Tuesday, June 29, 1915

I had to turn out at 5 this morning, but it was not my morning to scrub. We got beat at signal drill they the BU, after which I went to quarters and gun drill where I took a 3" breech apart and assembled it again. After that I returned to the bridge until 12:30. I was off all afternoon. Turner told us he didn't want to see a sign of us - and he didn't. He surely is a lazy man and a prince to us. Preparations are being made to coal tomorrow. The chutes are in place, bags and shovels piled on deck and the life lines taken down in the vicinity of the coaling booms. I was on watch from 8 - 10 tonight - sent the blinker message to the BO. The word was passed that reveille would be at 4:30, coffee at 4:45 and 'turn to' at 4:55.