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From: Brad Morris
Date: 2012 Apr 20, 13:16 -0400
Chief Franklin
For the chronometers that had run down. After you reset them to GMT and wound them, was the rate affected? That is, you knew the rate before the incident and must have known the rate afterwards. Was it affected?
Best Regards
Brad Morris
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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