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Title: History of the U. S. S. Leviathan, cruiser and transport forces, United States Atlantic fleet
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Leviathan (Steamsip)
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Publisher: (Brooklyn, Brooklyn eagle press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ring pressure to bear onthe Bureau of Navigation to send our personnel, both officersand enlisted men, as quickly as possible. The men and officersbegan to arrive and by August 15th the last officer of the com-plement had arrived. As each arrived he was put in chargeof a station and told to trace out his station, make a thoroughexamination of the interior of all piping and machinery andsubmit a report on repairs necessary and estimated time. Mostof my time during the day was spent below and the nights wereoccupied drawing up station bills and handling the officepaper work, my only assistant being a reserve yeoman in theservice of the Shipping Board. I realized that, even at theexpense of time that should be spent inspecting repair work, Imust get my organization planned and laid out as quickly aspossible, and in operation. By August 5th all station bills andorganization had been completed and blueprinted and all officerson board instructed. At this time, on account of report of1 145 )
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THE U. S. S. LEVIATHAN damage to machinery under repair on German ships by aliens,I organized a secret service force below in an effort to detectany attempts made to inflict damage. I purposely let the reportspread around among the civilian workmen that there was alarge force of government agents employed among them andalso in the crew. This seemed to have the desired moral effect,because during the entire period there was but one case ofattempted malicious damage, which was discovered imme-diately. An attempt had been made to thrust welding wire intoboth of the L. P. astern turbines through the gauge line holes inthe flanges and thus damage the blading. I will not go into details as to the condition of themachinery, but will indicate some of the work done and thechanges made in order to get her ready for sea in the quick-est possible time. Most of the changes in design and arrange-ment were made before her dock trial. Each piece of machinery and boiler was opened up in allits parts a

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