Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989 Page: 10
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Turner:
Marcello:
Turner:Marcello:
Depression background, Navy food looked pretty good.
It sure did. It tasted good. Even in the boot camp
training, the food was good. But the Dobbin, I guess,
had the best food that I ever ate anywhere. But, still
again, being an old country boy, like you say, and not
used to it, it all tasted good to me. I went from 150
pounds 175 pounds in about five months (laughter).
Those tenders have always fascinated me. Consequently,
what I want you to do is just to point out some of the
various kinds of skills and crafts that one would find
aboard a destroyer tender such as the Dobbin.
They were a ship of about 7,000 to 8,000 tons, about 600
feet long, forty feet wide; and it had a crew of around
600 or 700. They had machine shops, woodshops, welding
shops, molding shops that could take various metals. A
patternmaker would make the pattern and turn it over to
the molders, and they would cast fittings or pieces of
material or equipment. Then the machine shops could
machine it. It had the radio shop, torpedo shop--
torpedomen took care of the torpedoes--radio shop, an
engine shop which took care of the small engine stuffand the motor launches and the liberty boats they used
for that sort of stuff. It had all kinds of trades
aboard--quartermaster, boatswain's mates.
In other words, even though this was not what one would
classify as a warship, the loss of one of those ships10
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Turner, Joseph C. Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989, book, September 19, 1989; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2137897/m1/12/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.