Knox (DE 1052) - Naval Cruise Book

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1 Mary Soo ' s girls do the fo ' clse The best beard

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The super skaters. Best goatee Bringing them bacli alive. Easy does it.

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KNOX FACTS For weeks the Knox loaded -out and on the morning of 16 Sep 70 the magic words were passed, Underway for the Western Pacific. As we wound a serpentine course for six months the Knox Book of Little Known Facts began. While our Engineering plant used 2,550,348 gals, of fuel to steam 52,374 nautical miles the crew used 612,000 gallons of fresh water and ate a monstrous meal of 36,000 pounds beef, 3,600 pounds fowl, 3,600 pounds pork, 97,200 eggs, 7,400 loaves baked bread, 620 gallons ice cream, and drank 60,180 cups of coffee. Our Disbursing Officer provided us with $450,000 so we could spend $50,000 in the ship ' s store and buy some 1,252 postage stamps to mail a meager 673 pounds of mail and a whopping $39,391 in postal money orders. Now we couldn ' t carry all of that with us so we had underway replenishment 30 times and vertical replenishment 7 times in between our 70 helo details, 9 helo-in-flight-refuelings, and 11 helo landings. In our spare time we watched 165 different movies in some 408 showings, while all of this was going on, our barber gave us 1,760 haircuts, not to mention those given by Neptunus Rex ' s Royal Barber at the Equator. The Knox kept up with the goings on in WESTPAC through the efforts of the Radiomen who provided 10,200 radio messages and 1,520 visual messages (usually 12 copies of each) on 500 rolls of teletype paper. In our leisure time we slept. Whew!