Yosemite (AD 19) - Naval Cruise Book

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STRAITS OF MESSINA THE PASSAGE FROM THE TYRQHEN AN SEA 'O THE ON ANI SEA HAS BEENI 'HE B TH- PLACE OF MANY LEGENDS, ANID HAS CREATED SPECIAL PQOBLEMS FOR SAI-ORS FOR CENTURIES. IN HOMER'S ILLIAD AND ODYSSEY, ODYSSEUS, ON HIS JOURNEY FROM THE TROJAN WAR IN 'I2OO B.C. HAD TO PASS WITH HIS SHIP THROUGH THE STRAITS OF MESSINA, WHICH MEANT ALMOST CERTAIN DESTRUCTIONI ON THE SICILIAN SIDE WAS THE GREAT WHIRLPOOL CHARYBDIS, WAITING TO SWALLOW ANY SHIP THAT VENTURED TOO CLOSE, AND ON THE ITALIAN SIDE LIVED SCYLLA, A FEMALE SEA MONSTER WITH SIX HEADS, WHO LOVED TO HAVE SAILORS FOR DINNER . . . LITERALLY. ALL HANDS WATCHED AS THE YOSEMITE APPROACHED, WONDERING IF WE WOULD BE ABLE TO TRANSVERSE THIS PASSAGE UNSCATHEDI WHAT WE ENCOUNTERED WAS QJITE DIFFERENT THAN THAT OF ODYSSEUS AND HIS CREW. WE SAW PICTURESQUE TOWNS LINING THE COAST, AND THE MOUNTAINS OF SICILY WITH THE VOLCANO MT. ETNA LOOMING INTO THE CLOUDS. MANY FISHERMEN WAVED IN GREETING AS WE SAILED ON OUR WAY. MAYBE ON OUR NEXT PASSAGE WE WILL GET SOME PICTURES OF SCYLLA AND NOT HAVE TO STAY FOR LUNCH.

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FUEL-AT-SEA HISTORY IN THE MAKING IN ORDER TO OPERATE AT SEA 'FOR PROLONGED PERIODS, A FLEET UNIT RECEIVES LOGISTIC SUPPORT BY MEANS OF AN UNDERWAY REPLENISHMENT CUNREPD. AN UNREP IS A SAFE TRANSFER OF FUEL OR SOLID CARGO FROM ONE UNIT TO ANOTHER UNIT WHILE UNDERWAY, STEAMING AT 'I2 KNOTS WITH ONLY ILIO TO 460 FEET SHIP SEPA- RATION. THE YOSEMITE'S SUCCESSFUL REFUELING OPERATION FROM THE USS MONOGAHELA AO-'I78 WAS THE FIRST UNREP SINCE 4976. MANY HOURS OF PREPARATION WERE PUT IN BY THE RIG TEAM, LED BY BMCS G. W. PARTLOW, ENGINEERING RESTRICTED MANEUVERING TEAM LED BY BTC M. S. ANDERSEN, TANK SOUNDING TEAM LED BY LT T. H. MCCASKILL, THE SHIP'S COMMAND AND CONTROL TEAM LED BY LCDR G. D. SITTON, AND THE YOSEMITE'S TWO MASTER HELMSMEN, QM2 W. T. MITCHELL AND SN D. L. MATHIS. THE SHIP'S COUNTRY AND WESTERN BAND LED BY BTC DANNY GRAVES, SET UP ON THE FLIGHT DECK AND ENTERTAINED BOTH SHIPS DURING THE ENTIRE EVOLUTION. ALL CONTRIBUTED TO THE TEAM EFFORT DEMONSTRATED EVERY DAY BY THE BUSY LADY'S CREW AND TO THE SUCCESSFUL CULMINATION OF THIS MOST ARDUOUS OF SEAMANSHIP EVOLUTIONS.