Teusday At Sea, 

Everyone on ship ordered to wear life belts. Most of the officers slept with out clothes on.

We are having beautiful moon. I am standing a deck watch while we **i*(?) through the danger zone. If we are hit with a torpedo, we will destroy every ship in this fleet, and also the ‘sub’, for if tis 45 tons of TNT lets go, good night to anything in sight.

Dr. Corey and Paymaster Chace have the Ever Ready Safety Suits and boh are standing by there ready at any time. I told them at the table the other day that I thought the Navy Department would not allow them on ships that were in commission(?), and they looked like they had stolen sheep. In the stores of the trip before this one of them put the suits on and nailed(?) to be wreaked(?). I don’t think they should be allowed to have them.