Basalt Built U.S.S. Diver Cited
Telegram
This telegram addressed to the men and women of the Basalt shipyard from Admiral Cochrane, brings to mind a part of the speech made by Arthur J. Hepburn at the "E" award ceremonies, when he said: "Perhaps you may wish now and then that you were working on a more spectacular type of ship; something that got more often into the headlines." We, the men and women of Basalt that have been working on these vessels have always known that our ships were destined to perform an important duty in this war, but the wire brings home the fact; the ships we are building are doing their jobs where the guns are shooting, the bombs are dropping and where the going is toughest.


The keel of the U.S.S. Diver was laid in dock 3, April 6, 1942. The hull was launched December 19 of that same year, with Mrs. Fletcher Young , wife of commander Fletcher Young , attache of ASOS, San Fransisco, as sponsor. Departure from the Basalt outfit docks was made on October 14, 1943 , trial run was made two days later and the U.S.S. Diver became officially part of the U.S. Navy on October 23 , when she was commissioned and placed under the command of Lt. A. T. Terrio , U.S.N.

The passengers and crew aboard the U.S.S. Diver on the Navy trial run were:
Navy Personnel - Lt. A. T. Terrio , Lt. Floyd H. Mathews , Lt. T. P. Soslowski , Lt. J. F. Spang , Lt.-jg R. H. Burke , Bo'sn A. Askew , Mch. H. D. Hawks , Deck Force : Hoffman , Brockman , Tverstol , Oxford , Cramer , Burman , LeBlanc , Leitch , Reisinger , and Robertson. Engineer Force: James J. McKeever , Maddux , Lively , Grosvenor , Longstreet , Clemenson , Platt , Zieg-
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Some Of My Most Memorable Dives by James J. McKeever

US Navy Training School Salvage "Descending Line" Newsletter , Vol 2 No 19 , December 1944

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