World War ll, McBrine having an aversion to the Army, appointed himself civilian observer aboard the Hamul. Serving diligently in this capacity, he thoroughly investigated the sleeping conditions in almost every part of the ship. Finding a void that was so remote and so ideal for sleeping, McBrine stayed there. He was actually forced to leave it only twice over a period of year-once when the Hamul lthen an AKl put into Iceland, and again when the ship spent several weeks in Borabora. lt was in this void that we discovered Manuel. When his story came to light, it was found that he owed the ship a great deal, he had consumed tons of food and water during his many years as a non-working guest. lt was decided that rather than putting him in irons, he would be put to work on the Hamul Cruise Book. This has proven a wise move, not only because there is a real lack of volunteers andfor workers for this book, but McBrine has also exhibited a funny and subtle vvit. He is the one who goes around the ship at night turning on all the fresh water taps in a single-handed effort to maintain our High Daily Average lper capital. He is the funny fellow who keeps submitting Mr. Reece's name as condidate for Miss Tender Twenty of the Month , and keeps switching the numbers on Mr. Soso's paint-by-numbers set. So, with Manuel's efforts directed towards a constructive proiect, we sincerely hope you will enioy the following pages of Hamul's West Pac Cruise, T957 ..... ' ' ..:::-angels' ' 4g::1.Lu::.L: :rss-': :4::z:::,..,- Q -V-L-e4.14.,.L-ew.:-111

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captain a.cI. kilmartin On 26 July l957, Captain Alfred D. Kilmartin became Commanding Officer of the HAMUL. A graduate of the Naval Academy, class of l934, he has led an interesting and exciting career in the Far East. After initial assignments in the China area, he was selected in J938 to study the Chinese language at Peking which led to his assignment as Assistant Naval Attache in Shanghai. Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Captain Kilmartin, who was then a Lieutenant, was interned by the Japanese. After two years he was repatriated and returned to Washington where he served two years in the Office of Naval lntelligence. ln l944, while holding the rank of Commander, he became Skipper of the destroyer-escort GENDREAU and eventually, Commander Escort Division 73l. ln i9-45, he served as Navigator aboard the battleships INDIANA and NEW JERSEY. Then in l947, he became senior advisor to the China Naval Academy. Several other shore billets followed until l95l when he was assigned as Commanding Officer of the CACAPON which operated in the Korean conflict. Captain Kilmartin came to the HAMUL from Taipei where he was serving as U.S. Naval Attache. His wife, the former Maribel Martin, and his four children are now living in Palo Alto, California W, . 2 ff wif we we QS NS 1 K X w f 'V Q fr 1 f ' f. X