Kearsarge (CV 33) - Naval Cruise Book

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A GOING AWAY GIFT CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR FROM THE BON HOMME RICHARD The Eastern Star is shining, To home we make our way, But oH5er presents many To cheer your Christmas Day. The navigator's sorry, His eyes are wet and dim, He sends with tearful parting That vague, elusive pim. CAG is much more generous, l-le gives with loving care That peacelful rustic area That's known as Charlie Tare. The supply crew has secured, Their fork lilits stowed away. Since you will need provisions Here's replenishment day. The photo lab is locked, No need tor more retakes. The dentist does not function, His patients send their aches. The Captain's sleep is restliul, His lirequent watch is goneg One hundred pounds oli colitee Are yours while at the conn. Pri Hy is now deserted, Not a plane above the ship. Our pennants too are ottered For Fox is at your dip. We gladly give you COD Flights, To Vlps you're welcome too-- And other sponging liiremen Like those in Air Force blue. Jimmie-San's is yours to have, Do with it as you please. Yours are all the sights and sm And all things Japanese. The oliiicers are busy ln spite of all we do, And though we would, we cannot Give paperwork to you. No Execute to Follow Nor Come right ten degreesf As pim and wind and iocko propel us on the seas. 1 And it For Sunday sermons, Your chaplains are thought out, Ours will send the ones they've ln barrels big and stout. Our sympathy chits are used, The punch is worn out, too. Crying towels are ample-an We give them all to you. COMCARDIV ONE is leaving Main comm is not alive. Any Further messages Will come from CARDIV FIVE. We're not exactly sorry To make our last Farewell Best wishes to our sisters, Good-Bye, Good Luck, Noel II line took on a new meaninff, and we hegan to realize wl were liffllflllg for. This was why we had to he here others. and ourselves at a later date, might enjoy thes other oeeasions without. fear On Christmas Eve, Protestant services and Catholic Mass were held. Being so far away from the places we and the ones we loved gave us a new outlook. he ' U f CI 'stma seemed clearer and the s IITCLIITITID O lI'l. ' S T -1 I I 1 'I Q P Christmas seemed closer than it ever had before. Except for the divine services held, Christmas m With the advent of the Christmas season, our life c U T' , f ' ni 11 I 2 on the line was no diITerent from any other. Under mormn-Y, a total of 18 planes wrre launched on strike overcast skv, the business of war went on as usual. Duru ' . . L T I A F . I Korea. All planes returned safely, thus ending another operation. . thousands of miles awav from the things usually ass with usherinf' in the New Year. To top it off, we C even accomplish the mission for which we were here in the morning, all air operations were placed on one notice, due to had weather. As the day went on, 1 What! The first day of the New Year, and here we , 0 ,. o 4 a. ff'U l It d apparent that the weather wasxft hlililz, to irea', an operations were eaneelled for the day. So, all we did on the hrst day of the New al steam up and down off the coast of Korea. MID WATCH LOG USS KEARSARGE C It's the everlasting mid-watch And poetry cries tradition And at zero zero zero zero Youll Find the old LOS AN On the day the New Year's born, In the middle ot the tormatu l a 4 r For the log upon this morn. So in disciplined obedience To the Laws ot Blue and Gold This log is hereby written In poetic meter bold. We're steaming in the Task Force, Seventy-seven is her name, With the east coast ol: Korea Standing bold across the main. Forty-nine is what they've given As the name ol: our Formation, And 310 is the axis From which we take our station. Two point Five at zero nine zero She's the guide, and right 0 On circle liour point tive arc ln concentric circular screen Are Found our nine destroyer With their sonar gadgets kee The McDERMUT, LAWS Ma KEYS, And the YARNELL, and HAIN With the TAUSSIG, BOYD e TON Do Form our screening crew Base course is three-three ze Two changes will alter our v Base speed is one Five knot' And at that speed well stay OTC is RADM Hickey Finds the KEARSARGE in its place. Aboard the old KEARSARGE TWO POIUII FIVG Bi two seven zero CarDivEive and the Task For ls where ESSEX joins the race. Are included under his charge

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-7- v .,....... ..-, I JANUARY IQ53 OEE EAST COAST OE KOREA IN TASK FORCE 77 Standard speed is one Five lcnots As the Admiral gave to his clan, And until zero two torty-tive Twenty-sevenis our zig-zag plan. Readiness conditions three we have, We've darkened ship tonight. Material condition yolce is set, Our integrity is tight. Boilers one, tour, six and seven Are the ones we have in use, While generators two and three Are furnishing us with juice. We came to zero six zero At time oh-two-Forty-liive And later, at oh-three hundred Came right to one-liour-Five. The story of the year just past Must also here be told, For such is the tradition From sailing ships ot old. The ESSEX-class conversion, And the outtitting period too, Were completed at Puget Sound In nineteen titty-two. And on the Titteenth ot Eebruary, This also in Titty-two, We were recommissioned to service- we A carrier made anew. Then southward to San Diego Our home port soon was changed, And while beneath the broad Pt. Loma Qur shalcedown was arranged. The Rach-lt Underway Training Command ln San Diego Bay Administered our shalcedown, And then sent us on our way. Then to ComAirpac we reported For this was next in line. As our Administrative Commander, Our duty he would assign. Then before we went up North again, Post-shalcedown worlc to be done, We had to guality our air group It was Air Group IOI. Then Air Group IOI came aboard With Commander and VE one one, VA seven oh two and VC's some VEis eight eight Four and seven two one. And in August on the eleventh day We sailed in a western direction, And received, while in pearl I-larbor, Operational Readiness Inspection, Then to the westward we sailed again Bound now tor the Korean Sea, Where you Find us on this New Year's Day On duty with ComNavEe. Now upon this traditional day When new and old hid adieu We have one wish we'd like to express A very Happy New Year to you. 9 I I 5... ,,. I . il -I -I . .A s l '1 is Iii s : ,E I , . I i I I I 5 ' fifg .Ii I fi It Ig '. I' I li Q I 5 I I Ii, il I I I Ill Ei I I il I V 1 ,I,I' ' Iii' ll I QA I, L I I I I iii - IIN If 2 Q .fi .2 .W . :If I, ,Af , 'I W Ii If lr II ' I Q 11 I II r' Ii I sl II IN' l 'lei Iprl IT:Ii I Elk .Ei - ' I 1 ir .I Yi 3.