John McCain (DL 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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M Division has 77 personnel including two Chiefs and seven First Their iobs are operating the ship's main propulsion plant which of two firerooms, each having two forced-circulation boilers under l275 pounds steam pressure, and two engine rooms which contain the main engines and two 500 KW. generators each. The ship has steamed 40,000 miles during this cruise, and Mr. Cobern's snipes deserve a well done for their efficiency under all types of con- ditions. . Yogi Reach mothers both firerooms, while Deacon Miller frets, 'worries and mumbles over the engine rooms. EscallierlWetbackl had charge of Intl fireroom, but his English wasn't the best, so it had to be turned over to Sam Triplett. Fats Osbone has Q2 fireroom, and he and his boys have done an outstanding iob in keeping Q2 steaming. Many mornings at sunrise they have seen crawling out of 112. Andy has been a big help to him since coming aboard: more lounge time! Poppy Crowell has gl engineroom, which by the way, is Ole Ernie's pride and icy . Muscles Swann has Q2 engineroom, and his wrestling matches with the dumping valve are about over. Good thing, he's down to 85 pounds! Old Folks Silk has to take leave, stock numbers have him talking to himself. High Pockets May and Willie Moore are holding down the fort pretty well until liberty is announced in P.H. Faith, Gibbons, Fitzgerald, Kelly, Watt, Burton and Katschman are doing fine iobs except when we are at sea or in port. All of our snipes deserve a favorable mention, but there isn't room CFront row left to rightj: Musgrove, C.D., GOQQOUSI R'D'7 Welle' L.L., Larsson, J.D. CBock rowlz Miller, D-K.: Sklnneff KR-I l-Unfllngf W.A., Vrem, P.S., Johnson, L.R. so to all short timers, Smooth Sailing , and to the long timers, PRAY . FORWARD ENGINEROOM The forward engineroom is Main Control for all engineering spaces, and is known by all hands aboard ship that it had to drag after engineroom over thousands of miles of water, so all personnel assigned are naturally outstanding petty officers, machinist's mates, and sailors. They include L.A. Crowell in charge, R.T. May, E.L. Watt, A.W. Burton, R.D. Eaves, K.R. Skinner, P.S. Vrem, W.A. Lanning, L.R. Johnson, C.D. Musgrove, J.D. Larsson, and L.L. Werre. These men are qualified for operation and maintenance of main engines, generators, pumps, and all valves and piping. AFTER ENGINEROOM The after engineroom gang consisting of Swann in charge with ll hard working MM's such as Lover Moore, Ski Miskovich, Red Shannon, Shaky Witt, Shorty Morrison, Tank Sprinkles, Spook Silk, Sleepy Nelson, Moose Krohn, Charlie Micek, and Red Oden. These men stand watches on throttles, pumps, and generators taking gage readings, oil samples, and maintaining as- sociated logs. The after engineroom is secondary control, but not second in steaming hours. Q ,. flzronl row left to rightjz Miller, DK., Swann, C.E., Nelson, J.E., Crumbo, R.A., lvlorrisson, W.P., Powell, J.T.g Shannon, J.C. fBack rowla LT E.L. Cobern, Krohn, RR., Witt, C.P., Sprinkles, CW., Mrazek, R.E., Oden, R.P.

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FORWARD FIREROOM The forward fireroom is built around a cast of people similar to that of the theatrical world, with the exception of one thing: our directors and producers make more money than our actors! Arthur Escallier is the leading director. He's been doing an out- standing iob, considering all the troubles we've had, due to the fact that these boilers are experimental. l think l'm safe in saying we've tried our damned-best and worked our damned-hardest under the care- ful guidance of leery characters like Beauford Gibbons, who have made it possible to steam: a ship isn't worth a damn unless it can steam! Along with associate producer George Ears Faith and assistant producer Ed Bully Clark, we've always been able to patch up these steam generators no matter how large the task. All of this would never have been possible without the conscientious help of our young actors. We ourselves in the cast know them well and never will they or their services be forgotten. AFTER FIREROOM This is the tale of the after fireroom consisting of two boilers, qs. sociated temperamental machinery, and, of course, men, boys and gold bricks who number about 23. Of course we can't name all of them, so we will name the important ones. Kelly, Fitzgerald, and Katschman. Last and least there are Osborne and Anderson. Well, that's all of the gold bricks , and everything else is so worn out that we dare not even talk about it. Nevertheless, there is no doubt in anyone's mind that we have worked the hardest, done the best, and drank the most. i fFront row left to rightjz Rodriquez, J.W., Barnes, W.L., Faith, G.W., Gibbons, CM., Zanner, B.M., Dowse, DJ., Wager, G.L., Woods, T.B.: Gow, J.W. fBack rowb. Reach, W.D., Romine, R.M., Munsen, D.L., Pierson, B.W., Taylor, W.R., Orton, J.E., Babbitt, CJ., Friesen, W.L., Clark, ED., Hart, G.L., Glass, K.L. is -m, Wiz? iiwlifil T.. ff