Essex (CVS 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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Yard Duty lmmedlately followlng ESSEX s triumphant and splrlted return to Mayport from her final Mediterranean deployment as an attack carrler, she entered the New York Naval Shipyard at Brooklyn, for overhaul and repair During her slx weeks In the bug city ESSEX In drydock began to settle down from the busy and excltlng crulse lust completed to the routlne of paper work and near- drudgery that marks a ship s stay In the yard Acetylene torches flamed a brlef flery pattern against newly painted grey steel much as the lights of the city blazed nightly against the darkened skyline lust across the rlver The roar of lets on the flight deck was replaced by the monotonous chatter of the pneu matlc drlll the wet slap of the palnt brush the falnt echolng tap of hammers It was a time of waltlng for a new home and a new gob It was a time of education and tralmng for a new role a time of refurbishing and repollshlng the shlp as ESSEX prepared for her departure to Quonset Polnt Rhode Island her new home port There operating as an Antlsubmarlne Carrier she would assume a dlfferentand challenging role In her country s defense ESSEX in drydock . an awe-rnsplrmg sweep of steel