US Naval Reserve Midshipmens School - Side Boy Yearbook (New York, NY)

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IIFUT UL? RUSSFII B BRYAN USNR Instructor 1245 Ocean Avenue Suntu Monica California LIFUT FDWARD V BURCIAIIII USNR lmlruclol 1231 Wiltxisfmx Struct Reading, Pcnnsylvzuuu LIEUT. fjprb ADRIAN K. BURKE, USNR Instructor 14 S1lCl'lIlZlll Avenue East Newark, New Jersey LIEUT. JOHN J. DONOVAN, USNR In vtructor 84 Plncknuy Street BoGt0n M vas lCilllQK tts LIEUT. CHARLES L. FERGUS, USNR I n slruclor 1004 South Hickory Ottuwu, Kansas IIFUT CHTSTER C KIRKPATRICK USNR Instructor Harrisville, West Virginia 39 wk 'WN'

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Engineering and Damage Control Former Department Ilead Present Department Head ROBERT D. ALLEN, USNR LT. THOMAS S. QUINN, .lli 111403 Broadway USNR New Orleans, Louisiana Lebanon, Pennsylvania The primary purpose of damage control as set down by the Navy, is to keep a vessel that has been damaged, in the line of battle and keep it fightingg tl1e secondary purpose is to bring her back to port after the battle is over. The miraculous feats performed with damage control by our great Navy in this war far surpasses the accomplishments of any other nation in that line. All know the great and heroic epics of the Franklin, the Houston and all the other gallant ships of the line that have emerged a torn and shapeless hulk of metal after one of the enemy's last ditch attacks and have lived to Hght other famous battles. Superb damage control and the Grace of Cod saved them from a watery grave. The Navy, alone, realizes how vitally important good damage control is aboard ship in peacetime as well as wartime, for, in peacetime there is always the possibility of collision and a resultant loss of life. Consequently, the midshipmen of USNRMS, Fort Schuyler spent a good deal of their precious time learning the hows and whys of damage control. Besides learning the methods of compartmentation, tho various conditions that exist aboard ship and a million and one other things that govern the effective fighting and control of a warship, the actual planning and build- ing of the ship was learned from the keel out. Hand in hand with the damage control went the courses in engineering. This included the study and operation of all the types of Deisel engines that are in use by the Navy today. The courses in engineering fitted in nicely with the background that the majority of the midshipmen had built up from previous contact with engineer- ing courses in college. The staff of instructors of the Engineering and Damage Control Department consisted of a group of highly capable and efficient men who knew damage control down to the ubitter end , and had a way of passing it on so it stuck. Partly because of the excellent instruction and partly because of the background the middies had received in that type of work, Condition Treed was not too prevalent in this department. 38

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LIEUI. S.l'Al0N J. Plulf.LE, JR., USNR lnvtruclor 314 East Mann Street Belhaven North Carolina LIEUT. LEROY C. POOL, USNR Invtruclor Agra, Oklahoma LIEUT. WALTER B. STOVALL, JR., USNR lnwzruczor 1l01 Elm Avenue ' Sanford, Florida LIEUT. CARL R. WESSELI-IOFT, USNR I nstruclor 1816 St. Andrews Road Greensboro, North Carolina ff' Kr sl !.,.-G-,rs-N ml ,6f' -1 :-..-.- Lsxw-if -Sgnn gs:- XT. Y X Ni ix N 7 40