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Total Run This Leg:
710.3
Nautical Miles
Total Average Speed: 4.32 Knots
Hours / Days This Leg: 164.3 Hours / 6.84 Days
Distance To Go This Leg: 1,386.2 Nautical Miles
Estimated Time Of Arrival: 3:00 p.m., Saturday, November 6, Cape Henlopen
Sea Buoy, at the mouth of the Delaware River.
Present Course: 318 Degrees
Winds: Northeast at 25 Knots
Seas & Swells: Combined at 10 Feet
Barometric Pressure: 1016 Millibars
Air Temperature: 82 Degrees
Sea Temperature: 81 Degrees
Visibility: 10 Miles
Skies: Cloudy
Sea Floor: Ocean depths beneath the USS New Jersey at this point are
3,116 Meters, or 10,222 Feet.
Panama Canal Transit:
October 16 -
21 / Balboa Pier 14 - 15, Miraflores and Pedro Miguel Locks, the Gaillard Cut, Gamboa,
Lake Gatun, and the Gatun Locks, and Cristobal. USS New Jersey's clearance into the
Caribbean Sea / Atlantic Ocean was completed at 11:34 a.m., and her mark for the
commencement of the Cristobal, Panama - Philadelphia, PA Third Leg was passed at 11:42
a.m., Thursday, October 21.
Distance Of Second Leg:
September 21 -
October 15 / Long Beach, CA to Balboa Anchorage, Panama: 2,948.7 Nautical Miles, the
longest leg of New Jersey's homecoming voyage.
Total Average Speed Second Leg: 5.18 Knots
Distance Of First Leg: September 12 - 21 / Bremerton, WA to Long Beach,
CA: 1,193.6 Nautical Miles from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to Long Beach, CA
anchorage.
Total Average Speed First Leg: 5.54 Knots
Position:
The USS New Jersey is now Southeast of the Yucatan Channel waypoint, and Cabo
San Antonio on the Western tip of Cuba, on the peninsula of Guanahacabibes, Cuba.
No other Text was submitted for this entry.
Submitted by Bob Wernet onboard the Sea Victory.
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