Wednesday       6 August
 
Steaming at 21 knots on base course 063 T., in company with
 
TUSCALOOSA and Destroyer Division 17 plus MADISON'. At 0515 encountered
 
heavy fog and slowed to fourteen knots at 0602. Fog lifted at 0745
 
and ships resumed twenty-one knot speed.
 
     Thursday 7 August
 
Approaching the coast of Newfoundland on course 060 T.,
 
standard speed 20 knots, in company with vessels aforementioned. At
 
0443 sighted three men-of-war bearing 333 T., distant about 12 miles.
 
0645 passed Cape St. Mary Light abeam to starboard. 0800 changed
 
standard speed to 15 knots and steered various courses standing in 
 
to harbor. 0924 anchored in Berth No. 2, Ship Harbor, Placentia Bay,
 
Newfoundland, in lO fathoms of water, with 45 fathoms of chain to
 
starboard anchor. Ships present: AUGUSTA, TUSCALOOSA, McDOUGAL,
 
WINSLOW, SAMPSON, MOFFETT, MADISON, SALINAS, BELKNAP, ARKANSAS, 
 
RHIND, MAYRANT, YP62, G.E. BADGER, JACAMAR, CHEMANGO. 0945 
 
Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Argentia, called officially on Commander-in-Chief,
 
Atlantic Fleet.
 
During the forenoon the President and members of his party
 
fished from the forecastle of AUGUSTA. The President caught a large
 
and ugly fish which could not be identified by name and which he directed be preserved and 
 
delivered to the Smithsonian Institute upon return to Washington. At 1335 the President left 
 
AUGUSTA in