Albany (CG 10) - Naval Cruise Book

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HIP' HISTORY On 3 November 1962 the most heavily armed ship in the world joined the ileet as the U.S.S. ALBANY was re- commissioned after being converted from a gun to a guided missile cruiser and designated CG-10. The super-structure, towering 90 feet high, and two macks , accenting a new type of naval architecture housed TALOS,TARTAR ' ' 9 and ASROC missile systems providingthe 18,000 ton vessel with more fire o p wer than any other ship in the world. ln the meantime, sister ships, USS CHICAGO CCG-llb and USS COLUMBUS CCG-l2Dwere being constructed on the West Coast. On her maiden voyage off the Virginia Capes on 30 January 1963, ALBANY fired two TALOS and a TARTAR, marking the first time th ree missiles were launched simul- taneously. The cruise, which began on l vh 8 January and ended x en she returned to Boston on March 30, proved to be a h . . d ,rew. . successful test of the sh1D'S 011551195 an C h kedown crulse Departing B0StO11, August 1' for hciiliiglsted an arduous Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ALBANY C ' . . .HuI'I'1CElH9 schedule of missile firings and underway g?fEnCr5Ja and other Flora, which caused considerable dam gut Short. ALBANY Islands caused the exercises to bef Floravswinds. After headed north .... outrunnillg the fury O for ar 9paratioI1S riving safely in Norfolk, ALBANY began pr I . dferranean- a tour with the U. S. Sixth Fleet in the MG 1 bGI' - . h-beg-an NOVem During the Mediterranean cru1S9,Wh1C . v . Admiral ' 29, 1963, ALBANY was the flag SNP for Rear ghf Sm , F10till2lE1 .' ith, USN, Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer . th1S -S95 during ALBANY participated in numerous exerci cruise. me t to the HOHOT9 ln mid-April, 1964, ALBANY was hos . 'lllam - Admiral W1 Paul Nitze, Secretary ofthe Navy 21115 V109

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E. Gentner, USN, Commander, Sixth Fleet, for an anti- submarine warfare demonstration. The ship returned to Norfolk, Virginia in late May for leave and upkeep. On 5 June Captain Ben B. Pickett, USN, was relieved as Commanding Officer by Captain Ernest F. Schreiter, USN, ALBANY then embarked on a two-week Caribbean cruise following a short stay in the yards. After the cruise, ALBANY participated in NATO operations. On 24 May, 1965, ALBANY left Norfolk tojoin the U. S. Sixth Fleet. During her tour of duty with the Sixth Fleet, ALBANY participated in four major exercises. While exer- cising in the Ionian Sea, ALBANY tracked an unidentified sonar contact for more than eight hours. When the contact was identified, ALBANY chalked up a first as the contact was a Soviet submarine .... the first Soviet submarine tracked to exhaustion and finally surfaced byaU. S. cruiser. During August, the deck department ofthe ship broke existing records by rigging a conventional Robb refueling rig in 58 seconds .... the first time the feat had been accomplished in less than one-minute, A week later, on August 12, they broke their own record by rigging a conventional Robb rig in 45-seconds. On 8 September, 1965, while ALBANY was visiting Istanbul, Turkey, Captain Jack L, Wohler, USN, relieved Captain E. F. Schreiter, USN, as the cruiser's Command- ing Officer. ALBANY returned to Norfolk on ll October 1965. After a short period of leave and u-pkeep, ALBANY scored a 94 per cent grade on her Naval Technical Pro- ficiency Inspection from the Nuclear Weapons Training Center, Atlantic Fleet. ALBANY returned to sea on 1 December for a two- week cruise in the Atlantic FleetWeapons Range. The year's operations ended on 16 December when ALBANY returned to Norfolk, Virginia. In late January 1966 ALBANY again returned to the Caribbean area to fire missiles on the missile range and participated in operation HIGH TIME the largest fleet exercise since World War II. On 4 March ALBANY left Norfolk for duty with the Sixth Fleet and the cruise which would add many varieties of duty and much glory to the crew of the Big A,