Stoddard (DD 566) - Naval Cruise Book

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FRONT ROW: FN Surley, FN Cravan, FN Borton, BT3 Badding, FN Mosco. SECOND ROW: BTC Swan, FN Heckel, BT3 Gast, BT3 Butler, BT3 Gleason, LTJG Stokes. THIRD ROW: BT2 Maholm, BT3 Watts, FN Haupt, BT3 Lee, BT2 Galloway, FN Clark. JJJ-I 1 41, 2 X J' QQ4, klws., l X 4 2 E 7 KK N.ATGM::,. . K, Q... ,W Q ig! :Z V 'ff-V .MU H' X. , VKIL L' I t If V, , f , K '. .. ,W ' a f ? ez 3 .?, V! , T O A A In 4 ' is K 1 , S l XM' Ay kf L: ,, ' 5 , we fl

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l DIVISIDN The earth is not moved by steam propulsion, but in the world of a ship, it is the only thing. Ultimately, all the power that STODDARD uses and brings to bear on the enemy depends on pure water heated into steam. Steam makes the engines go, powers the electrical generators, pumps the water, makes the drinking water. The job of making steam belongs to the Boiler Tenders. lt's sometimes a thankless job, especially when a puff of black smoke sneaks past, or the soot from the tubes lands on deck instead of the water. But there is the compensation of knowing that the ship can survive without it's men to watch the water in the glass, clean the firesides, gently adjust the burners and forced draft blowers. The BT's enjoy their own world apart, a world that is filled with incomprehensible terms to the uninitiated-downcomers, uptakes, periscopes, tubes, firesides and watersides. To those who don't know, it is a world in which pipes seem to run at random from one amazing place to another astounding one. But the real BT sees his plant as a whole, understands the function of each pipe and valve, and sometimes one thinks he'd like a few more, just to make it a little more complicated.