Truckee (AO 147) - Naval Cruise Book

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Sixth Fleet Ships have no home ports in the Med. Oilers are necessary to keep the fleet mobile, cmd ready at sea tor extended periods ot time. TRUCKEE carried out her responsibilities with this tueling record: Destroyer Types ,.....o.o,. Heavy Attack Carriers ,...A, Heavy Cruisers ,.........,...,cH...c,....,cc A,cc , Amphibious and Auxiliary Types- .o,..,c.. Submarines .,,.,,,,-i,--,,--,s,s--,v,,, ,-u- Consolidations with other Oilers ,..,,,c,c,s, Total Fuelings .,,,.,,,,.c,,,,, 86 Fue 15 Fue 12 Fue 12 Fue 3 Fue 19 Fue ings ings ings ings ings ings 147

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m NAVIGATID Navigation, or, simply, the practice of getting Where you Want to go, is probably the most romantic of all the skills of seamanship. The movements of celestial bodies through space do not conform to convenient Working hours, so that the navigators and quartermasters must turn to before sunrise and cannot knock oif until after sunset. And many days are spent in frustration Waiting for the sun to come out just once. Even after several centuries, seamen have not found a more consistently accurate Way of getting where they want to go than by celestial navigation. LTJG. EDWIN J. RUTLEDGE USNR ' CATALANO, P. The CASE OF THE MISSING WATCHES, starring Rymer, Magellan, and McDaniel. QMI RYMER, B. L. KINSLEY, D. J. QM2 QM3 I KILCOI R, McDANIEl, W. S. SN SN

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T'he Supply Department Cas the large sultan with the beard will tell youj does more jobs better than even your mother used to: We feed you, clothe you, pay you, and clean your dirty clothes. The Supply Department is, in short, the hardest-working, most efficient, and most under- rated department on the best ship in the Navy. The Supply Officer and his assistant for disbursing man- age somehow to find the time to carry out an important collateral duty - keeping line officers squared away. Sup- ply does all their jobs anyway. Why shouldn't we straighten out their ROTC Ensigns too? A I Q f 1? 4