Engineer Port Repair ShipUnited States. War Department
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Engineer Port Repair Ship
United States. War Department
Repair ships -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
=n. Miscellaneous equipment.= Miscellaneous equipment includes:
Clamshell bucket, 3/4-cubic-yard.
Jacks, including a 50-ton hydraulic jack.
Cargo nets.
Demolition, rigging, and tinsmith equipment.
[Illustration: _Figure 38. Woodworking 32-inch band saw._]
11. SUPPLIES FOR PERFORMING MISSION.
The ship’s cargo capacity does not permit carrying large quantities of
supplies. Limited amounts of the most essential items are carried. They
are listed by types as follows:
=a. Machine-shop stock.= Supplies for the machine shop include 13-inch
bronze-alloy round bars of various diameters, 11-foot cold-rolled steel
bars of different sizes, square-and round-tool-steel bars, and 5-foot
lengths of keystock steel from 1/8 to 3/4 inches wide.
[Illustration: _Figure 39. Portable electric saw._]
[Illustration: _Figure 40. View of pipe shop showing supply of pipe in
racks._]
=b. Carpenter shop supplies.=
(1) Lumber for the carpenter shop is structural-grade fir in 16-foot
lengths and varying in size from 2-by 1-inch to 12-by 12-inch.
(2) There are 800 pounds of nails that range in size from 2d to 60d,
and a supply of wood screws.
=c. Pipe stock.= The pipe varies in size from 1/4 inch to 6 inches and
comes in 12-foot lengths. There is a supply of nipples, elbows, tees,
valves, and unions for the different sizes of pipe.
=d. Ammunition.= The ship’s magazines hold 32,400 rounds of 20-mm and
312 rounds of 3″/50 cal. ammunition.
[Illustration: _Figure 41. Diver in No. 1 diving dress ready to go
down._]
=e. Miscellaneous supplies.= Miscellaneous supplies include gasoline,
lubricating oils and greases, cement, canvas, roofing, chicken wire,
hardware, plugs, and structural steel.
SECTION IV
TRAINING OF SHIP’S CREW
12. INDIVIDUAL TRAINING.
=a. General.= Most of a port repair ship’s crew will have had training
and experience in civilian life to qualify them for the highly
specialized jobs they are assigned in this military unit. Before
receiving further technical instruction, all personnel are given basic
military training.
[Illustration: _Figure 42. View of interior of recompression chamber.
If divers must be brought up in a hurry they are rushed into this
chamber for decompression to prevent their getting the “bends.”_]
=b. Diving and salvage training.= The diving and salvage training is
given officers and enlisted men with particular emphasis on operations
performed in and around docks, quays, and other waterfront structures,
harbors, inland waterways. Diving and salvage operations are essential
to the rehabilitation of ports. The training should include the
following:
(1) Diving-team problems with timber and steel construction; underwater
concrete construction; underwater demolition of docks, piers, and
ships; and actual salvage operations.
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