(_c_) Aside from unavoidable casualties, the force is in good operating
condition. The systemization of supply and repairs developed and
maintained by the destroyer tenders _Melville_ and _Dixie_ effect the
readiness of destroyers for sea with commendable promptness and with a
view to the comfort of destroyer personnel during their short stays in
port.
[Sidenote: Destroyer tenders.]
[Sidenote: Gunnery and torpedo exercises.]
(_d_) Within the last few months means have been found to systematize
and supervise the training, particularly with regard to the carrying out
of gunnery and torpedo exercises, which, under the press of keeping the
sea, had somewhat lapsed in favor of the necessary development of escort
work and of depth-charge tactics.
(_e_) All of the activities at Queenstown--the torpedo repair and
overhaul station, the training barracks at Passage, the repair force
barracks at Ballybricken House, the general supply depot at Deepwater
Quay, the hospital and barracks at White Point, as well as the
activities afloat--were well underway and gave an impression of
purposefulness in "getting on with the war" in that particular corner of
the world.
[Sidenote: Enlisted Men's Club at Queenstown.]
(_f_) On account of the restricted facilities for liberty and
recreation, a special and most successful effort has been made to
furnish healthful and interesting diversion in Queenstown itself by
means of the Enlisted Men's Club, wholly of and for the men, which is
second to none in results obtained in promoting contentment.
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