Smalley (DD 565) - Naval Cruise Book

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in Ilixi TN ion frrgzhferilrg Dcyfarfmmf Engineering was the largest department' on the ship and the most varied. It eonsisted ol' ten different rates, all specialties required to keep the machinery and associated auxiliaries of a modern man-of-war operating. Three-fifths of the Smalley consisted ol' main propulsion machinery. The Machinists Mates and the Boiler Tenders who comprised ISV Division saw us through sixty-five thousand miles of steaming with a minimum ot easual- ties. In the two fire rooms the BT,s operated the four boilers and the auxiliary equipment required to give the turbines the six hundred pounds of steam that they so readily devoured. From FULL BACK to STOP and then to FLANK the fire rooms always got the steam up. Remember when we blew safetys at thirty- five knots with 77? Un the other side ol the bullcheads in the engine rooms the MMR sent the steam into the turbines and made her gof, The Machinist Mates and the lioiler Tenders are probably the elosest knit group on the ship without one, the other is worthless. 1 x - Ihr hottcst. dirtiest jobs, but the most neees . 4 s uxg this was the lot ot the engineers. llnderwfax, exaeting response and eontinual mamtenauee was oi' the utmost importanec tor without .1 perleet engineering plant Sm alley would have been a eold dead ll tht llllx tilt to wfithout light. without heat. and una e' move. A ship eau nexier be any more eiheiellf than her engineering department q . t XVhile the rest ol the ship was staudiugt in three or on ' n w ' - . - rv IIN e in lour, the Ill s were dowll l tour their in the iire roems tor a lour on alll eil ioutme. The Nlaehinist Xlates never Q ot better than .1 llour on and eight oil w'aiL'll sehedule 1 eto In port tht seherlule was just as rough. Nlilm 1 dax lound the lil s worlxnn' around tht liberty was 1 f' I el4 eleaning or repairing a boiler. For lllt'lll l tlwaxs last on the list. ln thc engine rooms there were pumps to he NWI' down and paekine, to lie it-plat-eil. 'llllt'l'l' WVU' do ze T- ns ol xalxes both lavage and small that had 59 nd 1