Chandeleur (AV 10) - Naval Cruise Book

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f A DIVISION Palatable water for drinking, cooking, laundry and showers must be produced to the tune of 35,000 gallons daily from the sea water by the Evap- orator Gang of A Division— and the CHANDY LOU is noted for being a clean ship. An enormous amount of food must be stored aboard and thanks to the Supply Department, we have it. However, nearly 30 per cent of that food requires refrigeration and herein lies the duty of the A Division ' s refrig- erator gang. They must keep enough food chilled or frozen to ordinarily supply a whole city block of families with refrigerated food for a period of three months! And they must be on the job too, for spoilage would be dis- astrous. One item has its advan tages however — this gang also keeps the refrigeration units in order in the Gedunk Stand or soda fountain, and ice cream, you know, must be tested. The small boats ' engines must be continually kept in operation and this calls for repairs and overhaul jobs. Often with no spares on hand our boat repair crew must perforce resort to cannibalism of other engines, yet often the parts have to be manufactured by our machine shop gang, A Division. When a vital part for a PBM seaplane is needed by the Air Department and no spares are available the machine shop gang is called upon to manufacture those parts.

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C DIVISION The Coniniunications Department serves all other departments aboard ship. It is composed of Radiomen, Radio Technicians, Signalmen, Yeomen, Printers, Mailmen, and Buglers. Continuously alert to receive messages addressed to our ship, it is on a 24 hour-a-day basis. Radio One, commonly known as the Radio Shack , is the nerve center for rapid communications. Here are located the receivers over which we keep in contact with the far flung units and commands of all the branches of the service, yes, even with enemy communications. All operations depend entirely upon accurate and rapid communications. Messages must be orig- inated, encrypted, transmitted, received, decrypted, and delivered by a smooth working chain from originator to action addee. Radio operators and coding board officers handle incoming and outgoing messages. Radio technicians keep the radio receivers and transmitters operating. Signalmen handle visual communications which are received or transmitted by flashing light, flag hoist, and semaphore. The buglers regulate our daily ship ' s routine from Reveille to Taps, sounding — boat calls, emerg- ency drill calls, mess calls, and that old favorite mail call. Our mailmen start our letters on their way and bring us those sweet missives from home. The yeomen in the C Division keep the records and ship ' s correspondence up to date in the Captain ' s and Executive Officer ' s offices. The Printers supply all departments of the ship with printed forms, programs, and different sizes and kinds of paper, depending upon the requirements. All these various duties require skilled men who have intelligence, common sense, dependability and high efficiency.