George Elliott (AP 105) - Naval Cruise Book

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W ' .fz everything from the heaviest construction to re- pairing watches. The shipfitter in charge of these fellows is Paul Baker, SF lfc. l-le is probably the best known man on the ship. lt is nothing to hear his name called over the P. A. system about 20 times a day. The only thing bad about Baker is he is the one who gives the gang reveille and turns them to. Oh, ohl l-lere comes Weiss, SF Zfc, all covered with grease and corruption. lt looks like he has been fixing the sanitary system. That is some- thing about Weiss-he never lets any job stop him. l-le just digs in and comes out with about Z0 intricate parts too many and a pipe wrench and hammer missing. They are probably in the machine somewhere but who cares, it vvorks. We have covered first about all of the Car- penters' Mates and S. F. except Woods. l-le is the wavy haired lad who handles the baggage room. This baggage room is a combination of tools, screws, bolts, any kind of hardware, can- dies, cigarettes, wash room articles, hangout, artist studio, library and scuttlebutt center. So you can see Woods has quite a job on his hands trying his best to help everybody and hand out information. Now we will shove off from the S. F. and C. M. and go up where two of our men hang out and spend their sleepless hours-up to the Boatswain locker. These men are our sailmaker and painter. Tom Commander Fender is the king of the sailmakers. Tom can make anything from a peanut bag to a record size balloon. Our painter is Earl Allen. There are other names of his, but it wouIdn't be proper to say them now. Al has quite a knack for mixing paint. I-le mixed all the paint that appears on the old Fox , Well, Feather Brain, we have just about sailed over the whole division now. We now have only two men left, but they are very important men. To be exact, they are the M.A.A.'s force. Now on the outside or in civilian life they would be called policemen, cops, dicks, sheriffs, marshals and what not. But here they hold the dis- tinguished title of Master at Arms.

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All honds oboord will never forget Big Bertho old Chief Andy s pride ond glory A greot old gun indeed but I olwoys thought bollost wos suppo ed to be below decks In order to give you the stroight lowdown on our deportment I will hove to introduce you to our moin chorocter Chief Anderson lnvoriobly Andy s dolly greeting would be Whots the 3'H 17 E EQQ i i I 1 GUNNERY Before we ottempt to chorocterize our men, os is the usuol custom, we would oppreciote the opportunity to perhops pot ourselves on the bock o bit ond give o short description of our efforts ond ochievements. ' During the entire commissioned period this ship hos hod no mojor cosuolties in moteriol or per- sonnel. Our eorly equipment, which wos honded dovvn to us from World Wor l, wos time worn ond bottered. Through pompering ond bobying it held up well ond served through severol onti- oircroft octions. Our guns spoke their little piece to severol Komikoze roiders ond mode o good showing. dope? Andy vvould look in the clipping room, therein finding GM lfc Dick Moore lbetter known to his men os the whipl ploying cords with the '20 mm men to see who would get the mornng Joe. On o hot doy you would find Moore with o bucket of woter in hond wetting down his steoming reody boxes, his most trying effort of the doy. About this time you would probobly find Guns Christino coming up the deck with the lotest news. Guns wos in chorge of the oft bottery before he become moil orderly. Chris ond Moore were former shipmotes on the bottle- ship X. Another chorcicter oppeoring on deck ot this time would be Vinnedge, GM Ifc, who wos our ship's ormorer for o time, during which he pro- duced o number of model P-38's, P-6I's ond 3 ,