Delta (AR 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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WATCH 8a GAUGE SHOP J, 0 f M! fff , 4714! 3.J,wW,,4 ., if -I V .. ,, ...., ,, . ,ff f .rn .JM-f , ,. i 1 I 5 6 w...w,,,MW,.,. ....,.,, - , lst ROW:SNARAIZAgSNWEATHERLYgIM3CARTER3 IMC J. BLEDSOE3 MM3 SPIESg IMSN KINGg IM3 JONESQ IMCS E. VAN SCHAICK. WATCH AND GAUGE SHOP . The Watch Shop repairs and adjust watches, clocks, sinous course clocks, comparing watches, chronometric watches, and stop watches which are used through out the Nalfy' The Watch Shop is equipped with the most modern cleaning and timing equipment avail- able. Although a small shop, personnel in it are highly trained and qualified to insure that Navy time is always kept alooard ship. . , The Gauge Shop repair and calibrate all types of mechanical instruments used on Shlps of the Fleet. Most 'of the shop'si Work consist of repairing pressure gauges, tachometers and various meters and indicators used in the customer ship's main propulsion plants. TGS'U facilities for barometers, damage control and ordnance instruments are also emp10Yed by the four highly qualified shop personnel.

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AUX. Sz DRAFT SHOP 1St ROW: SN JORDANgSNLEEgSN PISTILLI5 SN OM2 PRICE5 SN NEWTONg DM3 JOHNSONg DM3 ASBELISg DMSN MICHAEL. 2nd ROW: SA WARDQ STRONG5 IMCS E. VAN SCHAICK. DRAFT SHOP AND AUXILIARY MACHINE SHOP The Draft Shop is capable of performing numerous draft work, from drawing blue prints to cartoons. Most of the Work consist of the drafting of master copies of photo metals, month- ly calendars, charts, status boards, and the painting of ships' ribbons and DELTA plaques. The Technical Library is located in the Draft Shop and it contains thousands of technical repair manuals of shipboard equipment from which a customer ship can use for ready refer- ence. The Auxiliary Machine Shop's primary function is engraving. This shop engraves on many types of material and monthly produces hundred of signs necessary to the operation of shops and offices.

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PRINT 8a PHOTO LABORATORY lst ROW: SN LOGAN, SN SPANGLERg PHAN W. C, COPELAND3 SN DEMSKE3 LI3 GRAY, IMCS SHELTONQ SN FREITAS3 SN BAYS. 2nd ROW: LIC E. VAN SCHAICK. PRINT SHOP AND PHOTOGRAPH LABORATORY The Print Shop is indeed a busy shop. The job consists of printing many types of work, ranging from shipboard forms, newsletters, local shipboard needs, IBM cards, holiday menus, to Welcome Aboard brochures for our customer ships. Modern equipment can be found in the shop. Four types of presses are used: the multileth, the chief printing press, the hand-fed platen press, and the drill press. In addition to this a stapling machine, verityper, automatic paper cutter, a process camera are all present to meet the demands of doing a modern print job. Do you ,need an identification card made? If so everyone stops by the Photo Shop to have their picture taken. In addition to this popular chore, the Photo Shop are always busy with their cameras, providing customer ships with a picture history of events or objects that need to be recorded. Pictures indeed can be worth a thousand words, and the ship's photo- graphers are constantly busy, for pictures do tell a better story than words. The shop does black and white and color photography and does all its processing. The ship's photographer can always be found at a significant happening, from a baseball game to a meritorious mast. They are ever present to record all that goes on in time.