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frfrrtlu S F 1 fl fl ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS Concrete forms tuildings, fatrics fashion clothes, , musicians make hfeless instruments exploae into sound, steel for the weapons of war; essentials, all, and each as important to the requirements of everyday living as the other. Consequently, concise logic would dictate that everything has its own individual components . . . and this is true concerning this issue of the Duncan ' s Cruise Booh. Many things have gone into the mafcing of this hooh; hours of compiling facts and information, sketching, w riting, events which have affected the lives of all aboard . . . hut these are unimportant when compared to the part ... it is to the greatest single factor that composes this issue, and in recongni- tion of the fact that this issue could never have heen published without it, to the greatest single aggregation of honest-griping, hardest worting, friendliest sailors in the entire U.S. Fleet ... TO THE CREW OF THE U.S.S. DUNCAN . . . that this issue is respectifully dedicated.
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THIS IS THE U.S.S. DUNCAN Altliou l. tlie present DHNCAN is the iliinl i„ ll,e list of sliips hcc,v ni tlie name J Cmmander Sllns Dnncan, wl,„ Jistin - uislicJ liimself in tl,e I?altle of Lal-e CLlmpLlin in 1814, il is incorrect to stale tlial its history heiins witli tlie comnnssionin of tlie orl Hinal slilp hearing tl,e name. I ' lie l,ist n-y of tl,e 1 ' ..-. . DCMCAN, as it now stands, slun.lcl l,e. in as follows, for It is tlie first of-its L ' ind. Tlie keel for the present DI ' NCAN was laid in May of 1 )44, at tlie Consolidated Steel Corporation, in OraniJe, Texas. After five months of the slrenous lak.r that oes into the constrnction of a man-of-war, the vessel was lannched, and in Fehruary of 1945, received at the commissioning! ceremonies the name it hears to date. From 1045 nntil the receipt of orders in Septemher of 195.1 to the Pu et Sound Xaval Shipyard in Bremerton, Wasiiin ton, the DI ' NCAN was encja H-d in the dnties of a destroyer assi -ned to the Pacific area, and was hased on the West Coast of the United States. During this period, many cruises were made t.. the Par Past, and it was upmi the completion of one of these that the Dl ' NCAN was sent io ]?remerlini for conversion to the latest style radar jiichet destroyer. Most of the tearln -up that accompanies such a conversiini was dime for the henefit n ' the Operations Department. New areas were required, as were re-arran jements of spaces already existing!. In order that this could he accomplished, hulhheads, dechs, cahles, and e(|uipment were torn out and replaced. The net result was that the Dl ' NCAN ended the reconversion period with the ,nost modern Comhat Information Center and Kadio Central in the destroyerd Navy of today, supported hy several other spaces containing an impressive array of equipment associated with the functions performed hy these two vital sjroups. Many familiar ' landmark ' s ' disappeared during- this all important phase of the DUNCAN ' S life, the mainmast was removed and the foremast ' s overall length increased hy means of an extension, and the ' midships passageway was replaced hy a wider dech- house containing the Ship ' s Office, and other equipment. The Gunnery Department was to a lar e decree responsihle lor the DUNCAN ' S ' New Pooh ' , as the reliahle (hut outmoded) 40-nnn mounts were replaced with the modern and more efficient 3-inch automatic tiuns. With this addition of the modern anti- aircraft ]irotection came new dechhonses for anmiunition storaije, revisicm of helow-deck spaces to contain the new lire ccmtro! equipment necessary to adequate performance ot duty in the new jet A e ' . 1 he eUect of the reconversion on the DUNCAN b Gunnery Department was increased firepower and erficiency of material. Only a few external chanijes were hrou ht ahout in the Pn ineeriuti Department during the overhaul and reconversion period, one of which was a complete rearrangement o( the topside air intahe ducts, those weird-loohiniS curved pipes which project from the superstructure here and there. The major chan Jes, however, tooh place in the main on lneerin 3 spaces helow-dechs, where the entire main propulsion plant was overhauled. This included the rehuildlnc; of the turhine of one of the nuiin en ines, the hlower motors for the hoiler air supply uudersoini a con,plete overhaul, hoilers retuhed, valves repacked, -ua es calirated, and numerous other items. Some of this work was done hy the Shipyard personnel, or required Shipyard assistance, hut the majority of it was accomplished hy the hard work of the DUNCAN ' S ' hiack an ' , and gave the DUNCAN one of the finest engineering plants in the fleet. Prom January through March of 1954 the DUNCAN was again undergoing shi,,yard overhaul, this lime in the Pong Beach Naval Shipyard, at Pcmg Beach, California. It was during this period that the DUNCAN received the remainder of the new-model DDR ccmversi .n hegun in Bremerton. A new radar and several other items of electronics equipment that filled the few spaces whic.. ' remained empty lollowlng the Bremerton yard period were received, adding to ihe average daily workload of the Dl ' NCAN cMv. I ' here were very few external changes made in the DUNCAN ' S appearance during this yard period, hut those that were made were ohvious to the crewmemhers, who were husily familiarizing then,selves with the DUNCAN ' S ' New Poidc ' . The most notahle of these was the addition of a large new radar antenna, and the replacement of the cock liferafts with the more compact ruhher UK.dels. A numher of the helow-deck spaces were also juggled arou.id to squeeze each ,,cw piece of equipment i.ito its proper plished. This yard period, however, is thought of as a hreeze when compared to the extensive major conversimi received in Bremerton. So it is that certain .-vents, like the turhulent sea in a tropical storm, cannot he igruired as they change the hasic shape of familiar things, and so it is that the present DUNCAN is trulv the first of its kind. This is the U.S.S. DUNCAN, (DDR 874), (ckm)
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