The information contained on this page is from the LCI(L)538 Ships Deck Log for the week leading up to D-Day. The deck log is the paperwork filled out by the ships Commanding Officer, it is done on a daily basis. The deck log heading has the ships Name, Ships Identification number, Ships Location, the date the deck log was filled out, Zone description, and Commanders name.

The USS LCI (L)538 ships Deck log that I have runs from June 3, 1944 to June 10, 1944. Some of the other information contained on the ships deck log are the hour broken up in a chart with spaces for all 24 hours of the day. For each hour of the day, the All Shaft Average Revolutions, Nautical Miles by Revs, Nautical Miles by Hour, Course, Wind Direction, and wind speed are documented. Other items on the chart include the Barometer height in inches, Air Temperature by dry bulb , Weather by Symbols, Clouds are broken down by formation at low, middle and high, ceiling, moving from in degrees, Total number of sky covered by tenths, and visibilty. Further down the page is a spot to put the Ships position by hour, for 0800, 1200 and 2000 hrs by Latitude and Longitude, Fuel Received, Fuel Expended and Fuel on hand. Water distilled, water received water expended and water on hand, the Magazine Temperature, General Drills and Exercises.

The LCI(L)538 ships deck log also has an area to log per hour the Sea temp surf, Sea From, Sea Points, and Swell Amount. Some of the pages that is filled out, others it not with IN HARBOR written across the chart. The is also a section for Hydrographic and Meteorological Remarks, this section on these deck logs was never filled out. After the pagewith all the charts which is labeled the Deck Log - Columnar Sheet Confidential is a second page. The second page is labeled Deck Log Remarks Sheet, and looks to have been typed out freehand and then signed by the officer that typed the remarks. On the first date I have as an example the remarks sheet has remarks for 0-4, 4-8 etc. It looks like the remarks were broken down into four hour blocks because the sheet was moored in harbor and there wasn't alot of activity to document. Each four hour block has the typed name and signature of the officer that made that entry into the remarks sheet on the deck log. On the top of the remarks page is an area for the ships Name or Identifier and Date, and on the bottom a spot for the Commanding Officer to sign. Right belows where the LCI(L)538 ships Commander signs it has printed, To Be Forwarded Direct To The Bureau Of Naval Personnel At The End Of Each Month, U.S. Government Printing Office 1944.

On the next page I will have information from the Deck Log entries from the LCI (L)538 ship for June 5, 1944. Just click on what chapter you want to read in the table of contents to go to the next section regarding the ship.