Echo Division
Interior communications |
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Electrician's Mate |
Echo Division has two distinctly separate parts: the Interior Communications and Electrician's Mate ratings. Their jobs are entirely different, though basically related.
HELENA produces enough electricity to keep a city of 70,000 well supplied. The EM's supervise and actually supply this huge amount of power. They work with the main generators, electric motors, searchlights, and the general power systems.
The IC men keep up the gyro compasses, sound-powered phones, ship's service phones, movie equipment, as well as the IC alarm circuits. Without their proficiency, the ship's efficiency would be greatly hampered.
Winding an armature
From the 1954 Helena cruise book |
From the 1959 - 1960 Helena cruise book
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ECHO DIVISION . . . . .efficiently providing us with the basis
of virtually all happenings in our everyday lives . . . electricity
From the 1959 - 1960 Helena cruise book |
From the 1958 - 1959 Helena cruise book |