Stoddard (DD 566) - Naval Cruise Book

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SHIP S COMPANY if 'Fi A .5 FE Q. 1.

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First in war, first in peace, and very often last on liberty, they paint, they swab, they chip, they swab, they clean sides, they swab, they keep the ship shipshape -and they swab some more. They're the real salts on the ship,they can not only carry a coffee cup without spilling a drop in 45 degree roll seas but they can do rope tricks that would make Lash LaRue look sick. For pure poetry in motion watch them during an unrep. lt's, say, four o'clock in the morning and heavy seas when STODDARD pulls alongside the oiler. Bolos away! Suddenly the deck is strewn with criss-crossing lines. For a few seconds the scene resembles a Chinese fire drill. Unimaginable curses and threats break the morning stillness and then somehow there is order. STODDARD awaits its life-blood oil. FIRST DIVISIQN