The Flight Deck for August 2001, Issue 99
Greetings and welcome to sunny August! We'll be having a joint meeting
with Starbase 6 at Eagle Creek Park this Saturday August 25th. Those of
you wanting to walk should be there at the Marina at 10am. We'll be
eating at around noon. Bring chairs and pop and a covered dish. The
last I heard, they'll be collecting donations to pay for the meat. I'll
let you know if this proves to be incorrect. You might want to drop
Teresa Remaly (now the SB06 CO) a line at usseaglencc1719a@hotmail.com
if you want to advise your dish of choice.
If you missed our last meeting, you may not have heard but I am stepping
down as the Captain of the Halsey as of Jan. 1, 2002. With taking
classes, Michael and Alex going to school, and the uncertainty of my
work situation, I just don't have the time to devote to the ship.
Anyone who is interested in being Captain, please let me know asap. If
we don't have any takers, then I'm going to suggest transferring our
people over to the USS Adventure. I've already checked with Andy and
he's fine with that. You've been a great crew and I look forward to
being a part of the ship one way or the other.
I have been reminded that we sometimes go to the Renaissance Fair in
Ohio sometime in September. Please let me know if you're interested and
we'll set up a date. It's not too far of a drive and a great place to
have some fun! That's pretty much it for now. See you soon!
Mary
Beamdown Coordinates
When: Saturday, 25 August 2001; 10:00 am for Volksmarch at 71st Street
Entrance Noon for Picnic at Marina - enter through 56th Street Entrance
Where: Eagle Creek Park on the northwest side of Indianapolis, just
west of the 56th Street Exit on I-465 and the 71st Street Exit on I-65.
Happy Birthday and Anniversary
The following people are celebrating birthdays and/or anniversaries this
month:
Birthdays: ADM Roseann Packer and ADM Russell Simson
Anniversaries: ADM Russell and CAPT Maryann Simson
Calendar of Events
25 August 2001: Starbase 06 Picnic at Eagle Creek. The Volksmarchers
will meet at the 71st Street Gate at 10:00 for the 10K walk around the park.
All others converge on the Marina at noon. This is the annual Halsey Picnic
at Eagle Creek, but it has been expanded to include all Starbase 06 ships.
15 September 2001: Plane Washing Excursion at Grissom AFB, 10:00 am
20 October 2001: Halsey Bonfire/Hayride at Mark Milhous', 5:00 pm
23 - 25 November 2001: Indy Con
15 December 2001: Halsey Christmas Party at the Bischoffs.
The following was submitted by Janet Dailey:
Subject: USS Constitution
A way to increase re-enlistments?
The following is from the history of the oldest commissioned warship in
the world, the USS Constitution. It comes by way of the National Park
Service, as printed in "Oceanographic Ships, Fore and Aft", a
periodical from the oceanographer of the US Navy.
23 August 1779, The USS Constitution set sail from Boston, loaded with
475 officers and men, 48,600 gallons of water, 74,000 cannon shot,
11,500 pounds of blackpowder and 79,400 gallons of rum. Her mission: to
destroy and harass English shipping.
6 October, she made Jamaica, took on 826 pounds of flour and 68,300 gallons
of rum. Three weeks later, Constitution reached the Azores, where she
provisioned with 550 pounds of beef and 2,300 gallons of Portuguese wine.
On 18 November, she set sail for England where her crew captured and
scuttled 12 English merchant vessels and took aboard their rum. By this
time, Constitution had run out of shot. Nevertheless, she made her way
unarmed up the Firth of Clyde for a night raid. Here, her Marines and
landing party captured a whiskey distillery, transferred 13,000 gallons
aboard and headed for home port.
On 20 February 1780, the Constitution arrived in Boston with no cannonshot,
no food, no powder, no rum and no whiskey. She did, however, still carry
her crew of 475 officers and men and 18,600 gallons of water.
The math is quite enlightening: Length of cruise: 181 days Booze
consumption: 1.26 gallons per man per day (this does NOT include the
unknown quantify of rum captured from the 12 English merchant vessels
in November). Naval historians say that the reenlistment rate from this
cruise was 92%! Too bad they didn't make it to West PAC...Cubi special
would have put them at 100%.
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