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A TRIP ON THE "RENOWN"
On 9 August 1961 the following five Marines made a trip on the
purse seener "renown11 s Sergeant Major DGNC‘/AN? who is telling this3
Gunnery Sergeant SHEPPARD9 Private First Class Scerba, Private First
Class HANES and Private First Class FISH.
We enjoyed being the guests of Mr. Ben JONES3 the University of
Washington Biologist who is conducting the research of salmon in
the Aleutian waters. We surged out of the harbor at 0530 andhead
ed for Kagalaska straits. We left the placid waters of'luluk Bay
and entered the beauty of the ______
straits. lhe beauty and peace
fulness was soon forgoten as we
emerged on the south end of the
straits into the Pacific Ocean.
Ground swells were so tremendous
that a decision was made to turn
around and seek the haven of the
straits. Mr. JONES did not want
to jeapordise the loss of the
siene in the rough waters know
ing that the cost of one of the
nets is $18,000. Me returned to
Kuluk Bay and launched the ketch
so that we could troll for King
Salmon. The King Salmon eluded
our persistant efforts when we
made the deciaion to try ourluck
for Halibut. We fished for Hali
but for a period of four hours
and caught one thirty-fivepound
er. Luck wasn't with us, so the
Skipper of the ship decided togo
and visit his friends on the Mot
her crab ship "Deep Sea"3 whi ch
was anchored in Scabbard Bay and
processing crabs. The operation
of packing the crab meat in ten
pound packages3 after receiving
the crabs from the crab ships
was most interesting. One crab
ship trapped 3500 crabs in one
days operation. They have two
complete packing crews on the
"Deep Sea” and they work ten
hours on each shift. To get
back to the "Renown”$ the most
interesting thing about theship
is that the crew is composed of
all Norwegian and Swedish sea
men. The Captain is Mr. HANSEN
the engineer Mr. NIELSEN, the
deckhands are or have similar
names. The most important indi
vidual on the ship as far as the
Marines were concerned was the
ships cook, Mr. GUNNaR, In fact,
he was not referred to as acook
but as a chef. With our daily
travel over with, we proceeded
on in, requested permission from
the Port Director to come into
Adak, permission was granted, &
we docked at pier 5 at It 30 hrs
having enjoyed a very pleasant
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