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Official Deck Log, Thursday, 1 December 1960
NAVPERS-717 Deck Log Weather Observation Sheet
- 0000 Moored as before.
- 0400 Commenced preparations for getting underway.
- 0430 Lit off 1B, 2A, and 2B boilers.
- 0615 Set modified condition YOKE throughout the ship.
- 0640 Set the special sea detail.
- 0656 Completed all preparations for getting underway. Draft: Forward 16 feet, aft 18 feet.
- 0709 Underway in accordance with Builders Trial schedule. Manuevering to clear the anchorage. Captain at the Conn, Navigator on the bridge. Tug YTB 258 secured to the starboard bow.
- 0721 Cast off Tug. Steering various courses at various speeds while transiting Sinclair Inlet.
- 0749 Secured from the special sea detail.
- 0753 Passed Pt. Orchard light abeam to starboard, distance 450 yards.
- 0814 Set course 030° speed 10 knots.
- 0815 Commenced vibration survey, sonar self-noise, and underwater log calibration tests, increasing speed in 5 RPM increments while conducting tests.
- 0825 c/c 000°.
- 0840 c/c 358°.
- 0859 c/c 009°.
- 0914 Commenced drag shaft tests. All engines stopped.
- 0921 All engines back 2/3.
- 0923 All engines stopped.
- 0927 Drag shaft test completed, continued with vibration survey.
- 0937 c/c 355°.
- 0952 c/c 350°.
- 1007 c/c 320°.
- 1015 c/c 315°.
- 1029 c/c 348°.
- 1053 c/c 313°.
- 1104 c/c 288°.
- 1118 c/c 282°.
- 1137 c/c 285°.
- 1154 c/c 099°.
- 1217 Commenced modified full power trial.
- 1218 Low water casualty in 1B boiler, slowed starboard shaft to 250 RPM.
- 1221 c/c 088°.
- 1230 Low water casualty in 1B boiler corrected, starboard shaft brought to 300 RPM.
- 1237 Starboard shaft slowed to 250 RPM due to hot oil seal.
- 1240 Starboard shaft brought up to 300 RPM.
- 1248 Starboard shaft slowed to 250 RPM due to overheating oil seal.
- 1249 Secured from full power trial.
- 1251 c/s 30 kts.
- 1254 c/s 29 kts.
- 1255 c/c 105°.
- 1257 c/s 15 kts.
- 1311 Locked starboard shaft, making turns for 15 kts on port shaft.
- 1354 c/c 110°.
- 1356 c/c 115°.
- 1358 c/c 120°.
- 1406 c.s 15.5 kts.
- 1417 c/c 157°.
- 1431 c/c 165°.
- 1447 c/s 16.5 kts.
- 1450 c/s 17.5 kts.
- 1503 c/s 22.5 kts.
- 1508 c/c 159°.
- 1517 c/c 165°.
- 1518 c/c 159°.
- 1521 c/c 157°.
- 1531 c/c 184°.
- 1551 c/c 180°.
- 1600 Set the special sea detail. Captain at the Conn, Navigator on the bridge.
- 1606 c/c to 212°T.
- 1607 Passed Restoration Point Buoy 600 yards to starboard.
- 1610 c/c 254°T. Steering various courses at various speeds conforming to Rich Passage and Sinclair Inlet.
- 1616 Passed Pt. Orchard Light 400 yards to port.
- 1644 YTD 512 came alongside port quarter. Pilot W.C. BEACHUM came aboard and took the Conn.
- 1654 YTL 589 secured to port bow.
- 1657 Tugs commenced manuevering ship alongside pier.
- 1720 Moored starboard side to pier 5, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, with standard mooring lines and two wires. Ships present include USS YORKTOWN (CVS-10) and various units of U.S. Pacific Fleet, Yard and District craft.
- 1733 YTL 589 cast off. Secured from sea detail. Set inport watch.
- 1734 YTB cast off.
