SUBASE Submarines and Crews to Ring in New Year in Traditional Manner December 31, 2014 at 7:48am GROTON, Conn. - The submarines and crews enjoying New Years Eve in port at Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASE), will add their contributions to a long standing Navy tradition when 2015 is rung in. As the clock turns midnight on Jan. 1, the quartermasters along with duty officers on the bridges of Navy ships and submarines around the world will enter their first deck log entry on the New Year in verse. Navy tradition dictates that the first log entry can be a rhyming poem as long as it contains all information required by Naval Regulations and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Instructions. Below, please enjoy a sample from the Ships Log, USS REQUIN (SS-481), Submarine Squadron Six, Mid Watch; January 1, 1961. Have a happy and safe New Year!!! --- 0000-0430 NOW LISTEN MY MATEYS AND YOU SHALL HEAR, OF THE GOOD SHIP REQUIN AND HER CREW OF GOOD CHEER, MOODED STARBOARD SIDE TO, ALL SNUG IN THE NEST, OF THREE SUBMARINES IN A STRAIGHT LINE ABREAST. HER LINES ARE DOUBLED, SHES INBOARD TOO, AT BERTH TWO TWENTY THREE, PIER TWENTY TWO. WEATHER HAS CHANGED, WIND IS NOW QUITE A BLAST, CLOUD COVERAGE HAS CHANGED TO COMPLETE OVERCAST. COM SECOND FLEET ON THE CAC* ONE, THAT BY THE WAY BEING THE NORTHHAMPTON, WHOS ONLY ONE OF A FEW LEFT IN HER CLASS, IS SOPA* HOW AS HAS BEEN IN THE PAST. DUTY SECTION, POOR SOULS, ARE ALL STANDING BY, TO WELCOME THE NEW YEAR WITH A MAGNIFICENT TRY, OF SOUNDING THE SHIPS WHISTLE AT TWENTY FOUR HUNDRED, WITH A FORCE THAT WILL CARRY AS WHEN THOR THUNDERED. ITS AN OLD FLEET CUSTOM WHEN A NEW YEAR IS BORN, TO WELCOME IT LOUDLY WITH EVERY AVAILABLE HORN. THE TIME HAS ARRIVED; THE RACKET HAS STARTED, AND MANY AN EARDRUM SHALL SOON BE PARTED. ITS NOW TWENTY FOUR HUNDRED, PLUS FIVE, AND THE FLEET THAT MOMENTS AGO WAS ALIVE, HAS DIED AND RETURNED TO ITS WELL EARNED SLEEP, AND LEFT THE WATCH FOR THE MID TO KEEP. HERES TO ALL YOU FINE PEOPLE OUT SOAKING UP CHEER. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN WITH US. IT WAS A HELL OF A NEW YEAR. CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN WHERE CREDIT IS DUE, THE FOREGOING WAS COMPOSED BY JUST WE TWO, THE QUARTERDECK WATCH AND THET *CDO, SEAMAN ARMSTRONG AND LT SCHILLING, WHO ARE HEADING BELOW......... [*CAC-ONE: GUIDED MISSILE CRUISER *SOPA: SENIOR OFFICER PRESENT AFLOAT *CDO: COMMAND DUTY OFFICER] Enjoy Bubble heads, have a safe New Years Eve, to those at sea and on shore.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:08:24 +0000
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