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and trouble. I muld not have gotten a finer Eian to skipper this outfit had 
I bad anything to do with it in the first plao© — a olasKaate of Callaghan’s 
and Poster’s. A nice group of offioers, aostly younger sen. Mid is the 
^al^ar^ orowdedT Halpb H« ^pnest^ who is to do sosse land surveying^ is ny 
rocrasmt® in the pilot house, where we sleep on oots wiiich w© fold up during 
the day. Our clothes are draped over the speaking tubes and instnments. 
We each have two shallow cupboard shelves and a wooden box for our surplus 
gear. Wish I iiad ited time to bring along the usual oolleoting outfit I 
oarry. I oould have done soe® nio© oolleeti'ng* We are a sutmarin© salvage 
craft (a converted mine sweeper) and wo Imvs no md of hoists, diving 0 <|uip- 
ment, and oable with tAioh I might have dredged, there are two captains 
aboard, Capt. (Freddy) Laing, who went to the Acad, with Brady’s (snake boy of 
Wash, and Susem now in "Umf York) brotheri Laing is Captain of MJ^rd, 
Pioksns is Capt* of whole eagjediti on, ^iich includes six subs. One of tlie 
olfioers has a citation for helping with the Squalus rescue. I hope to get a 
full list of naiaes soon* Eats are good (and a reasonable !J®ss share), 
our heptuae party today 1-3 p.ia, for about 39 men, a very lively, 
well dressed party. Efevy dones had an adrairal’s coat made of a blue shirt 
out to swallowtail behind and an edging of yellow tape clipped on to shirt 
collar edges with paper ollpsi A very ©ffeotiv© get—up, all were barefoot. 
You should Ijavs s@^ the royal d^tist’s drill •^several lengths of brooiwtieks 
or mop handles fastened together with sorew-eyes so ti®t tl® •ir f'g% rig had 
sort of universal Joint conMOtionsj had a strii^ to counter weight so attached 
that when he wasn’t using it, it would life up out of the way. Stoder a 
olo^ Hpp at the end opposite tlie business end he had an electric drill wn- 
oealed which he turned on wh^ h© started to sliov© the other 
end around in the 
viatim’s Esouth, The wiiirring noise it md© gave a realistic souead to the rig 
