Knapp (DD 653) - Naval Cruise Book

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Fax and Foibles On our travels these past seven months, we have we have acciunulated some very interesting vital sta- tistics The most obvious of course, the distapce T . covered, which is better than 50,000 miles. Q 118, of course does not include Liberty boats. During this extensive travel, the KNAPP burned 2,289,69 gallons of fuel oil at an average cost of 3.06 per allon Qand also paid for 600 gal ons to water- proo? the mess hallj for a total cost of S143,4l4.04. Water consumption, although we seemed to lack fresh water several times, hit an astounding lugh of 1,489,107 allons Qthis iigure does, however, include that which we received in Aden - which wasnt worth countin This amount of water could fill a swimming pool with dimensions of 10 ft. X 30 ft. X 620 ft. fClean livers We! l 1 I Running true to form, that KNAPPIANS don't scare easy and the cigarette companies are happy for it, each man on the KNAPP smoked 30 cigarettes each day of the Cruise for a grand total of 1,750,000 consumed. QA few for Babysanj. The cost of these cigarettes, bought through Ship's Store would be 37,875 18.90 per cartonj. Food was a problem as always it is worthy to note that we devoured 875,000 worth of provisions. We are still looking for an anemic individual on the ship. For future- revolle-ctions when . ,. . . n 0 it m ' mi lla-tm-rl Livilians , we not onl glrgtofyuflwllllie also Ya-n, liupt-s, Shillings, Lira lzlesatas ang mi 5111 WA'I'lili W and we were on most of Esiudm VVorld as follows: Atlantic Ocean Caribblt 1111116 lhwilic' Ur-4-an, Sw! of ja gm, East hhina S6311 Sei China Sea, llay of Bengali Arabian Sea, Pe,-ga, South Gulf ol' Adi-ii, H4-d Sq-a, and the Mediterrangn Gull VVQ' vrossi-rl thi- International Date line ggdsgg lirpiator and passed ovcr some of the Worldzs dee watt-rs, in-tu-r than 6 miles deep in several lacegei tht- Pacific-, and of course we saw three of thdJW0r1fii mort- famous mountains, Fujiyama, Aetna, and Vesui vius. VW' also had the opportunity to transit many famous Straits and Narrows: Panama Canal, Shim noscki Straits, Tsushima Straits, Malacca Straits Suez Canal, Straits of lionifacio, and the Straits of Gibraltar. We do hope that this travelogue has not been too boring, it may seem very unrelated, but our thc-mc in t iis article is for your future stimulationin remembering your World Cruise of '53 and '54 and the many places we all have seen. We hope thatthis may help to serve your memory in years to come. 1 A !1, Al. I , A uk- , . W , r , i p p ' i C0696 time S il '-S' arf' flu' r'ru:.ic'sl people

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