The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 23, 1953, Page 10

Welding Patch Back Into Pressure Hull 1 Pace 19 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN "Navy Ships’ Department Shows It Really Can Live Up To Motto, “Doing The Difficult” “Doing the difficult” is the te of the Key West Naval St Ships Department, who had jopportunity recently to put motte to work. Working on the pressure hull of ja submarine is critical business jespecially te the crew of the boat jconcerned whose lives depend w jon hu!l standing up under de |Pressures. As a consequence, \Navy’s Bureau of Ships mainta ja tight control over any submarine |welding and authorizes only a few jnaval activities to weld on subma-| rine hulls, So when the USS Medregal | {SS 480), operating out of Key West, Florida needed main en- gine repair work, there was a Problem of getting it done. The Ships Department of the Key West Naval Station had never | been authorized to work on a | subma ‘s pressure hull, and this was the only way to make the necessary repairs on the Med- regal main engines. The repair officer for Submarine Squadron Twelve asked Comman- der S. H. Pierce, Head of the Na val Station Ships Department if he thought the hull work could be done in Key West. Although a re- Pair of this nature had never been done in Key West before, Com- mander Pierce assured them on it could be done. Then came the problem of aise! Posen Puppy the Bureau of Ships. The welders | assigned to the Medregal project| | CARLSBAD, N. M. (®—Bolstered junderwent a strict welding exam- | |by a multitude of suggestions, Fire\imation established by BuShips.| |Chief Ira Stockwell today took his|SPecifications detailing the rigour-| lturn at trying to rescue a 2-month- jous BuShips requirements had to ‘old pup from the bottom of a dry|be prepared and issued as instru | water well, tions to the shops involved, Final-| | Ideas by the dozen were offeredjly, convinced that the Naval Sta- |by newspaper readers and radiojtion had taken every precaution } listeners, and would stick to its rigorous It all began nine days ago when|standards, BuShips gave their} |5-year-old Teresa Curtis pushed/okay, and work began. | two pups into a hole in her back! i yard. It’s about 10 inches wide at| ot Cleaning 3 W. old ine For Home or Commercial Use... We Are Prepared To Furnish You With Clean, Pure Cube »» Crushed ICE Thompson Enterprises, Inc. (Icé Division) Key West, Florida THOMAS J. CRUTCHFIELD, shipfitter, left, rel axes while Charles Hockenberry (center), and Peter Peronne welders, make necessary repairs marine stationed here.—Official U.S. Navy Photo. eerie Otters on the pressure hull of the USS Medregal, sub- Dial 2-6831 ’ S Key West's Finest and Oldest Men's Store Kantor Brings You BIBB G. JOHNSON, shipfitter, cleans the area which has been welded so that an Xray picture can be made of every inch of the welding.—Official U.S. Navy Photo, Man To Be Freed jray pictures were inch of the welding. On the sur aken of every “FITALL”’ Place your confidence in this Rotts “Fitall” travel case . . . roomy ia terior with oiled silk lining... cle lapses to height of contents for the barest minimum of space. For your convenience the automatic spring top snaps open and stays open untif you shut it. With zipper or snap closing, in a wide range of colors, for men and women, ithe top and 38 feet deep. | Her cousins, Dan Hardin, 15, and) |Poe Hardin, 12, rescued one of| the pups. They lowered a burlap sack and the pup walked into it. But the other little mongrel shied | off. | The Hardin boys have been keep- ing the trapped pup alive by low- ering bowls of milk and cereal. Yesterday a couple of Boy Scouts | tried unsuccessfully to drop a rope} loop over the pup and haul him to | safety. | | New Mexico newspaper and wire| |service offices were beseiged with! | suggestions for rescue. One of the hull is ticklish work. W. which is considered a hazard in most welding jobs, is not permitted in subm. Once the burning of the 40 square foot hole began, careful measure- ment of the Medregal’s contour was made. These measurements were after the 40 foot Patch was removed and while it was being re-welded. The least deviation meant that the work would have to be done all over again. Once the welding began, it had to continue through to completion ace every thing look perfect good, but inclusion of minute quantities cracks wot over again. perfect pote Superi credit to the D Bernard Fr The final made fa off Key We and now Ships Depar' next ‘‘difficult” their way test of the work was deep in the waters It w a success, Station y for the job that may come OKLAHOMA CITY W — Public Defender Homer Thompson moved today to free “the forgotten man” a/from county jail before Christmas| Day. k Thompson, going from cell to cell yesterday to see whether any prisoner needed legal aid, came cross Douglas Martin, 44, who id he had been there for 68 days. Committed for failure to pay $50 court costs in a dismissed child support case, he apparently had been forgotten. 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