Rochester (CA 124) - Naval Cruise Book

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FIFTH FAR EAST CRUISE U.S.S. ROCHESTER FEBRUARY-AUGUST 1955 Tuesday, February 8 Departed Long Beach Monday, February I4 Arrived Pearl Harbor Monday, February Zl Departed Pearl Harbor Tuesday, February 24 Anchored oft Midway Friday, February 25 International Dateline Thursday, March 3 Arrived Yokosuka Saturday, March 5 Departed Yokosuka Monday, March 7 Arrived Keelung Saturday, March 12 Took on Admiral Pride Monday, March l4 Departed Keelung Wednesday, March l6 Arrived Subic Bay Friday, March ,'l8 y LeftfSubic, Arrived Manila Monday-, March 21 A 5' - Departed- Manila Wednegday, March 23 P 8 75, Arrived Keelung Friday, March 25 . Departed Keelung Monday, March 28 Arrived Yokosuka Thursday, April 7 Departed Yokosuka Saturday, April 9 Arrived Keelung Saturday, May 7 Shifted the Flag to EL DORADO Sunday, May 8 Departed Keelung Wednesday, May ll Joined TF77 Wednesday, May l8 Detached from TF77 Replenished at sea Saturday, May 2l Arrived Yokosuka Tuesday, May 3l Departed Yokosuka Thursday, June 2 Arrived Keelung Friday, June 3 Departed Keelung Enroute TF77 Saturday, June ll Arrived Keelung Picked up Boy Scouts Sunday, June l2 Arrived Okinawa, Swim Call Disembarked Boy Scouts Monday, June I3 Departed Okinawa Tuesday, June l4 Anchored Keelung for 3 Hours Underway for Hongkong Thursday, June 16 Arrived Hongkong Wednesday, June 22 Departed Hongkong Thursday, June 23 Anchored Keelung for 2 Hours Underway to join TF77 Saturday, July 2 Arrived Yokosuka Saturday, July 9 Departed Yokosuka Enroute to join TF77 Saturday, July 16 Arrived Keelung Tuesday, July 26 Departed Keelung Friday, July 29 Arrived Yokosuka Saturday, August 6 Departed Yokosuka Monday, August 22 Arrived Long Beach PRODUCTION AND LAYOUT Tom W. Mitchell PRINTERS Dai Nippon Printing Company In Review, the story of the RocHEsTER's fifth trip to the Far East, entered the planning stage when the ship arrived in Yokosuka on the 3rd of March. The editors of In Review have had two main objectives. These are to portray the day- to-day life of the 1300 officers and men that go to make up the crew of the ROCHESTER and to show a little of what the sailor sees when he sets foot ashore in the various foreign lands which the ship visited. The latter goal is a rather diffi- cult one to fulfill due to the rapid changes in schedule which were made necessary by the ship's changing committments. The ship did not vi-sit as many different places as she did the year before and as a conse- quence we had to devote more pages to shipboard life. After a lot of preliminary planning, the larger general articles to be included in the book were decided on. The next step was to draw up photo- graphy and writing assign- ments so that the two would fit together and complement each other. Then, after the pictures had been taken and the articles prepared,.the two were plotted on layout sheets and caption-s written. It was at this stage that the work was shifted from the ship to the printing company in Tokyo. At the printing company the book's interpreter translated all of the editors' instructions into Japanese before sending off large batches of copy, color and black-and-white photographs to linotypists, hand type fsetters and engravers. Special art- work and headlines were de- cided on in conferences with the printing company's artist. Soon all the component parts that go to make up a book started flowing back, at first just a few at a time but later in large quantities. Engraver's proofs were in- spected, copy corrected and sent back for another proof, color work checked and artist's draw- ings approved before being made into line cuts. The next step wa-s pasting up the master dummy. Each corrected line of type and every piece of artwork had to be pasted into place on the original full scale dummy to be sure that everything was the correct size and would fit in exactly the right place. As soon as each page of the master dummy ,Was pasted, checked and OKd it wa-s sent to the compositors who made-up the forms for printing, duplicating in lead and zinc and copper all that was on the pasted dummy. The actual printing of In Review took ten days while the timeiconsumed in making en- g1'HY1Hgs, setting type, making- UD 111110 pages and performing all the other work that has to be done before the presses can start turning was about a month.