Albany (CG 10) - Naval Cruise Book

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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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