Mahlon Tisdale (FFG 27) - Naval Cruise Book

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WestPac 84 The Numbers., In order to appreciate the scope of WestPac 1984. the below listed numbers are provided. All figures are from departure Pearl Harbor to return to Pearl Harbor some six months Hdos ' We landed Helos. To the tune of 204 Right Quarters evolutions involving some 364 individual landings. Helo ' s were refueled on deck a total of 51 times and on 21 occasions ship ' s company refueled a helo in-flight. WWle transiting our total of 36.410 nautical miles, the ship ' s two 20.000 horse power engines and four diesel generators consumed 1.688.342 gallons of fuel. (Was that $1 20 gallon when we left?). Of the total 159 days deployed 83% or 133 days were spent at sea To stay at sea. we conducted 45 Underway Replenishments, taking on everythmg from fuel to potatoes. The crew quaffed 79.250 cans of sodas. , , u . L i Your letters of encouragement helped and we couldn ' t complain two loudly about he mail service Mail was received inport 26 times (total weight 3.511 lbs) and underway 52 times (total weight 6.582 lbs.) Mail was dispatched from the Tisdale 86 times with a total weight of 5 447 lbs ' All that prolific letter writing was made possible by the sale of $3,885 worth of stamps and our postal clerks. PC2 Potterf. was also kept busy selling 1,191 money orders with a cash value of $159,441. To make the purchase of stamps and money orders possi- ble the crew was paid a total of $593.5 1 3.00. Where did all that money go? Our ship ' s servicemen were kept quite busy. A total of 2.484 haircuts were given and well over 39.000 lbs of wash and dry laundry was cleaned. 1.728 individual pieces of laundry W6r6 Dressed Now of course, all that stamp lickin ' . helo landin ' and fuel burnin ' often made for a very hungry crew. We consumed 6.080 dozen eggs, 2.415 lbs of ground beef. 550 lbs of lobster 796 lbs of prime rib 1.555 lbs of sliced American cheese. 8.292 lbs of potatoes and 2.223 lbs of tomatoes. Lookout McDonald ' s. Tisdale served 10.084 hamburgers, in addition our night baker made 8.796 lbs of bread. ' WALSWORTH Cruiw Book Sain Offict PUBLISHING SuiU 20, 6666 U JolU Blvd. COM PA NY UJolU. CiUrornia 92037

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