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SBQC S Overhead I 1 administrative jobs, he was ordered in 1941 to a new carrier, the now famous Wasp, as Executive Officer. Saved fr-om the torpedoed, burning Wasp as she went down in the Coral Sea, he was ordered to shore duty until his assign- mentas prospective commanding officer of the Hancock in February of 1944. Moving from the drydock to t-he West Jetty of the South Boston Navy Yard the Hancock received the finishing touches of her fitting-out period and by the last week of May was ready for her maiden voyage. Accompanied by three destroyers, on May 22, 1944, she laid a course for Norfolk, Virginia, to wind up her Atlantic training exercises before heading for the Pacific. Though the carrier was destined for the Pacific Fleet, submarines and mines still presented a menace off the East Coast and so, easing up Chesapeake Bay to Hampton Roads, Virginia, the big carrier entered the deperming station at Lambert's Point. Fresh from her builders' yards and constructed almost entirely of iron in its various carbon alloys she presented a strong attraction to the German-laid mine fields. Deperming, or demagnetizing,
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Stacked Deck Within a few short weeks, the Hannah was formally accepted into the United States Navy by Rear Admiral R. A. Theobald, U.S.N., Commandant of the First Naval District. The ceremony took place on the hangar deck at l745 on April l5, l944, less than fifteen months after the keel was laid. Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, Governor of Massachusetts, was present and addressed the guests and crew. Following the playing of the national anthem Admiral Theobald turned the ship over to Captain Fred C. Dickey, U.S.N., her first commanding officer. Carriers and planes were not strangers to Captain Dickey who began his flying career as a Naval aviator during World War l. From l9l8 to the Second World War, Captain Dickey 'has flown almost every type of naval plane from the early DeHaviland lDHl observation planes to the clumsy, slow biplanes aboard the cruiser Marblehead in the second Nicaraguan Campaign and in l93l he was ordered to the new cruiser Chicago as Senior Aviator. After several years with shore based patrol planes and various
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