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(6) Off Port Manvers, Labrador, to Ivigtut, Greenland, 



(c) Ivigtut, Greenland, to St. John's, Newfoundland. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Mention has been made previously of the excellent operation of the 

 mechanical equipment, the only major failures during the cruise 

 being the snapping of the crankshaft of the Cummings engine that 

 drove the 220-volt generator and the trouble with the electric salinom- 

 eter. This comparative freedom from difficulty was not due to the 

 inherent excellence of the equipment, but to the care and eflSciency 

 of the operating personnel. 



Too much praise can not be given the personnel for their work. 

 In the first place they were healthy. Not an hour's working time was 

 lost through sickness by anyone on board. Then there was never 

 any need for disciplinary action, either at sea or in port, from the time 

 of leaving St. John's until our return thereto. Every person on board 

 did his particular work well, and the ship was kept clean and in good 

 condition, often under unfavorable circumstances. 



While north of St. John's, Newfoundland, during the northern 

 oceanographic cruise the General Greene ran 4,260 sea miles and 

 expended 8,500 gallons of fuel oil Taking out the time spent stopped 

 at stations, the average speed was a little over 7 knots. The 

 rather high consumption of 2 gallons of fuel per mile was due in large 

 part to the foulness of the bottom and to about 28 tons of extra weight 

 that was carried on board. The ship was under way during 679 hours 

 out of the 855 hours that elapsed between leaving St. John's on July 4 

 and returning thereto on August 10. She was under way on every- 

 day of the above time except three. 



