Duncan (FFG 10) - Naval Cruise Book

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Towing The ability of a ship to tow or be towed is one of the most important yet least practiced skills of Navy ships. This year, during a Selres training w eekend, Duncan teamed up with USS Bolster to practice a towing evolution. Planned well in advance by BMCS Little and his gang, and thoroughly briefed, the towing went exceptionally smooth. To an outside observer, it would have appeared that Duncan did tow- ing evolutions on a routine basis! BM ' s and deck seaman formed up on the forecastle As Bolster clears the bow, towing detail haiils in shot line Waiting for the shot line to come over

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Underway Replenishments No less difficult than flight ops, nor less dangerous, is refueling. When two ships w eighing thou- sands of tons each are steaming together only 100 feet apart, there is no room for error. Refueling pro- vides a challenge to the refueling team as well as conning officers. If a span w ire w ere to part, it could do unbelievable damage to ship and men. This is why the BM ' s closely supervise every step of the rig hook up and break. Providing the bulk of the manpow er is the Combat Sys- tems department who w ork together superbly generating a nat- ural rhythm on the line that seats the probe every time. Finally, the Engineers actually take on the fuel as quickly as possible allow ing Dun- can to separate as quickly as possi- ble. Refueling; a very difficult evolution but absolutely necessary to give Duncan her legs . Duncan in her final approach stage i BM3 Willis supervises the rig hook up STG3 Burke and STG2 Law provide manpower The probe, just before it seats

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t .dm Selres DC Trainer. SN Donathon, OS2 Clinton and OS3 Murakami rigging comms As part of their DC training, The Selres crew went south to San Diego for a w eekend to receive extensive instruction in damage control procedures. This trainer, know n as the buttercup , simulates a heavily damaged compartment wdth severe flooding. The skills of the team are tested in every aspect of flooding control from pipe patch- ing to shoring. After it w as all over, everyone agreed that the DC team trainer w as a challenging w ay to spend a drill w eekend. FTM2 McDaniels and OSl Cunningham laying out a shoring plan ET2 Reeves, GSE2 Creed and HT3 Mott setting up the shoring Selres team battles ruptured pipe The successful (?) finished product 43