Shreveport (LPD 12) - Naval Cruise Book

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ft N rio t takino bearings around 1030 by the Quartermaster of the Watch n addit o to the chronometers e Sh1p approx1mate1y ocks w 1 ar w u every Monday and Thursday at sea and in port by quartermasters Ouartermasters a1so take Some Sh1p c1a1 E111 e bearinqs buoys and oth navioation nts when CFU1S1DQ near 1an the ecords 1 ained y 1v1s1 1nc1ude e s Deck Log and Quartermaster Notebook which are offi an ega1 r cor s o a nts con r inn t s io h r crew 11StQd ChYOnO1OQ1Cd1 y hundreds of charts ich st per1o 1C3 y e co te o r f ect nev ac1es to naviqation r w un 1 of ocean deoths 1CQ to Mariners ograbhic Bu11et1ns a gs E asf Q41 1 'Ntr NfKQw? I WE' , f ' CLe : using LORA 4 'I h 1 ' , ' 1 . I I Qi' n , th ' has '. 100 c1 h'ch e o nd 1 . th ' A on x 11qhts and 'er ' ' a1 poi ' ' 5 d. . of r ma nt ' b N D' ' 'on ' th ' d 1 e d f 11 eve.- ce n' , he h', d e ' h' 1 3 wh' mu ' d' 11 b rrec d t e 1 1 ob- st 'k ' o ne so d ngs , g Not' n ' , Hy- dr y ' nd ' d h Pub1icat1onsg an t.e Captain's Niqht Order Book. Senior quarter- masters determine Htracks or courses for the ship in moving from one p1ace to another and recommend these for aporova1. PLOTTING COURSE THROUGH THE ENGLISH CHANNEL

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XX Xt. A X .t f ' I- .-. , -2 , l . z .aw it K x 0 X 5 Rain X f 'gf ., 4 gl-,.f1ffgj s gfl' ,3- V , .x,,., v,f..A M53 c,.,v: i Quartermasters determine the shir J's locaticni in tirni an , -5' f spaceg they are responsible for plotting where the fhih lS and is going, and they are responsible for maintaining ac curate time calibration throughout the shin. while at sea, the shi ' ' ' ' p s position may he plotted nsino the SPNa4O LORAN receiver which can ' tune in on signals trans- mitted by a Hmasteru and a Hslaveu station. My weasufihn the time differences between pulses and naino special charts, the position of the ship may he determined. NOV- mally a LORAN reading is taken every hour while at sea. Another method of determining the ship'e pouition is by using the sextant which accurately measure: the Htocal Hour Angleu of the sun CLHAD. By usinu thr IHA and the Nautical Almanac the ship's position may he amcerlained. Longitude may UG determined only around noon: latitude is determined by shooting mornino stars about Qu mgnpipg hg- fore sunrise and shooting eveninn gimp, Hhuug pm minotes after sunsetnmif there is a horizon. The Navigation department also utiliyen nm on non in Soon' dlng Set, Sonar, to determine ocean denlhn, ihw unin is equipped with two ch Y'OVlOVlC'fPl I r 1 --1 S wilch ore wound evrrv id!

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Q o The Operations Department may be compared with the central nervous system of a human body. It is res- ponsible for the ship- wide training program, the collection and inter- pretation of intelli gence, the repair and maintenance of all elec- tronics equipment aboard ship, and when a PhibRon staff is not embarked, with preparation of opera ation plans and evalua- tion of meterological data. The Department is divided into two divisions .i Oli .AMW 1 .: .k.. y Xb, fs, A ,F ew ' :V , ,V . L AHL and OE, supervised by the CIC officer and the Electronics Waterial w b Officer CKMUD, respec- tively. CIC CCombat Information Centerl, receives, int- erprets, and visually presents all surface and air contacts. The ship is equipped with SPSNIO surface search radar and SPS-40 air search radar. CIC has 'SPA 66 surface radar consoles. various sta- YHS boards, and a DRT