Saratoga (CV 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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The radio equipment of the ship includes the latest and best facilities in that field. The main transmitter is the most powerful of any vessel in the Navy. The range of receiving sets may be indicated when it is added that the ship received the messages of the Australian flight plane Southern Cross all the way to Honolulu in l1ay, 1928. ln connection with aviation, the ship maintains an aerological labora- tory which receives and transmits weather reports from and to other vessels, as well as prepares weather maps for aircraft leaving on extended flights. ln addition to the physical efficiency of the ship, the ship's company is well looked after from the standpoint of health. The ship has an excellent general ward, dispensary, refraction room, diet kitchen, isolation ward, operating room, surgical dressing room, dental office, examining room, etc., and facilities for X-ray and laboratory work. The interior of the Saratoga is different from the space below decks in other Naval vessels. in that there are stowage spaces for airplanes, fully equipped aircraft, machine, and carpenter shops, a laboratory for testing enginesg shops for fabric work doping and paintingp and sheet metal, plumbing, and sewing shops. ln addition there are many compartments. Of these, 117 are assigned to the Supply Department, 51 are for storage of technical aviation mater- ialg 70 are assigned for ship's general stores, equipment, and provisionsg and 16 are utilized for the galley, bake shop, butcher shop, general mess issue room, and clothing issue room. The largest of these rooms, the general issue room, carries some 4,000 different items of supplies in general use throughout the ship, including aviation repair and overhaul shops. The commissary department of the ship is fully equipped to take care of the complement of 1450 enlisted men in the ship's force and the 334 additional men in the aviation squadrons. That this is no small matter may be judged by the following: In one week with the Squadron personnel off the ship, the following supplies are required: 6,000 pounds of flour, 9,400 pounds of various kinds of meat, 700 dozen eggs, 3,000 pounds tinned vegetables, 1,000 pounds tinned fruit, 6,000 pounds fresh fruit, 700 pounds coffee, 1,000 pounds butter, 2,000 pounds milk, and 3,000 pounds of sugar. The coffee is made in three 120-gallon coffee urns. The galley is equipped with nine 80-gallon steam kettles and two 60-gallon steam kettles, electric ovens, etc. There is a special compartment set aside for Crewls Reading Room, Reception Room, and Ladies' Rest Room. In the Reception Room, en- listed personnel may write, read, or meet their civilian friends and guests. Copies of some thirty different magazines may be found in the racks. Qver 2,000 volumes of both fiction and non-fiction books are ready for circula- tion. A moving picture film is shown every night on the Hangar Deck. Church is rigged and Divine Service is conducted every Sunday by the Chaplain attached to the ship. Special family days are celebrated on Christ- mas and Easter Sunday to which the Ship's Company are encouraged to invite their families and friends. Every effort is made to render the lot of the Bluejacket a happy one and to keep him in a high state of morale. All of which contributes toward unselfish and enthusiastic service. The Ship of Happy Landings, the name frequently applied to the Saratoga, is not an empty title. All hands strive to make her just that. I Nine

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