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Poem for "Battle of Esperance"
Author Unknown Source: SLC Memorabilia Collection |
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On the eleventh of October in '42 The SALT LAKE CITY showed her colors true She rode the Pacific with a very small fleet She was out that night the Japs to beat. About twelve o'clock things were getting warm The Yanks got the Japs in a helluva storm They though they were smart and their troops would land But we sunk their cruisers and all of the cans. A brand new cruiser unknown to US Topped the horizon to join the fuss Up came the BOISE with her bow on fire But we screened her starboard it was our desire. We received two shells in our starboard side But for that mistake, several Japanese died. We exchanged shot for shot for quite awhile The crew on the Shitsie had gone plumb wild. The turrets threw salvos in 8 seconds flat We will always wonder what the Japs thought of that. The Shitsie ceased firing and then came the lull The crew said hell this is getting dull. If the Japs want to fight with a fighting crew They can always be found on the Shitsie Maru. |
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Ode to the "One Ship Fleet"
Author Unknown |
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This is the story of the ONE SHIP FLEET Which can take it as well as dish it out neat It was March 26th in '43 When this story was written for history The SALT LAKE and RICHMOND with a handful of cans Were patrolling the waters of distant lands We contacted the Japs in early morn And when we left they were most forlorn The fight was not equal, far from that The Japs had the advantage, but we went to bat They had two ships, for each one of us But we still had our guns, made for a fuss They opened at us, and we answered with ten A hit on one cruiser cost them some yen Then they maneuvered and tried to outflank Luck for us - the quality of our Rank Of course we were hit; that can't be denied But thanks to our Skipper only two of us died A beautiful job of handling the ship Is the thing that saved us for another trip The Cans did their job in excellent form And contributed their share to the total storm We were dead in the water; the result of a hit And those boys contributed more than a bit The destroyers screened us with lots of smoke And maneuvered like mad to stay in the yoke The climax was really the best sight seen A torpedo attack to save the QUEEN That stopped the Japs and gave us time While the engineers worked in all the grime They succeeded at last in getting steam And now Komandorski is a word from a dream Shortly after noon, when all was quiet The crew of the ship was still on a diet So food was prepared and served in style And eaten at stations which were manned quite awhile When the battle was over, and the score on the line We decided that Japs were by no means divine We had used up most all of our ammunition But it had been used to send Japs to perdition. |
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