For recreation the men played cards,ericb&ge* w lttsk% Bingo* World Series 
Baseball Pools and innbathing besides fishing# Many paperbacKo were well worn 
from constant trading# A rigid system of badding dovm shortly bitor 2200 was ^ 
rigidly enforced by the First Lieutenant* There was general compliance acc empaled 
by great grumbling • 
The ballast tankJ in Mumber One Hole flooded once f v nt^ damage was controlled 
effectively' by combined SHAL 1 and Sltip’s Company personnel. 
One day wo raised a dead whale of monstrous proportions*osirg devoured by man,} 
sharks (twenty three were counted fre/n the bridge) and tne whale acted as a plat¬ 
form for a host of sea birds# These were eyed avrdly*but shoot inr ohem would have 
been useless— 3 harks would have collected then before we could reach them# Never¬ 
theless we made three passes at the rtr-le it broke the monotony 01 the *&y. 
About the thir# dav cut a garbled r^c?tocr&r» o rdered ns to transfer the man with 
the broken hand back to Triple r# There c;ro four people with broken hands# Finally 
clarification resulted in DC Martin bu-n* vaouiiV^ at Johnston island lor Partner 
transfer to Tripler# 
The men'? a re about Chief Toone:/ ;;aadcn«d all nf us <?ud -a; ?ed speculation about 
who would replace himj the gaueral concensus in that 'SCL CAi'-K is tne nost suxtaol# 
candidate• 
vjhile at sea several lots of accumulated trarh was conveniently removed iron tne 
ship, especially a. bucket of old steel slugs doth -re used on uhe tantail to 
discourage any V ird which showed a propensity to fly for* arc; toward the bow and 
become a target for the ornithologists. This was dona only after we started back to 
Pearl Harbor on leaving the Grid. 
The uniform at sea was usually shorts,under3hirts and ssoris,with Clubby ©iris, 
Ooke,Thornhill and Griffin remaining non-conformists. While Walsh was busy teaching 
all hands the intricacies of acey-deuoey, Feldman was busy cutting off and hemming 
trousers legs. 
In general the Meteorological Department was too busy furnishing "good weather" 
to get with the sports program. 
Finally, at 1500 with Mr.Tait on the Con, we raised Papa Hotel and started more 
or less reluctantly back to dirt,heat#noise, calamity,confrontation and confusion. 
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