Richard V. Bovbjerg

Steaming as Before

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Produktbeschreibung

Thrust into the position of captain by the necessity of war, Richard Bovbjerg, a young biologist, chronicles a fascinating look at the lives of men aboard a minesweeper, the YMS 353. Bovbjerg guides his crew from Miami, Florida through the South Pacific to the Philippines in the closing year of World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780761828501
• ISBN-10: 0761828508
• Artikelnr.: 21669150

Autorenporträt

Richard V. Bovbjerg, deceased, was a former Captain in the United States Navy.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 For Duty as "Commanding Officer": Orders to YMS 353- Shock
Norfolk to Jacksonville, Three Day Trip
What Led to These Orders?
Background- Enlisted and Commissioned
Arrival at Mayport, Florida
Was I Ready?
a Beach Apartment
Simple Ceremony at S Chapter 3 Breaking in a New Captain: Routine Sweeping and Anti-Sub Patrols
Phoney War on Atlantic Coast, Diminished Submarine Threat
ROTC Midshipmen Training Cruise: Ship-handling Intuitions
Docking at Night, a Seamanship Scam
Transfer of Tanker Passenger Chapter 4 The Tropical Cruise Ship: Departure, Charleston to Miami
Miami Beach Vulgarity
Seeing the Keys Offshore
Overnight to Havana, Cuba
Mad Pilot in Harbor
One Day Liberty in Town
Cab for the Day
Sight-Seeing and Cuban "Circus"
Distillery Mi Bohio Chapter 5 Course West, Speed Ten Knots: San Diego Landfall
Navy Yard
U.S. Wealth Compared to Latin Poverty
Nightclubbing
On the Way to Pearl Harbor
Fueling at Sea, a Test of Confidence
Impression of the Island and Navy Yard
Moana Hotel and Beach
Chasi Chapter 6 Steaming as Before, Life at Sea: Log Entries, Boring, Boring. Leaving Port, Good to be at Sea
Calm and Storm
Weariness
Biologist's Paradise
Day at Sea, Events Break the Day
Night Watch, Total Darkness
Keeping Station
Radar and Sonar
The Mor Chapter 7 Anchored as Before, Life in Port: Log Samples
Landfall, Docking or Mooring
So Good Getting to Port
Types of Ports, Navy Yards, Forward Bases, Invaded Ports
Nature of Tropical Ports
Forward Bases, Like Manus Island
Instant Base Construction, Se Chapter 8 Bullets, Beans and Washing Machines: Global Problems of Supply
The Washing Machine Heist- Piracy
Salt Water Stills- Bending the Rules
The Captain's Bike- Banditry
Apra Harbor, Guam: Scourging Lesson Number One
The Flour Beetle Mystery
The Triu Chapter 9 Neptunus Rex: Crossing the Equator: Boarded by a Pirate
Captain Last, Pummeled by the Whole Crew
Such Formal Horse Play Chapter 10 Unending Terror: Combat in the Philippines: From Manus to Leyte, Philippine Islands
Christmas 1944, No Ho Ho Ho
Leyte Resupply, First Air Raids
Log, 3, December 1944, Typical Day in Leyte Gulf, Log 2-3 January 1945, Underway to Luzon
The Kamikaz Chapter 11 Subic Bay Invasion: The Liberators: Invasion of San Antonio, Minor Event
Invasion of Subic Bay
Close to Shore, Fire Support to Sweeps
A Child's Welcome
Evidence of PT Boat Sinkings in 1942, None
Hasty Joining of Convoy Back to Leyte
"Well Done Chapter 12 Stone Age Friends: Ulithi Interlude: Damage to Shaft, Unable to go on Okinawa Invasion
Assigned to Island Patrol, Offshore
Assigned to Patrol Native Island, Fassauai
Introduction to King Ueg
Tour of Island
Shock of Primitive Culture, Nudity
La Chapter 13 For Those in Peril on the Sea: Typhoon: On Patrol at Island Entrance, Ulithi
Growth of the Storm to Typhoon
"Commanding Office ruse Own Discretion."
Decision to Try to Anchorage
First Crisis, Turning 180 Degrees
Second Crisis, Making the Narrow Chapter 14 The End, Almost: Ulithi Patrols in August, 1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Announcements
Hostilities End
New Assignment, Palau Islands, Minesweeping Chapter 15 Epilogue: Mindless Menace of Mines
Liberation of Palau: Port Director's Compliments
The Tough Passage Through Reef Flats
Visit to Island Commodore
Plans for 3 Day Exploration Prior to Sweeping
Geography of the Archipelago
Investigating Malakal Chapter 16 Geographic Index