The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-11-02
Sank Centre Young Man
Whites of Uncle Sans Navy
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drinking, cooking, washing or feed
for the main boilers is made from
sea water by large evaporators
The ship has room for 10000 gal
Ions of fresh water in six different
tanks. Another interesting fact
about water is that at full power,
100000 pounds of it in the form of
steam pass through the main en-
gines every hour.
The fuel tanks Of the ship are
sufficiently large to carry 100000
gallons of oil. That is lot of oil
but we couldn't see the world in
the form of Frisco, Seattle, Hawaii
Panama and points on the East
Coast if we did not have it. If the
ship was steaming at eight or ten
knots and was prepared to jump
to high speed at a moments notice
she would steam on five boilers and
burne twelve to fourteen hundred
gallons of oil per hour.
That explains the need for fuel
capacity doesn't it? ..-...
It's almost chow time and I'm
hungry which brings to mo- Ice a
few things I found out from the
supply officer and the Commissary
Steward. ...,
During six months, and these are
exact figures, the crew of the Ari-
iona alone consumed 1904 pounds
of coffee, 244,983 pounds of Irish
potatoes; 712 gallons of tomato
oo&e,,. Ok dOd ,>n,,p5s of oDorof n
milk; 233 pounds of pepper; 5,733
pounds of sauerkraut; At ,48S pounds
OF sugar. (the answer to the old
question of what makes sailor so
sweet; 7,102 pounds of salt; 49,
1896 eggs, and 1888 pounds of
meat.
The average daily turnout for the
bakeship in bread alone is between
eight and nine hundred one and a
half pound loaveS and whatever
baking pies, cakes or other pastries
the steward may decide to feed us.
I could not get the figures on the
flour, baking powder and so forth
I forgot to get the first timeI was
up and the man said he wouldn't
break out the records again for the
Los Angeles Examiners edification
so we are out of luck on that score
Perhaps Carl Fischer will tell you
how many pounds of flour it would
take to bake 800 loaves at a pound
and half to the loaf.
Despite this seemingly enormous
amount of food consumer, it must
be remembered that we are fed at
a cost of only SO cents per man per
day. Pretty well done, is it not?
All baking is done in two double
ovens, electric with six shelves in
each, the cooking is done on six oil
burning ranges.
Ship service activities include the
laundry, and the ships service store,
including the soda fountain, the
barber shop, cobbler shop, pressing
shop, and the tailor shop, The pro-
fits are limited by regulations to
ten per cent, and they go to the
ships welfare fund, which is used
to purchase athletic equipment, to
give smokers and other entertain
ments for the crew, to decorate the
crews reception room and will
even assist a shipmate who is in
dire need of funos. a- ."'
The highest recorded days bust
ness at the ships service store was
$130 gross receipts. How many
merchants would like to be doing
that business today?
The laundry receipts go to cover
running expenses, the profits, if
any, go to the fund before mention
ed. The laundry is as wei. equipped
as any up to date laundry on the
earth and it is estimated it handles
over 10000 articles of clothing
weekly having only three or four
claims for lost articles per month
The charge for the use of the laun.
dry is go cents per month and one
sends clothes once a week. Consid.
ering the low cost of laundry, and
the fact that the ships canteen sold
1874 bars of toilet soap in one
month, it is easily seen that dirti'
ness of persons or clothing is the
top Of the sailors list of unpardon.
able sins.
The Marine Detachment of the
Arizona compriZes Sc enlisted men
and three officers, a captain and
two ieutenants. Their duties are
the standing of watches including
orderlies, brig sentry. life buoy
watch at sea, forming guard of the
day, full guard when rendering
haporc opd m q N ~ ;por civ .of tho 6uo
inch broadside guns. The work OF
the Marine Corps aboard ship is
done with the same thoroughness
that characterizes the operation of
the marine corps the world over.
The ships aviation unit is com
posed of seven officers (pilots) and
Is enlisted men (mechanics). We
have three planes of the latest
Vought Corsair design, and one ex-
perimental plane at the present
time. Each Of these planes is pow
cred by Pratt-Whitney Wasp
engine developing four hundred IF
ty horse power. The planes cruise
at 90 miles per hour and have a
top speed of about 40 miles per
hour. The ships are two seaters
equipped with radio and for fight
ing, two machine guns, one fixed in
the wing and the other on scarfe
mount on the after pit. The planes
are launched from the ship by
means of powder charged catapults.
one on the quarter deck and one
on the after high turret. The
powder charge used in these ma
chimes is approximately the same as
is used in five inch gun. The
first trip over a catapult is hard to
describe, it starts from a rest and
accelerates to a speed of 80 miles