He didn't know when she was commissioned. But every night men sneaked down and licked champagne off the bow. Some, he added, should have told him about the elevators. In one scene Ensign Hope relieved the Captain and ordered the ship underway. In a few minutes he asked how far they had traveled.
Hope is unperturbed.
He fell off his wallet. At the conclusion of the show the TV cameras turned seaward and Hope became serious. He told the audience that the water they were viewing was the Pacific Ocean, and to take a good look at it. Aircraft of the Lexington Air Group would have all black rudders as their identification. We will publish a full article on these identifiers in a future issue.