Tarawa (CV 40) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1952

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Our lasf close look af fhe dock af'Quonse1' Poinf as we pulled ouf for our six-monfh cruise of fhe Mediferranean. Only a few wives and relafivesfand sweefhearfs were fhere fo see us off as mosf of fhem had been puf aboard frains or leff by aufo fhe day before. Only fhose few remaining, fhe crewmen of fhe USS WRIGHT, and a handful of former shipmafes wafch our cleparfure. E'RE OFF... The ieeps .... fhe lasf of fhe sfores .... and finally, fhe gangway was dismanflecl



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HE ROSSI G HE WINTER MONTHS of 1951-52 will go down in the record books forlspawning some of the worst storms ever experienced on the Atlantic Ocean. Captain Carl- son,, Skipper of the now famed Flying Enterprise will testify to that. Two days out of Quonset, the T ran into a typical Atlantic gale that stayed with us for five days. Green water was shipped over the bow, stern, and weather decksj Planes had to be double lashed to prevent them from being swept over the side by the powerful gusts of wind while twenty foot waves surged from swells that were 300 feet long to smash themselves against the sides of the ship. With speed cut to a dead'slow the TA- RAWA staggered on, but didn't run into fair weather until abreast of the Azores by which time we had lost two days of our originally es- timated travel time for the trip across the Atlantic,

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