Napa (APA 157) - Naval Cruise Book

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Cap tain lv 14ddreAA: THE story of the NAPA is that of a typical Attack Transport of the Amphibious Force. But those of us who have served in her see in her evidence of the old truth that every ship has a personality. This personality is the product of the hammers and torches of the shipwrights who built her and of the officers and men who man her. As in the case of any other person, each of us will see different phases of her personality. May this book help to preserve in each of us, a memory of the NAPA we knew best.

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7 JUNE 1944-At the Oregon Shipyards, Portland, Oregon, was laid the keel for Kaiser Hull No. 1107, a Vic- tory Ship, designated Hull No. V-123 in the United States Maritime Commission emergency shipbuilding pro- gram. Leased by the Navy, this hull was converted dur- ing construction to become the attack transport, V APA 157, named U.S.S. Napa after Napa County, California. . xl, E .-.QQ ,f .T ,pe ?il'A f billidivn ORE CAPTAlN'S Masts can be claimed by no other division than that occupying the ufront porchi' of the ship. As our name infers, we are first in every- thing from chow line in Mr. Ballard's uweevil shop to leaning over the side in a heavy sea. Under the watchful eye of Chief Bosn's Mate Fitzgerald, HUSN-silly man, numbers one and two hatches operate comparably to the smoothness of a HP boat in a typhoon. Our four uwhip-crackersf' three ensigns and a -one short of a full house-work with us side by side fwe by the side of the hatch and they by the side of the ujoe pot in the wardroomj. Chipping paint may be a task for some divisions, but to us it means that our HSimon Legreen-like officers can't hit the rack because of the incessant staccato rap of our woodpecker-like chipping hammers. Perhaps cleaning heads and scuttlebutts is essen- tial to the protection of our home-land, maybe streaming paravanes and piloting liberty boats did win the warg but why must we stand gun watches when if the enemy attacks we umake smokew? Home was never like this, but who wants to go home when we can see the enchanted islands of the South Pacific, the strange mysteries of the far east, the beauty and friendliness of the oriental girl? Furthermore, each successive month out here adds one quarter point to our scores--not that we want a discharge, because we are all Wfwenty-yeari' men. Yes indeed! two years in the navy and eighteen years on leave! 6 ,,