Ingersoll (DD 652) - Naval Cruise Book

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Like every other department of the ship, there is work and humor that will long be remembered. The Supply department has the cooks, bakers, storekeepers, yoemen, laundrymen, hospital corpsmen and stewards mates but to most of us there are only two outstanding parts, that string of sur- vival, three meals a day and pay day twice a month The Supply Office, home of politi- cians, though compact with adding machines and typewriters, could be adjusted with amazing celerity for a fast four-handed game of pinucle. The cooks and bakers were always on guard to wad off chow line doubles and goodie samplers who lingered about the galley door throughout the day. Ship's office faced all the problems of liberty, leave and correspondence. Beware when nary a typewriter was heard throughout the day and long into the night. At sick bay, lines would queue at 0830 sick call for shots and aspirin that seemed to cure even minor cases of dishpan hands. The wardroom stewards learned to serve soup with dexterity in the roughest of seas and without laundrymen on the long voyage, think how dirty we'd be. 3rd Row L R Lawson,Nathar1us, Searcy, Chief Young Ens Mitchell Chief Bartley, Braddock, Melvin i.

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C Division. Communications - a mainstay of Ihr? 5h1P ' l crew both by radios and the visual S1803 1 1 the uartermasters on the bridge, who H S0 q - - h 1 assisted in the navigation and kept t e ogs ' th bridge were a while at sea. The men OH C noticably valuable crew in our Panama and S Canal Passages where theY hmfdled uez the helm, log book entries, and aSS1SICd ' ' Ar with the inland water chart navigation. sea, they faced continual small difficulties but by arrival time in port, everything ironed ' d out, ot at least it seemed that way, an once on the beach, they got ironed out. Down in the radio shack, the boys handled a constant flow of messages and weather reports and kept the tactical circuits, both on the bridge and in combat in peak condi- tion. The Corley Daily Gazette, edited by the Royal Baby himself, kept us up on the home front news, hollywood gossip and ball- scores. Under adverse holiday conditions, the watch bill was delivered from the beach, a true and respected devotion to duty. -x -I, Front Row, L-R: Robinson, Carnevale, Young, Perry, Roy, Hall 2nd Row, L-R: Wastnund, Joyce, Ens. Hopplwe, Chief Bolton, Ltjg DatdeS, Thorstenson Sl if Back Row, L-R: Kosakowski, Ford, Willis, Ritter, Beraud Shipp Cox Stole, ' 7 2 y , nl- . r 4 .Hgwq vrltmlg 5.1 n Q 4, -,, - ...H 1 ll E! H. Q Hifi. f YQ 0Oi Division., Operations Dept. - just carl do without em - sonar gang,El repairmen and the boys in Cli' lCl'ipes l'm confusedl restricte, area. Sonar crew were kept bus? pinging for big underwater thin, that moved and CIC efficient tracking anything in the air or the surface whether it moved not - and hats off to the ET'sv kept the equipment movin Radarmen yet brag ofcomplimem from division Commodore H e77i commander of Task Fore 1 I their alertness and 'Can Spirit . Neva could MPP without the portable galley H t alive 8 coffee cups. Sonarkep sharp with the intellectual U' and imported tea. A lot 8095 in these little rooms of electr1C machinery and men, so imPf 'a to the functioning of 21 Shllll not outwardly noticed We known. Ol' Back ROW L R 1 ' I Pearsgn L . 3rd Row L R. Tr ' CWIS, Ramos Gfah ' ' ' k Kin N f am' Zander, lohn 2nd Row L R N e,ze v 8, eeley, Palflte Sh son , - : ilelnch p . , b r, orter, Burns Jr N. Front R - . . ' artamv Lf llgl. h - lchter ow, L R. Davisjlydom M V JO usorl, Inns. Hatcher, Hobart, Ribaudo Messman y orrov-, Sherlock Belfrey F ' , rets

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sr sf? 'fs If Q I W3 I DPL E D 0 0 I Front Row, L-R: Kennison, Brower, Kliskey, Miss, Horstman, Metivier S-SENJ ft' XXX 2nd Row, L-R: Verdun, Cameron, Lewis, Ens. Curran, Chief Hughes, Umlauf Piccirilli, Lewandowski Back Row, L-R: Dickerson, Westphal, Ronayne, Sullivan, Bouwrran, Levensaler Ouattle baum. w 4 ...aa Eh' , 4 I if , . .. , id 1 Front Row, L-R: Newlin, Pellegrino, Starkey, Collins, Lepage 2nd Row, L-R: Giorgio, Mondor, Sharpe, Ens. Orr, Bauer Hurley Nbr n 3rd Row, L-R: Brennan, Sutera, Booher, Tully, Ryan, Cole 1 A ga Back Row, L-R: Bobbitt, Oliver, Vandermoon, Otto, Marshall .A ,- ff -DN . m U it The engineering department, one of the largest divisions aboard ship, holds all the machinist mates and boiler tender ratings. It was effectively organized and headed by Lt. Clubb and assistants, Ens. Orr and Ens. Curran. There are many chiefs in the depart- ment who run the spaces and two who stand out as being the head whip crackers - Sullivan and the Tiger . The division has its share of in- teresting personalities, and with H0 exceptions. a few hounds of liberty and rum, who Often times attempt to drink a town dry. The stories in the spaces become easily exagerated The hot-rod enthusiasts have modified and beaten everything on wheels but a tall Texas Yam- - All have decided that love can he blissful, if only for a short while. Th1S gradually turns back to the shop talk of who doesn't stand a proper watch, B neglected cleaning station or who's the lucky man for the bilges. When the facts are faced, they knffw they've done their job well for steaming over 60,000 miles without a major muh' anical breakdown, all helped make this round the world cruise a success.