The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-26
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BREME ERTON, Wash, Puget Sound Navy Yard, Oct. 26.-Tomor- row is Navy Day, to be celebrated wherever there is any part of the U. s. Navy located.
 This section has prepared Pro- gram for Navy Day" which follows taken up chronologically with a brief explanation given:
 800 a.m.-Colors All ships Full dress ship"
 The national ensign is hoisted at 500 o'clock on all Naval vessels and Naval shore establishments. The band plays Star Splangled Banner during the hoisting of colors. On this day and on national holidays, all ships "Full-dress." This means that signal flags are hoisted on dressing lines" running from the bow of the ship up over the foremast, to the mainmast and down to the stern of the ship. The colors and dressing lines are haul ed down at sunset.
 $40 am-Deep sea diver from U. s. S. Pennsylvania performs near shore end of Pier No. 5.
 This is an exhibition of how a diver on board ship operates in deep water He will have the com plete divers outfit, including hel- met and heavy lead shoes, and will be supplied with air by an air pump.
 10:00 am--Band concert at head of Drydock No. l by massed band of U. s. s. Pennsylvania, U. s. S. Tennessee, U. s. S. Lexington.
 The massed band will give a con- cert for one hour, playing popular airs and Navy tunes.
 11:15 am. Judging of baked beans and corn bread competition, Building 91. The bakers and cooks from all ships and stations have entries in this contest. Prizes do- mated by Craven Recreation Gen. ter A committee of five ladies from Bremerton are going to be the judges in this contest, and are going to award the prizes. After the contest visitors will be allowed to sample the products of these cooks and bakers.
 12:00 noon-U. s. S. Lexington enters Dry Dock No. g.
 Our large Naval vessels have to be docked about every six months, in order to prevent corrosion of their bottoms and also to scrape the barnacles etc, off the bottoms, which materially reduces their speed and thereby causes a greater expenditure of fuel in covering a certain distance. In order to let the Navy Day crowd of visitors see how such vessel is docked, the docking of the Lexington was de- layed until this day. The Lexing- ton is undergoing it's regular three months overhaul at the Navy Yard. During the docking of this ship an officer will broadcast from a sound truck the technical details of the docking as each step is accomplish ed. This particular dock was length ened few years ago to especially accommodate the Lexington and Saratoga, our longest Naval ves- cnlc E'uof1 mI, I,a ton rests on the keel blocks, the up- per part of it's bow projects ten feet over the end of the dock, so that person standing there can almost touch it. In brief, the docking of a vessel consists of first flooding the dock by opening valves from the outside seawater When the water in the dock reaches the level of the outside water, then the caisson (or gate) to the dock is swung open and the vessel is very carefully and slowly hauled into the dock. It is accurately centered longitudinally over the keel blocks and secured in this position by heavy lines The gate" is closed and powerful pumps begin to pump the water out of the dock and the ship settles slowly or the keel blocks. The ships crew swarm over the side on stages and as the water is lowered in the dock they scarpe the barnacles and sea weed off the bottom. To keep the vessel upright when the water is pumped out spur shores" are rig ged on either side, which act as props.
 200 p.m.-Breeches buoy drill by U. s. Coast Guard
 This brooches buoy drill will be given by the life saving service oi the Coast Guard. The crews are coming from various life saving sta tions along the Washington and Oregon Coast. They will actually shoot line from one pier across water to a battleship at another pier and their lines will be riggec for operating a brooches buoy Mer will be actually transported from the ship across the water to the dock.
 300 p.m.-Air show by planes from Naval Air Station, Seattle and from U. s. s. Lexington. 300 p.m.-Massed band concerl at head of drydock No. l.