Cascade (AD 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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It Raiiieth Rain I.N ANY adequate treatment of a fci-linical ubje ■ such as this, one does well to lay the foundation with a little some- thing from old Noah Webster. Noah ' s definition of rain is given forthwith, quote: To pour, as from the clouds; to hesitow profusely; shed copiously. I ncjuote. In this, as in certain other intimate matters, Noah errs in being too conservative. Even a definition which takes in as much territory as his falls short of the actual as observed at Advanced Base. The old boy should have said, To pour, as from buckets; to bestow profusely, as out of barrels; to shed copiously, as for example nine inches in the half-hour. The phenomenon of rain as experienced hereabout can best be conveyed i)y a brace of incidents «lucli revolve around the persons of two esteemed members of the ship ' s company. To wit: One night, during one of the milder rainstorms. Lt. (jgl Krhardt wa holding the fort as Officer of the Deck. He was wearing three raincoats, with (luarterniasters holding umi)re!las both port and starboard, and was keeping dry as best he could. Then suddenly and unmistakai)ly during the roar of the downpour he heard a clumping on the gangway. Who goes there? he called in the manner approved by If ' alch Officer ' s Guide. It ' s only me, sir, he heard a weak voice reply. Flashing his battle lantern full over the side. Officer of the Deck Krhardt observe 1, sal ion swimming up the gangway. The poor fish still thought the gangway was a waterfall until the J.O.O.D. itaked Im to produce his liberty card. On anolhf occasion — a very rainy afternoon — it is recalled the ship went into Condition One when the Boatswain ' s Mate o ' the Watch reported what he swore to be a periscope approaching the ship. The big calibres fore and aft ..re all ready to open fire when an Electrician ' s Mate from the Fifth Division came tearing up to the Quarterdeck to say that it wasn ' t a submarine after all but just Niimiier 3 motor whale boat returning from a Guard Mail trip to Coconut Pier. The Coxswain of the boat, in explaining the situation afterward, said it was probably Mr. Oder ' s head which was mistaken for a periscope because at the lime it was the only thing above water. It is reported that .Mr. Yoder got a letter of r ' |)rinian(l from .SecNav for im])crsonaling a sui niarii c willioul jiroper authority. After a span of months in the place it has at last been decided to everyone ' s satisfaction whv the ( .•VSCADF. was sent to th particular port. The lads in the spud locker figure that HulVrs judged the ( ASt ADK to be a water barge becau. of its name, and would in- wi-il iidaptcd for ibi- [ircscnl duty. Well, now that we ' re here we don ' t mind loo niucii ly more. You car ' i. when you ' ve got webbed feet . . ic lliing. sf don ' l gel pcl(ble between our toes -• - Mft ' » , ' (■ Forty-six

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could continue ad infinitum. There are lots of fish in the sea. And they all have cousins at Advance Bases. A technical note on baits: The best baits have been pieces of red beef or other meat for the big ones down deep that get away, small live fish — especially the round, chubby ones — for bonito and tuna; small pieces of meat or canned fish mixed with flour paste or bread dough for yellowtail. One method of catching live bait, besides trying and trying with a single small hook, is to use a snag line with a dozen or more bare hooks along it, and jerking it up through the fish when they are bunched together. The secret here is not to let them know what vou have in mind. TOIuKi — 28 povmis (.tripped); ISNOTH — 46 lnoh» OT«rall( TEETH — wall dovslopodi REFLBX3S-- noraali DISFOSinON — gsntlei FAklU STATUS — baohelori HOBBIES — swlimiB , eating doughl)»ll« ) HEASOM FOK DEIUSE — fooled around USS CASCADBIIJ Summary In normal times (have they ever been? will they ever be again?! one can believe the lagoon .. equally well suited for casting, trolling, or still fishing. Some supply officer or other seems to have stoc ' ' waters with a great variety of fish — both large and small. I venture the statement that if this lagoon co . plunked down, palm trees and all, somewhere along our east coast — say nine miles off Sandy Hook, New it would make a fisherman ' s paradise. In any event, quite a splash. But, of course, one doesn ' t know w) ' would say. Until they ' re willing to lug it that far they can h ' vou might jot it down in your little book as a place » Harvey to visit — if by any chance you should not wa real holiday of it and come along yourself. You can teli candor there are still more fish here. Because, contrary ' fantail opinion, the U.S.S. CASCADE did 710 catch thf ' FLASH! March 29, 1941 — Advap- vance Base. — Before a wildly r ' lery, and after a thirty-minute • fishing from a harge alongside, Sknmiore. J. T., WT3c, pulled in a heautiful 48-lh tuna this date. He succeeded in hringing the i., . fish to gaff despite the enthusiastic coaching, of at least half his spectators. This is a new record for fish actually landed on the U.S.S. CASCADE. Skidmore was at once hurried off for rest and quiet in sick l)ay and cannot he reached for comment.

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