She returned without incident. The dowdy craft was acquired by the Sea Scouts of “Ship 25” of Bayonne from the Government, which had declared her surplus and consigned her for destruction along with a 63‐foot former air‐sea rescue boat and the former Coast Guard cutter Agassiz.

The cutter was given to Kearny Sea Scout “Ship 13” and the 125‐foot Agassiz, which has 40 years of Coast Guard service, was signed over to the Jersey City Sea Scout “Ship 86.” A second Jersey City Sea Scout group, “Ship 27,” had earlier acquired an 83‐foot Coast Guard cutter, which is tied up awaiting certification of her seaworthiness.

Aboard this 64‐footer today, members of the four “ships” made up a combined crew that took the Brandner into the waterborne traffic of the Upper Bay in the East River in an “expression of appreciation” and a salute to the men and the military services, including the Reserves, who are helping the Scouts build up their fleet. Their sea frontier is the western shore of the Upper New York Bay.

The Brandner was selected to carry the day's honors while the remainder of the Sea Scout fleet was at pierside.

But to the momentary dismay of the crew and Stephen Giedosh, a 24‐year‐old school teacher who is adviser to the Ship 25 troop, it was discovered that the throttle cable leading from the bridge to the engine room had fouled in its pipe and snapped as preparations for sailing were almost completed.

Undaunted, the captain mentor dispatched James (Peewee) Paridine, 14, a Sea Scout from Bayonne to the engine room and stationed between him and the bridge a relay of human telegraphs to carry orders from the bridge to the throttle.

Shouted calls for full throttle, half throttle, reverse and standby reached the young seaman, who pressed his thumbs on the throttle in the din of the racketing diesel engine below decks.

Captain Giedosh called for consultation by the crew to find what could be done to relieve the strain on Peewee's thumbs. It was decided to jury rig an extension to the throttle. While this was being sited, Peter O'Brien, 17, of Bayonne, a boatswain, was at the helm guiding the craft through Upper Bay traffic toward Buttermilk Channel.

The jury rig was completed when a vicegrip wrench was affixed to the throttle, giving Peewee a more comfortable and surer control of the lever.

Intership rivalry among the four Scouting groups was put aside for the cruise, and all hands worked as a single crew for the shakedown salute cruise, which lasted about two hours.

The Scouts dealt with other minor problems with speed and skill.

When the quartermaster pushed a button to sound the “under way” signal, minor confusion broke out when the horn stuck and the protracted blast continued to signal what might have been taken by other seamen in the bay as a mistaken “welcome to port” signal for an incoming ship or “I am going down with flying colors” from the Brandner. Several sharp raps with a monkey wrench returned the horn to normalcy.

The guest of honor of the cruise and the salute, Brig. Gen. Fred Welsh, commander of the 79th Army Reserve command, which embraces New Jersey and eastern Pennslyvania, was grounded by fog in Philadelphia in his helicopter.

The Brandner, named for a Bayonne youth who served in the Navy and lost his life in the Korean war, was escorted on this morning's cruise by a privately owned converted cutter. Richard F. Lindsay, 52, an ex‐Navy chief and former New Jersey city policeman, owns the vessel. He is a civilian employee of the Corps of Engineers in the office of the New York Harbor Supervisor.

Mr. Lindsay, who is based at Caven Point, is the coordinator of the Sea Scout activities with the 469th Battalion Reserves. He calls himself the chief scrounger of the operation.

At the end of the cruise and back ashore Mr. Lindsay ordered a muster for a critique of the cruise and seamanship.

“First,” he said, “let's thank our visitors for sailing with us -- then we will muster for a bit of butt chewing,” said the ham‐fisted former water tender who served on the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt.