George Elliott (AP 105) - Naval Cruise Book

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PORT HUENEME BRIG ai-wants X K ...I 7'-V -fi v sv' .a , 3 ts a. I ,E -W H. Ns .,.. ..- .. ..,, , X- - , N? Stannach it lintthe,-filet1,cig,iifiqi, i':H mimi to Crime out in the wcizhf so ,ver r-,iri t, the r : After Chow we have cii te-w rriiriiitfu V, mir-,Q-1 which we Liwtictilly nas- ri, iriflf tirfic F . K there in our H,r,iCl+,, cihfiiit lu flask it? rf- if Qvcrgrfnwri l-riclw cle-rifle-X, lit- iii-e-il, p ti-iw ii' pcnnts to make- his rie,-xl' riitfy iiiit kvV?' tiiiri' ftflevri or twe-rity rnirititv. uirli, t i .l.. . nw r1f:CCK.t.ctry 'calm VVlie'ri we litivi' lirii-,liirl ii points for the 'llotitii l we ,t irt in iiir to the after crews tornpcxrtnivrtt iril, Y f interrupted hy 'lliirn ld we rvtiwr' t work of our desire' ttippvingg ti www-t nit-i K. ' our Chipping hcirnnwrs VVhat do you lnwan lw stdiitliiig if- Une 'Q Shower aren't there enniigli sliowers. twr on one? 'lNNhat' tloxent xwii heard ezhwtit water l1OLlVS3 There were times when we as are if f r we rv if , . If V .. :sf 'lit ft't 1'1 UQAEIY' 1.111 liilnf ' ' 'Wil-'IYJ'-i fs t'lN'1-' .-i1tti'l'I's Qlhbkf 'ue . i-.god tind nwen taking showers in wash ff' rt i i the mater an tor halt an hour a day. Then i nz sometimes water is taken out ot the riot! drinking lountainlf' 'wi iii sliiwwin, we return to Eddie's and -+ t s -ei' in shop tchow halll, and find that i .-.ii this some chow that we had tor dinner f its thrown together different, but it nf thi some awful taste, NOW don't , vi.ff7ttQ, sometimes we have fairly good . N -r ii ron always tell when this is, because .f ixgtiir supply officer is found behind the tefznw tftlilcg tirissirotg out the Chow, waiting to lDC . ,-A ,,i, P .wki it 'nr time is free except for those on watch, t S, we go hack aft to find all of our Boatswain Mates and Coxswains in their sacks. i .. , 'gi .-,Qu , 3.1 'VUL it Qld? -Qwwt. n-ikgtfflgy, fliiiwf ' 14,9 , at it i, ii, an 7 l s QI D Hi- n

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,. kygiggzl Y . ' tw . f'hrH--TR. t -4 x , x 'M sprinkle our foces. About the time wet get our foces dry there is o rush to chow, where we stond in line for minutes thot seem like hours, only to reoch the steom toble ond find thot our time hos been wosted in voin. l-lere we toke o piece of breod ond o cup of Joe ond moke our stomoch believe it's breokfost. At the lost gulp of our Joe, which some of us never reoch, due to our tender stomochs, we ore summoned to quorters. Here our gentlemonly Division Officer wolks out of the luxurious wordroom, ofter o hecirty meol of sunnyside up eggs ond hom, ond colls us to on unnecessory ottention while he leons ogoinst the bulkheod ot eose. Here we stond for fifteen minutes, o couple of which ore token up by mus- tering. Frequently to our dislike, Rocks ond Shools ore reod, but more often the time is token up by unnecessory lectures on squoring of hots ond weoring of regulotion shoes. Also ot quor- ters we receive our lobors for the doy. Then Turn To sounds ond we merrily stroll to our work filled with wild onticipotion. Boy, Boot, here is where you see o working bunch of fools. lt seems thot this first division does everything but cook, ond some of our old men ore even doing thot, os we hove representotives in olmost every division on the ship. Our work consists of keeping the forword port of the ship in reodiness ond condition. We're not soying whot kind of condition, becouse if you knew the First Division you would know thot the condition would olwoys be good. lWhot the hell ore you loughing ot?l ln keeping our ship cleon we use quite o few pieces of moteriol, including point brushes, chippers, scropers ond wire brushes, ond, brother, you will wish you hod never seen these once you get to using them. A seomon is never o seomon until he is entirely fomilior with these tools ond l'm sure thot you will get to be quite fomilior with them on our next voyoge. Don't let us discouroge you though. There ore o lot of other interesting things to be done. You might like rigging booms, which proves to be on interesting operotion with Simon Legree ond his henchmen spouting words of wisdom into your eors. About this time we heor Sweepers ogoin, so we mon our brooms ond sweep her down ltroops ond olll. Then comes the glorious birdlike coll of our kiddie pipe, so we trot on down to Tobor's vitomin shop. Believe me there ore C1 lOT of vitomins in Tiger's stew. Thot is if you con

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The outline we have just gone through describes our working day, after the war was over. Now if you're not bored we would like to continue and tell you about some of the harder things we had to go through with. We spoke of getting up at 06l 5, but during war time we would get racked out anywhere from 0300 to 0530 every morning for Gene,-Ol Quarters . Every morning we would have General Quarters just before sunrise because this was when the enemy was most likely to strike. When we were close to enemy held territory we would get racked out at any time during the night. I know you will laugh when you hear that we went to General Quarters while passing under the Golden Gate Bridge. During war time our division was often found working all night unloading cargo, During these times we worked six hours on and six hours off, just so our ship would be able to pull out to sea at the set time. Yes, boot, we have seen some action, ln fact that is how we got our name Fighting Fox . K