This is an actual copy that my shipmate, Richard Gutierrez, made of my Ship's log entry for the Mid-watch on the U.S.S. Mispillion, AO-105 on 12/31/1966. I had been told that the duty watch was required to make all entries in poetic form (jokingly) and I took it to task to do so. Here is that log that I had thought went down with the ship long, long ago.

This New Year's Eve I made the scene;
San Pedro, dude, that's what I mean!
Now I mean to say we're at dead screw
with auxiliaries steamin' to supply the crew
with steam and juice to keep 'em hot,
and dad that's comin' from #1 pot.

And would you believe this babies blown
by #1 blower, like "ice cream cone"!
Now there's two neat jobs, dynamos to me,
that are known as #1 and 3 T.G.'s.
Number 3 gives the juice while 1's runnin' loose,
and they've both got "A" plants that are big as a moose.

And our exhaust is divided, or should I say split?
If you're like the rest, you don't give a _ _ _ _!
Now the dudes run hot from the steam from the pot
and they're kept cool (believe it or not),
by auxiliary air pumps, 1 and 3, I must say,
while #1 Fuel Oil pump delivers the hay.

The hay to the eater's warmed by #1 heater,
Fuel Oil that is, not to be a repeater.
Now we can't do much business without feed pump 1.
She gives us the water for the job to be done.
And, speaking of water, we lose some you see,
so, #2 Evaporator makes feed from the sea.

Make up feed is the name of this newly made water,
and from B-907-W we take what we ought'er.
We also have drains, and to save them we use
#1 Atmos Drain Pump, now ain't that the "goose"!?
And would you believe, they done blew their cool,
for they pack L.P. air with Comp. #2!

But that ain't enough man! They got still a nudder!
Number 1 Bailey (that name makes me shudder).
You ain't heard nuthin', I impress you to las',
A #2 "Fire" Pump.Now, ain't that a gas?
You heard me say fuel oil, you wonder the source?
A-24-F and 2/3 standby, of course.

And you knew all along that our food we preserve
with a Refer, #1, keep cool while you "serve"!
Now with all this cool jazz, some stuff it don't work.
And, like, "Out of Commission" it's called by some jerk.
Among these you'll find packin' air just don't get it,
'cause #2 Bailey's crapped out, like "forget it"!

And to further my statement, these people are dingy.
#1 H.P. air packer done went "oop's" by jingly!
We've 2 broken jobber-do's, now this is a clinch.
They gave them the names 60 and 80 Winch.
A piece of equipment that runs like a weasel,
has done "crapped out". It's # 3 diesel.

We've got a new guy, service number 02-38-2.
His name is Exhaust Vent, now I'm tellin you;
you can't beat those people for inventin' names!
Cause # 4 Auxiliary Circ pump has some lagging vanes.
But it don't work, and I do tell you true.
They got all of this just to turn a dumb screw!

23:45- I walk in this room, my watch to assume.

01:05- As the Fire room witnessed, 909's runnin' over,
so distilling to 902 we done shifted over.

02:30- I can't think of words to say this much plainer;
on #1 and 3 T.G.'s, I shifted strainers.

03:45- Some cool dude just walked in with a face
that looked like "torn" as a dress made of lace!
And his hair was so thin I couldn't believe
that he had come down for me to relieve.
But, he didn't waste time for me to convince,
I made it , man, this cat's name was Counts, Prince!
So, I said back at him as I commenced flight;
"Happy New Year", dude, and a groovy good night!
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Thanks to David "Fletch" Fletcher for sending us this item.