Lowry (DD 770) - Naval Cruise Book

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A+ Pearl Harbor Caplarn Marlin was relieved commanding officer by Commander E S Miller who had accompanied us from lhe Srales We all haled +o lose Caprarn Marian Hed been a good skipper and ihe experience he had piled up while serving on deslroyers for I5 years had cerfarnly slood us rn good sfead and helped lo make us lhe line ship we were Top lell rs fhe whole crew on fhe forecaslle awamng for ihe order Fall rn ai quarrers and fhen The rnspedron would begin A+ 'rhe rrghl' IS L+ Kelly s O Division gefhng fherr usual well done af rnspechon Below lefl Thafs Ensrgn ngels wrlh hrs l0O mission Below righl. Capfain Marhn and Caplarn Muller are crash cap a+ lhe 'Far end Theres no 'rrouble a+ all inspechng rhe Isl Drvisron You can see Edwards spolhng Moran Pe ron Mrlnes Morley Hampson Sfell Shaw Ryan Roy Sybel and NelSOI1 Hauan Hoi Todd Tay or and Mrrra

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Hep-e's an acfion picfure of Crum and Emery. This is as close as eifher of fhem came fo moving during fhe cruise. However, if any experf advice as fo how fhe ship or Navy should be run was ever needed, you could always wake fhem up and fhey would be glad fo inform you. ln 'I'he cenfer picfure we have Chrisfner, fhe Chief Yeoman and dean of fhe office force. Nofice fhe Gay Nine+ies. musfache he's sporfing. We had a confesf on board for musfache growing and fhis was one of fhe winners. Shakedown was abouf over by now and for fhe shorf fime we'd been operafing fhe Lowry began fo look and acf like a real man- of-war. Shoofing became darn good, our seamanship improved, and fhe engineers were doing a real job. Admiral Denebrink, fhe Commander of fhe Operafion Training Command af San Diego, inspecfed us before we leff fhe San Diego Area and rafed us above fhe average. Th-en we were on our way back fo San Pedro for our lasf few liberfies before shoving off for fhe forward areas.. Those were fhe hecfic days wifh everyone frying fo clear up 'rhe lasf minufe defails on fhe ship and eifher geffing married or frying lo gef fheir wives and families hom-e before we leff. Then came a.liffle gear 'rrouble and we were held up for anofher monfh. Finally like all ofher fhings fhaf are good, fhis vacafion came fo an end and we moved on fo Pearl Harbor. Everyone figured fhey had Seen fhe lasf of fhe Sfafes for quife a while alfhough some of fhe en- Qlneers puf ouf fhe sfraighf dope fhaf fhe gears couldn r possibly ldsf over a monfh. They did fhough, and quife a few more +oO. Qn fhe way fo Pearl we did a liffle fesf and surprise firing. On fhe '9l1l' is Bowe, fhe Chief Gunners Mafe giving some fafherly advice +0 Mounf No. 42.

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L pracfice. Below lefi' is a bunch of 'rhe boys peering our on fhe wafer. Could be for any number of reasons bu+ probably someone spo++ed a beer boHle floafing by and now +hey're making befs as +o where ii migh+ have originaied. a Below righl' is an evening shof of Mounl No. 44 fhrowing some lead. Aboul' +his fime +he Lowry 'ik IQ' Here's Brown again. Whaf a man he furned our fo be-or did Lee wani fo immorfalize fhe only lime he ever benf on a signal? On lhe righf is Lf. Roberfs of Sky For- ward. He says if was a liHle rough geffing under fhe Flag bag wi+h fhe big helmef on during condi- fion I-Easy buf he usually made if all righf. Of course noi righl ai lirsl' buf only affer considerable 4 was beginning 'ro hang up her record for being one of The besf shois 'ro ever go 'rhrough San Diego. We really began fo raise parficular hell wifh The sleeves and drones 'rhey sen+ us +o pracrice on. Yes, looking back fo shakedown is when we really earned a repufaiion for gunnery, and from fhen on we never fool: a back seam' +o anyone, where i+ was concerned.