Eastwind (WAGB 279) - Naval Cruise Book

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Eastwind's crane takes up slack and begins to drag stranded aircraft power unit Closer to Sh'p so that 'l can be hmsled aboard' Line isattachedto power unit so that it can be dragged flank speed toward the reported position of the ice floe, about seven miles from her. Then it was learned that the unloading ledge, and not the runway, had broken up. Scattered on ice floes ranging from ten to 200 feet in diameter were barrels, sleds, prefabricated building parts, tractors, and an auxiliary power unit. In a dangerous touch-and-go maneuver the East- wind's officers and men succeeded in lowering a boat and landing a work party on a 100 footdiameter floe, containing -an auxiliary power unit, and a caterpiller tractor. The big cat hung precariously with one tread in the water over the edge of the ice cake. Slings were fastened to the two and the Eastwind swung her crane out, ready to hook on. Just before the 269 foot cutter reached the floe, another piece of ice tapped it and the tractor slid into the deep waters of the sound. However, the auxiliary power unit valued near S20,000 was successfully hoisted aboard. Also saved during the salvage operations which continued throughout the night were other tractors, sleds and refabricated materials believed to be part , P of the nuclear reactor being assembled at McMurdo base. J . . 1 . 5 5: .,,lf. n'f.7'Ifgf,,'5'1, j:Q,'-ig, .'j'Lf 33- -Ei'A'.i-mix.,'.'bfi-74163112ii'SQTL :l3.'5.7 r, , , , .1 , , ,, I ,.. .. , A. - - ..-..-:emi-...n.,g.4 ,,,' , ,V ,Bihar-u, Y... U L U Ku H -'- 'm 1- m -- ,.,,- . . , , , , me wawln-1

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l -E RESCU . A savage Antarctic storm cracked huge chunks of eight foot thick ice from a cargo un- loading ledge in McMurdo Sound on February 24, 1961 and over an estimated SS100,000 worth of vital equipment and supplies were swept seaward on the floes. r The storm came up suddenly , as a cargo ship, the USS Arneb l 0 a 1 was unloading supplies during l . . A the morning. Winds of gale 7 force snapped the transport s moorlng l1nes and she put out to sea to avoid getting set onto the ICG. The Eastwlnd was escorting the Arneb when an emergency message was received from i the base at McMurdo early 1n , the afternoon. T It said that a large sectlon l . . . , T of the ICQ airplane runway 1n- , cluding some bu1ld1ngs and l l U possibly as many as 20 men had been torn loose by the storm. The airplane runway , . is about five miles from the 1 base. l It . . . 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l86. One of ship's helicopter pilots prepares to shoot movies of flight operations. 185. Officers bundle in parkas to eat noon meal in wardroom. Ship's heating system failed only this once during entire voyage. 85 ZW! 186