With the Battle Fleet: Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908Matthews, Franklin
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With the Battle Fleet: Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908
Matthews, Franklin
United States. Navy. Atlantic Fleet -- Cruise, 1907-1909
4:30--Turn to, out smoking lamp, pipe sweepers, clear up deck.
4:50--Call music, masters-at-arms and boatswain's mates.
5:00--Reveillé, bugles and drum; call all sections except
midwatch sections.
5:15--Execute morning orders.
5:30--Trice up clothes lines.
At sunrise station masthead lookouts, take in deck lookouts and
put out running lights.
6:30--Break up and send below to be burned all boxes and
articles that will float.
6:40--Trice up six bell hammock cloths.
6:50--Up all hammocks, serve out water, hoist ashes.
7:00--Time and uniform signal; mess gear for sections below.
7:15--Breakfast for sections below, light smoking lamp; ditty
boxes allowed.
7:30--Mess gear for watch on deck.
7:40--Relieve wheel and lookouts.
7:45--On deck duty sections. Section on deck to breakfast.
8:15--Turn to, clean gun and deck bright work.
8:25--Sick call.
8:45--Report at mast.
8:50--Clear up decks; down towel lines and ditty boxes;
sweepers.
8:55--Officers' call.
9:00--Quarters for muster and inspection; setting up drill.
9:30--Drill call.
10:00--Relieve the wheel and lookouts.
Signal (1) absentees, (2) number of sick.
11:00--Hoist ashes.
11:30--Retreat from drill. Pipe down clothes, if dry; sweepers.
11:45--Mess gear for sections below.
Noon--Dinner; duty section remain on deck. Signal (1) coal on
hand, (2) coal expended, (3) latitude, (4) longitude.
P.M.--Mess gear for duty section.
Dinner duty section.
1:00--Turn to; out smoking lamp; down ditty boxes; sweepers;
pipe down clothes if dry, then aired bedding, if up; start work
about decks.
1:30--Serve out provisions.
2:00--Relieve wheel and lookouts.
3:00--Hoist ashes.
4:00--Relieve the watch.
4:30--Knock off all work. Clear up decks; sweepers; pipe down
clothes.
5:15--Mess gear for sections going on watch.
5:30--Supper for sections going on watch.
5:45--Mess gear for other sections.
5:55--Relieve wheel and lookouts.
6:00--Relieve section on duty. Other sections to supper.
At sunset--Set running lights; lay down masthead lookouts;
station deck lookouts; couple fire hose; muster life boats'
crews; coxswain report when crews are present and lifeboats
ready for lowering. Test night signal apparatus.
6:30--Turn to; sweepers; scrub clothes on forecastle (except
Sunday).
7:00--Hoist ashes. Clear deck for hammocks.
7:30--Hammocks.
8:00--Relieve watch, wheel and lookouts. Signal and searchlight
drill as ordered. Signal (1) latitude; (2) longitude.
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