Albany (CG 10) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1971

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Rhea EQU hen UUKQ Sty reillrn Nilgaa' mai :Tum dw lil- S':CiQ lElQn On -iw COW Nc h aleiglon XO x.iSW,'fGllQp ECU . Q i he NC. ,.-N xr x .U S MC 1' we 8, . fg- i A ' ' i. 'wc M L U r 4. H , 4 X W - 'if , h , - 73, ' 7? . I 'fi '-fggir-bl',.Q,.: 1 ,Q il Q, -T -t i . tell A -Aw Sea trials: December 1962 submarine rocket with the fastest surface to sub- surface delivery time ot any such weapon. While her hull dimensions remained the same - 674 feet in length and a beam ot 70 feet - ALBANY's dis- placement increased from 13,700 tons to 18,1100 tons. After fitting out in Boston in early January of l963, ALBANY proceeded on her maiden voyage eff the Virginia capes on January 30. Blast tests and initial missile tirings were conducted for two months, the final test involving the simultaneous firing ot two TALOS, one TARTAR and one ASROC. This marked the tirst time that three

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folk .on January 5, T954 for her fourth tour in the Mediterranean, She returned To her home port on April l6, and after a six-month overhaul in The Norfolk shipyard, left Tor her fifth deployment with the Sixth Fleet on January 5, l955, during which she made port calls as Tar east as Beirut, Lebanon. Arriving back in Norfolk on May 27, The ship's subsequent operations included Midshipman Cruise Baker to Northern Europe. The ship deitarted frOm Norfolk on July lO, visited Stockhc-fin, Sweden and Oslo, Norway, and returned To Nui toll-1 via Guan- tanamo Bay, where she engaged in gunnery exer- cises. The Three hundred thirty midshipmen disem- barked on September 2 upon arrival in Norfolk. The flagship of Rear Admiral E. R. McLean, Commander Cruiser Division Two, ALBANY de- parted Norfolk again on January 4, i956 for her sixth deployment to the Mediterranean. Port calls on This tour included Barcelona, Spain, Haifa, Isra- el, and Rhodes, Greece, from which The ship de- parted on May l6, returning home on May 29, A Midshipmen's cruise to Valencia, Spain and Dublin, Ireland, a five-month overhaul at The Boston Navy Yard, a Reserve Midshipmen's cruise to Valpa- raiso, Chile, The North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion's 'Operation Strikeback' off The coast of Scot- land, and The ship's seventh Mediterranean cruise occupied The next eighteen months. Upon her return from The Mediterranean on February 28, 1953, ALBANY entered The Boston Naval Shipyard .for in- activation. She was placed out of commission On June 30 and Transferred to The custody of .Com- mander, Boston Naval Shipyard, for conversion To a guided missile cruiser. Her hull classification and number were changed to CG IO, effective No- vember i, l958. Over four years, 66 million man-hours, and Si75,000,000 resulted in a new ALBANY, The first of Three ships of her class and The first ship in The world to undergo complete conversion from con- ventional gunnery to guided missiles. Her gun cruiser armament of nine 8-inchf55 caliber guns, twelve 5 inchf38 caliber guns, and Thirty-three smaller anti-aircraft weapons were removed as she was stripped tothe main deck and rebuilt. The results included two distinctive mastfstacks Tower- ing l93 feet above the sea, a 90-foot high super- structure, and her extremely powerful new arm- ament: TALOS anti-aircraft missiles, with a range in excess of 65 miles, forward and aft, TARTAR anti-aircraft missiles with a range in excess of ten miles, port and starboard, and ASROC, an anti- . - gk A- --v y -,A 1,7-1 I 1.--33 v.,,,,-fy-gi-,yew-f.,,' f My I I f V, V 'AN ' 4 T i A 4. 3 El, 7 6 5 ' 'A 'tx 'E gms ., .J.s,,...,,,,,,,M,m .T VW ff fi, , My ,f,, ,I M W, I, Mm, UMW MW ww www. W ix, , 5 P g, , , , ,yy y .1 -in A - t s, M - W. 5 V , ' F ' ffy, Qitfgw ., ' f M ' , .. T fs , 1, -,,,.,,, ,,,,.,vW.,,,,W,,lVy ,, A 5 fy, r ,Q Wi '- T P57 u -' ,f Q, 'Y t, 1, 67' ff! 7' ', I W' ' l M '54 gg! fx ' f 4 1 ' 'I 1 ', , X f ,, . g f, fun I if, I ,. W by Y ' ' -K. 6 V J -M 5 W, 14 J 'Q The guided missile cruiser USS ALBANY TCG-lOl is commissioned: November 3,1962 .,.a



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different types of missiles were launched at the same time. Q During the summer of 1963, changes and addi- tions were made, including the installation of two 5-inch guns, providing for close-range surface defense. In addition, there were more sea trials and missile firing exercises. ln November, AL- BANY departed her homeport, Norfolk, Virginia, for a tour with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. There, she relieved USS LONG BEACH as flaQ' ship of Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla Eight. She returned to Norfolk in late May for leave and upkeep, and participated in two maior NATO exercises with other units of the Second Fleet dur- ing the fall, during which she crossed the Arctic Circle. After yardwork at Norfolk, ALBANY returned to sea in January of 1965 for general training ex- ercises. She began her second cruise to the Medi- terranean in May and there took part in four malor exercises. During one of these in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Greece, she tracked an unidentified sonar contact for more than eight hours. The con- tact proved to be a Soviet submarine, the first such submarine tracked to exhaustion and finally sur- faced by a United States cruiser. Returning to Norfolk on October 11, ALBANY went through a leave and upkeep period and then completed several training cruises off the Vir- ginia Capes and participated in missile exercises in the Caribbean. ln February 1966, she again de- parted for deployment to the Mediterranean. I -.L 4,4 .-.U A ,.. Q ALBANY's first task in the Sixth Fleet during this cruise found her engaged in the recovery of a nuclear bomb, missing after a mid-air collision of a United States Air Force bomber and an in-flight refueling tanker off the coast of Palomares, Spain, as flagship of Rear Admiral William P. Guest, who commanded the recovery task force. On April 7, the bomb was successfully recovered and the following day was passed in review on board USS PETREL while 150 members of the world press watched from ALBANY, ln additon to malor NATO and Sixth Fleet operations, ALBANY concluded several highly successful missile firings during the cruise. Arriving in Norfolk on October 25, ALBANY conducted exercises with other Atlantic Fleet ships and participated in missile exercises in the Carib- bean. She entered Boston Naval Shipyard on Febru- ary 1, 1967 to prepare for a maior anti-aircraft warfare systems modernization and was again de- commissioned on March 1. The eighteen-month anti-aircraft warfare over-haul embraced work on ALBANY's ordnance equipment and included modernization and rehabili- tation. This conversion required stripping down various topside areas and modifying anti-aircraft and other equipment and increasing the ship's capa- bilities. Recommissioning on November 9, 1968 marked the culmination of one of the largest industrial ef- forts ever undertaken bythe Boston Naval Shipyard, an effort which started with a heavy cruiser in 1958 and ended with the most modern guided missile W' f i M' ff .. -'Y , ff. , fy, -,yi-4, '2f4,:,, 'f-'gy f ' ' ' 'f 4? tltfv 'wrffff asv, ,Q as Nu toil ff--ffx. ff f M, -al, f A 1 W . 1f5f,7Mf'v ,ff , A fm-.4 1 f 9 . I V. ,---M W W--9, , I n , ,Z . ,,-. V . 1 f 1 my ' f , fl ff it ff' .l . wwf! ' ' ,tlz.,,',,,4u,'-.pf-7,125 , rw: L ' f I 41, V , f ,., . j ' ' zf,Vy'3.gZ.:f,4ey4v 4' 4 , W . , Jiiflwgy, 5-Q '71 , , H ,ala . ,wffhir M hmqw. 'M A M. 0-Nw 1 Jw' ,f 1, 'g,'1.afj. ' '--' H , I , , . gf-.afw,'f'i .4 1,4 W, H I I fm ,,.. . , ' vw wif Wy ffg f , ,, , 'A , f f llit r 'Q Simultaneous multi-missile firing: January 30,1963 ww, 46 LA. r Q-F .. -'-J .. NY3 tes C6351 cligtfa iVOl C SUUEQ l'i ine Kill Q5 i'l'Ci'lQ. F: ALBA iVla,S 5. i969 5-1 Dori v, lr5Q-g.:' TQXQTSES ilefra v-65 , AQ' - DGSTVQW Pemba., Qillirclseg :hips M' Ultled tx WQII- Oilly Her eatr lil i iicc gpymm- AL NN i BA 15,

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