Edisto (AGB 2) - Naval Cruise Book

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in their sockets and hands were shaken loose from their precarious holds on bulkheads. Continuously the OOD was forced tio use his engines as well as his rudder to keep the ship headed into the wind. Once however she did slip off course and plunged broadside to the swells. At this time with the violent the forestay, already covered rolling with over a foot of ice, snapped and was whipped by the wind over the air search radar antenna demolishing one side and tearing loose the stabilizing fins. The ship had just recovered her head when a forty foot section of the starboard railing covered with three feet of ice went over the side followed by the BfT winch boom. More radio antennas were carried away than could be counted leaving the ship with only the SSB radio for commu- nications. After three -days the storm abated somewhat and EDISTO continued on her mission. A day later however the star- board screw snapped her pin and spun off, practically incapicating us in the event of another blow. RADM TYREE ordered the ship back to Lyttelton at once but it was necessary to wait for bad weather north of us to recede before proceeding home. At last McMurdo and Hallett stations reported the gauntlet safe to traverse and we turned northward. 'yfnt 5 ,,ewmfzvYfw.1 Q fc fx 1.1 in if f f i AA . ,MW Hfk, . ,... , .n. ,121 ...ff , , A 1' f4i,?vg.1v-4-4 1: I V f s , ,QAM 1 fa 1, f, 7, . - , V. .M.w-we-4,1 , 1 ,V I -I 1, Q , v,gA,a.4 . 9q5'z,54j!,,1ff - .1 1 1, f ., ,, f - -V f Mfw .-WS' 1:a.2n.wse,fVWfv'f12' iv- - -i:'2i1 2+ 1, A mm sf Jaw,-7 -f f f , V az, --V V 1 -z , ' 1 0 -ff? f I9 ' - gpify-I W. V gem In X 4 S f fx fa kk gy! , ff! f C, 0 if fa W Q. f I '1 Q ff X f f W 4 M R, rigid! A . 1 ,, ,, .., 1 XX I f f . A G s 1 . f -1 X1 .,., 1 .f 111 1. fini I if ' ' X 7-ff 1. ' 1 if f wxvwiw. Sz Wsvf 'QE ' 1' 1-ff: f4W4Ls'W3W GQKQS A, s 1 A 1 G' .r..-M iam?-if 1-Zswai -we mms fa,yasaf2f1.fyS1zs ivpf-p..w.Q-Q-as :mm-'-Vi , -gf? as , My ww, ,W-f fqfyy, f ,.-,s4,5,jg5ays--X, , . , , C 0 6X .Q M Av f, Q .1 4 ,MMM 4.k.wfff A5 -::' f V' f X fs 'if'3i'Zi1 9. eds! Y, - 2 sys f. f q435G?'??S?. As we steamed toward New Zealand On One screw all hands went topside t0 clear away the ice with pickaxes. The topside spaces resembled some wierd Alpine scene with the crew in full fOl11 weather clothing scaling the mountain0uS ice. EDISTO dodged bad weather all the way home with various storms threatening our safety at every turn. It was easy tO think of Lyttelton as home and we re' ceived word that the ship would be granted one full week's liberty there.

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There are few places in the world which so reflect the aura of South Seas enchant- ment and provide an outlet for the American dream as the small group of islands which make up our 50th state. When EDISTO arrived in Pearl Harbor to repair her hull and replace the missing ro P Q peller, the crew took off for Honolulu en masse. i And realized that approximately 5,0CXJ other servicemen had done the same thing. In spite of the overcrowding of military personnel in the area we found Hawaii lived up to most of our expectations and even ful- filled a few of our wildest imaginings. The beaches were indeed white and the hotels lining the million-dollar resort area of Waikiki were as we had pictured them. We expected the accent on casual living but not to the extreme we found. Women shopped in supermarkets and department stores wearing mou-mou's, a kind of glorified negligee and office workers and businessmen of all kinds carried on their duties in aloha shirts and slacks. The Sunday evening Zuau at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel was the most casual buffet and entertainment spectacle we had ever witnessed, though a great deal of fun. Some of us were lucky enough to rent cars and motor scooters for our own personal tours of the island and were treated to rural sights that, except for the tropical produce growing on the farms, were not unlike our own home state. Oahu has no superhighways because there is no place to travel save to the other side of the island. This rem0V6d it from the rapid sphere of modern living and made it all rather pleasant and relaxing. The shopkeepers in downtown Honolulu, however, were by no means lax in their dealings Wlth customers. There were as shrewd as any New ,Englander, though in a much m0l'C talkative way. As the crew romped joyously in the lushness of Hawaiian evenings, back at the Pearl Harbor shipyard and at lastin drydOCk, EDISTO was receiving a thorough going-OYCF at the hands of experts. With Mr. Deming and Mr. Ramsey ramrodding the repair PIO' cess the work went smoothly in spite Of