US Navy Journal containing watch & navigational notes kept by Andrew E.Stanley as a deck officer on the Uss Chestnut Hill on a cruise from New London Conn. to Bermuda and the Azores and return to Key West Florida from Sept26 to Nov 22 1918

From collection Islesford Historical Society Collection

US Navy Journal containing watch & navigational notes kept by Andrew E.Stanley as a deck officer on the Uss Chestnut Hill on a cruise from New London Conn. to Bermuda and the Azores and return to Key West Florida from Sept26 to Nov 22 1918

USS Chestnut Hill appears to have been an oiler caring a cargo of gasoline and diesel oil which it pumped from time to time into the fuel tanks of USNavy vessels It sailed-often a zig zag course, in "convoy consisting of SC's... also tug Uss Conestoga."

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