Farragut (DDG 37) - Naval Cruise Book

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Tl Now each of us from time to time, has gazed out to sea, And watched the warships pulling out to keep our country free. And most of us have read a book or heard a lusty tale, About the men who sail these ships, through lightning, wind and hai . But there's a place within each ship that legend fails to teach . . . It's down below the waterline, it takes a living toll. ,-1:-ye- S9912-Xse'.!. Fez., 1.1 ,A n 5 , . ,, 1 3 .4 ,, ,W MM fa A hot metal living hell, that sailors call the HOLE . It houses engines run by steam, that makes the shaft go round, A place of fire and noise and heat, that beats your spirits down. Where boilers like a hellish heart with blood of steam, Are of molded gods without remorse, are nightmares in a dream. Whose threat that from the fires roar, is like living doubt, That any minute would with scorn, escape and crush you out, Where turbines scream like tortured souls, alone and lost in hell, As ordered from above some- where, they answer every bell. The men who keep the fires lit and the engines roaring, they keep the watch in hell, For if the engines ever fail, their ship's a useless shell . . .l M DIV

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