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This will not answer the question.Byron; Another sea story true, I was on the Outpost, radar picket ship
along side the pier Davisville RI. Early 60tys, I went home for a week’s leave.
I came back and checked the bridge, The 3 chronometers
(size 85 chronometers in a gimbals box that must be place near the center line
of the ship and not near electrical machinery.) had run down and some one
set them to local time (GMT+5.) I stopped them and reset to GMT
(not suppose to do that). I always heard this is a court marshal Offence,
I still don’t know that it is true, never read it in the books?
I was in charge of the bridge and navigation nothing came of it.
The duty Quartermaster is to wind them every day at 12:00,
and report that they are wound and compared to the CO.
or in port to the Officer of the day if the CO is not onboard.
A navigation Chronometer rate book is filled out with a time tic
when possible, and the comparison of one another for the average
daily rate, so that a future time without time tic can be corrected.
This was possible bad trouble, for in those days Loran A, was the only
Navigation other then Celestial and Loran was only a few hundred
miles out at sea, time was all-important.

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