Shangri La (CV 38) - Naval Cruise Book

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Captain Cruise inspects Marine Detachment. DESTROYER DIVISION 112 DD-732 Hyman ARS fDD-2 DD-734 Purdy ARS CDD -3 DD-756 Beatty AS-11 DD-857 Bristol ASR- 8 ARC1- 6 Cebu ASR- I ARL-24 Sphinx ATP- 83 ARS- 8 Preserver ATF-100 ARS- 9 Shackle ATF-105 ARS-23 Deliver ATF-107 ARS-33 Clamp ATP-148 ARS-42 Reclaimer IX-50 ARS CDD -I Gypsy LSD- 5 Mender Palmyra Fulton Coucal Widgeon Chickasaw Chowanoc Moctobi Munsee Achomawi Quartz Gunston Hall in Bikini Lagoon LSD-25 PGM-29 PGM-30 PGM-31 PGM-32 YF-385 -733 -734 YF-735 YF-752 YF-753 YF-754 YF YF San Marcox in a manner designed to The target ships were moored test the effectiveness of the explosion and did not represent a typical naval moor- ing nor tactical disposition. Modern naval actions leave a great number of per- sonnel in exposed or semi-exposed positions topside, so their stations were taken IO7

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Admiral's Cabin. Commendation for Lieut. F. J. Scanlon. Cv-38 AGC- 7 AGC- 1 AGC- 2 AGC-1-3 APA- 27 APA-228 CVE-117 DD-705 DD-706 DD-707 DD-692 DD-693 DD-694 DD-722 DD-723 DD-724 DD-725 DD- DD- AD-14 770 781 Shangri-La Mount McKinley Appalachian Blue Rridge Panamint George Clymer Rockbridge Saidor Compton Gainard Soley A. M. Sumner Moale Ingraham Barton Walke Laffey O'Brien Lowry R. K. Huntington Dixie SUPPORT GROUP APA-220 Rockingham APA-235 Bottineau APA-23 7 Bexar AKA- 9 9 Rolette APA-230 Rockwall AKA-101 Ottawa APA- 31 Saint Croix AV- 5 Alberarle APA- 3 7 Cavalier AV- 1 7 Cumberland Sound APA- 45 Henrico AP- 7 Wharton LCT C61 1359 LST-817 LCT Q6j 1361 LST-881 DESTROYER DIVISION 111 AG-76 Avery Island ARB- 8 Telamon i DD-708 Harland R. Dickson ARD- 2 9 DD-709 Hugh Purvis ATA-180 AGS- 4 Bowditch ATA-185 AH-12 Haven ATA-192 , AH-13 Benevolence LCI-977 ' AKS- 4 Pollux LCI-1067 AO-61 Severn LCT-5 81 AO-69 Enoree LCT-746 A AOG-25 Calamus LCT-1184- AR- 6 Ajax LCT- 1420 ARB- 3 Phaon PGM-23 ARB- 7 Sarpedon PGM-25 Steward's Mates Party.

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l l l l l l ,i e 5 l l Xl l l H ff : i 's li i if iw ,. ,. EN 'E fd gf 1 . 4 iig- s xi 4 l if Refrigerator ship provisions Shangri-La at Roi. up by 4,500 white rats, ZOO goats, and ZOO pigs distributed from yardarm to bilges. Publicity attending the tests brought an unusual number of crank letters cone demning the use of animals, predicting unprecedented tidal waves, or such dire things as the creation of an orifice to pour the waters of the Paciic into the earth's ebullient center. ln spite of the many newspaper articles by 'lexpertsf' there was no danger that Operations Crossroads would produce such a fissure. Had the esoteric calculations of nuclear physicists been in error at Los Alamos-had the unprecedented heat and energy released in the fission of the first plutonium bomb initiated a self-sustaining chain reaction in common elements, then earth's 196 million square miles might have disintegrated into space. Fortunately for civilization it did not happen, and we now know that most common elements release insufficient neutrons to sustain or propagate the reaction. As Able Day approached, LST's transported the l65 Bikini natives to pre- viously prepared habitations on Rongerik Atoll, l3O miles' eastward. Scientists swarmed over the target ships, setting up sensitive instruments to measure various radiation and pressure waves. Cn the nearby atoll photographers installed the most elaborate and complex system ot automatic camera recording devices ever OS W