U.S.S. POTOMAC
          U.S.S.    CALYPSO
          U.S.S.    AUGUSTA
          U.S.S.    TUSCALOOSA
          U.S.S.    MADISON
          U.S.S.    MOFFETT
          U.S.S.    SAMPSON
          U.S.S.    WINSLOW
          U.S.S.    McDOUGAL
 
          Tuesday   5 August
 
     At 0530 POTOMAC went alongside AUGUSTA, starboard side to.
 
At 0617 the President and staff transferred to AUGUSTA. The
 
President's flag remained in the POTOMAC, which vessel, in company
 
with CALYPSO, proceeded via Cape Cod Canal to New England waters.
 
The President's Mess was established in the AUGUSTA and was
 
initially composed as follows:
 
               The President
 
     Admiral Harold R. Stark, U.S.N.
     General George C. Marshall, U.S.A.
     Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S.N.
     Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, (MC), U.S.N.
     Major General Edwin M. Watson, U.S.A.
     Captain John R. Beardall, U.S.N.
 
     At 0640 AUGUSTA underway in company with TUSCALOOSA and five
 
destroyers previously noted, standard speed 20 knots. Destroyer
 
Division Seventeen plus MADISON forming protective screen. At 1125
.
passed Nantucket Shoals lightship close aboard on port hand. At
 
1137 changed speed to 21 knots. Reduced speed to 20 knots at 1814
 
and darkened ship at 1937. At 2225 increased speed to 21 knots.
 
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