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But these were the lighter moments. Wle knew that seamanship was vastly important. Wie re- called the letter to a member of the department from a friend with the Pacihc Fleet. The letter read in part: UTell your boys to learn their Seamanship wellf' 4WVe have a young Reserve ensign, the First Lieutenant, aboard this destroyer and he has to anchor and handle boats and lines in a gale with a green crew and a brand new boatswainis matef' The course is comprehensive in its scope and bound to be Confusing at times, even to the IUOSL mechanical of men. Rather than confessing I don't know, which they told us is a cardinal taboo, capable of doing devastating things to an instructor's spleen, the Biidshipmen, in their mo- ments of desperation, frequently resorted to im- provised answers, rather than giving up without a fight and allowing an Hunsatw grade to be recorded in the red book uncontested. Representative of our not uncommon bewilder- inent was the response of a long, lean, Louisianan, when asked what he'd do with the side boys if an Admiral came aboard. The big fellow reflected confidence in himself and as he prepared to drawl his answer you could suspect that he knew what this was all about. 'iSir, he said, HAh'd just take 'em and toss 'em over the side? There were other weird answers. Herels one gem: When the relation of two vessels to each other is such as to involve risk of collision, the one re- quired by the rules to keep clear is called the 'underprivilegedl vessel? And then there was the lad who noted that the most eflicient way to go alongside a wharf with the current from astern was to back engines slowly and turn in. The instructor writhed and we all went to see 'tPatience,' that night. l55l
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