Knapp (DD 653) - Naval Cruise Book

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The E-I Division The time 0600 - a1l,s quiet, then from the bitch box comes a faint tingling whistle and tne soft mel- low voice of a bos'n mate fReveille - Reveillel UP all hands, heave out trice up. 0601 -athe Pattef of dainty little pinkies ihit the deck and. Beer Bucket TAFT our bright-eyed and bushty tailed master-at- arms is up waking his brood. So tly poos in ouij ear, Get up and get the hell out.. Doorknob jOHNSTON arises, glances into a mirror, sees .h1S black eyes and remembers the 3 charming soldiers he encountered last evening. F oggy. KIEPEIR s1tS on the edge of his spacious inner-spring meditation on the foreign movie he saw last evening gfnothing like The Outlawl 0615 - stumbling along in a SCTIII state of consciousness is Woody singing fence: 111 love with Amyl That muttering sound is 3D DOLAN grumbling about going back to Aurora for ood. 0630 - that whistle again, announcing break- Fast is now being served in Watch for Chow, then back to ye old nest for some restv. 0300 - quartGrS for muster and inspection. Standing before before us is that smiling figure of humanity, Chief Stoneface BRYANT. Billy the Kidv WHITFIELD Saunders up and calmly announces that he is turning brown baggerv in April. 0815 - glancing up the deck we see the ramrod of the department, Spider BLAU- VELT, better known as Mr. B. With him are his able bodied assistants. No. 1 is D. W. DAVIS his man Friday', and fair haired boy. He is a tall hungry looking rebel, a trumpet player by trade, and last but not least is Uncle TOM MITCHELL. One of the boys from the old school, felementary school that is, and still looking for the Gillette blade he lost that caused him to be expelled from the 4th gradel. 0820 - now comes the dreaded word - Turn to Com- mence Shipis Work. xA mad rush is started for the joe pot and a good seat for the bull session that will ast most of the morning. It starts out with cars, bars, and women - mostly women. Hey KLEINHOLZ, put on a fresh pot of joelv 0900 - you take a stroll back to the shipfitters shop to see what can be leeched and kill time while looking busy. WHEELER who is thinking about the coolie', problem for his Rick-a-shaw business in Baltimore, doesn't even move. Little ROGER HOSKINSON canlt figure which Shore Patrol brought him back last night. I don't know ROG, I was ashore myself. fNothing to leechl so back up on deck where we get cornered by Chet KIT 'ILE and, finally, talk him in Coiprnan School so ne can practice self when he gets discha.ged. 1000 - In the ml. j j room Snuify,' NOFPS fthe little dearj is Wald ln' a Kimono for the boys. JACK ASPLUND a:50gel1n, Kr1rKi1A'1'1ricK sir rrur-sing a cup of joe ,lo lflj a couple of good hangovers, while theyldigcgg wil .-cuss that cab driver they had last night Rand DOMINICK and GAHAN side b side .n'theljlar have just decided to take up figflting drunks fvaf career. 1100 - Knockoff ships work Qnow we fri to goldbrick on our own timel. 1130 - chow d avi for tae crew NO! NO! not corned beef again OX? ban tank ve need a smorgas bord for da gwidii fellal. 1300 - turn to, continue ship's work. World he says, Should we tell him? Afternoon and mornl ing al same samev. 1330 - Kee Kee HUFFMME had to leave his nest long enough to grab a plunger. and go up to the head to earn his pay. 1400 - DAVE MACNAMARA dreamed about falling from Chicai go's Wrigley building and woke up home sick agairl' 1500 - the cal went out in the after fire room uffresli pot of joel . After the stampede 3 men reported tai' to goin sick bay with critical injuries. LESTER fSt,-ingbeanji HASS spent the rest of the afternoon trying to figure? out why the Navy wouldn't make bibbed overalls al regulation uniform and wishing he could drink coifee. 1545 - the Captain passed the word that he was leaving port at 0600 in the morning and all handsg that plan to go along had better be aboard. 1600 -. liberty commences for the Port section to expire ati 200. Now where to get the loot to go see Bahysanl1 once more. SPELL and C. SMITH are going to sees r that the exchange rate for confederate money is on, the abeachn. When the liberty party departs all will? be quiet and the rest of the evening will be spent writing home and watching a movie, George Rafi. in Dry Dockf' 2200 - taps, taps lights out, all handS2 5 turn into your own bunks. 2230 - aSI1OWS1l1O6S,,C0mC5i back loaded and tries to give judo lessons to an upf right locker and took a terri5c beating for his efforts. No all is quiet. The only voices you hear are mum' bling and slobbering voices coming from IONES 31151 Tyrone ALEXANDERS all night slop shvf-A Whats that he said? He said pass that wine jug fmdl shoot 9'p5! Oh well - another day and only 178 to Soi A r ,nf F

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.YYY 0061 T' w. W G. Osborne' Miueff R. D' 9. F- -D eXOflg' ? er dues 7, TJ- . R' C. W' E. Newby' 3 Hager' D F Kieinhom' R Ni- Tait, H, L JaoK'5On,5i.Dr9W Johnston' M' l st flow: Schlvenhu rsen 5' hind H' 3 W' N055 1 'Pete iv. AS? 13.0-Hoff' ' W- R' Bow: R' E Hass, 3' ier Ps- H' frmbodeaui -xg. 3' 3. A. are ROW: kinds' 3' I The E-2 Division Here we are sitting aboard ship on another duty weekend. It seems as though we are the only ones that ever get the duty. Well, as I sit in the compartment waiting for them to pipe down holiday routine, and thinking about the fun the rest of the boys will have on liberty. I hear someone let out a scream that is enough to chill your blood. I go and try to locate where it came from and find that it came from Chas, VENTUS over in the corner, he had just been beaten out in 2 card games. They have just piped down holiday routine and all engineers make a bee-line for their racks. We just start to relax when the messenger OH the watch enters our spacious quarters and tells us that all hands are to lay down to our spaces. When we ar- rive, we find that Peach PHILLIPS and his side kick North Korean MLARLOW have just found some work for us to do. The first guy that starts yelling is Seagull METREYEON the man wh ' , o 1S a meal. He had just started to get hot in the card game when he was called. always complaining about the chow, but never missed You can hear the rest of the gang complaining about turning to on holiday routine. Ygu Cailqhif AL Ape CALIOTO yelling to Fatso lvlclflblg to get farther down in the bilges. CQIH95 me knock ofl: and everybody leaves the engine roilmg start back to the compartment, when suddeumou set upon by the duty MAA forabeing Ouj of dow topside, and the saying goes SomedayS1f pay to get out of the rack . 6 like Comes Sunday morning, the day evelyoljl SIE, they can sleep late, as We try to get as 111210 init as we can. You can hear Tidis 23225 Ne, rack tr in to 3 someone out 0 SU ' comes ythg alvlgld Russianv MIHALSKH Whse hardly wait untill they pipe down sick cal, S0 take muster. d to Sly just about the time that you are T93 Your he, again, you hear someone snoring, y0H tugggl Sucjdj and iind out that it is Hose Nose E in air. nd theen As wc como to the end of our st0fYS1unick any of the day you can hear BathlESS of the dav you can hear BathlesS 5 that they have just taken a shower. HUNICK at