Welcome to the Canteen, Western Phil. Thanks for the links. Very interesting reading.
Did the noise from the well drive you crazy, or did you get used to it?
I am wondering if the well was there when we took our trip as the fellow’s description of things does not ring a bell at all. We left port in Bayonne, New Jersey on LBJ’s inauguration day which would have been Jan. 20, 1965. As I recall, I got sort of sea sick as we crossed the calm waters of the bay, before we really got out to the ocean. A few days later during a storm, we lost power and since the Mizar had a round bottom (being an ice breaker) we rolled quite a bit. The technical people spent that time in our bunks. My boss, who prided himself on not getting sea sick, did so during this time. Strangely, I was not so affected. Probably due to the problem in the calm waters.
On a slightly different subject, the National Archives unfortunately destroyed a goodly percentage of NRL’s historicl records http://www.aip.org/history/newsletter/spr98/nrl-nara.htm