Tuesday, June 15, 1915

Couldn't sleep in this morning. But I didn't do much work either. Everybody on the bridge was happy - we were thru with the signal detail at 8 A.M. - and were thankful for it. Spent an hour and a half fixing up the dotter gear. As soon as we would get one sight trued up, somebody would bang into the bar and 'jim' everything again. We finally got things fixed and ran off a good string - four hulls out of six, and two misses close. In seamanship we had to sketch the deck plans of the ship. The Lieut, Turner gave us the whole afternoon to do it in - I finished it in an hour. Fruit. Had another storm this afternoon. Our division was called out to house the quarterdeck awning - but before we had gone far, some far seeing officer looked a couple of miles thru the sheet of rain and saw where it ended - so we went in again. It didn't last long and wasn't nearly as interesting as the last one. Was corporal of the guard from 10-12 tonight.